Mixbus upgrade to Mixbus 32C for $79

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For owners of Mixbus

Mixbus32C v7.1 is a good one and a partial list of changes is provided below!

We try to provide a wide range of new features and fixes so there's always "something for everyone" in a Mixbus update!

I'd like to introduce a new product specialist on the Mixbus team: Nathan McFarland.  You might have already spoken with Nathan on our support email or phone.  Nathan is a long-time Mixbus user, a guitar player, and a music producer who works with talented Nashville artists and bands. The immediate effect of Nathan joining the team is a reworking of the "Slip Edit" feature in Mixbus's editor as well as some improvements in our editing shortcuts.

Nathan and I took a deep dive into the behavior of Playlists and Plugins for this release.  You can watch a video of me and Nathan jamming together and making an unintentional funk song with the new playlist and varispeed features.

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Edited August 31, 2021 by cclarry

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Partial Changelist

New "Plugin Manager" window

Take control of your plugin collection in a powerful new way:

You'll find the new "Plugin Manager" in the Window menu

The Plugin Manager provides a complete list of plugins that were found on your system, and data about each plugin's scan results.

New standalone scanner applications for VST and AU plugins will scan your whole plugin collection without danger of crashing Mixbus. 

The new scanner dialog allows you to skip individual plugins without canceling the whole scan process. Or set the scanner to auto-timeout while you take a break, and come back later to re-scan those individual plugins that wanted some user input.

Sort and filter your plugins by name, brand, tags, or format.

Tell Mixbus to Ignore troublesome plugins so we won't try to load them at all.

Mixbus loads AU, VST, VST3, and LV2 format plugins.  Choose the format that works best for each plugin, and Hide the ones you don't use (but might be used in some existing sessions).

Next-Level Playlists

Sweeping new changes to Playlists include:

Global playlist actions like "New Playlist for rec-armed tracks" allow you to record a new take on all tracks that are record-armed, whether they are in a Group or not.  You'll find these actions in the Track menu.

"Copy Playlist for All Tracks" will store the timeline state of your arrangement, edits and automation.  You can later switch between them while leaving your static mixer and plugin settings intact.

Select a track and click "?" keyboard shortcut to open the Playlist Selector dialog.  Click any playlist to listen to the alternative takes of that track, OR...

...change the scope to "ALL Tracks" and you can switch all tracks that have a matching playlist to your selection:  if you recorded a take of the drums and bass together, you can switch the drum and bass playlists together even if they aren't in a Group.

Create the perfect vocal or guitar comp:  Create a new empty playlist and call it 'comp'.  Then use the selector to switch between different takes and move the best take to your comp playlist.  You can even have more than one comp playlist to compare with each other.  And like the other playlist functions, you can edit multitracks with ease:  by group, rec-armed, or ALL tracks.

Read more in the manual! 

Varispeed Recording (Mixbus32C only)

Varispeed recording provides traditional tape-style varispeed techniques:

Slow down a recording by one or two semitones, and play along at the lower pitch to master a tricky solo, or retune a song to match a singer's range.

Change the recording by a few cents and detune your guitar to match: now record a shimmering doubled guitar without having to use a different guitar for each pass.

A blinking red indicator shows when the Varispeed dialog is operational.  Click the VS button to enable and disable your varispeed settings.  Your setting is remembered so you can revert to regular playback for auditioning, then re-enable varispeed for additional recording passes.

v7.1 includes dozens of other user-requested Improvements:"Slip Contents" editing modifier

Hold Ctrl+Shift  (or Cmd+Shift on Mac) to slip the contents of a region without moving the region start/end points

New shortcuts (mac shortcuts shown; check the menus for windows equivalents):

Ctrl+0  = Toggle Region Opaque

{  = All {selected} tracks switch to "overlaid" layer view

}  = All {selected} tracks switch to "stacked" layer view

| = Raise to top layer   (was Ctrl+0)

Playlist actions:

: = Copy playlist for selected/grouped tracks

Cmd + Ctrl + Shift + : = Copy playlist for rec-armed tracks

Cmd + Shift + : = Copy playlist for ALL tracks

“ = New Playlist for Selected/grouped tracks

Cmd + “ = New playlist for rec armed tracks

Cmd + Ctrl + Shift + “ = New Playlist for ALL tracks

? =  Show/Hide playlist select dialog box for selected track

<  = Start Recording with Pre-Roll

> = Start Recording with Count-In

Cue Markers in Regions

Right-click in a region to add a Cue marker

Cue markers display the embedded cues in imported midi files

Cue markers are a good place to add comments or lyrics

Cue markers move with the region, and copy/duplicate with it

"Promote to timeline marker" converts all region markers to location markers in the timeline

New "DSP Stats" window

Window->DSP Stats

Helps troubleshoot DSP usage

Calculates the worst-case DSP usage

New: Region loudness normalization/analysis (same feature as the master-bus loudness analysis, but applied to a single region)

 Export improvements:Updates to loudness normalization

New with-limiter option lets you specify an export target with a higher loudness than your mix, and the output will apply a fast limiter to keep your peaks under control while increasing the level to meet your target.

Include loudness (LUFS) graph in export report

Fix export analysis when trimming silence

Use triangular dither as default

Count xruns during realtime export

Fix timespan count (progress report)

Fix exporting multiple timespans

Warn when overwriting files

LAN dialog has been updated with user-customizable presets, loudness graph

New "Remove Gaps" feature: removes gaps between regions

Various improvements for ripple-edit (proper undo, significant speedup, automation ripple)

Significantly sped-up region edits

Improved realtime scheduling (notably Linux cpu/dma latencty, some macOS tweaks, windows MIDI and ctrl surface priority)

Add a preference for "No auto-return-after-rewind-ffwd"

TapeX: Tweak track renaming (allow to move to next/prev, cancel on focus out)

ACE-fluidsynth: add dedicated bypass (ignore notes, but retain reverb)

PT Import: significant speedup, fix importing of large sessions

New MIDI selection modes (invert + extend note selection)

Control Points no longer obey Lock Edit

Directly import the audio from M4A files

MIDI tracer can directly monitor input ports

Multiple MIDI tracer windows

Change Mackie Control combined meter to use a peak meter with falloff

More consistent control surface rewind/ffwd behavior, MCU separate shuttle and scroll

Allow to skip setting MIDI patch on session-load (do not change synth parameters by sending a PGM message)

'Escape' key was not working to cancel all selections when in Internal Editing mode ... this has been fixed

7.1 has over 900 "under the hood" changes since the last release:

Fixed cue monitoring during record w/preroll

Fix asymmetric systemic I/O latencies

Disable rec-arm on export (was on with latched-record-enable)

Fix muted MIDI regions

Update record file-name when changing track names

Fix blurry text in connection manager

Remove unused auditioner MIDI port

Preferably show port names in port-matrix (not bundles)

Fix an occasional crash when consolidating range with automation

Fix video-monitor display when seeking

Fix for region-drag to the dropzone

Use insert-position when adding route from template

Fix loading old (v4) route-templates

Keep MIDI List Editor in sync when region changes

Fix export race condition (and crash) when exporting multiple ranges

Fix position of imported MIDI markers (apply tempo map)

Fix rare hang at exit (waveview threads)

Fix session loading when aborting latency measurement

Fix Automation context menu when used from track-header

XTouch: Don't crash if master fader is not available.

Avoid playhead jumping while we locate from a control surface

Various Control Surfaces: Fix one-off error in calculation of fader position

Fix missing entries in source/region-list

Record Window: Fix record-region display when a track playlist is changed

Fix A/B plugins, skip internal but visible plugins

Fix bounced region filename 

Fix running multiple instances on Windows

Fix loading old session w/missing playlist

TapeX: Refactor input port monitoring (use less resources)

Fix capture alignment (MIDI, loop recording, manual punch in/out)

Fix pre-roll MIDI capture alignment

Fix Rec w/count-in: directly roll transport

Fix crash on MIDI bounce w/processing

Fix crash when deleting Plugin within 30 sec after MIDI binding

Fix incorrect splash screen visibility

Fix crash when switching backends, and chasing external TC

Fix handling of SMF files with consecutive noteOn events

LV2: allow multiple atom buffers, ignore CV plugins

Fix VST2 enter/return key-press ambiguity

VST3: do not split cycles for automation

VST3: fix crash on fan-out

Ignore symlinked, duplicated VST plugins

Tascam US-2400 fixes: fixed the panner direction, fix the joystick, fix the order of mixbuses in Flip mode

Do not show controller ports (like Mackie, US-2400) in the Recorder page meters

Replace the missing View items for toggling 32C EQ and Sends

Plugin "Favorite" list on the mixer-window: now correctly searches the Tags as well as plugin names

Linux fixes:

Override Ubuntu global menu (fixes crashes on some Linux systems)

Mac fixes:

Coreaudio: fix duplicates in device list, retain current device even if list changes

Fix Mac Plugin re/sizing

Fix an occasional crash when unloading mac VST2 plugins

Windows fixes:

Windows BPM/Note button text

Windows: prevent config file corruption

Windows: limit to single-instance only