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