Metro 7.4 Now Available

[Jerm]

Metro 7.4 is now available from the downloads page and new demos are also available. This update is currently free to existing users.

I will update this topic with the change log, which is huge.

The biggest things are Music Code, the new polyrhythm drum editor, multi-track support for the lead generator and Rhythm Explorer. The infinite player, (the Metro IPS server which is not available yet, customers please contact me if you are interested). Recording directly from a VST track and much more.

When the infinite player is live there will be an infinity sign in place of the number of tracks (37). Please email me if you would like to see what happens and I will go live. It is quite possible, with the use of sections, to make an online album with songs that repeat but yet are never the same.

[Jerm]

Change Log for 7.4

• Music Code.
• Polyrhythms view with auto generation. More info on this incredibly powerful innovative beat creation tool will be forthcoming soon.
• Lead Generator is almost 4 times faster.
• Improved synchronization between audio and MIDI when tempo changes occur.
• Improved handling of documents opened from a different computer.
• Improved parsing of version numbers.
• Improvements for handling bluetooth audio.
• Improved plug-in support.
• Improved in-place MIDI file import via drag.
• Improved Rhythm Explorer's Lead Generator algorithms.
• Each track now has independent Rhythm Explorer data for generating multiple Rhythm Explorer concurrently. Each track will now be generated automatically upon playback if both the new 'auto' button is checked and playback starts at the beginning of the section. The Rhythm Explorer selection for each track is set automatically based on the last generation from the RE window. The auto generation will be applied only to the Rhythm Explorer selection. In addition a new Marker type, 'Lead Generator Track', specified from the markers dialog, can be used as a 'Master Marker' for any lead generation track. This 'Master Marker' applies only to single track and overrides all standard markers until another a 'Master Marker' for that track is encountered. Auto generated tracks can sync only to lower numbered auto generated tracks via marker or 'Master Marker'. This is because tracks are generated in order from low to high.
• Record directly from a VST MIDI track. This allows the exact output to be recorded. This is useful, for example, when recording mute/solo changes or the modifications of a poly-rhythm generated drum track in real time.
• In rare cases, was displaying the wrong plug-in presets in the tracks window.
• Stability improvements.
• In some cases the sections window would not redraw if initially off screen (PC only).
• The plug-in windows search string survives a plug-in re-scan.
• Holding the shift and command (ctrl on PC) keys down while opening a document prohibits plug-in edit windows from opening.
• The lead generation type can now be specified at any marker.
• Aux buss views are now saved and restored.
• Synthesized pitch bend now works with external MIDI output.
• Improved support for rearranging drum names via drag in all drum views.
• Improved tap tempo.
• Shift-click was broken in grid quantize mode.
• On some occasions a popup window could have appeared in the wrong place.
• Expand subsections could have hung when expanding an empty looped track.
• Support for right-click on track header in aux volume mode to 'add fadeout automation'.
• Support for automatically buiding a drum set if the VST supports 'effGetMidiKeyName'.
• Fix for MIDI timing when playing to a plug-in embedded in a subsection. Sometimes notes were errantly playing at the beginning of a looped subsection track.
• Pressing the '.' key from the numeric key pad works to change the current bar even during playback now.
• Lead Generator now supports key/velocity switching, strum up and down keys, and user defined continuous controllers.
• New default option for Mix or Render tracks causes the mix to continue until silence is detected.
• Demos have been expanded to allow a full 60 minutes before auto quitting.
• Transposing Markers was errantly skipping chords if they differed in upper or lower case only.
• On the fly recording was broken.
• The preferences location for the PC has changed from the user documents folder to the public user documents folder. Because of this it may be necessary to re-qualify. Alternatively, you could copy your old 'Sagan Technology' folder from the old location to the new one.
• Increased MIDI input buffer size makes input buffer overflow less likely.
• Improved Remote Control with new LED events for 'Cue', 'Play, 'Stop' and 'FF'.
• Remote Control window fixes: Sometimes the header in the Remote Control window would disappear. The Remote Control window was not freeing menu resources properly, on the PC this would use up all menu resources and cause other applications to unexpectedly quit. Dragging to rearrange events in the RC window would sometimes fail.
• Sometimes the mixer window would not reflect the true state of record and play automation.
• Section Window: a new timing option 'Overall Loop' causes playback to continue indefinitely if the play next section button is highlighted.
• The \ (backslash) key now brings up the punch-in dialog and the ' (single quote) key brings up the scale amplitude dialog.

[Jerm]

More info on polyrhythm drum editor can be found here.