Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro Update to 2.1.0 (Not a Deal)

[ZincT]

Don't think I have seen this posted here so...

I was offered the update when I started the standalone program and logged in, but others have reported that they have to start it once,  exit and the  start it again so YMMV.

Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro 2.1.0 (June 17th, 2025)

New Features

- Redesigned Pitch Control Points Mode:
- Automatically trace pitch curves into control points when selecting an area.
- Show a resizing box after selecting multiple points.
- Added a command (default: Ctrl/Command + D) for creating a copy of selected notes and placing the copy after the selection.
- Added a shortcut for creating a copy of the selection by dragging while holding the alt/option key.
- Added a command (default: left/right arrow keys) for moving the play head by one bar.
- Added a button for enabling/disabling snapping behaviour inside the piano roll.
- Added support for scrolling with the middle mouse button.
- Added a sine tone to be played when creating/dragging a note.
- Added full ARA support for Pro Tools (requires Pro Tools 2024.10).
- Added tempo detection and beat grid visualization for imported audio.

Behaviour Changes

- Changed the default key shortcut for “Shift Up by an Octave”/”Shift Down by an Octave” to Ctrl/Command + Up/Down arrow keys.
- For fresh installations of Synthesizer V Studio 2 Pro, changed the default behaviour to returning the play head to the original position after pausing.
- Snap the play head to the grid. This behaviour can be turned off in the settings.
- Changed the colour of overlapping notes.
- Open the lyrics editor on the next note when entering a space character into the note’s lyrics editor. This behaviour can be turned off in the settings.
- Changed autosave strategy to keep a rotating backup of projects opened in the last 7 non-consecutive days.

Feature Improvements

- Added support for changing the tempo by dragging the tempo indicator in transport controls.
- Improved the visibility of scroll bars in the Piano Roll and Arrangement.
- Improved the visibility of the piano roll’s grid.
- When the ARA plugin’s window has insufficient vertical space, collapse the menu bar into the program icon.
- Redesigned the silence indicator that shows when two neighbouring notes are separated by a small gap.
- Allowed automatic lyrics language detection to be turned off in the settings.
- Allowed tooltips to be turned off in the settings.
- Added a warning icon to the phoneme area above a note, to be shown when invalid phonemes are entered into the note.
- Optimized project loading for the ARA plugin.
- Updated script bindings to support smart pitch controls.

Bug Fixes

- Fixed crashes when rapidly moving a note group back and forth between tracks.
- Fixed crashes when loading the plugin in Ableton on macOS.
- Fixed crashes when loading a corrupted voice file; show an error message instead.
- Fixed crashes and timeline mismatch when using the ARA plugin in a REAPER project that starts from a negative time or a negative bar.
- Fixed crashes when loading a new project without first clearing the selection.
- Fixed crashes when moving groups across tracks with “Show Melodies from Other Tracks” option turned off.
- Fixed crashes during program shutdown on Windows, causing the recovery dialog to appear despite no data having been lost.
- Fixed crashes after performing certain undo/redo operations related to the creation/removal of note groups.
- Fixed a misconfiguration in the macOS installer that allows installing the plugins without the standalone, which would result in a broken installation.
- Fixed audio from the ARA plugin being routed to a different track after reopening a saved project in Studio One 6 and above.
- Fixed rendering getting stuck when the lyrics contains archaic Japanese characters such as “ゑ” and “ゐ”.
- Fixed slow responses when using smart pitch controls on a group that is linked to another group.
- Fixed log-in and voice download failure on Windows due to networking issues.
- Fixed the slow start up of the standalone application on some Windows systems.
- Fixed un-rendered notes when a note that begins with a manually inserted “cl” phoneme is followed by a legato.
- Fixed Vocal Mode options not being listed in the parameter panel immediately after opening a saved project by double-clicking, or after opening a saved DAW project.
- Fixed autosaved projects being accidentally deleted when quitting the plugin without saving in certain DAWs.
- Fixed undo/redo for group creation and audio import being performed together with the previous editing operation.
- Fixed the metronome’s on/off status not being reflected in real-time during playback.
- Fixed the cache for rendered audio not being reset after removing all notes in a group.
- Fixed the toggle button for showing/hiding AI Retakes not working, causing AI Retakes to be always shown under notes.
- Fixed tooltip position in VST3 plugins on Windows.

[Michael A.D.]

1 hour ago, ZincT said:

I was offered the update when I started the standalone program and logged in, but others have reported that they have to start it once,  exit and the  start it again so YMMV.

I never installed the stand-alone version.   The plug-in version never offered me the update (even after exiting and starting again).  So, I logged into my Dreamtonics account and the update was available there.  

 

[ZincT]

Thanks for the information @Michael A.D.  - worth knowing for anyone who doesn't use standalaone.