What's new in Sound Byte 4.7.6
Dec 29, 2016
- Added the ability to change the racks menu order (Organize Racks).
New in Sound Byte 4.7.5 (Sep 17, 2016)
- Added window to search racks for carts with specified text in their title.
- Command-K toggles the Talk Button on and off.
- Cart color can be set by state.
- Changes to preferences window layout.
- Carts can be ordered vertical or horizontally, or alphabetically, when dropped onto the rack window.
- Bug fix - cart start aborts other carts playing now works across all open racks and respects the fade setting.
- Bug fix - drawing of progress indicator for medium sized carts.
- Bug fix - if both “fade in” and “queue cart” were enabled, the cart would immediately play, instead of being queued.
- Improved redraw of carts when the rack window is resized.
New in Sound Byte 4.7.2 (Jul 7, 2015)
- Bug fix – carts marked to loop will now not restart after they fade out.
- If racks were prevdiously displayed on an external monitor that is no longer connected, they will be displayed on the main monitor the next time Sound Byte is run.
New in Sound Byte 4.7.1 (May 29, 2015)
- Added display of MIDI channel and note in lower center of cart.
- Bug fix – cart titles were not always displayed in bold when they should be. PLAYED text for carts changed in color, positioned behind other cart text. PLAYED text now displayed after the cart finishes.
- Bug fix – playlists added to carts were not always working correctly.
- Added a spreadsheet option to log on a per cart basis, and some other options. Bug fix – carts playing backwards did not always correctly stop playing.
- Sped up quitting the app.
New in Sound Byte 4.7.0 (Mar 14, 2015)
- Updates for Mac OS X Yosemite.
- Bug fix – Clicking on playback buttons in an empty playlist could cause a crash.
New in Sound Byte 4.6.4 (Sep 23, 2014)
- Bug fix – delays and pauses in playlists were not always being saved
New in Sound Byte 4.6.3 (Jul 30, 2014)
- Added a checkbox in the Preferences window to enable the serial port popup menu.
- Bug fix – the channel for the MIDI Abort note was not being saved.
New in Sound Byte 4.6.2 (Jul 30, 2014)
- Bug fixes for the iPhone/iPad remote control app.
New in Sound Byte 4.6.1 (Jun 28, 2014)
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash under Windows when re-ordering entries in a Playlist.
New in Sound Byte 4.6.0 (Jun 20, 2014)
- Changed MIDI channel numbering to start at 1 rather than 0.
- Bug fix – preserved volume setting of queued carts when playback was stopped early.
- MIDI control now includes support for channels.
- Added MIDI triggers for various commands.
- Log file now includes the length of the sound file.
- Carts that will be reloaded on play are opened from a copy now, so the sound file can be overwritten
- by other apps.
- Added insert cart.
- Added delete cart.
- Added option to not mark individual carts as PLAYED.
- Added option to force reload of sound file when a cart is played, both in prefs and cart options.
- PLAYED text on carts that have been played is more subtle in color.
New in Sound Byte 4.5.0 (Jan 29, 2014)
- Added marking of played carts
- Added an option to disable played carts to preferences
- Added cart text color and bold
- Alphabetizing rack is now not case sensitive
- Added option to drop the serial port DTR and RTS lines when a cart is paused.
- Added a management menu item to disable cart clicks
- Enlarged active area for dragging a cart.
- Bug fix - carts would not fade in when triggered by MIDI.
- Bug fix - could try to set in/out times on a playlist in a cart, which would cause a crash Bug fix - MIDI control not working when multiple racks were open.
New in Sound Byte 4.4.0 (Feb 22, 2013)
- Added the preferences option to copy sound files to Sound Byte
- Added the preferences option to track the number of times a cart is played
- Added the preferences option to set cart duration to 00:00 after it is played
- Added the Lock Settings... option to the Edit menu
- Fixed a bug with clicking on a cart fading in not stopping the cart playback
- Fixed a bug with audio channels not being correctly routed for some types of sound files.
New in Sound Byte 4.2.0 (Aug 30, 2012)
- Added the Set In/Out Window
- Added fade in setting in cart options
- Action -> Set Fade Rates now only affects open racks.
- Page Up and Page Down keys now take you to the previous and next rack.
- The documentation is now opened by menu command shift H.
- Fixed a bug that didn’t allow the output channel of mono sound files to be properly set.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash under Windows, if the Preferences window is opened after maximizing a cart rack window.
New in Sound Byte 5.0.0 Beta 2 (Sep 9, 2011)
- Updates to MIDI Setup Window
New in Sound Byte 4.1.2 (Sep 9, 2011)
- Corrects a problem with the Apple Remote Control not working with all Mac models, as well as custom sound channel mapping not always working.
New in Sound Byte 5.0.0 Beta 1 (Jan 7, 2011)
New in Sound Byte 4.1.0 (Jul 23, 2010)
- Added rack archiving
- Several additions for future versions of the iPhone/iPad remote control apps
New in Sound Byte 4.1.0 Beta 1 (Jul 6, 2010)
- adds archiving of racks and sound files so you can back them up, or easily transfer them between machines
New in Sound Byte 4.0.3 (Jun 11, 2010)
- Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause a rack window to not be correctly positioned when opened.
New in Sound Byte 4.0.2 (May 28, 2010)
- Bug fixes related to the iPhone and iPad remote control apps.
New in Sound Byte 4.0.1 (Mar 18, 2010)
- Bug fix - The sound devices menu was blank in a newly created Playlist window.
New in Sound Byte 4.0.0 (Feb 19, 2010)
- Added the option to play a radomly selected cart when a group of carts are all assigned the same hotkey.
New in Sound Byte 3.9.7 (Nov 19, 2009)
- Fixed a bug with playlists - dragging an entry past the bottom of the list could cause a crash, or duplication of another entry.
New in Sound Byte 3.9.6 (Nov 5, 2009)
- Added the TALK button to change the volume of playing carts.
- Can double click on a playlist entry to edit/delete it.
- Added queuing option for carts.
- Added ability to fade in playback of a cart by holding down shift and option/alt while clicking on
- the cart button.
- Bug fix - Alphabetizing carts did not update rack window
- Bug fix - Clearing rack did not clear cart names in spreadsheet window.
- Bug fix - Indicator on cart not always turned off when a playlist is stopped.
- Bug fix - Queuing and playing playlists assigned to cart buttons.
- Bug fix - Properly resetting the cart volume after a fadeout.
New in Sound Byte 3.9.5 (Aug 18, 2009)
- Bug fix - clicking on the progress indicator of an unused cart could cause a crash.
New in Sound Byte 3.9.4 (Aug 14, 2009)
- Fixed a problem with the displayed cart title not changing after being edited.
New in Sound Byte 3.9.3 (Aug 3, 2009)
- Fixed a problem with the cart title not appearing after a new file was dragged into a cart.
New in Sound Byte 3.9.2 (Jul 28, 2009)
- Fixed a problem with the cart title not appearing after a new file was dragged into a cart.
New in Sound Byte 3.9.1 (Jul 23, 2009)
- No longer attempts to mount an unmounted volume on startup.
- Reduced the delay in resetting the volume of a cart after a fade.
- Fixed a potential crashing problem under Windows, when scrolling a rack window.
New in Sound Byte 3.9.0 (May 12, 2009)
- Fixed a bug with default sound output channels.
- Corrected a registration code issue.
- Playlist windows can now specify the output device and channels to use.
- Add... button added to the playlist window to directly select a sound file without ragging and dropping it.
- Can delete playlist entries.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when a playlist window is closed.
- Added a delay option to playlists.
- Added control of which channels to use on sound output devices.
- Remembers the size and position of the cart window.
New in Sound Byte 3.8.0 Beta 5 (Mar 2, 2009)
- Added MIDI input.
- Added support for using Function Keys as hotkeys.
New in Sound Byte 3.7.0 (Oct 30, 2008)
- Added an option to automatically display playlist windows that are assigned to carts.
- Added an option to lock settings against unauthorized changes.
- Added repeat option to carts.
- When the cart size is made larger, the entire rack is now displayed.
- Added the Click Pauses Playback option to the card options.
- Added the Click Start Aborts Others option to the card options.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when pauses are used in a playlist.
- Control-arrow keys can be used to adjust the volume of the selected cart while it is playing.
- Can paste the registration code email into the registration code email.
- Playing carts now show elapsed and remaining time.
New in Sound Byte 3.6.0 (Sep 12, 2008)
- Added option to load sound files to memory.
- Added options to set the playback pitch and rate of carts.
- Added remote control option.
- Added an option to toggle a serial port line when a track is playing.
- Fixed a bug with the playback progress indicator.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash with the logging feature.
New in Sound Byte 3.5.3 Beta 1 (Aug 1, 2008)
- Added option to load sound files to memory.
- Added options to set the playback pitch and rate of carts.
- Added remote control option.
New in Sound Byte 3.5.1 (May 30, 2008)
- The latest version of Sound Byte fixes several bugs which could cause a program crash.
- Bug fix: Pauses in play lists did not work.
- Bug fix: Sdding a pause to a play list could cause a crash/
- Bug fix: Clicking on a progress bar on a cart linked to a play list could cause a crash.
- Bug fix: bringing up the QuickTime details for an empty cart could cause a crash.
New in Sound Byte 3.5.0 (Apr 25, 2008)
- The lock volume sliders menu option now also locks the progress indicator as well.
- Added an option for a local preferences file in the application�s folder.
- Added a better explaination of an expired registration code.
- Added option to drag a playlist into a cart button.
- Added the ability to vertically alphabetize carts in a rack.
- Copy and Paste can be used in a Timed Playlist to duplicate entries.
- Added an option to reset all Timed Playlist start times based off of the current or a specified time.
New in Sound Byte 3.4.4 (Nov 30, 2007)
- The "Click Restarts Playback" option is now also available on a per cart basis.
- Added icons for play list files.
- Playlist windows retain their last position and size.
- Bug fix - missing file would cause a timed play list to crash.
- Bug fix - Mute did not completely mute looping sound effects.
- Bug fix - playlists wouldn?t work correctly if the crossover time was left blank.