Free Piano Update to BBC Discover

Mute Solo Functionality on BBC SO Pro / Piano Pro

General plugin performance optimisation

The ability to support piano presets / different microphone signals. Piano presets not supported in plugin version v1.5.0.

Corrects error with UID causing issues with DAW recall - present in 1.4.0

Plugin is now compatible with Apple Silicon (M1)

Fixed some issues where Audio Units were failing to load in Logic Pro and Garageband

Fixed an issue where the default preset could not be set to 'None'

Pro: Removed the unused vibrato control in 'Violin 1 Leader: Long Flautando'

Pro: Fixed an issue with phase cancellation when using the stereo spread control

Pro: Fixed an issue where the 'Long Flutter' technique did not load by default with the Bass Flute preset

Update to the plugin only which patches issue where users where unable to use the Transpose function.

Pro/Core: Add muted brass techniques for Horn, Horns a4, Trumpet, Trumpets a3, Tenor Trombone, Tenor Trombones a3, and Bass Trombones a2

Pro: Add Cimbasso with five techniques

Pro: Add Legato (Extended) techniques to solo instruments: Clarinet, Bassoon, Bass Clarinet, Cor Anglais, Trumpet, and Tenor Trombone

Core: Add Legato (Extended) techniques to solo instruments: Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, and Tenor Trombone

Core: Add substitues Legato (Extended) techniques to solo instruments: Bass Clarinet and Cor Anglais

Core/Discover: Add substitues for Cimbasso in Pro using Tuba content

Core/Discover: Add substitues for new Legato (Extended

Discover: Add substitues for the new Pro/Core muted brass content

Discover: Add substitues for the new Pro Legato (Extended) techniques

Pro: Update Legato (Extended) techniques for solo instruments: Horn, Flute, Oboe

Pro: Update Legato techniques for instruments: Violins 1, Violins 2, Violas, Celli, Basses

Fixed missing high dynamics in Contrabassoon - Trill (Maj-2)

Fixed failing notes when note on and note off perfectly coincide

Various NKS fixes

Fixed user presets failing to show in some modes

Discover: Fixed user manual link

Core: Fixed file location of one sample set

Core: Added the technique editor feature

Core: Added Vibraphone and Crotales

Switching mode of all instances can now be done by Command-Click on the product mode switch menu

Pro/Core: Increased maximum pitch-stretch voices to 64 and allow using lower quality algorithms to save CPU usage

Initial public release of Core and Discover modes

Updated Pro, Core, and Discover content

Updated plugin release

Fixed a crash when duplicating or moving the plugin in ProTools

Pro/Core: Changed the default Tightness control value for Strings to zero which makes Spiccato and Staccato attacks more responsive

Pro/Core: Fixed noise in some releases in Horns a4 - Legato

Fixed the modulation wheel slider resetting to zero on reopening the user interface and causing the I2 (Dynamics) fader to be zero'd too

Default to have timed short release turned on if a factory preset contains any relevant techniques (e.g., Marcato, Tenuto)

The technique matrix will now switch to the page than contains the main active technique even when keyswitching

Fixed an edge case in legatos where rapid notes (<15ms) notes below velocity 64 would cause incorrect void stealing

Fixed the saving and restoring of the stereo flip state which would cause some techniques to apparently flip arbitrarily

Fixed refreshing plugin instances crashing when not in an NKS host

Fixed mapped CCs in certain cases from interfering with other CCs (e.g., cc33 could get zeroed by using the modulation wheel, cc1)

The preset editor button now shows as greyed-out when not available due to replacement instruments {AUN-705}

Pro: Added Bass Flute

Updated Pro, Core, and Discover content

Updated plugin release

Fixed missing icon for Staccatissimo in Woodwinds {AUN-823} and Horns a4 Legato (Extended)

Fixed and edge case which could result in hanging notes when transport is stopped

Fixed intermittent failure to play previews when switching product modes

Core/Discover: Fixed the key range of the Crotales substitute instrument

Discover: Fixed the technique icon display transparency correctly when switching techniques

Fixed gaps in the product mode switch menu at certain levels of zoom

Fixed duplicate Tubular Bells preset appearing

Fixed a crash when duplicating or moving the plugin in ProTools

Discover: Fixed the size/thickness of icons for Percussion and Brass

Discover: set the default dynamics velocity mode to Compressed Velocity Low

Discover: Silence certain Pro/Core replacement techniques if they would sound significantly incorrect

Pro/Core: Changed the default Tightness control value for Strings to zero which makes Spiccato and Staccato attacks more responsive

Added a feature to allow switching all instances of the plugin to a specific product mode within a session. This will only work if all instances are loaded into the same process

Added better support for NKS in Discover and Core modes

Added more logging to help diagnose rare cases of multitongue techniques not playing on initial load

Updated Pro, Core, and Discover content

Updated plugin release

Pro/Core: Fixed noise in some releases in Horns a4 - Legato

Fixed the modulation wheel slider resetting to zero on reopening the user interface and causing the I2 (Dynamics) fader to be zero'd too

Discover: Fixed updating the orchestral pit user interface when using the preset previous and next button

Discover (Strings): Replace use of actual Harmonic samples with regular Long samples

Core/Discover: Fix keyboard range Display in Trill and Marcato techniques

Discover: Fix the low C sample in Flutes a3 Staccatissimo

Pro/Core: Fix potential overloading in Horns a4 - Legato and correctly label it as "Legato (Extended)" in the user interface

Pro/Core: Default to have timed short release turned on if a factory preset contains any relevant techniques (e.g., Marcato, Tenuto)

The technique matrix will now switch to the page than contains the main active technique even when keyswitching

Updated Pro, Core, and Discover content

Added Bass Flute

Updated plugin release

Core: Removed extraneous Variation control

Core: Fixed some missing icons

Discover: Removed hidden but usable Tightness controls

Fixed all stereo controls in Timpani Hits

Fixed some panning issues in Celli

Fixed loading legacy "Pro" sessions (prior to Core and Discover) into either Core or Discover. Previously these would not enable the Core/Discover mic correctly from saved sessions in, for example 1.0.0.

Removed Two-Handed controls

Improved initial loading times

Discover: Remove all except the "Starred" filter tags from the top set of tags in the Preset Browser

Discover: Fix some minor user interface/experience issues

Pro: Added Bass Flute techniques except Legato

Discover: Added per-key information for Untuned Percussion Hits

Updated Pro, Core, and Discover content

Updated plugin release

Discover: Fixed info text for the I2 (expression)

Discover: Fixed info text for the knob to refer only to reverb

Discover: Fixed info text for techniques to remove the reference to being able to edit the techniques

Fixed reference to "Tubular Bells" where in some cases the 'b' was lower case

Fixed being able to switch product modes when there is no preset loaded

Fixed the product mode behaviour when there is only one available product mode

Fixed the retaining of the mixer state (levels and enablement) when moving from either Discover or Core to Pro

Fixed a number of missing technique icons and technique names

Fixed the text colour of some pop-up menus in various product modes

Discover: Fixed the naming of the three percussion presets to be more descriptive

Discover: Fixed the Tuba and Bass Trombones a2 note range and distortion on the lowest key

Fixed some Error No. 1 report which were due to mismatching meta data in the config files

The preset editor button now shows as greyed-out when not available due to replacement instruments, rather than hiding it completely

Updated Pro, Core, and Discover content

Updated plugin release

Fixed going down a level (e.g., from Pro to Core) causing the correct techniques to load but no sound

Discover: fixed unusual behaviour when clicking and dragging near the centre of the reverb knob

Fixed loading Pro and loading more than the Mix 1 signal, then when going down a version (to Core or Discover), there was no sound

Fixed displaying the correct presets for the product mode

Discover: Fixed the text colour in the about page

Filter tags in the preset browser are now omitted if those tags are not linked to any presets in the currently active product mode

Core and Discover: Fixed preview playback from within the preset browser

Discover: the selected instrument section in the orchestral pit now updates correctly

Replacement instruments in discover now show the experimental (flask) icon in the centre of the orchestral pit

Instrument family names are displayed in the left corner for Pro and Core

Instrument names that are replacements are prefixed with a tilde ("~") to
indicate these are approximations (e.g., Bass Clarinet in Pro switched to Core, which doesn't have Bass Clarinet)

Technique names that are replacements are prefixed with a tilde ("~") to
indicate these are approximations (e.g., Legatos in Pro switched to Discover,
which doesn't have legato but simply plays longs limited to monophonic
playback)

Core: The preset editor is hidden as a Pro-only feature

Hide the preset editor when the loaded techniques contain percussion replacements from Discover and omit these techniques from the list within the preset editor itself

Each product mode has its own default preset setting depending on the currently active product mode (but the factory default in each case is "Strings: Violins 1")

Discover: Changed the contrast of the preset highlight in the preset browser

Hide the page controls in the technique matrices when there is only a single page

Updated Pro, Core, and Discover content

Updated plugin release

Pro/Core: Fixed an edge case in legatos where rapid notes (<15ms) notes below velocity 64 would cause incorrect void stealing

Fixed the saving and restoring of the stereo flip state which would cause some techniques to apparently flip arbitrarily

Fixed voice signal routing when after switching between product modes

Discover: Fixed being able to click to select percussion techniques and add temporarily over verbose technique names

Moved product mode selector onto the top bar and changed the menu contents to be human-readable

Removed unnecessary menu items from the overflow menu (...)

Discover: Disable shift click on multiple techniques but allow a session saved in Pro or Core that was saved with multiple active techniques to be loaded correctly in Discover

Updated Core and Discover content

Fixed samples failing to play in Core and Discover due to a typo in the mic IDs - MER-2005

Fixed reverb in Core and Discover (although moot due to no samples playing anyway)

Updated some technique info - MER-2001

Updated keyswitches in Discover presets to use keys starting at low C (note 0) rather than matching the techniques' keyswitches in Core and Pro

Updated plugin release

Initial Internal Core and Discover release

Updated plugin release

Tune dial displaying incorrectly initially, introduced in Version 1.0.8

Updated plugin release

Minor update to all content

Prevent buttons and menu widgets from stealing keypress from the host

Improved Spiccato and Staccato timing in some techniques

Fixed releases in Woodwind: Contrabassoon Legato

Fixed some odd behaviour in Percussion: Triangle Rolls using low values of the Dynamics control

Avoid allocating memory for timestretching in multitongue techniques if tempo sync is turned off in the additional technique options

Updated plugin release

Fixes issue where some Windows 10 users were experiencing errors on initial launch of plugin

Fixed rare cases of audio corruption under heavy load when setting the stream buffer size to certain values

Updated plugin release

Improved memory usage by closing file references no longer needed

Updated plugin release

Fixed crash in Pro Tools when duplicating a track containing the plugin

Fixed correct UI colouring when recalling a User preset as a default preset

Improved performance of disk streaming

Updated plugin release

Added a setting to disable the use of memory-mapped files for samples streams, defaulting to off on Windows and on macOS. Enabling memory mapping can improve I/O speeds from disk, this will increase virtual memory usage from RAM

Prioritisation of streams for samples being preloaded

Updated plugin release - minor optimisation on initialisation

Updated plugin release

Woodwind: updates NKS presets

Fixed an issue with parsing JSON on older CPUs

Fixed a very rare crashing case on Windows when scanning for patches and presets

Fixed an issue where presets where being marked as modified on load

Fixed a potential crash when loading a large amount of previews and quitting the plugin

Woodwinds:

Corrected the NKS keyswitches on Flutes and Piccolos