MuLab for Mac

What's new in this version:

Enhancements:
- Tracks can be duplicated. Duplicating a track also includes the option to duplicate its target rack.
- Automation clips: New "Unite" function to unite selected automation clips into 1 automation clip
- Sequence Editor: Option to monitor notes while they're being moved/copied.
- Flexible rack widths
- MUX: Note Key Names: Option to link to the Note Key Names of one of its child modules, to avoid the user having to manually copy-paste the Note Key Names
- Project menu -> Save As Template: Enhanced dialog
- Audio sequence clips now also reflect each audio event's gain and pan
- When you set the tempo in a main composer (ie. when composer = project main module, which is default in MuLab App) and there are no tempo automations yet, then that tempo edit will automatically set the project main tempo, and then set the composer tempo to 100%. For that's the most expected UX.
- Envelope curves can now be trimmed to a certain X range. This new feature can also be used to split curves.
- Envelope editor: Dragging a curve, using curve context menu options and editing a curve via the popup panel now all are undoable actions.
- Refined drawing of clips, note and sample events. Especially selections are drawn in a better way.
- Drum Note Processor: Optimized behavior when using VST / CLAP plugins as target for the drum pads.
- On opening a project, an info box is shown while the project is being loaded.
- Also, when opening a project from the startup dialog, now the startup dialog stays visible until after opening the project.
- All this to comfort the user when it takes longer to load a big project.
- Amplifier: Gain parameter display can include the padding. Enable the option via Extra Options. Can be handy to finetune front panels.
- MUX Front Panels can now include a Rack Desk.
- Plugins now have the option that their editor is fully reset every time it's closed/reopened.
- This might fix exceptional editor issues caused by certain plugins.
- You can activate the option in the Plugin Manager -> "Always Reset Editor Window".
- Attention: It will only have effect after re-inserting the plugin.
- Plugin Manager: Plugins have an extra switch "Keep DLL Open Until End".
- Might be useful in specific cases, eg. when using the same plugin directly in a host DAW and in MuLab Plugin in that same host DAW.
- Tempo Slider now is a knob, it's also possible to create a shortcut for it, and its window position now is memorized.
- Refined the alert box layout: Dropped the redundant title bar and big alert type icon which makes an alert box more slim and focused on the message.
- Audio editor context menu now contains "Snap To Zero Crossings" which can be toggled on/off.
- Waveforms and envelopes are drawn more nicely.
- MUX Front Panels: Waveform colors can be more specified, eg. can be different for edge and body color.
- Sequence editor: When drawing short curve segments, the newly drawn segment could be too stepped
- Sequence editor: Controller/parameter curve drawn more nicely.v
- Refined the UX when dragging racks left-right.
- When building long audio file overviews (.OVW files), a progress bar is shown instead of a spinning cursor.
- Rack desk now has an explicit options button.
- Rack knobs now use the rack color.
- Upgrade MuClips now also uses a progress bar.
- Composer -> Render to audio file functions now use multi-core processing.
- Audio streams & samples now have "Show In System File Browser" in their context menu.
- When upgrading projects and a too old project is encountered then an alert popped up which blocked the upgrade process.
- Now the upgrading continues and the message is shown in the report at the end.
- When upgrading projects and an audio file or plugin was not found then an alert popped up which blocked the upgrade process.
- Now that project is skipped (not upgraded) and the upgrading continues and the message about the missing sample / plugin is shown in the report at the end
- Changed a couple of preferences wrt. coloring tracks and racks
- The "Unfocused Track + Rack Coloring" has been replaced by "Unfocused Track + Rack Color Saturation" and "Unfocused Track + Rack Color Luminance"
- The "Default Focused Rack Color" has been removed, now the Default Rack Color is used where necessary, then the above Saturation and Luminance prefs are applied for non-focused tracks and racks
- Thanks to this new method, the track+rack coloring prefs are more easy to use

New preferences:
- New "Fold Module Editor Top Controls" preference lets you choose the folded top controls
- New "Window Title Side" preference. "Center" is the default, which is a change for MuLab on Windows
- New "Window Buttons Side" preference
- "Startup Project" preference lets you choose to always start with a new project, with the last project, or with the startup dialog
- "Graph Body Color Opacity": Defines the transparency/opacity of the body part of envelope graphs, filter response graphs, curve shapes
- New preference "Composer Clip Title Back Darkening" defines the darkening of the composer clips title bars
- By default it's a bit less than in previous MuLab versions

New color preferences:
- Alert Back Color
- Composer Back Color
- Live Scene Back Color
- Focused Live Scene Back Color
- Project Browser Back Color
- Property Panel Back Color
- Default Track Color
- Time Line Fore Color
- Rack Desk Back Color
- Rack Title Fore Color
- Rack Slot Back Color
- Rack Slot Fore Color
- Rack Slot Side Back Color
- Plus other small improvements and GUI refinements

Fixed:
Convert Audio Stream Clip to Audio Sequence Clip:
- When converting multiple audio stream clips that use the same audio source, there was crash danger starting from the 2nd conversion
- New clip could display mono instead of stereo
- Audio Sequence used auto-stretched events even when Auto Snap Length is off
- When copying a rack in the rack desk via drag-drop, then its new position did not correspond to the drop position
- Knobs / Slider Editor: Layer context menu was gone
- When editing a value via a popup box then in some cases (eg Tab Frame Button Index, MultiSampler Zone Output, ...) the new value was offset by 1 against the inputted value
- MUX Front Panels: Copy Tab Frame: Tab buttons were not copied
- Composer Timeline: Delete Time Range: Unselected clips could also be affected, wrongly
- Multi-point envelope editor: For bipolar envelopes (eg. Pitch Bend) copy-pasting negative point values did not work
- Recording MIDI -> "Overwrite" option could result in wrong result
- Audio Sequence Editor: When the editor window is too small for both event property panels, and one is folded, then while resizing the window, the property panels could erratically switch over
- Audio Sequence Editor Spectral Filter / MultiForm Osc. Harmonics Filter: When double-clicking the value of the spectral filter frequency knobs to input a specific value, this did not work as expected
- Legacy MuSynth conversion: The waveform color was dependent on the global wave color, which was not intended
- Multi-form Osc: In certain specific cases, auto-render could cause a blocking modal popup
- Audio recordings could result in an audio clip that was slightly but wrongly offset
- LFO: Little bug fix when editing a tempo-synced frequency value containing "Cyc/Bt".
- Lasso selection in empty modular area caused a crash
- When clicking a window's minimize button and restoring it, the minimize button was still down
- VST2 Plugins that use the default host editor did not have an unfold option to show the VST presets