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newGeneral workflow: - ripple edit button changing its look when option is active/not active
- arranger bar in tracks area with text and custom colors for sections (shortcut A)
- convert bitrates (like 44.1 -> 48), no more 'improper audio message' and forcing user to manually fight hours what program can do in seconds.
- context menu for plugins automation parameters with very long list of element (20+) displayed now as divided into section manner instead of very long linear list beyond scree size
- smart autorename tracks in relation to imported file names (with wildcards and rules)
- insert soft synth additional option to set custom name for tracks
- smart labels (intelligent creation shorter names with rules)
- ability to copy any automation curve into different curve (for instance volume riders/meters automation curve into volume or gain curve etc)
- option to choice if in plugin menu should be last 5 used or favorite 5 or both
- now one can import/export tempo map as text file from inside tempo window or even edit manually outside of Sonar!
- option to store backup of preferences in user's profile on web (up to 10 variants)
- selection toolbar now shows also selection length (clickable measure type like posistion display)
- sort tracks according to assigned colors (in preferences option to set required order of colors )
- option to change order of channels/buses by drag and drop in console view (drag spot))
- track manager improved, now it is module not taking over focus as dialog
- option to migrate plugins to different location on disk
- option to assign default names for track created with adding VST synth
- global solo option to let use exclusive solo on group of track and keep some tracks always soloed
- option to keep changes history for selected clips
- quantize with many additional option like adjust only n-st note in bar, adjust excluding every n-th note, adjust only note X in selection, adjust with removing overlapping of notes...
- quantize with smarter humanization and manually defined rules
- different volume settings for metronome for play and record.
- better transient recognition with AI helper to improving it for used type of data.
- macros to assign sequence of functions (keystrokes) to one shorcut
- option to restrict automation to clip range to allow free volume slider for some clips while applied on the others
Special groups- FX bypass group to let turn on/off members of it for instance only selected type of plugin on selected tracks at once to compare
- FX automation group to let at the same time control many plugins common feature
Help: - text in tips displayed when hover mouse now contain also shortcut is assigned and turned on option in preferences
- improved shortcut help, now every command in tables is link to proper help part with its description
Visuals: - option to smart assigning little instrument icons according to substrings in names (like toms, kick, guitar etc)
- when track showed in minimal view - assigning custom small icon or char/image from special graph library.
- custom minimal view to show available controls for track as MSR and volume and keep it short
- option to auto-adjust wave form to fill height of track
- option to highlight area where peak is over 0 value (related to type of metering) to fast visually identify
- possibility to define colors in pallette to pick up instead of defaults
- option to change color for whole strip not only narrow color label
- option to display bus strips differently than channels in the mean of color or appearance fo canvas or controls,
- option to show wave form in track after processing to let have fast look for real output form not source one, or both
- option for nicer rendering graphs for wave form (cpu penalty).
- option to adjust wave form after changing clip gain
Start screen: - list projects have now in icon view description showed while hover mouse without need clicking at every projects (...) icon
Browser improvement: - option to keep separate category lists for VST and VSTi plugins in plugin browser to avoid very long category list with many categories not related for proper plugin type.
- possibility to manage plugins at browser level like disabling/hidding/removing from browser
- pposability to select for every plugin which type should be showed (DX/VST2/VST3 etc).
- possibility to create marks at plugin name to differ types between category (f.e. compressors and compressors with side-chain)
- possibility to save layouts and orders from browser to user profile on web (up to 10)
- possibility to save category membership and order to web profile not to be forced on every machine manually perform ordering
- when right click on plugin in plugin browser under its name there is shown its exact location on disk
Tracks: - when selecting 2 mono audio tracks and drag them into stereo track they will be combined there to stereo/ if drag on free space below tracks new stereo will be created. Also on right click menu when 2 monos selected available option combine 2 monos into new 1 stereo track
- when selecting stereo track there is at right click button option available to split stereo into 2 monos (working also on many tracks)
- option to scan/learn and auto-adjust gain level for selected tracks according to defined level
- special reference tracks with possibility to set many loops and scanning/adjusting volume option
- option to display both input and output meter when recording is armed
- button duplicate tracks now acts differently when used with modifiers keys (ctrl,alt,shift) creating duplicates without properties, effect, send (and combinations)
- added possibilities to adjust clip gain (and match waveform after it) by simple dragging line below clip title
- added also possibilities to do it on selected area of clip
- when clicking on folder icon now instead of editing its properties it is expanded/collapsing view of included tracks
- when create aux track it is possible to choose if mono
- possibility to create many loop not just 1 on project and switching between them
Plugin containers rebuilt: - option to let VST plugin container organize all plugins from FX bin in the same window with tabs
- built-in channel tool into plugin container window
- option to turn on VA meters for input and output in plugin container and to automatic adjust gain to match them
- option to show gain points between plugins in chain to avoid missing clipping between plugins without meters
- multitrack aware control for plugins to let perform action on many track at once like on one +3dB for some range on other selected -3dB
- option to remember gain stage between plugins and autotrim
Loops: - improved loop construction view to let easily manipulate/edit slice inside loops to reorganize loops
- smarter detection tempo of loops when playing in their original tempo (also option to learn from name of loop)
- when preview at host tempo not set and playing loop in media tab displaying at status bar tempo of playing
fixed. - better self-defence of sonar against case when plugin container is hang not hanging sonar anymore
- better tempo recognition in REX2 (and macro which can take part name as tempo value)
- cloned audio track converter to mono stayed stereo
- editing track/bus name can insert special char as sum sign but after applying it is changed to '?'
- virtual controller caps lock works again, also fixed problem with displaying proper size of controller window and/or its controls
- problems with acurate displaying in browser if there are many plugins
- fixed when selecting track and by arrow up move focus on other select don't follow and alt-s command don't work (needed arrow up and , to move selection)
- disk overrun error appears in situation related to memory management not really disk related and sometime also fonts are replaced in preferences dialog
- adding more and more plugins during play often leads to hanging of Sonar
- often in history there was showed not proper name of actual operation to be undo/redo