Mobius Changelog

What's new in Mobius 2.5

Nov 27, 2012
  • Added Loop Windowing feature:
  • Basically, loop windowing lets you create loops by sliding a "window" back and forth over the entire history of the loop. Imagine that all of the loop layers are connected together in one seamless piece of recording tape. Then being able to instantly jump to any location within that tape and play a section of any size. The results can be completely unpredictable as fragments of different layers are glued together. Or with careful use of quantization and the windowing parameters you can create windows that play varying rhythms at a consistent tempo.
  • There are are six functions to control the window, and two more for use in scripts:
  • Window Backward
  • Window Forward
  • Window Start Backward
  • Window Start Forward
  • Window End Backward
  • Window End Forward
  • In addition to sliding the window backward and forward you can also adjust the edges of the window independently to make the window smaller or larger. For complete documentation on this new feature, read the Loop Windowing section in the Mobius Techniques manual.
  • The following bugs were fixed:
  • Script action buttons always behaving like !momentary scripts
  • GlobalReset called from within a script was not canceling other scripts
  • Take out the common bindings used for development since they often conflict with new user bindings.
  • Remove some EDPisms that most people don't expect.
  • Mute+Multiply = Realign
  • Mute+Insert = RestartOnce (aka SamplePlay)
  • Reset+Mute = previous preset
  • Reset+Insert = next preset
  • If you're a big fan of the EDPisms they can be reenabled using a special hidden option, but I would encourage you to explore using scripts instead.

New in Mobius 2.4 (Oct 16, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Slow memory leak on Mac when drawing text in the UI
  • Large Memory leak if Max Redo Count is more than 1
  • Changing "Beats per Bar" unstable with mouse
  • Input Port and a few other parameters not displaying correctly in the main status area
  • Binding dialogs always show 8 tracks and 4 groups rather than the number of tracks and groups configured
  • Crash on Mac at startup when OSC is enabled
  • Missing Mac osc.xml file
  • Synchronization beats missed when Ableton transport is playing in a loop
  • New features:
  • The "Periodic Status Log" global parameter enables printing of Mobius memory consumption once a minute for debugging

New in Mobius 2.0 (Mar 21, 2012)

  • Redesigned synchronization engine for improved sync
  • Support for Audio Units host sync (Logic, Garageband)
  • Support for other sample rates besides 44100
  • Redesigned UI button window that works like other binding windows
  • Improved OSC support

New in Mobius 1.45 (May 31, 2011)

  • Setup and Preset may be selected as Instant Parameters so they are always visible in the main window.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Rename button on OSX not working.
  • Sustain functions not working.
  • Popup message when presets change not working.
  • Changing a setup with "set setup" was being delayed so saving and restoring the currently selected track wasn't working. (Fro).
  • Loading scripts in a scrip directory is doing a case sensitive comparison for ".mos" and missing ".MOS". (Fro).
  • The script name used after the "Call" statement in scripts was case sensitive. (Fro).
  • Reported Issues:
  • Calling a script by referencing it like function without the "Call" prefix delays the execution. This makes scripts behave differently than functions. If you want the script to run immediately you must preceded it with Call. This will be fixed in a later release.

New in Mobius 1.44 (May 4, 2011)

  • New Features:
  • GlobalReset will clear all user defined global and track variables.
  • Added "Sustain Functions" preset parameter to replace the the old InsertMode/RecordMode/OverdubMode=Sustain parameters.
  • Binding overlays can now be specified in the track setup.
  • Add "Binding Configuration" to the visible parameters list so it can be seen in the UI and selected like a preset.
  • Configuration objects that have names (Presets, Setups, binding sets) now use a "Rename" button and a popup window rather than the confusing text field.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Stability improvements to prevent crashes when changing the configuration while loops are running.
  • OS X AU Validator failing.
  • Sustain Insert and Sustain Multiply don't work, they leave you in Insert/Multiply mode.
  • Crash changing the number of tracks on Mac. You must now restart in order to change track count.
  • Track Sync'd recordings aren't doing alternate endings correctly.
  • Selected track changed after using the MIDI Control and other configuration windows.
  • Track preset changed after using MIDI control and other configuration windows.
  • MidiOut function cancels Record and Multiply modes.
  • Move function not working if the argument was an expression.
  • Crash doing record/overdub/overdub. This happened only when Max Undo is 1, Enable Secondary Feedback is on, and Secondary Feedback is less than 127.
  • Keyboard bindings empty if more than one MIDI binding set was created and selected.
  • Focus Lock Functions being reset to the default list after deleting all of them.
  • Upgrading TrackCopy to EmptyTrackAction isn't upgrading the values e.g. sound->copy, timing->copyTime.
  • Crash after changing binding overlays.
  • Documentation Errors:
  • NoLayerFlattening + MaxUndo isn't working. This option has been removed from the UI for now

New in Mobius 1.43 (Jan 14, 2011)

  • "Interface Mode" and "Insert Mode" parameters have been removed.
  • "Alt Feedback Enable" checkbox replaces InterfaceMode=Expert.
  • No more "Record Mode" parameter, now we have "Record Resets Feedback".
  • No more "Overdub Mode", now we have "Overdub Quantized".
  • No more "Sampler Style", now have "Switch Location", "Switch Duration", and several other new parameters.

New in Mobius 1.42 (Nov 24, 2009)

  • Crash in Reaper when closing the VST edit window.
  • Occasional crash in Global Reset.
  • Ending a Multiply with Sync=Out sometimes jumps to the start of the
  • second cycle rather than beginning of the loop.

New in Mobius 1.41 (Nov 3, 2009)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • With SyncMode=Out, ending a Multiply sometimes starts
  • playing at the beginning of the last cycle rather than
  • starting over from the beginning.
  • Unable to select track 4 out of 6 when running as a plugin
  • with parameter Selected Track published as a plugin parameter.
  • Add type corection functions int(), float(), and string().
  • float() was necessary for the "scrub" script.
  • On Mac, when moving more than one MIDI slider, knob or pedal
  • at the same time, messages are lost and some controls won't move.
  • New features:
  • Shuffle supports shorter or longer patterns than the
  • source layer
  • Bi-directional feedback of MIDI controls