n-Track Studio version history
What's new in n-Track Studio v6.0
- Realtime crossfade between parts overlapped in timeline, crossfade option in timeline popup menu [New feature]
- RMS Level meters, with RMS+Peak option and support for K-System metering [New feature] Allow for more accurate metering of audio loudness and enables monitoring using Bob Katz K-System, with presets for K-12, K-14 and K-20)
- Signal Path View window [New feature] (Shows a realtime representation of the routing of audio signals in the audio engine, enables to intuitively alter signal routing parameters and connections)
- Support for Wave64 file format [New feature] (Support for wave files that have length beyond the 2 Gb limitation of regular .wav file, using either .wav or .w64 extensions)
- The program no longer requires Microsft .NET to be installed and the 'Enable Microsoft .Net' setting in Preferences/Option can be disabled so that n-Track will not use .NET even if it is installed on the computer (a few UI features will be then disabled such as the Navigator window) [New feature]
- Duplicate waveform dragging while holding down Windows key [New feature]
- Per part volume knob in part properties box (that appears double clicking on waveform). Volume adjustment is visually to waveform [New feature]
- Dragging a waveform beyond the end loops the wave file [New feature]
- Angled edges of waveform frame, more angled when waveform end is open or looped [New feature]
- Volume Envelopes: "Click adds node" toggle option to avoid inadvertedly adding envelope nodes. When "Click adds node" is disabled "Add node" must be selected from popup menu [New feature]
- Volume Envelopes: when "Click adds node" is disabled mouse drags envelope segments
- Volume Envelopes: set selected node to Maximum, Center, Minimum context menu commands [New Feature]
- Volume Envelopes: text entering of selected node value [New Feature]
- Fixed Mixdown dialog box asking twice if you want to overwrite destination file [Bug fix]
- Fixed mixer stripe selection toolbar and mixer buttons not updating when skin is changed [Bug fix]
- When skin doesn't contain a button in multiple-buttons image files (e.g. ntrck4.bmp) program reverts missing button to default button in default skin image file [New feature]
- Color of track name text in left track bar customizable via Skin dialog box [New feature]
- Mixer Sliders customization based on slider type: "Track_Audio", "Track_MIDI", "Master", "Aux", "Group", "Instrument", "ReWire", "Surround_Output" with "SendVolume" for send sliders
(e.g. Slider0Track_AudioSendVolume.png, Slider0MasterDown.png, SliderHover0Track_MIDI.png, SliderDown0Instrument.png) [New feature] - Track EQ window Minimize-Maximize button in place of "Show All EQ Controls" popup menu command [New feature]
- Removed odd 'Create also an [Mp3/Wma/Ogg] version in Mixdown dialog box and moved output format selection in Save As file selection dialog box [New feature]
- Toolbar button to toggle the 'Song Comments' window [New feature]
- "Open Containing Folder" option in audio file right click context menu [New feature]
- Wave file sizes are now expressed in Gb, Mb or Kb depending on size instead of always Kb [New feature]
- Multiple external wave editors can be defined in the Settings/Prefrences/Paths dialog box [New feature]
- Transport buttons (Play, Rec etc.) can now have custom width defined in Skin.xml [New feature]
- Improved program startup time [Optimization]
- Fixed crash when importing MIDI files that have erroneos or corrupt information (e.g. some files exported by Hydrogen drum machine) [Bug fix]
- Fixed 'Revert to last zoom' button having no action after 'Zoom All' command [Bug fix]
- Fixed 'Voice-level activated recording' sometimes getting stuck always recording. Now it also disable 'auto-scroll timeline' (Ctrl+T). [Bug fix]
- Fixed graphic redraw problem on Windows Vista of lower portion of CD Burn window. [Bug fix]
- Fixed problem in CD Burn and Sampling Frequency Conversion window multiple-file file requester dialog box. [Bug fix]
- What's new in n-Track Studio v5.1.1
- Select I/O channels of multichannel audio devices in the popup menu that appears clicking on the channel name in the recording and playback meter windows
- Splice to Grid command (Edit/Non destructive menu)
- Fixed 'error saving Skin file' error 1st time program is run after installation (64 bit version)
- Fixed crash clicking on + (Add Channel) button on recording and playback meter window
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.1
- Copy, cut and paste commands can now be applied to aribitrary selection of tracks, no longer to either 1 or all tracks
- Clone portion of song to new song
- Lame mp3 encoder is now used instead of Bladeenc
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.0.9
- Fast switching of audio devices with popup button on playback and recording vumeter windows
- Support for EDL file format for exchanging multitrack song files with other DAW programs, including Vegas, Samplitude and Reaper
- Support for Aiff (.aif) audio files
- Support for using more than 80 tracks
- On-the-fly sampling frequency conversion when wave file has a sampling frequency different from the current audio devices sampling frequency set in the Preferences box
- Timeline highlights soloes tracks and shows muted tracks dimmed
- Mixer highlights selected track and keyboard cursor keys allow to navigate between tracks (left-right) and adjust track volumes (up-down)
- MIDI activity icon in the system tray
- Support for ogg-vorbis file format in the 64 bit version
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.0.8
- Channel volumes can now be entered with the keyboard
- Undo for volume, pan and aux send slider-knob movements
- 'Bounce from beginning' command to easily mixdown all tracks to single wave files for exporting to 3rd party multitrack editors preserving sync between tracks
- Fixed freeze and bounce commands extending track with silence beyond the original track length
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.0.7
- Soft clipping option to alleviate clipping distortion
- Option to substitute a parts wave file in the wave file rename/copy dialog box
- Playback level meter now always displays above 0 dB level
- 'New instrument channel' option in popup menu to select MIDI track output
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.0.6
- Support for WaveRT extra-low latency audio drivers for Windows Vista. The new standard allows for more efficient playback and recording at very low latencies.
WaveRT drivers are currently available for Vista for a small number of audio devices including many audio interfaces built into motherboards such as the Realtek ALC882M and C-Media 8738/8768
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.0.5
- Recorded wave files include broadcast wave information to ease reimporting .wav files at the original offset and for exporting to 3rd party compatible programs
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.0.4
- Automatic discovery of audio format supported by selected audio devices
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.0.3
- Recover wave file from Raw audio data dialog box
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.0.2
- Recover wave file from Raw audio data dialog box
- Fixed erratic behavior when using Live input processing and mono input channels
- Updated Pdf User Guide
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.0.1
- Improved volume envelopes editing
- Import audio from .wma files
- Support for encoding .wma version 9 files including nonlossy compression
- New html format for online help
What's new in n-Track Studio v5.0
- Speed and transpose controls for whole song, tracks and individual tracks .wav files
- Support for skinning user interface. Skins dialog box lets easily change program appearance, including colors and graphic files used to draw the interface
- Scrubbing to audition parts of the song by dragging with the mouse in the scrub area below upper time axis
- Change speed with or without changing pitch
- Reverse playback of song and .wav files
- Waveforms can now be zoomed beyond 1 sample/1 pixel level
- Sample by sample manual editing at high zoom levels
- Allow directly specifing of musical key (instead of transpose +/-) of Acidized loop .wav files
- Mono-stereo-left-right-expand to stereo channel mixer button
- Dockable channel properties window instead of modal popup dialog box
- Button on waveform to audition single .wav file
- Button on waveform to drag .wav file without having to switch into the 'drag wave files' mouse mode (Ctrl key)
- Tab control to switch between timeline and Piano-roll windows
- Many bugs fixed
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.2.1
- Support for VST 2.4 specification
- Support 64 bit processing in VST plugins
- 64 bit processing in n-Track Tempo Delay, Graphic EQ and Multiband Compressor effects
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.2
- 64 bit mixing and processing option
- n-Track DirectX plug-ins support for 64 bit processing
- n-Track Drums plug-in: drums sampler and drum machine
- Regions of the song where clipping occurred are now highlighted on the timeline axis
- "Scan song for clipping" Edit menu command
- Enhancements to MIDI external hardware control surfaces configuration dialog box
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.1.6
- Import tracks from audio CD function
- Metronome output to VSTi-DXi plugins
- Toolbar to select which channel to show on left mixer stripe moved into separate window
- Mixing/DSP performance improvements
- Performance improvements for dual-core CPUs
- Fixed installation problems on Windows 9x/ME and 2000
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.1.5
- Display of waveforms during recording
- More accurate waveforms at low zoom levels
- Outline waveform display option
- Redesigned punch-in recording with multiple takes, now takes are added as "alternate takes" that can be selected in the track context menu
- Playback position cursor in Navigator window
- Support non-instrument audio VST plug-ins that accept MIDI input, e.g. Gsnap
- "Bounce to single wave file with processing" command
- Auto "Zoom All" keeps all song visible until zoom level is changed manually
- EQ controls hidden with the "Show/Hide EQ controls" option in EQ window settings popup menu
- Recording and playback vumeters now show scrollbars when there are too many input or output devices to fit into the windows
- Draw volume envelopes for multiple tracks. Multiple tracks can be selected holding the Ctrl key and clicking on the track vertical name on the left edge of the track
- Clip indicators options in level meters to show both current, maximum and-or levels
- Auto-reset of clip indicators when clip mode is "peak" or "current"
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.1
- Support for surround mixing
- Surround panner
-
Increased audio processing multithreading to take advantage of hyperthreading, dual-core and multiple CPU systems. Increase in performance should be ~10% with hyperthreading CPUs and ~50% with dual CPUs
- Multiple customizable mixers
- Option to display vertical master & aux mixer stripes
- Redesigned delete track dialog box shows all wave files to be deleted from selected tracks
- Overlapped wave files in the timeline Z order can be now altereded with the Bring to front/Send to back context menu commands
- List box to select which outputs to mixdown in the Mixdown dialog box
- Option to mixdown to multiple stereo wave files, multiple mono wave files or single multichannel wave file
- "Bounce track to single wave file" timeline context menu command
- Importing of .flac compressed audio files
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.0.5
- Piano roll paste command pastes at the current cursor location
- Piano roll paint-paste button to paste repetitive patterns by dragging with the mouse
- Navigator window (shows current zoom location)
- Faster adding of mixer stripes when adding/deleting tracks
- Enhanched copy, cut and paste of multiple tracks.
- Edit/Insert command now can shift existing markers and rithm changes
- Fixed problems when using the program as a non-Administrator Windows user. The program installation still needs to be performed by Administrator
- New algorithm for Pitch Shift plug-in
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.0.4
- Freeze function for audio tracks, group, aux, instrument channels and MIDI tracks (free Cpu resources used by effects plug-ins)
- Aux channels properties dialog box
- Shaded channel name/properties button
- Changed group mute/solo so that tracks not sent to a soloed group are muted and can't send signal to aux channels
- Tooltip on volume evolution node shows volume level even when not dragging the node with the mouse
- Fixed problem with beeps after live input processing is used for more than 25 minutes
- Fixed MIDI notes from instruments plug-ins getting stuck
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.0.3
- Customizable I/O channels names
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.0.2
- New Multiband Compressor, Graphics EQ and Tempo Delay plug-ins
- Graphical window for editing tempo used by MIDI tracks & metronome
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.0.1
- Tree-like organization of plug-ins and instruments in the Effects Settings/Customize dialog box
- Fixed excessive Cpu usage for the Compressor plug-in & low buffering settings
What's new in n-Track Studio v4.0
- Mixer stripe in new left timeline pane Docked EQ-spectrum window
- Popup menu allows to substitute a plug-in with a different one
- Popup menu in list box that shows the list of effects in the mixer window
- The FASoft ParEQ and Compressor plug-ins are now included in n-Track Studio
- Undo now remembers plugins data
- Selectable Always On plug-ins in the EQ window
- Transfer tracks to other n-Track users via the internet (Track/Net transfer menu)
- CD Burning support: mixdown song and automatically burn the track to an audio CD track
- Separate disabling for DirectX instruments and VST plug-ins in the Effects Settings dialog
- Import of instrument definition files (.ins)
- DXi and VSTi hidden from list of DSP effectsbox
- EQ + spectrum analyzer on master & aux channels
- Fixed flickering when EQ frequency response and spectrum are shown simultaneously
- Ranges for showing pitch bend events selectable between 0..16383 and -8192..8191
- Broadcast wave files: displays information in "Import wave file" dialog box and asks wether to import the file at the offset specified in the file
- VSTi/DXi properties button in MIDI tracks properties dialog box
- Aux Send bypass
- EQ bypass clicking on EQ button in the mixer window holding the ctrl key
- Snap to markers
- Place cursor at beginning of selected part in timeline context menu
- Icons in menus
- Option to overwrite .sgw file without updating the audio data (allows to update the song's settings without recompressing the audio tracks)
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.3
- Support for ReWire TM
- Tooltips showing volume evolution nodes levels
- Back to last zoom level button
- Punch-in for MIDI tracks
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.2.3
- Enhanced
support for DirectX Instruments (DXi 2.0):
- Multiple output channelsProgram, note and controller names given by the plug-in
- MIDI input from plug-ins
- Loading and saving of .fxp VST plug-ins single preset files
- Manual entry for wave file new length in Track/Special/Stretch dialog box
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.2.2
- Line tool in piano roll velocities/controllers editing window
- Revised Edit/Insert function, now works on MIDI tracks too and in non-destructive wave editing mode
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.2.1
- MIDI instruments definition dialog box (MIDI track properties -> Instruments button)
- Track output button in left timeline bar (right click on left timeline bar to select elements to be shown)
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.2
- Phase shift in EQ properties dialog box Independent pre-post fader/inserts button for each send
- Independent pre-post master channel/volume button for each return
- Enabling/disabling of VST plug-ins in the effects settings dialog box
- Vumeters in left timeline bar
- Bypass button in plug-ins list window
- New mute, solo e rec arm buttons
- 'Center' popup menu for pan control
- Fixed corrupted graphics problem (build 1466 + build 1468)
- Fixed crash with Normalize (build 1474)
- Tap tempo button in tempo change dialog box (build 1474)
- Fixed 'error writing to file' problem exporting MIDI files (build 1477)
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.11:
- New track pan controls in the mixer window
- New dialog box to remove DirectX plug-ins from the list of available effects (Settings button in the effects list dialog box)
- Zoom in Piano Roll window now follows cursor
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.10:
- Presets for track EQ
- Stereo/Mono button in mixer window
- Spectrum analyzer hold options
- Support for VST plug-ins that can send MIDI input to the host (Trollo)
- VST & DirectX plug-ins parameters control by external MIDI faders (build 1452)
- Fixed problem with Piano Roll scrollbar (build 1452)
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.9:
- Improved support for DirectX plug-ins that delay the processed signal such as Acoustic Mirror, Steinberg Mastering Edition plug-ins, Waves LinMB etc.
- Improved sync when 'Preferences/Wave devices/advanced/Keep audio devices open' option is activated
- Fixed noise burst problem when stopping playback with M-Audio Delta Asio drivers (build 1406)
- Only a single undo command now needed after recording to delete all recorded channels (build 1406)
- Fixed crash when doing partial mixdowns (build 1407)
- Fixed problem with MIDI quantize & songs with bpm changes (build 1407)
- Fixed
problem with 24 bit playback freezing the program when using the
Creative Audigy 2 (build 1417)
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.8:
- Spectrum analyzer & tuner in EQ properties window
- Listing of MIDI synth's own program names for tracks sent to VST instruments that support the enumeration of program names
- Vertical dragging of groups of volume evolution nodes (build 1380)
- Fixed problem with drawing groups volume evolution
- Fixed problem loading v2.x songs
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.7:
- Moveable transport controls toolbars (drag it or right click to free it from the main toolbar)New grid/quantization options: swing, quantize region, randomize, quantize strength & auto quantize recordingsMoving tracks vertically by dragging on the vertical name-bar now only moves the track being dragged instead of exchanging the source and destination tracks
- Fixed bug with 'mixdown while playing' that made the mixdown sound incorrectly (white noise) when the output format was set to a 24 bit unpacked format
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.6:
- Add & delete band buttons in the EQ window allow to use up to 20 bands of EQ
- Fixed
MIDI export bug
Note - the file format has been updated, so previous versions of the program won't be able to load .sng files saved with version 3.1.6, but v3.1.6 can load files saved with previous versions.
The program now also allows to keep the existing configuration after upgrading to a new version. It asks if you want to keep the existing configuration. Using the default configuration is somewhat safer so if after having chosen to keep the existing configuration you econunter unexpected problems please try to restore the default configuration with the 'Revert to default settings' button in the Preferences dialog box.
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.5:
- 'Keep devices open' option for audio devices in the Preferences/Wave devices/Advanced dialog box (active by default). It makes transitions between stop and playback state smoother when using WDM and MME drivers especially when live input processing is active. The option has no effect when using Asio drivers as Asio devices are always kept always open (in previous versions too)
- Grid size, note length, velocity & 'track to edit' controls in the Piano Roll toolbar'Link to grid size' option for note length
- Various bugfixes
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.4:
- Piano roll context menu on right click
- Fixed various piano roll bugs
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.3:
- Support for Ogg Vorbis files encoding & decoding
- Packed song file format now uses Ogg Vorbis encoding when saving with compression
- Track color selection with toolbar button and in context menu
- Track output channel selection in context menu
- Option to display small main playback vumeter in mixer windowButton to toggle playing of MIDI notes when mouse button is clicked on piano roll window
- Fixed problem with mixdown sometimes cutting the last seconds of the song
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.2:
- Support for multichannel VSTi instruments Master volume/pan automation
- Improved compatibility with Fruityloops VSTi
- Different colors for audio, MIDI, instrument and groups channel on mixer window
- Faster scan of VST plug-insProgram setting for new MIDI tracks now defaults to [none]
- Fixed bug that made the program crash when using .wav files created with some third party programs
- Fixed crash when selecting MIDIMan Quattro Asio drivers when MME drivers are activated in the card's control panel
- Voice (level) activated recording ("Track/Special/Voice activated recording" menu command) (build 1315)
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1.1:
- Minimize tracks button Select (with right mouse button), move and delete groups of volume evolution nodes
- Shaded & shadow waveform look option
- Fixed problem with controls appearance getting corrupted after using the program for some time
- Fixed crash when clicking on a marker when in playback
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.1:
- Modify current selection by dragging with the mouse the selection edges
- Markers in Piano Roll window
- Vumeters for MIDI tracks in the mixer window
- Pick wave files window
- Fixed waveform display problem when scrolling horizontally
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.0.5:
- Support for US-428 & US-224 control surfaces
- Fixed problem with excessive CPU usage with mixer window open & faders automation active (P button)
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.0.4:
- Support for MIDI System Exclusive messages
- Fixed problem with excessive CPU usage with mixer window open
- Fixed inconsistency with level displayed on playback vumeter when 'Vumeter anticipates output' option is checked
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.0.3:
- MIDI Events editing window
- Knobs look
- Fixed bug importing certain MIDI & Wave files
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.0.2:
- Buttons to open track EQ on mixer window
- Option to mixdown only a specified portion of the song
- Deletion of multiple volume evolution nodes by dragging with the right mouse button
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.0.1:
- Selection of channels to use with multichannel soundcards in the Vumeter/Settings dialog box
- Paste groups of MIDI events multiple times in the Piano Roll window
- Recording of wave files bigger than 2 Gb
What's new in n-Track Studio v3.0:
- Support for WDM drivers - allows for very low latencies with standard Windows WDM drivers
- Automation of DirectX and VST effects parameters (works with any existing VST plug-ins but only with DirectX plug-ins that specifically support the automation of their parameters, such as the n-Track plug-ins)
- Velocity/Controller Piano Roll view
- Support for DirectX Instruments (DXi)
- Redesigned buttons
- Customizable piano roll background and grid colors (fixes the invisible grid problem of v2.3)
- Increased compatibility with some DirectX plug-ins (SF Graphic EQ & Dynamics)
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.3:
- Tracks grouping: send groups of tracks to a submix channel selecting the group to send the tracks to in the 'Output to' drop-down box in the tracks properties dialog box
- VST instrument channels: use VST instruments without having to create an empty audio track. A VST instrument channel can be added selecting the instrument plug-in in the Track/MIDI/Add VST instrument channel menu
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.2.1:
- Docking of floating windows
- Support for hardware MIDI faders (build 1025)
- Maximum number of output channels expanded to 48 (24 stereo)
- Support for wave file regions (build 1017)
- Fixed problems with some soundcard's Asio drivers (in particular M-Audio Delta series) (build 1004-1009)
- 'Packed song format': save a single file that includes all the project data, including audio tracks, optionally using wma compression (select 'File/Save As' then select '.sgw' as the file suffix)
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.2:
- Support for ASIO soundcards drivers
- Track EQ graphical view (build 847)
- Button to restore default preferences settings (build 871)
- Option to limit the refresh rate of the vumeters in the Preferences/Appearance box (useful when using very small buffer sizes) (build 871)
- Rec Arm button on the left timeline bar (build 889)
- Clicking on the time indicator on the toolbar allows to move to a specified location (build 889)
- Should work more reliably with Asio cards, in particular when doing live input processing (build 871)
- Dragging of MIDI notes from the timeline window (build 941)
- Dragging of MIDI tracks from the timeline window (build 957)
- Knobs angular movement (optionally activable right clicking on a knob) (build 975)
- Fixed crash when editing MIDI controllers in the Piano Roll window (build 941)
- Fixed problem with wave files created with Adat Edit (build 941)
- Fixed playback terminating sligthtly before the end of the song (build 941)
- Fixed error with some Asio drivers when starting the 1st playback or recording (build 957)
- Fixed bug with VST effects on stereo tracks (build 847)
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.1.4:
- Support for VST effects plug-ins
- Support for VST instruments
- Multiple MIDI input devices & improved MIDI thru (build 814)
- Overdubbing of MIDI tracks (record new notes in existing MIDI tracks) & record different channels or ports to different tracks (build 814)
- Display of available disk space in the status bar (build 832)
- Fixed corruption of recorded track when disk becomes full (build 832)
- Fixed problem with MIDI clock & MIDI recording (build 819)
- MTC & MIDI clock sync can now share the same devices used for MIDI recording & playback (build 814)
- Fixed problems with some VST instruments (build 802)
- Fixed piano roll button not working (build 803)Triplets notes grid snapping (build 803)
- Fixed problems with LM4 VST instrument (build 809)
- Fixed problems loading and saving banks with Gakstoar Alpha VST instrument (build 810)
- Loading and saving of VST effects presets banks (build 809)
- Fixed compatibility problems with some VST instruments (build 834)
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.1.3:
- Built-in 3 band EQ with knobs on the mixer window
- Fixed 'Process destructively' bug (build 778)
- Fixed problem selecting wave devices with MOTU soundcards (build 780)
- Fixed crash when clicking on the left of the piano roll window (build 780)
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.1.2:
- Enhanced volume evolution drawing
- Aux properties are now saved is the .sng file
- Apply volume evolution before post-fader sends option
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.1.1:
- Time axis labels now appear at even time points
- Time stretch function (Edit/Special/Stretch)
- Substantial increase in effects processing performance on systems with 2 CPUs
- Shaded vumeters are no longer cpu-intensive (at least not more than the regular meters) and are now enabled by defaultFixed bug that made mixdowns to mono files too loud
- Button to make windows tranparent (Windows 2000 only)
- Fixed bug with tooltip not appearing when the mouse is moved over a marker (build 759)
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.1:
- "Bypass all effects" button in the upper left corner of the timeline window
- Faders automation
- Volume sliders range customizable in the Preferences/Appearance/Volume ranges dialog boxSupport for 24 bit unpacked format (required by some soundcards such as the Yamaha DSP factory and Aardvark cards)
- MIDI to wave conversion wizardMarker button drop down menu with marker selection
- Next and Previous marker keyboard shortcuts
- Marker list windows remains floating and can be used to move to the desired marker
- Marker colors
- Option to disable the marker pop-up window"Selection between markers" command in the menu that appears right clicking on the timeline axis
- Save/Recall selection window
- Zooming edges in timeline scrollbar
- Shaded vumeters
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.0.9:
- Mute, solo & track's mixer slice button added to the vertical bar to the left of the timeline window
- Track properties & wave files dialog box merged
- Dither & noise shaping options in the mixdown dialog box
- Preferences/Options/"Reload last project at startup" option
- Preferences/Appearance/"Highlight selected parts" option
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.0.8:
- Dither & Noise shaping
- MIDI banks support
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.0.7:
- Aux channels settings independent for each aux channel
- MIDI Program (instruments) names
- Fixed bug related to saving plug-ins presets
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.0.6:
- File/Sampling rate conversion command
- Mono playback option in the playback vumeter's settings dialog box
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.0.5:
- Pause button
- When adjusting the length of a looped part all the following copies of the part are modified
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.0.4:
- n-Track Pitch Shift plug-in
- Fixed problem when changing the order of a track's effects during playback (build 688)
- Fixed problem with Pitch Shift plug-in with K6 and Pentium I CPUs (build 687)
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.0.3:
- Enhanced live
input processing and integrated with the mixer:
all input cards can be processed and their signal is fed to the mixer.
The output can go to multiple soundcards, just like the normal playback output"Expand mono track to stereo" is now independently selectable for each track - Animated vumeters peaks decay
- Disk loading buffers optionally bigger than mixing buffers
- Fixed problem with paths and wave files in multiple directories
- Option to store new wave files in the working directory or in the song directory
- "Import MIDI file" now works also with format 0 MIDI files (build 671)
- Simultaneous audio & MIDI recording (build 671)
- Fixed occasional crash when stopping playback (build 681)
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.0.2:
- Output
to DirectSound devices
- Signal processing in a different thread than the user interface.
The program should remain responsive even under stress, and it should
now exploit more multiprocessor systems
- Variable playback speed (with DirectSound devices)
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.0.1:
- "Whole
parts" and "non destructive" editing mode unified:
the whole part is selected if the temporal selection is empty
- Fixed small undo memory waste
- Fixed problem with Windows 95/NT systems without IE4: SHLWAPI.DLL
is no longer needed
What's new in n-Track Studio v2.0:
- Piano
Roll MIDI editing window
- Multiple MIDI outputs devices
- Tempo and time signatures changes modify the MIDI tracks timing
- Non-integer tempo
- MIDI tracks representation on the timeline window
- MIDI real-time transpose and velocity adjustment
- MIDI quantize
- Destructive processing of single wave files applying track's effects
and/or volume/pan envelopes
- Snap to 0 selection on wave tracks
- Auto-scroll follows the playback position
- Snap when dragging parts edges
- Volume and pan envelopes copied along with parts when the "move
envelopes.." toolbar button is pressed
- Local instead of absolute wave file paths
- New up/down controls
- Customizable toolbars
- Normalize
- Logarithmic fades
- Crossfade
- Blue and red mixer mono and solo buttons
- Tracks colors
- Timeline vertical selection bar with track names
- .wav to .wma (Windows Media Audio) encoding
What's new in n-Track Studio v1.3.3:- Improved performance
when using many tracks and effects
- Video sync (playback of .avi, .mpg, .mov videos in sync with the
song)
-
Fixed bug when recording from multiple inputs (build 524)
- Graceful handling of missing wave files (build 528)
- Resizing wave file import dialog box with Windows 98/2000 (build
528)
- Fixed bug with stereo 24 bit wave files playback (build 531)Previous
versions:What's
new in n-Track Studio v1.3.2:- Copy
option in rename wave file dialog box
- Non destructively cut multiple parts
- Auto-save option
- "File/Move song" menu command: copy or move all the song
files to a new folder
- Dragging the selection to the limit of the timeline scrolls the
window
- Mixer splittable in two rows when using many tracks
- Preferences/Options split in two dialog boxes ("Options"
and "Appearance")What's
new in n-Track Studio v1.3.1:- Big-time
window
- Copy of track attributes (effects, volume envelopes etc.)
- Shaded window titles (Win98 only)
- "File/Render while playing" moved to an option in the
render dialog boxWhat's
new in n-Track Studio v1.3:- “n-Track
Reverb” plug-in
- MIDI Clock sync (master & slave)
- Time in Measure:Beats:Ticks
- Variable tempo (used by the metronome and for the M:B:T time format)
- Enhanced snapping
- Revised keyboard shortcuts: spacebar starts and stops playback
- Timeline zoom, pan and selection are saved in the .sng fileWhat's
new in n-Track Studio v1.2.7:- Closer
zoom: up to 1 sample/1 pixel ratio
- Zoom all and Zoom selection
- Mouse-wheel support in the Timeline window (panning & zooming)
- Marker pop-up time = -1 disables markers pop-ups (build 486)
- Editing mode reported correctly in the Edit/Editing mode menu (build
486)What's
new in n-Track Studio v1.2.6:- Echo
effect: changed how the mix parameter works. Now with mix=100% only
the delayed signal is heard. Echo effects on songs saved with the
previous version may sound a bit different
- Option to move the volume evolution along when wave files are dragged
- “Remove node” in the volume drawing context menu
- Pasting in non-destructive editing mode with an empty selection
creates a new track
- Fixed bug with track’s volumes when the “allow automated
volume for wave tracks” was uncheckedWhat's
new in n-Track Studio v1.2.5:- Markers
- Support for 32 bit float wave files
- Use of partial wave files
- Splice & merge
- Trim
- Non destructive copy, cut & paste
- Overlap of wave files
- Help TutorialWhat's
new in n-Track Studio v1.2:- Aux
channels with automated sends and returns
- Mixer's vu-meters
- Wheel mouse supportWhat's
new in n-Track Studio v1.1.3:- MIDI
Time Code Master and Slave sync
- The toolbars position and the main window position and state are
now saved between sessions
- Fixed Wave editing insert bugWhat's
new in n-Track Studio v1.1.2:- Faster
Big mixer scrolling when using many tracks (build 423)
- Substitute tracks after rendering now correctly removes the rendered
tracks from the song (build 423)
- Fixed occasional crash at the end of the rendering (build 423)
- Fixed "Filter Sync Error" when playback was started after
the ending of a track (build 411)
- More precise playback vu-meter, showing positive (dB) levels instead
of just “clip” (when the option “vumeter anticipates
output” is activated)
- New timeline time axisWhat's
new in n-Track Studio v1.1.1:- Detecting
of "out of resource" condition stops playback prevents the
program to become uncontrollable
- Buffering monitor window
- Fixed occasional crash when moving wave filesWhat's
new in n-Track Studio v1.1:- Enhanced
volume/pan drawing
- Copy & paste of track parts
- Sample accurate offsets and support for looping wave files
- Support for multiple outputs
- Support for 24 bits soundcards and wave files
- Stereo split to two mono tracks when recording
- Enhanced undo
- AutoVol, Echo and Chorus Plug-Ins enhanced and rewritten in DirectX
format
- Custom Plug-Ins Presets
- User configurable time representation
- Simultaneous dragging, copying and pasting of multiple parts What's
new in n-Track Studio v1.0.10:- Real-time
input to output processing
- Fixed occasional crashes with DirectX plug-insWhat's
new in n-Track Studio v1.0.9:- New
vu-meters and simultaneous monitoring of all recording sources
- Punch-in lag and crash after rendering problems fixed
- Playback buffers selector controlWhat's
new in n-Track Studio v1.0.8:- Rendering
of selected tracks & importing tracks from .sng files feature
- .wav to .mp3 conversion
- Faster timeline display
- Ctrl and Shift switch cursor in the timeline window
- Punch in recording (v1.0.7a)What's
new in n-Track Studio v1.0.7:- 24
bits effect processing & mixing option
- Master channel effects
- Bypassed a “mystic” bug (in the Microsoft DirectX Media
runtime) that made some plug-ins crash, among which Waves Audiotrack
- New effects window with effects order swappable
- Maximum song length doubled: now is 66 minutes What's
new in n-Track Studio v1.0.6:- DirectX
static presets support
- DirectX effects CPU usage meter
- Improved track & wave files properties dialog box
- “Gentler” behavior when the program doesn’t find
wave files
- Various bugfixesChanges
from n-Track Studio 1.0 to 1.0.5
- PC
speaker & MIDI based Metronome
- Peak files calculated in background during recording
- Max. number of effects per track lowered to 25: further step in
the memory “diet” (n-Track 2.2.18 allocated upon loading
10 Mb of RAM, n-Track Studio 1.0 6.4 Mb, this version ~2.5 Mb)
- Fixed “resonating” MIDI notes bug
- Overdubbing bugfix
Main changes between n-Track 2.218 and n-Track Studio 1.0:
 Basic Wave Editing features: cut,
copy, paste, insert & silence operate destructively on wave
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| Multilevel undo for Wave Editing
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| Rotating controls |
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| New user interface with dockable windows
(timeline & tracklist) and always on top toolwindows, flat
& moving toolbars |
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| Metronome with output to MIDI synth
or to the PC speaker |
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| Rendering now can also be done while listening to
the song, allowing the user to adjust volumes, effects etc. while
doing the "final mix" of the song |
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Other changes:
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View n-Track version historyn-Track Studio uses the latest version of Microsoft's common controls dll: althorough it automatically detects which version is installed and uses the new features only if the dll version supports them, it's best to have a recent version of the comctl32.dll file. To check what version you have installed, open your windows\system folder and right click on the comctl32.dll file. Then choose "Properties" and click on the Version tab. If the version is lower than 4.71, you can download the official Microsoft common controls upgrade here (~500 kbytes):
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