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Changes in r1957 since r1742:
Overall / Miscellaneous
- Dropped the leading "0." from the version number. (Apple hates beta numbering.)
- Everything looks totally different.
- Output can be played in more (all?) places now. Typing a search while using the software keyboard is fun.
- Lots of helpful prompts pop up now to inform you of useful stuff.
- There is a good chance the ancient XML-saving/parsing problem is gone now.
- Fixed a few finger hint bugs (crazy, broken hints could be added to invisible notes!)
- Disable Notation.ShowUserNotes to hide the little notes in the sheet music for your pressed notes.
- Disable Gameplay.AutoShiftToBestOctave to suppress "smart" (broken) auto-octave shifting.
- G Major Music "First Pieces" are no longer all Learning Pack demo songs. That they were wasn't being communicated effectively.
- Songs containing C0, C#0, and D0 notes no longer hang Synthesia when zoom is set to "Visible Song Notes".
- Everything has built-in resize support now. Check the modding section for more details.
- General cleanup; now a little more visually interesting.
- More will be happening here: Title Screen News is coming in the next preview.
- Not even reworked. A major revamp will be in the next preview. It wasn't worth the quick re-skinning time since a larger pass was about to happen anyway.
- All the (terribly spread-out) configuration screens ("Options", "Keyboard Setup", "Add Songs", etc.) have been consolidated.
- Music Devices:
- Multi-device support!
- Customize what type of output is sent to each device individually for notes, percussion, metronome, and lights.
- Input and output velocity scaling.
- The key light test pattern is way more fun now.
- Songs:
- Two new options ("The Other Hand" and "Background Instruments") to control how the simple view handles not "Played by Me" tracks.
- The "Add Songs" dialog seemed to logically fit here better than the Song Library screen.
- When adding a folder, there is a new "Computer" sidebar item that shows a folder list in the main view. No more 8 drive limit!
- User Profiles: Click a user to see a new summary stats screen.
- Gameplay / Advanced: the old "Options" screen has been logically split into these two.
- Percussion icons can now be forced always-off (and are by default).
- Program change (instrument) MIDI messages can be filtered out so you can control your keyboard's patches yourself.
- Shortcuts (previously "Key Bindings"): You can now set 8 custom bindings for each shortcut, up from 3.
- Color Themes! Check the modding section of the forum for details.
- Breadcrumb is visually easier to tell it's a thing you can interact with.
- Back by popular demand: All columns shown simultaneously.
- Flags are gone forever!
- The folder column has been removed (the next preview will show you why).
- Sorting can now be done in a single click (again).
- Search box disallows many strange characters that could break your search.
- Deleting/recycling now asks for confirmation.
- Behavior has been smoothed out a bit. It's subtle, but if you're a frequent user you'll notice it.
- Simple View
- "Watch Only" is now a first-class citizen with information panels at the bottom and requiring two clicks like the others.
- Sheet music can be toggled at any time now (instead of only from the "Instructions" panel).
- Choosing a part in the simple view now also forces the usual blue/green instrument colors for those tracks, too.
- Dropped the breadcrumb and profile list to reduce some visual clutter.
- Advanced View
- Instrument modes have been broken up into three parts: responsibility / visibility / audibility which can be toggled separately. This allowed two new modes: [Me/Hidden/Sounded] and [Me/Hidden/Muted].
- The horrible copy-paste menus have been replaced by a slick drag-drop mechanic.
- Assigning hands is a little more intuitive: instead of left/right/both there is just left/right and you drag each one to the same instrument to make it "both".
- Multi-instrument preview! Single click to toggle. Double-click to solo it.
- Instruments will fill your screen as best they can, rearranging themselves to fill wider screens.
- Song speed is now also shown in BPM.
- Metronome volume is controlled via a slider instead of silly Low/Medium/High settings.
- The key/note label buttons have been merged into a single labels button.
- Device disconnect message only appears when the number of devices decreases (vs. changes at all).