jmc over at the Image-Line FL Studio LoopTalk forum has posted to the FL Studio community – the release of FL Studio 8.5
This latest release of FL Studio (only for FL Studio owners – buy here with 10% OFF) almost looks unreal, not to mention the 200+ new added features. Below is a list of images of the Playlist, Piano Roll and Step Sequencer.
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* Ogun: synthesizer specialized in metallic timbres.
* Gross Beat: beat rearranger effect.
* Autogun: synthesizer based on Ogun.
* Fixed dropping mixer presets onto mixer tracks failing to select the right mixer track when shown at the bottom.
* Fixed crash when closing FL when playlist was shown & toolbars were detached.
* Fixed undocking annoyances in the browser.
* Fixed slow undocking of toolbars in Vista.
* Fixed Vista blur visible when hiding Wave Candy windows.
* Fixed OS error when song was running and returning from Vista’s logging window or screensaver, while autoscrolling was on.
* Fixed hang when opening FL’s main menu while holding accelerator keys in Vista.
* Fixed bug in Flangus & Flangus in Sytrus.
* Added workaround for missing characters in font used to display old GUI-less VST’s.
* Updated timers to Vista-preferred ones.
* Fixed erratic cursor visible for a short time after dragging from browser in Vista.
* CPU meter no longer shows 99% when audio is temporarily suspended (was often reported as a bug).
* Fixed visual bug when detaching windows in Vista.
* Fixed crash when reloading projects through ALT+x shortcut, while a plugin is detached & focused.
* Fixed bug in multipoint envelope processing.
* Fixed crash through weird mouse click combo on the plugin preset buttons.
* Fixed annoyance in browser’s ‘show only one folder content’.
* Fixed problem when loading Maximus presets made with a specific version.
* Fixed some playlist key combo weirdness.
* Fixed not release defaulted to zero for some functions (step edit, piano roll dumps, etc).
* Fixed piano roll flam tool that wasn’t starting with the right settings.
* Improved piano roll playback tool (can’t miss tiny notes with fast mouse slides anymore).
* Fixed little thing in mixer’s menu.
* Step edit mode: improved behavior when going backwards while holding notes.
* EQUO: fixed wrong FX send track display when reloading projects.
* Fixed possible hang in playlist Insert space/Delete space functions.
* FL ReWire: now uses tick position for ppq calculations instead of sample position.
* Canceling audio clip’s “fit to tempo” detection dialog now cancels the fitting.
* Edison: snapping to zero-crossing (improved for mono samples) now allows to select edges of sample.
* Maximus: fixed display glitch for bands that are switched off.
* Sytrus: mouse wheel on pitch ratio selectors now behaves better.
* No more problem locating project files over networks.
* FPC: fixed pause point for layer pan and tune knobs.
* Wrapper: update interfaceless parameters in the GUI thread instead of the mixer thread.
* Wrapper: dropping fxb and fxp files on the title bar of the plugin window and on the step sequencer button now works.
* Fixed playlist automation clip display bug.
* Slicex: fixed little declicking glitch for specific cases.
* Fixed problem with hint system in plugins.
* Fixed little stretching glitch in some cases when a downbeat marker is present.
* Fruity Reeverb: store parameter changes in selected program instead of the first one.
* Video Player: fixed loading some settings.
* Wave Candy: added rounded corners size selector, made Vista blur look better, made preset switching faster.
* Improved multithreaded generator performances.
* Improved audio performances in Windows Vista.
* No one really asked, but auto scrolling state is now saved & restored.
* Updated compiler (D2007), drag&drop component, IPP library to latest versions.
* Added Janko layout to typing-to-piano keyboard option.
* Maximus now significantly faster.
* Plugin picker: thumbnail hint now shows all of the plugin’s categories (also selected through arrows or mouse wheel), + other improvements.
* Added multithreaded mixer tracks processing, and moved CPU settings to the audio panel.
* Added global smart disable checkbox & new aligned tick lengths checkbox.
* New debug log in settings window.
* Can now double-click on effects in plugin picker.
* Added multithreading to effects processing.
* Can now drop effect presets onto mixer tracks & channels, mixer track presets onto effect slots and channels, channel & generator presets onto mixer tracks & fx slots.
* Shift+F8 now brings plugin database.
* Automation and Humanizing presets folders relocated to the Scores folder.
* Can now drop automation FSC’s onto piano roll (when a controller is selected).
* Added access to Windows file shell menu from browser item menu.
* Added new browser folder icons & new ‘Recent files’ browser folder.
* Added starting & (approximate) working time information in project info window.
* Controls (in FL & FL plugins) now properly support Vista’s window rescaling (font size).
* FL now accepts file drops in copy, move & link modes.
* Alt+drag from browser = force drag in ‘link’ mode.
* Dropping file onto the ‘Open audio editor’ shortcut button now opens it in a new audio editor.
* Dropping file in ‘move’ mode (e.g. from Edison/Slicex/Sytrus) onto browser moves file to browser folder it’s dropped on.
* Wave Candy now behaves better when ‘Stay on top’ & ‘On desktop’ are off.
* Added scrollbar for zooming to Fruity Envelope Controller in key & vel mapping modes.
* New browser ‘Sort by -> Group’ option to put most important folders on top (sort group in .nfo files).
* Song info window now shows up while loading project.
* New (optional) big hint bar, showing progress more clearly when loading projects or processing lengthy stuff.
* Improved envelope point decimation (used in automation-to-automation clip & Sytrus/Ogun).
* Can now drop audio files onto most envelope editors (does same as audio analysis).
* Playlist now sticks to right edge when browser is resized.
* ‘Close all windows’ now closes detached windows too, and added ‘Close all unfocused windows’ option, to keep the focused one open.
* Missing plugin warning (now only once per plugin type) now the same for wrapped VST’s.
* Added browser hovering helper for too large items.
* Envelope step editing now works with snap off, with point decimation.
* Added level scaling & point decimation tools to envelope editor (in plugins).
* Shift+mouse wheel to quickly zoom browser.
* Extended browser extra search folders to 30 entries.
* New (fortunately optional) project data folder setting.
* Fruity WaveShaper: gutter is now clickable.
* Playlist Edit->Insert / Delete space now cuts through playlist clips.
* Plugin picker now features categories.
* Enlarged playlist & piano roll time bar, playlist panels are not swappable anymore.
* Piano roll / playlist local menu (F3 or extra mouse button) now lists editing modes.
* FL’s audio displays now show proper region purpose colors.
* Right-clicking playlist items no longer deletes them (hold halt to do so). (removed?).
* Playlist: extra mouse button brings clip source selection popup.
* Fixed (I think) infamous invalid playlist clips bug.
* Added random color option for patterns, made playlist clip focus selector update along with default item.
* Added useful colors menu to name edit dialog (right-click color button for random color).
* Audio clips are auto-colored when dropped (& playlist track is auto-colored when clip is dropped on it).
* Added ‘Select by selected source’ in playlist, to select clips of patterns or channels that are selected.
* Brand new playlist track naming & tools for better song organization.
* Mixer icons now available to channels (& playlist tracks).
* New playlist ‘behind clips’ modes (& old beveled mode is gone).
* Playlist auto-focuses clip type when current clip source changes.
* Improved playlist clips display at small sizes.
* Added ‘Deselect’ & handy ‘Select time around selection’ option.
* Added a couple of new mixer icons.
* Improved ‘Best fit’ & ‘On selection’ zoom presets (will zoom on selected items if no time selection exists).
* Improved note & clip deletion (won’t miss events when rapidly deleting) & fixed little bug in note deletion from note properties.
* Added note & clip muting.
* Improved note & clip moving/resizing detection.
* Added note & playlist clip grouping (works on selecting, moving, resizing, deletion, muting, shifting using mouse wheel).
* Recorded audio clips in loop recording mode are now muted, instead of the associated channel.
* Added ‘group notes’ option to piano roll chop, arp & flam tools.
* Improved vertical scrolling in event editor / piano roll / playlist.
* Middle click now works as panning & works vertically as well in piano roll / playlist, and made it work in event editor as well.
* Alt+mouse wheel on playlist now vertically zooms in-place (like ctrl+wheel on time).
* Added support for Korg nanoKEY, nanoPAD & nanoKONTROL controllers.
* Added button for portamento (just like for slide) to piano roll.
* Piano roll / playlist: right alt + right click to quick quantize a single note / clip start position, end position, or both (works in slip edit mode too).
* Piano roll / playlist brush mode now works better for note / clip lengths that aren’t quantized.
* Improved Edison’s resampling (for even better prefilter transition).
* Added ‘Only with selection’ & random seed options to PR articulate tool.
* Added ‘Center’ knob to piano roll / event editor level scaling tool.
* FL built-in tempo detector changed to alternate (constant tempo) one.
* ‘Make unique’ on automation clips now copies (preserves) the link to the control(s).
* Right-clicking the piano roll ‘select’ button brings the select menu.
* Ctrl+Shift+right click in playlist zooms on a single clip (handy to edit automation clips).
* Improved oversampling quality & speed (Sytrus, Fruity WaveShaper, etc).
* Groove quantizer: can now delete notes too (by just setting velocity to 0 in templates).
* New ‘Riff machine’ piano-roll tool (see Tools in main menu as well) to create riffs by blending various templates & settings.
* Sytrus: added new ‘improved’ & ‘even’ unison distribution modes (see options menu).
* MIDI input messages are now logged (only when log window is visible).
* Number of insert tracks upgraded to 99, for a total of 105 mixer tracks.
* Slicex: right-clicking slice output selector now brings a popup listing mixer track names.
* New Fruity Stereo Shaper plugin (for stereo splitting and effects).
* Audio files recorded from FL’s mixer now embed tempo information (the tempo at the time of recording).
* Last tweaked parameter menu moved from plugins to FL’s Tools menu.
* New ‘Tools->Last tweaked->Override volatile link…’ to set up a MIDI knob that always controls the last tweaked parameter.
* Multilink to controller’s LED popup now applies to the last tweaked params if the list is empty.
* Wave Candy / Fruity Dance: anim window popup now features ‘View settings’ to bring up the actual plugin editor.
* Fruity Dance can load user sprite sheets.
* New ‘Claw machine’ score tool in piano roll (works well along with Slicex).
* PR/PL/EE, and Edison/envelope editors: new autoscrolling when hitting edges while editing.
* PR/PL: new “snap to other events” mode (also works with ghosted notes).
* Event editor can now be aware of which plugin parameters appear ‘centered’ (supported by Sytrus so far).
* Some menu items (save plugin preset & score) can now be dragged around (like browser files).
* Added option to invert piano roll grid colors (for improved readability).
* Wave Candy: added new metering modes for loudness visualization.
* Can now drop channel data (samples, etc) onto piano roll (more intuitive for Slicex).
* Holding ALT while SHIFT-rescaling piano roll scores snaps rescaling ratio.
* Missing project samples now located first in project folder, then only in last folder where previous missing data was found.
* Loading a project with missing samples now asks for the content downloader to locate them.
* Right-clicking the ‘enable effect slots’ mixer buttons now shows or hides editors of all plugins for that track.
* Fixed little Slicex resizing glitch.
* Slicex: improved realtime & offline in/out declicking.
* Incoming MIDI notes now have their MIDI channel mapped to the corresponding selected channel in FL.
* Audio clips (& sampler channels): added various declicking modes in channel settings window.
* Envelope editor: improved tools.
* Ogun: new Create pad harmonics tool.
* Newbie enhancement: ‘Start on input’ feature is not saved/restored anymore.
* Can now export a piano roll to a MIDI file (notes only).
* Dropping audio clips onto playlist aligns them properly according to the downbeat marker (if present).
* FL Studio Edition users who have purchased Edison VST can now use the FL version in FL.
* Fruity Squeeze: adapted to be threadeable.
* Fruity Multiband Compressor: adapted to be threadeable.
* Fruity Scratcher: adapted to be threadeable.
* Fruity Video Player: adapted to be threadeable.
* FL Studio VSTi: added tray icon to easily show/hide FL window.
* Edison: added new spectrum display gradients.
* Edison: right shift + mouse for tempo fine tuning.
* Edison: no more pops in sample playback when selecting.
* Edison: fixed tempo set to 1.0 when undoing in some rare cases.
* Edison: hint for tempo grid now properly follows downbeat marker.
* Edison now drags files in move mode, to avoid extra temporary files (when dragging from an Edison/Slicex/Sytrus to another, or between Slicex decks).
* Edison/Slicex: new ‘Export regions->For sampler use…’ that exports with marker middle notes, and improved export.
* Edison: new Regions->Detect beats option.
* Edison / Sytrus / others: added new envelope point modes.
* Edison: new ‘Lossy normalize’ option to maximize short samples without audible loss.
* Edison: setting sample to tempo-synced defaults the tempo (if not set yet) to the one of the host.
* Edison can now be maximized (double-click titlebar or press enter).
* Edison: changed file-based audio undo system (standalone versions were conflicting).
* Wrapper: fixed chunk size loading and saving bugs.
* Wrapper: fixed updating the preset list for Attack when loading a Cubase preset.
* Wrapper: don’t save parameters if plugin has chunks but returns 0 for its chunk size.
* Wrapper: small fix for interfaceless plugin labels.
* Wrapper: fixed sysex implementation.
* Wrapper: added option to steal keyboard focus from the plugin.
* Wrapper: adapted to new drag and drop implementation.
* Wrapper: buffers are now aligned better.
* Wrapper: adapted effect version to be threadeable.
* Wrapper: added “Record parameter changes” option.
* Wrapper: added options screen to replace options menu.
* Wrapper: implemented multiple inputs and outputs for effects.
* Wrapper: multiple inputs and outputs now works with the “Use fixed size buffers” option.
* Wrapper: can now load new “shell” plugins (WaveShell v5 and newer, mostly).
* Wrapper: minimize locked time when loading a plugin.
* Wrapper: re-implemented saving and loading of settings to be more future proof.
* Wrapper: optimized most buffer operations (copy/add/interlace/deinterlace).
* Wrapper: new look for interfaceless editor.
* Wrapper: now loads VST 1 and DX plugins automatically, instead of FL’s internal host.
* Wrapper: fixes to save/load settings for Fruity Compressor and Fruity Blood Overdrive.
* Dashboard: send controller values on playback start.
* FPC: pad now triggers different velocity depending on vertical position of the mouse cursor.
* FPC: added “Show GM note names” option to show/hide names in the note selection menu.
* FPC: adapted to new drag and drop implementation.
* FPC: added popup menu with mixer track names to output selector.
* DirectWave: fixed crash when Canceling”Browse” button.
* DirectWave: fixed sample loading from absolute paths.
* DirectWave: more robust external bank import.
* DirectWave: avoid “no disk in drive” message when loading samples.
* DirectWave: small improvement to drag and drop.
* DirectWave: fixed event handling for hosted VST plugin.
* DirectWave: fixed browser update after clicking “Browse…” button.
* DirectWave: increased maximum polyphony from 64 to 51 voices.
* DirectWave: added browser preview volume control.
* DirectWave: added home button in browser.
* DirectWave: browser paths are shortened when they’re inside the content library folder.
* DirectWave: added option to copy imported dwp and its samples to the content library folder.
* DirectWave: re-arranged options window.
* DirectWave: new import dll.
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