SynthMaster Player Release Notes

v2.9.8
1. NEW: Added 50 new cinematic presets by Kevin Schroeder
2. FIX: Global LFO retrigger doesn't work correctly
3. FIX: When importing samples, the loop point is not imported
4. FIX: Presets are not loaded correctly in AAX version of SynthMaster
5. FIX: Wavetables in 3D view take too much time to draw
6. FIX: Expansion presets marked as favourites don't show up in favourites list

v2.9.7
1. NEW: Added 50 new hardstyle presets by Fragment Audio
2. FIX: Visual display controls (frequency displays, envelope displays, etc) draw
at lower resolution on retina screens
3. FIX: When there's more than 2048 characthers in a setting file line, SynthMaster
crashes
4. FIX: Cubase freezes when scanning SynthMaster Player and puts it in blacklist
5. FIX: Multistage envelope generator doesn't align to tempo when looped.
6. FIX: When both Layer 1 and Layer 2 Dry Mix amounts are nonzero, only Layer1 is
heard
8. FIX: Insert FX changes are not working for the AAX version
9. FIX: SynthMaster should refresh SynthMasterProducts.xml file before user
downloads purchased expansions

v2.9.6
1. NEW: Added 50 new factory presets by Bluffmunkey
2. NEW: Added 50 new factory presets by Aelyx Design
3. NEW: Added 50 new factory presets by Gercek Dorman
4. NEW: Added in-app-shop to simplify purchase, download and installation of preset
banks
5. NEW: SynthMaster Player Free now comes with 500 factory presets
6. FIX: License key file dialog doesn't show up and factory presets list is empty
when user upgrades from free player to paid player
7. FIX: Edited factory presets
8. FIX: Edited factory skins

v.2.8.12
1. FIX: Global tuning (A4 reference frequency) setting is not saved in the config
file
2. FIX: Global tuning is not set to the frequency selected by the user
3. FIX: Current global scale is displayed incorrectly on popup menu
4. FIX: Plugin parameter indexes are incorrect causing issues with automation

v2.8.11
1. NEW: Improved sfz sample import workflow
2. FIX: DirectoryExists function doesn't work correctly on Windows

v2.8.10
1. NEW: Added 50 new factory presets by Vandalism Sound
2. NEW: Added 120%, 140%, 160% scaled skins.
3. FIX: SynthMaster Player crashes when a skin with the correct size is not found.
4. FIX: SynthMaster Player generates noisy output when engine buffer size >= XLarge
and engine quality >= Better
5. FIX: Portamento doesnt work when engine quality > Good and buffer size >= Large
6. FIX: Portamento duration shortens when engine quality is increased

v2.8.7
1. FIX: SynthMaster background thread uses too much CPU cycles
2. FIX: SynthMaster Windows update installer doesn't include new skins
v2.8.6
1. NEW: Added new Player skin based on SynthMaster Player iOS
2. FIX: Preset search button is not working (broken in v2.8.5)
3. FIX: Voice allocation kills only playing voices in release state

v2.8.5
1. NEW: Added new "record note duration" option while recording arp sequences
2. NEW: Added MIDI program change support
3. NEW: Added new skin by satYatunes
4. FIX: When saving global midi mappings, mappings there were removed recently are
still saved in the config file
5. FIX: When hold pedal is released, wrong channel number is sent causing hangs
6. FIX: Arpeggiator view crashes/slows down SynthMaster when the control is paging
through steps
7. FIX: Arpeggiator view doesn't reset scrollbar when a new preset is loaded

v2.8.4
1. NEW: Added new global parameter for arpeggiator MIDI Output
2. FIX: SynthMaster Player AAX crashes Protools 10 upon launch
3. FIX: Sustain pedal implementation not working correctly
4. FIX: KeyScaler view doesn't display notes correctly

v2.8.3
1. FIX: Renaming presets crash SynthMaster
2. FIX: Deleting presets crash SynthMaster
3. FIX: Loading preset metadata might crash SynthMaster
4. FIX: SynthMaster incorrectly categorizes waveforms with '.' in their names as
multisamples
5. FIX: Clicking on left right arrows crash SynthMaster Player
6. FIX: SynthMaster Player doesnt open up session files saved with v2.7
7. FIX: FavouritePresets.txt file might crash SynthMaster
8. FIX: License Key File Request dialog doesn't show up on some MacOSX systems

v2.8.2
1. FIX: waveform cache files are not saved correctly causing silenced waveforms
2. FIX: reading invalid wave files crash SynthMaster
3. FIX: SFZ files with missing samples crash SynthMaster
4. FIX: SFZ files read from archives crash SynthMaster

v2.8.1
1. NEW: Added dual LFOs
2. NEW: When user saves a preset under a folder, SynthMaster now recognizes the
folder name as the bank name if preset bank name is left blank.
3. NEW: Added new global parameter: Arpeggiator sync to song position
4. NEW: Added new global parameter: Map CC74 to CC1 (necessary for MPE)
5. NEW: Added before/after distortion algorithms for new filters
6. FIX: MIDI Velocity modulation doesnt work for Voice LFOs.
7. FIX: Easy parameter auto assign doesnt work correctly for layer:osc2,
layer2:osc1 or layer2:osc2
8. FIX: Osc waveform is not drawn correctly when phase parameter changes for LP/HP
algorithms.
9. FIX: Vocoder matrix and band volumes not visible
10.TODO: When envelopes are synced to tempo, their timings are incorrect when
engine quality is greater than 'draft'

v2.8.0
1. NEW: Added "Diode Ladder" filter type
2. NEW: Added "Acid" parameter for filters
3. NEW: Added Standalone version of SynthMaster Player on Windows
4. NEW: Added popup menu that let's the user change skins, change global parameters
and read user manual/FAQ and contact KV331 Audio
5. NEW: Added OneShot option for ADSR envelopes
6. NEW: Added Drag and drop modulation assignment
7. NEW: Layer effects are now displayed on a single tab
8. FIX: SynthMaster now reads "/Library/Application Support" folder path
programmatically
9. FIX: SynthMaster doesn't display error message and crashes when
SynthMasterLicenseKey.txt file doesn't exist
10.FIX: Oscillator partial presets are not saved correctly

v2.7.100 (2.8 Alpha2)

1. NEW: Added polyphonic aftertouch support
2. NEW: Added multichannel MIDI (channel rotation) support
3. NEW: Added Parameter smoothing for automated parameters

v2.7.99 (2.8 Alpha)

1. NEW: Added new filter algorithms based on zero delay feedback topology: Ladder,
Acid, State Variable and Bite
2. NEW: Added separate engine quality/buffers size parameters that are used when
VST host is rendering offline
3. NEW: Added analog modelled ADSR envelopes

v2.7.6
1. NEW: SynthMaster Player now reads scala tuning files from <user documents>\
SynthMaster\Scales folder as well
2. NEW: SynthMaster Player now reads root note information from scala tuning files.
The root note is specified at the beginning of the file on a comment line: !
rootnote=C4
3. NEW: On Windows, SynthMaster Player now has a single installer for 32/64 bit
versions
4. NEW: SynthMaster Player now has weekly version checking.
5. FIX: When user saves a file, file extension is now automatically added to the
file name if missing
6. FIX: WAV files containing invalid cue chunks are now read correctly by
SynthMaster
7. FIX: Favorite presets with longer that 31 characthers might cause SynthMaster to
crash

v2.7.5
1. FIX: Popup window at startup causes some DAW applications such as Cubase to
freeze

v2.7.4
1. NEW: SynthMaster Player updated to v2.7

v.2.6.99
1. NEW: Added 16 new oscillator algorithms
2. NEW: Added sliced WAV loop playback capability
3. NEW: Added support for the following SFZ tokens: Offset, End, Random, Sequence
4. NEW: Added 3 different algorithms for analog filters

v2.6.21
1. NEW: Added preset search textbox and button to the browser
2. NEW: Added support for reading 64bit WAV files
3. FIX: Initial startup time of SynthMaster has further been reduced, due to the
replacement of FIR filters with FFT based filters
4. FIX: User waveforms are not imported correctly when folder name is longer than
31 characthers
5. FIX: Preset browser might jump suddenly when a new preset is selected
6. FIX: Preset bank names are truncated on the Browser tab.
7. FIX: Preset browser scroller handle becomes almost invisible when all expansion
banks are loaded
8: FIX: Preset names/metadata are not displayed in sorted order
9. FIX: Midi Learn for Easy Parameter 1 doesn't work
10.FIX: Global midi links are removed if loaded preset has its own midi mappings

v2.6.20
1. FIX: Initial startup time of SynthMaster has been vastly improved: Instead of
calculating all wavetable cache data at the beginning, the data is now calculated
when presets are loaded.

v2.6.18
1. FIX: Sampling rate is set to 44.1 khz for all SynthMaster AAX instances
2. FIX: When importing MIDI sequences to the arpeggiator, rests in between notes
are not recognized correctly
3. FIX: When number of loops is set to 0 for multistage/2D envelopes, they don't
work as "one shot" envelopes

v2.6.17
1. FIX: SynthMaster AAX is not syncing to host tempo
2. FIX: Mouse wheel increment is incorrect for knobs
3. FIX: SynthMaster startup time is longer that it was before
4. FIX: Favorite attribute is not assigned for expansion presets
5. FIX: Midi learn for XY Pads doesn't work
6. FIX: SynthMaster Player fails to load some expansion preset banks upon host
session load

v2.6.16
1. NEW: Added global/preset MIDI mappings
2. NEW: Added Clear Browser Filters feature
3. FIX: SynthMaster installers are missing root certificates which cause unknown
error on MacOSX 10.6

v2.6.15
1. NEW: Added preset bank import feature
2. NEW: Updated SynthMaster Player User Manual
3. NEW: SynthMaster Player now contains 800 factory presets
4. NEW: SynthMaster Player FREE now contains 200 factory presets

v2.6.14
1. NEW: Added AAX version of SynthMaster Player (32/64 bits on Win/Mac platforms)
2. NEW: Added SM-800X skin for SynthMaster Player
3. NEW: Added Midi Learn for XYPad controls
4. NEW: All SynthMaster Player installers are now digitally signed
5. FIX: "Preset" choice missing for global skin parameter
6. FIX: "Preset" choice missing for global scale parameter
7. FIX: "Preset Skin", "Polyphony", "Preset Quality", "Preset Scale", "Preset
Buffer Size" parameters are not saved/loaded correctly
8. FIX: SynthMaster VST/AU doesnt normalize discrete parameter values between 0 and
1, causing incompatibilities with many host applications

v2.6.13
1. NEW: Official release of SynthMaster Player and SynthMaster Player FREE

v2.6.12
1: NEW: Updated SynthMaster Player user interface
2. NEW: Added RTAS version of SynthMaster Player
3. FIX: Resetting settings of a section might crash SynthMaster
4. FIX: Pasting settings of a section from clipboard might crash SynthMaster
5. FIX: Loading settings of a section from a partial preset file might crash
SynthMaster

v2.6.11
1. NEW: Changed Unison implementation to better manage resources
2. NEW: Users can now set the default preset to be used when initializing a new
instance's settings
3. NEW: Edited easy parameter assignments for factory presets
4. NEW: Users can now search presets by typing in text inside preset search textbox
5. NEW: Users can now load a preset randomly selected from current filtered presets
list
6. FIX: Changing the value of skin dropdown using mouse wheel crashes SynthMaster
7. FIX: Changing the value of scale dropdown using mouse wheel crashes SynthMaster

v2.6.10
1. NEW: Released SynthMaster Player and SynthMaster Player FREE "Alpha" versions