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| Version | Date Released | Status | Release Notes |
| 2012.05.10 | May 23, 2012 | New Release | · When dragging a note from the palette to the staff, a large display now show's the new note's time and note's name as you drag the mouse. · You can lock the note's pitch by pressing the shift key and then continuing to drag the mouse to select the time. · If the Ctrl key is pressed while dragging the note, you can insert the new note at locations that overlap with existing notes where the Show: field controls the time-increment steps. · An example where this is useful would be, if a measure had two half notes, and you wanted to add a quarter note to the last beat of the measure. · Audio Samples can now be dragged to the Staff from the Audio Samples list below the staff. · Punch-In now supports MIDI recording the same way it has always supported audio recording. · Not all VST-Instruments respond to MIDI events for Volume and Left-Right Balance (PanPot) so we added a checkbox named This VST-Instrument responds to MIDI Pan and Vol to the View / Synthesizers screen. |
| 2012.05.01 | May 6, 2012 | New Release | · When dragging notes from the palette to the staff, as the mouse is moved left and right, a box at the top of the window tells the time where the note will be inserted · The staff displayed when --no grid-- is changed has been improved · A more useful message is displayed when an error occurs while using VST-Instruments |
| 2012.04.07 | Apr 22, 2012 | New Release | · This version now supports more VST-Instruments. · When a track was assigned to a VST-Instrument, composing by playing notes on an external keyboard was not causing the notes to be echoed by the VST-Instrument. · File / Print / Score Options would incorrectly report an error in version 2012.03.01 · File / Save would sometimes warn that two tracks had different time signatures, but would not correctly report what the time signatures were. · FX button / Properties / Save Presets button would incorrectly report an error. · In Percussion staff editor, in version 2012.03.01, addint a new drum to the palette would incorrectly report an error. · File / Repair Song was sometimes removing the wrong redundant pitch bend events. · Since version 2012.04.02, File/Export Mixed Audio was doing nothing. · Metronome was sometimes not working properly. · Added View / Options / Make Anvil Studio my .MID file player. |
| 2012.04.01 | Apr 3, 2012 | New Release | · Improved the Equalizer effect. Problems fixed in this version: · When a VST-Instrument was added by pressing the FX column, it was not echoing entered notes when composing. · Several other bugs were fixed. |
| 2012.03.01 | Mar 20, 2012 | New Release | · This version does not uninstall the 2011 version, and you can move back and forth between the 2011 and 2012 versions. · Both versions have compatible file formats. After you feel comfortable with the 2012 version, you can use the Control Panel to uninstall the 2011 version. · Added Undo/Redo for drawing in automation window. · Added Duplets and Septuplets to the staff editor. Fixed these problems that began occurring in the 2012.01.01 version: · Playing songs that included audio samples was not working right. · Playing Playlist files. · It sometimes could not select the last note on a track. · File / Print, and changing the number of staffs per page could cause Anvil Studio to incorrectly report that the song had file format errors. Other problems fixed in this version: · VST-Instruments would not echo entered notes after playback. · Using View / Performer to run a program using an external MIDI keyboard to play sampled sounds was not working properly. |
| 2012.01.03 | Feb 9, 2012 | New Release | · With some VST-Instruments, it would erroneously complain that it was unable to mix and play fast enough. · Edits to a loop sometimes did not prompt to save changes before closing the file. · In versions since 2011.11.01, deleting a track appeared in View / Mixer's track list before a track that had loops could cause loop references to become invalid. · File / Export Mixed Audio and View / Latency / Analyze / Start sometimes complained that there are no Audio In devices even though none were needed for this operation. · View / Upgrade Anvil Studio would sometimes report that it was unable to re-launch Anvil Studio because a file was not found. · Improved the Help / Tutorials menu. |
| 2012.01.01 | Feb 6, 2012 | New Release | · The free version of Anvil Studio now includes access to a single VST-Instrument. This provides a wealth of new sounds and overcomes latency problems with the Microsoft GS Wavetable synthesizer. · With the Pro-Mix accessory a song can play to several VST-Instruments and MIDI Out ports at the same time. · The free version supports audio sample rates up to 48,000 samples per second. · With Multi-Audio 1/8 accessory, it supports sample rates as high as your soundcard supports, up to 192,000 samples per second. · View / Options / General can now assign Ctrl+V to shortcuts, e.g. Edit / Paste Insert, Edit / Paste Over, Edit / Paste Mix, Edit / Paste Special, etc. · The menus Edit / Insert Rests into All Tracks and Edit / Delete Selection from All Tracks are now also enabled when editing Audio tracks. When used, they ask if change is to apply to all Audio and/or all MIDI tracks. It lets you select units from Measures, quarter notes, ... Audio Samples, Milliseconds. |
| 2011.12.06 | Jan 15, 2012 | New Release | · Added staff note right-click popup menu item Move this and all higher notes to new track. · The menu Edit / Move selection to another track and right-click staff note popup menu Move selection to another track, allow you to move the selection to a new or existing track and allow you to move a subset of the notes based on note pitch. Problems fixed in this version: · Versions without Pro-Mix sometimes had problems when View / Synthesizers switched between external MIDI synth and Microsoft GS Wavetable synth. · Pressing Play sometimes erased notes in a loop. · Handles [un]plugging USB MIDI devices more gracefully. · It would get out of sync when playback was started part way into a song, where a Tempo change event occurred immediately before the 1st note to be played. · Records Sustain events from external MIDI keyboards more reliably. |
| 2011.12.05 | Jan 10, 2012 | New Release | · Better Direct X support. · Improved metronome. Now you can specify Audio clicks or a VST-Instrument to play the metronome clicks. The metronome uses Latency settings to keep in sync with notes being played/recorded. · Improved File / Print. |
| 2011.12.04 | Dec 27, 2011 | New Release | · Better Direct X support. · Improved metronome. Now you can specify Audio clicks or a VST-Instrument to play the metronome clicks. The metronome uses Latency settings to keep in sync with notes being played/recorded. · Improved File / Print. |
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