Now that we've got the major building blocks in place, over the next few months we're going to be laser-focused on making sure all these parts play nice and cohesively. Our goal is to take the music making experience to the next level: Shortcuts, samplers, hotkeys, workflow improvements...
You can look forward to rapid-development and quick releases, and of course we value your opinion more than anything so feel free to pop in our Discord whenever you want to talk shop.
Here are some additional improvements and bug fixes that come up with that release:
New Features:
External VST support - Load up all your favorite plugins!
On top of that, we've introduced a groundbreaking new feature that allows both you and a collaborator to use the plugin together in live multiplayer if they have the plugin as well! You can now work together more seamlessly than ever before.
We cleaned up the homescreen so that its easier to navigate and find your projects.
Render tracks - Bounce your instruments to audio so that all collaborators can hear it, whether they share the same plugin as you, or not.
Much nicer, more accurate, and optimized audio file thumbnails in the timeline view.
Streamlined the hub so it gets you straight into music making.
Help menu in the timeline with a list of hotkeys - we'll be working on making them customizable soon.
And even more...
- Unsaved changes dialog when switching between projects or quitting the application.
- Guidelines when moving clips and MIDI notes to make it easier to line things up.
- A crash recovery autosave so that you never lose your work.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed the drum clip insert issue on drum tracks.
- Updated our networking module to use websockets so we can deprecate the dusty old TCP sockets and related infra.
- Fixed intermittent crash related to thumbnail generation.
- Fixed some issues related to time-stretched samples.
- Fixed samples with certain characters causing issues with the local db Fixed issue where some samples thumbnail didn't match the clip length.
- Fixed hotkeys disabling during play.
- Fixed the open project menu bringing you back in time to the wrong view.
- Major networking update to ensure consistent and smooth performance.
- Many fixes for crashes and hangs, very hard to list them all but we've been quite diligent.
That’s a major update for BeatConnect (here is the link to download the app), and it opens up for so much more in the upcoming weeks and months. Feel free to reach out to me directly on Discord (@BCNickyDiamondz) to share your comments about this new features.
Have fun!
Nic