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Release notes for EZkeys 2.0.4 2024-02-13 EZkeys 2.0.4 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 2.0.4 is required for the support of EZkeys sound expansions (EKXs) released from this point forward (Q1 2024). CHANGES General Added support for the Session Organ EKX. See Session Organ EKX Manual for features specific to that library. EZkeys 2 can now be used in a fully functional trial mode for 10 days. The plug-in parameters are now named like the effect knobs that they control in the current preset, instead of always having the same generic names. In many more cases than before, the plug-in notifies the host when something in it is changed, so that the host project can be marked as modified. On macOS 14.2 or later, after the AU is resized in Apple DAWs on Apple silicon Macs, the dialog about the plug-in not able to get keyboard focus is no longer shown, because that issue was fixed in macOS. Song Track In the Track menu, “New Tab” was renamed to “New Song Track” and “Duplicate Current Track” to “Duplicate Current Song Track.” Grooves Tab Shift-space can now be used to start playback of the selected groove (when the groove list is in focus). The selected groove can now be copied via the context menu or with shortcut (by default cmd-C on Mac and ctrl-C on Windows) – so that it then can be pasted on the Song Track. Grid Editor Changed for how long notes are previewed when interacted with. Using mouse, they play for as long as the mouse is down (at most). Using keyboard, for example to move notes, they play for up to half a bar. Highlight Keys can now be turned off by pressing the active button in the Highlight Keys options. The pedal editor popup menu now has CC numbers to the right of each option. Pedal blocks can now be copy-pasted into the CC curve editor. “Remove Selected” was renamed to “Remove” in the context menu in the CC editor. Editing CC nodes will in many cases no longer cause MIDI blocks to get merged. Submenus in the CC editor menu are now highlighted if any CC within is active. In String Machine EKX, “Expression” is now in the static part of the CC editor menu. Recording CC events on the song track will now automatically add these to the recent section of the CC editor menu. Bandmate A headphone button has been added to solo a Bandmate track. BUG FIXES Keys Tab If notes are played outside the regular range of the instrument, you can now see on the keyboard and in the chord display what playable notes they get transposed to. Song Track The standalone would crash if audio was exported with more than one output channel selected for the audio device in Audio/MIDI Setup. Drawing chords above MIDI on the song track could sometimes alter the MIDI. Copy-dragging MIDI on a song track with key signature changes did not generate the correct (same) MIDI. Notes on the MIDI blocks should no longer sometimes blink during playback. CC that was bound with MIDI Learn was not possible to record on the song track. Bass notes added by EZkeys can no longer become longer than the chord. When the bass note is changed for a chord, the result should be better in some cases now. Changing to a new chord where the relative bass note is the same will no longer cause a bass note to get added to the MIDI. Recording only CC values would cause the recorded block to always start at bar 1. Dropping MIDI on the song track from the browser with Original Key engaged could cause the resulting MIDI to be rendered wrong. EZkeys removing overlaps, for example when Humanize is toggled, could unnecessarily move notes or make notes really short. Edit Play Style If Amount adds a note on top of a longer note, the long note is now shortened so that it ends before the added note and the added note is made longer. Changing Amount would cause a crash if the first MIDI block on the song track was less than 4 quarter notes long. Modifying the Length or Velocity knobs would not always apply the last value changed to. Fixed a potential crash when changing Length or Velocity in Edit Play Style. Using the Edit Play Style controls no longer closes the chord wheel. Suggest Chords Changing chords could leave notes ringing. Grooves Tab Replace MIDI now works faster on large MIDI blocks. Dragging MIDI from Grooves to the host or the desktop now properly sets the name of MIDI files so they can be located again in the Grooves tab. CC events were not included in Web Shop MIDI. Fixed some graphical issues in the popup showing what expansion a Web Shop MIDI groove belongs to. Grid Editor The height of black keys in the grid editor piano roll was not following the zoom level correctly. Humanize can no longer move notes so they start before the start time of their block, as that could make them disappear. When Humanize had changed the start time or end time of a note, that time would linger around when trying to drag that note later, so it got its previous times back. Moving notes by a tiny amount could in some cases only move them graphically and not change their timing. Automatic merging of blocks when MIDI events are added between them will happen in less cases now. Merging MIDI blocks should no longer cause new CC ramps to get created. Instead, new CC nodes may get inserted. The CC editor was not updated when note editing caused MIDI blocks to get merged, which could lead to various issues. CC lines to the left of the first node in each block, except the first block, were not drawn. Notes should no longer sometimes blink during playback. Moving over an existing note with the Pencil Tool selected, the mouse cursor now shows a minus instead of a plus, since a click deletes the note. Having a corrupted MIDI database or some other issue that causes a read error upon opening the database now displays a proper error dialog including a “Rebuild Database” button (instead of only a header stating “Read Error”). Using the Split tool where multiple notes are located and selected would only split one of the notes instead of all. The Lock Highlights button wasn’t automatically enabled when Highlight Keys was turned on by pressing Scale Snap. Scale Snap will no longer turn off Highlight Keys if it was not the button that turned it on. Bandmate The Octave controls were too restrictive. Transient velocities were not correctly saved in projects, and that could even cause Bandmate to become empty when a project was loaded in a DAW. A MIDI file is now properly auto-selected after the input file has finished loading even if the Grooves database is busy with installing updates or similar. Duplicating the output MIDI to match the input MIDI length did not correctly duplicate the CC nodes. Standalone In the standalone, switching between certain GUI scales with the window at minimum width or height could cause thin lines to appear in various buttons and other GUI elements.

1.0.4 Added possibility to cancel all running Downloads Fixed Usynth-, Pianist- and all Silent- Installations (on Apple Silicon Macs without Rosetta) Fixed App Tray issue on macOS Various Security improvements Minor UI tweaks Changelog is now accessible via the app

Wavesequencer Hyperion Releases 1.48 released 01/22/24 New features: MSEG data mapper node - useful for re-mapping keyboard range input for example - or any other data between -1 to +1, 0 to 1, -128 to +128, or 0, to 128. The checkbox range options in the edit panel will update the input and output pin ranges according to the options: bi-polar and MIDI range. Draw oscillator - draw custom audio oscillator shapes freehand or using the spline mode option - save and load the shapes via the buttons in the editor panel or right click menu on the node itself (file type is ".cosc"). MSEG oscillator - draw custom audio oscillator with MSEG curves - saving and loading in the same way as for MSEG LFO (the file format is the same as the LFOs - ".mseg"). Enhancements: Comb filter node now includes a 'companding' saturation control and a post process gain/cut control. EQ node includes extra (smoothed) controls for selecting the center frequency of each band. Theia Releases 1.05 released 01/22/24 This update of Theia is an update to the core audio processing engine to enable new features added to the Hyperion node engine - including new oscillator types (drawable/MSEG oscillators) and enhancements to comb filter and EQ nodes. This update ensures patch compatibility with patches created in Hyperion v1.48.

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1.47 released 01/3/24 Enhancements: Patch loading times have been significanlty reduced - patches and combis are loaded in 1/4 or less of the time vs previously. Bug fixes: UI glitch experienced in Bitwig when the state of the plugin is auto-backed up which can also result in a short audio glitch too - fixed.

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1.46 released 12/20/23 New features: Combi page: Favourites toggle button on the big knob/combi view page - directly see and toggle the favourites status for currently loaded patch. Browser: Improvements to auto-scrolling to the currently selected patch on the associated layer. Editor panels area: Improvement to avoid duplicate re-opening of already pinned panels (instead the panel for the clicked on node moves to the top of the pinned panels view). MSEG LFO: New node with MSEG editor - double click to add or remove a point and drag the mouse to edit the curves. Buttons for flipping vertically or horizontally and clearing the editor graph, + save and load buttons for direct save load from the editor. Guide lines representing beat divisions that respond to the tempo sync value above 4 beats. (Mseg files are saved with the extension '.mseg') Custom LFO node: New buttons for flipping vertically or horizontally and clearing the editor graph, + save and load buttons for direct save load from the editor. Guide lines representing beat divisions that respond to the tempo sync value above 4 beats. (Custom LFO settings files are saved with the extension '.clfo') Voice offsets node: New buttons for flipping vertically or horizontally and clearing the editor graph, + save and load buttons for direct save load from the editor. (Save and load of voice offsets settings is also a new feature. Voice offset settings files are saved with the extension '.voff') Sample playback node: Updated the large viewer panel with new layout and load button for selecting samples without needing to use the node menu in the graph. Bug fixes: This release should now correctly run on Mac OS 10.13 - an issue with the Mac developer tools led to OS12.x being the actual minimum OS in the previous release. Minor fix to match the LFO viewer surround colour to the LFO type.

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3.8.0- 2023-12-12 This release is a reflection of a larger overhaul the teams committed on to improve the download manager experience behind the scenes. There will be more information on how we addressed it in an upcoming Dev Talks entry. TL;DR: we addressed a bunch of bugs and issues with the functionality, as well as introducing a few quality of life improvements. In addition to this, we’re shipping support to update a new installer type that will allow us to ship smaller-sized updates for products using this technology, making an update feature feel more like an update and less like a reinstall. On top of this, we’re addressing some minor feedback received from the latest Q4 community post, making the banner a little smaller, the light mode installed button state a little easier to read, addressing the false positive file location error, and a few cases where an activated product shows as Demo. We hope that we’ve addressed quite a few issues, and we hope that the installation success rate goes up! Lastly, 3.8.0 officially supports Sonoma. While we’ve done our tests internally, there’s a possibility we need to address issues that might arise. We’re now in a position to do so. Any concerns you have with your experience, please reach out to Customer Support, and we’ll do what we can to address them. ADDED/IMPROVED 3.8.0 officially supports Sonoma operating systems Made the cyber sale banner margins bigger, making the banner a little smaller Improved the contrast in light mode between the Installed button text and its background Added release notes and installation path menu to the Updates page Downloads now resume automatically after you reconnect to the network Queued deployments do not disappear when you close Native Access (They do when you shut down your computer or quit the NTK Daemon). Improved how we manage queued products Improved performance on reordering queued items Adjusted some messaging in our deployment flow Moved failed deployments to the bottom of the queue Fixed layout of product tiles for small number of products FIXED Resolved an issue where users sometimes saw a file location error in their preferences that was shown as a false positive Addressed an issue where sometimes products that were correctly activated appeared as Demo. Addressed an issue where queued downloads would disappear from the UI exponentially Addressed several download performance bugs Addressed the issue where users who start Native Access with no active NTK Daemon running (despite it being installed) would need to reinstall the NTK Daemon. Now it starts the installed one up instead. Fixed initial render flash when used in Dark mode KNOWN ISSUES In rare cases when network connection drops a download might get corrupted and need restarting from the start. No user action needed, but download progress slowed. On occasion Clear Queue might leave one item in the queue that then starts automatically downloading.

1.0.3 We've successfully resolved a specific installation error. This fix particularly addresses issues encountered during 'Silent Installation', when using an external drive as the content location, cin combination with certain older UJAM plug-ins. Our team has implemented a series of miscellaneous UI improvements. 1.0.2 Minor bug fixes: Download error on macOS Big Sur systems (Apple Silicon) Installation error "ECONNREFUSED" 1.0.1 Minor bug fixes: Installation error on macOS Big Sur, Catalina & Mojave Installation error on Windows for some specific plugins (e.g. VG SILK)

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Release notes for EZkeys 2.0.3 2023-11-28 EZkeys 2.0.3 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the ‘My Products’ area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 2.0.3 is required for the support of EZkeys sound expansions (EKXs) released from this point forward (Q4 2023). CHANGES General “Notifications” are a new type of dialog used to display information and/or suggestions for operations in certain situations. They can be disabled in Settings. Attempting to play the song track while there are chords but no MIDI on the track will trigger such a notification, informing that MIDI is needed to actually hear sounds, and it has a button for instantly adding MIDI to the chords on the track. Song Track Placing an external MIDI file on the song track will show a new dialog with MIDI import options. The song track can now automatically scroll if needed while the Pencil tool is being used to add blocks. MIDI block operations, such as Mute and Quantize, are now available also if only song parts or chords are selected, as long as there are some MIDI blocks beneath. The “Song Parts,” “Chords” and “MIDI” headers, shown in the middle of the track during drags and when the Pencil tool is active, are now hidden whenever they would overlap with a song part, chord or MIDI block. Right-clicking in the time signature editor will now show an edit menu. Edit Chord View An information popup has been added for the “Keep Melody/Ostinato” option when it is active. Changing chords by clicking in the chord wheel now removes the bass note part of the chord if “Keep Melody/Ostinato” is enabled. When “Keep Melody/Ostinato” is enabled, “Adjust Notes to Scale” is automatically enabled for chords that are not in the current song key. “Adjust Notes to Scale” is automatically enabled for IV chords. When inversions are applied and the inverted notes are moved as much as one octave, now the other right-hand notes are moved one octave too. Inversion can now also alter chords that don’t have any chord notes in them. Grid Editor The pedal block editor now supports rectangular marquee selection. Grooves Tab Previewing in Replace MIDI mode, there is no longer a playhead visible in the browser (since it was not always able to show a correct/relevant position) but the playhead on the song track has been made larger. Changes in user MIDI folders in the OS will now be immediately detected and a red notification dot will be shown on the folder in the Grooves tab, indicating the need to run a “Sync File Changes” operation (available in the context menu for the folder). If an empty folder in a user library is selected, a “Drag MIDI files here” box is shown. Bandmate The Edit menu has been expanded with more options. A context menu can now be accessed by right-clicking anywhere on the tracks. Whenever the current filters/input would yield zero results in the Bandmate browser, there will now always be a very basic groove shown instead of an empty list. Settings In the VST 3 format, there is a new info section regarding Program Change and Bank Select on the MIDI Input settings page. BUG FIXES General Instantiating the plug-in in a DAW and immediately selecting “Open Project” from the File menu should no longer show the “do you want to save” dialog. Opening a project with different selections in the browser than before would cause the project to immediately be marked as modified (triggering the “do you want to save” dialog if for example “Open Project” was selected again). Loading a new project while a native file/folder selection dialog was open could cause a crash. Trying to load an EKX that no longer exists on disk should no longer crash. Song Track MIDI blocks with sustain could affect playback of other blocks earlier on the track. Removing notes from the beginning of a block by resizing it, then adding a note in the Grid Editor so that the block is expanded back to the left, the old notes would appear again. Changing chords could cause notes to overlap. Overlapping notes will now be removed if a chord is different from the original chord. In arpeggio chords, inversions could end up moving right-hand notes on top of or below left-hand notes. Recording from a MIDI instrument while looping in a DAW could incorrectly cause the “similar MIDI detected” dialog to appear. Drag-repeating a deselected MIDI block when some other block was selected would repeat the selected block instead of the one clicked on. Hovering over a chord edge with the mouse and deleting selected chords could cause a crash. Using tempo ramps could potentially lead to the playhead getting stuck during playback. On Mac, Ctrl plus left mouse button did not work to open context menus on song parts and chords. Fixed a crash related to bad MIDI files. Turning the Amount knob could cause a crash if MIDI blocks were in unsnapped positions. The Amount knob could end up in a state where resetting it back to 0 did nothing. The keyboard shortcuts for moving the playhead did not work properly with time signatures other than 4/4. At startup of the plug-in/standalone, if the default project had an active loop area, the loop button was not toggled on. Clicking Octave Up or Down in Edit Play Style so that the clicked button became disabled would in some DAWs make the plug-in lose keyboard focus. Undoing/redoing muting a MIDI block would not graphically update it, unless it was below/inside a Song Part block. Edit Chord View Clicking outside the chord editor did not close it in all cases. The “Adjust Notes to Scale” button didn’t have a tooltip. The chord preview didn’t play the correct notes in some cases. During chord preview, the sustain pedal would sometimes not be released at the end, causing the previewed chord to ring longer than desired. The inversion and the octave were not possible to edit as text (except inversion when it was “Auto” but then it didn’t work to write “0”). The Inversion Down button would never get greyed out if the lower limit was -1. Keys Tab Changing the tuning was not possible to undo. Grid Editor The program could freeze when applying Humanize in some cases. Auto-scroll in the Grid Editor would not work after marquee selection had been used. Nodes in the CC and pitch curve editor would under certain circumstances be skipped (most notably causing the sustain pedal not to trigger correctly). Bandmate “Select Containing Folder in Grooves” would not be enabled in the context menu if the loaded output groove did not exist in the visible groove list. Using the keyboard to switch away from the Bandmate tab when the chord editor was open would leave the chord editor open over the new tab. Pressing stop to rewind would only move the playhead but not scroll the view to the start. The track timeline in Bandmate could under certain circumstances become very strange, having the first bar not positioned at the beginning, and that could lead to freezes. Selecting a new audio source file did not properly update the loop area.

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