FolkStudio 1.0 beta 11 Release Notes

Dear FolkStudio user! We offer you the latest beta version of our new product. Please note that it was not thoroughly tested and therefore may contain some bugs. A number of features and MIDI FX & tools are currently in development and will be added in future releases. Nonetheless, we strongly hope that you will be interested to try this version. Your feedback is very important to us. Any comments and suggestions will be appreciated. They will undoubtedly help us to make this program a useful and effective tool for creating music.

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Important Note
Known Bugs
Troubleshooting
Changelog
Feedback

Important Note

FolkStudio requires installed and properly configured ASIO sound driver. See this article on what an ASIO driver is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_stream_input_output

Make sure you have an ASIO driver on your computer before running FolkStudio. If your sound card does not come with a dedicated ASIO driver, try this hardware-independent driver:
http://www.asio4all.com/

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Known Bugs

• When recording MIDI in loop mode, overwriting MIDI controllers like Pitch Bend, Modulation causes program crashes.
• Non-realtime Mixdown produces artifacts in sound. Please use Real-time Mixdown for final rendering.
• No Undo/Redo for some operations.
• DirectMIDI synthesizer synchronization is being rewritten. For the moment, you may experience some shifts in note timings. To fix that, try the following:
  1. Open Options | Preferences | MIDI.
  2. Set the hardware synthesizers latency to 100-120 ms.
  3. Set necessary latency for the software synthesizers. That latency should be described in their respective Help files.

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Trobleshooting

Q: When I start FolkStudio I get an error message saying that ASIO driver cannot be started and I probably have no sound card.

A: Please read here.

Q: FolkStudio works and doesn't show any error messages, but no sound output to sound card.

A: Check Control Panel and documentaton for your ASIO driver. Currently selected driver's Control Panel can be opened from FolkStudio:
Options | Preferences | Audio | Control Panel.

Q: There are clicks (noise, distortion) in output sound.

A:

1. Try to select another ASIO driver: Options | Preferences | Audio.
   "ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver" is reported to have problems on some machines, especially at sample rates lower than 44100 Hz.
2. Try different project sample rates. Some device/driver combinations work correctly only at 44100 or 48000 Hz.
3. Check FAQ/Troubleshooting information for your ASIO driver.
4. In ASIO driver's Control Panel, try to increase the size of sound buffers.
5. Use Windows Task Manager to make sure your CPU load is not at 100% (50% or more for a dual-core machine). If so, check whether all CPU is consumed by FolkStudio or another application (in this case, close that application and try again). If all processor time is used by FolkStudio your computer is probably just too slow to handle the project.

Q: MIDI playback to a device is uneven or becomes uneven after playing for some time.

A: This problem is related to ASIO driver, because it is the source of timing information used for playing MIDI notes. So far we can only suggest to try another ASIO driver.
We noticed this problem only with "ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver".

Q: I want to use a software or on-card MIDI synthesizer (e.g. Microsoft Synthesizer) and it works with other applications, but when I try to use it in FolkStudio, MIDI is silent.

A: ASIO driver can monopolize access to a sound card and block it for all other programs, including software MIDI synthesizers. If you have multiple sound cards installed, you may disable one card for ASIO, so software synthesizer could use it. Also, open your Windows Control Panel, then: Sound, Speech and Audio Devices | Audio and un-check Use only default devices to allow MIDI Mapper to select another devices while default one is blocked.

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Changelog

1.0 beta 11 (Mar 31 2008)

• Fixed crash during mixdown when Explorer panel "looks" into mixdown's output directory.
• Fixed another crash in Explorer panel.
• Fixed displaying length of clips and notes in Event List.
• Fixed blinking of currently recorded MIDI clip (during loop recording).
• Fixed mixdown crashing.
• Added "Delete" into clip pop-up menus.
• Other bugfixes and stability improvements.

1.0 beta 10/2 (Mar 28 2008)

• Minor bugfixes.

1.0 beta 10 (Mar 3 2008)

• Added Triangular Dithering and Noise Shaping algorithms.
• Clipboard operations for controller points.
• Clips in VSTi tracks can be drawn, to group controllers points.
• Re-enabled resampling audio files when project sample rate is changed.
• Fixed bug in open/save/mixdown dialogs (multiple opening of dialogs, dialogs not closing on exit from the application).
• Fixed deletion of temporary track when drag-n-dropping files from Explorer panel into an existing track.
• Changes in Edit and pop-up menus.
• "Disable ALL FX" renamed to "Enable FX", to reflect button meaning better :)
• Other bugfixes and stability improvements.

1.0 beta 9 (Feb 12 2008)

• "Disable ALL FX" button added.
• "Lock Envelopes to Clips" feature added, allowing to move clips along with assigned controller points.
• MIDI clip being recorded can be deleted at any time during recording, new input notes cause new MIDI clip creation.
• Fixed note looping when recording MIDI in loop mode.
• Other bugfixes and stability improvements.

1.0 beta 8 (Feb 04 2008)

• When recording MIDI in loop mode, notes from all cycles are written into one clip.
• Monitoring (playing input notes in real-time) during playback and MIDI recording now works OK.
• Fixed: "When recording from a MIDI input (e.g. MIDI keyboard) with monitoring via an external MIDI synthesizer (not VSTi), fast notes are not switched off properly."
• Info Line now fits to screen in 1024x768 mode.
• Other bugfixes and stability improvements.

1.0 beta 7 (Jan 29 2008)

• Automatic update of file list in explorer panel.
• No more hanging notes in monitoring output during MIDI recording.
• Eliminated delay in MIDI input monitoring (not during recording).
• Increased stability of MIDI part.
• Improved some error messages.
• Metronome: removed clipping artifacts when sounds are resampled.
• Other bugfixes and stability improvements.

1.0 beta 6 (Jan 22 2008)

• Fixed VST bypass state restore upon opening a project.
• Fixed mp3 drag-and-drop crash.
• EQ improvements: support for bypass mode, support for mono tracks, improved precision.
• Metronome improvements: ability to load sounds from external wav files (16-bit signed PCM Wav) and resample sounds to match the project sample rate. The primary directory where the files can be stored is "Metronome Sounds" under FolkStudio installation directory.
• Bugfixes.

1.0 beta 5 (Jan 15 2008)

• This was the first version released to public.

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Feedback

Please send your feedback via e-mail to:
support (at) jasminemusic.com
or use this Web form:
http://www.jasminemusic.com/e-support.htm

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