MultitrackStudio

New:

Matrix Sampler.
New 'Matrix' and 'Chords' onscreen keyboards.
Overview bar shows editor data while scrolling an editor. Works for all editors except the Song Editor and Multitrack Editor. Works with Mac trackpad (OS X 10.7 or newer) and touchscreens (Windows)
Audio input level fader appears at top of the main window when it's needed (if the audio device supports level control). The Audio Input Control window has been removed along with the 'Automatically assign channels to tracks' option.
MIDI tracks using External MIDI Instruments now support automation of volume fader/pan knob (works for playback only). (Pro Plus edition).
Enable Mixer button is removed from Song Properties window. Any existing songs using this will be converted automatically.

Improved:

Track audio input selector shows level meters even if Rec button isn't engaged. These meters don't appear in the Lite edition.
Audio track can now be in practice mode even while other tracks are recording audio.
Audio devices can have up to 140 channels now (was 96).
Mac: editors scroll smoother with trackpad.
Mac: improved .aif file compatibility.
Improved LAME MP3 encoder compatibility.
Pseudo Stereo effect is renamed to Stereo Imager, and now processes stereo input signals as well.
Compressor, Dynamics, Phaser and Saturator effects no longer use a lot of CPU power while automated knobs are moving (Pro Plus edition).
Convolutor effect: Volume knob can now be automated (Pro Plus edition).
Echo effect: Mix knob now controls input of echo loop rather than output. This makes things like adding echoes to certain words only easier (using Automation).
"Expand to Chord" menu plays the chord before clicking it.
Onscreen keyboard's Keyboard layout has another octave of keyboard shortcuts.

Fixed:

Audio editors could flicker while scrolling backwards.
Exception error on trying to export empty song as .zip file.
Windows: grid bar (above editors) didn't show cycle region if no markers were present.

Fixed:

Recording the master output to an audio track and the 'Mix down to audio file' feature didn't work if there were only MIDI tracks and no audio tracks.

New:

Import/export zipped songs.

Improved:

Performance improvements in Guitar Amp (Pro Plus edition), Master Limiter, and EQ effects.
MIDI input/output devices: tighter timing.
Some touchscreen support improvements.

A couple of bugs have been fixed.

New:

Show all effects in a mixer section simultaneously (keep 'M' key down while clicking slot).
Mac: SoundFont Player (requires OS X 10.7 or newer).
"Mix Down to Audio File" window: Channels box defaults to Mono if Master section's Mono button a engaged.
MIDI controller / automation editor selector list items have subtle green dot if the editor contains any dots.

Improved:

Renamed Windows audio driver terms: Driverset, AsioSnd, VistaSound and WinSound are now 'Audio driver type', 'ASIO', 'Windows' and 'Windows XP'.
Windows: MIDI / Control Surface devices settings no longer change if you change audio driver type.
Mac: Select Devices window detects USB audio/MIDI devices which are plugged in/out.
MultitrackStudio Instruments: some sound improvements.
Song editor: gridsnap now also works while there are no MIDI tracks.
Some user interface improvements.

Fixed:

Mac: MTC sync code wasn't sent correctly.
Various bug fixes.

New:

"MultitrackStudio Remote" iPad app.
Mixer sections can optionally have 6 effect slots instead of 3.
Half solo: doubleclick a solo button to dim other tracks.
VST/AU output mixer has level meters.
VST/AU output mixer supports multiple solo and half solo.
Sampler supports Modulation controller (#1).
VSTi plugins: drum editor can use text file with instrument names.
VST/AU effect midi out data can be recorded to MIDI track.
Level meter of recording audio track shows peak level since transport start (dimmed segment).
Mac version takes advantage of Retina displays.
Practice Mode now works with speed-only VariSpeed mode (Pro Plus edition).
Support for Mackie Control and HUI control surface level meters and transport counter.
Compatible with OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and Windows 8.1.

Improved:

Improved pen (stylus) support: easier scrolling and optional onscreen keyboards.
'Open same color MIDI tracks in Multi MIDI Editor' no longer opens track editors.
Multi Midi Editor: redesigned track buttons, leaves a bit more space for editor.
Multi Midi Editor remembers whether user wants it to cover the overview bar.
Overview Bar now always shows all markers, even if it's passed the end of the song.
Patchmap files can be unicode, so they can contain Asian characters etc.
(Mac) Improved VST/AU compatibility.
(Windows) Improved MIDI recording timing accuracy.

Fixed:

MP3 'very high quality' could actually be 'high quality'.
Various bug fixes.
Mac: several more bug fixes.

New:

Improved touchscreen support (Windows).
'To Song (Hi)' control surface action to make 'To Song' work with more than 128 songs.
Automation Editor (Pro Plus) and Automated Fader windows can be resized vertically.
Score editor has 'Split in equal parts' option, just like pianoroll.
'Size' setting in Preferences window to scale user interface independently from Windows DPI setting (Windows).

Improved:

Better DPI scaling for DPI value just above 96 (Windows).
Tempo editor: tempo line is now updated while moving it vertically.
Editor Edit/Delete and Undo/Redo buttons have been swapped.
Score editor: '1'..'6' and dot buttons are replaced with a single dropdown list next to the '+' button.
Score/pianoroll editor: 'Merge Notes', 'Expand to Chord' and 'Split in equal parts' now appear in 'More...' button list.
Drag-and-drop: an image is visible while dragging an effect slot or mixer section etc.

Fixed:

Pianoroll editor allowed for making note duration zero. This could cause problems, especially with cycling playback.

Fixed:

Gapless cycling: VSTi plugins which use transport information (Jamstix etc.) wouldn't cycle.
Unmuting a stereo track which contains an Echo effect could cause crash.
Audio track editing: crash when editing a new file, clicking undo, starting transport and then clicking redo.
Songs having exactly one group section wouldn't open correctly (Lite and Professional edition).
Score editor: issue with adding notes using the '1'..'5' mouse modifier keys.

Fixed:

Transport cycling: stereo audio files could cause program crash.
Cycle recording: after a couple of cycles the Overview Bar no longer showed part after cycle region.
Drum editor: Redo could cause exception error in certain situations.
Song Properties-->Clean Up: deleting a .aem file could in rare cases cause crash when editing this track again.
Control Surface: track Play/Rec buttons could be toggled when this shouldn't be possible.

1. Windows 8 tablet support
Touchscreen support, which was introduced three years ago, has been improved and modernized. The user interface can now scale down to a smaller size if screen estate is limited, so MultitrackStudio can run comfortably on the new 10-inch Windows 8 tablets several manufacturers have announced.

2. Improved large screen / multi monitor support
In order to utilize all the space provided by a large monitor there can now optionally be multiple columns of mixer sections. There's a "Multi Column Rack" setting in the Preferences window.

This new feature can be used for multi-monitor setups as well. In this case track width is automatically adjusted to fit a monitor. Multi monitor support has been improved by making sure secondary windows don't appear "on the fold". On Windows full screen mode now fills all monitors which where covered by the main window.

3. Gapless cycling
The transport can now cycle "gapless", there's no longer a small piece of silence when it jumps back.

Several changes have been made to leverage the improved cycling:

Cycling transport can be started by performing a click-and-drag operation on the overview bar thumb:

Click the thumb
Immediately click the thumb again, but this time keep the mouse button down.
Now move the thumb to the point where you want the cycle to end.
Release the mouse button.

Note that this click-and-drag action is a variation on a doubleclick, which starts the transport without cycling.
Click-and-drag works on the editor needle thumbs as well, so you can quickly cycle the part you're interested in.
Automation editors (Pro Plus edition), Automated Fader effect and Vocal Tuner key editor can now be used while the transport is running.
Transport position indicator and overview bar now show bars automatically if there are any MIDI tracks (can be switched off in Preferences window). When you start cycling using the overview bar it snaps to bars automatically, so it's easy to cycle a couple of bars.

4. Lyrics prompter
If any chords or lyrics are available a Lyr button appears near the bottom right corner of the main window. Clicking this button shows the new lyrics prompter. The lyrics prompter scrolls automatically if the transport is running, so it can be used to read the lyrics/chords while recording. Clicking a bar will move the transport position to this bar. Doubleclicking a bar will pop up the chords or lyrics editor and select that bar. The font size depends on the size of the lyrics prompter panel: if you make the panel taller the font will get taller as well.

5. Other

Score editor supports transposing instruments (Bb clarinets etc.).
"Ultra Dark" color theme. On Windows the Light theme is replaced with a new High Contrast theme.
"To Song" control surface action, intended for playing backing tracks during live shows.
"Start Playback" and "Start Recording" control surface actions.
"Full Screen" button in bottom right corner (not on Mac OS X 10.7 or newer).
Improved VST/AU plugin compatibility (Melodyne).
Various user interface improvements (redesigned transport counter and group selectors etc.).
BPM tappers are now embedded in windows like Add Click Track, so you don't have to click the Tap button first.
A Control Surface can now have up to 64 channels (was 8).
Narrow vertical strips next to the mixer sections are removed, this makes the vertical scrollbar easier to use.
The Clip Shelf can now be made visible using the Studio menu.
Editor and transport units (bars or seconds) are now stored in song files.
Removed "Large Meters" setting from Preferences window. Meters now become large automatically if there's room for them.
EQ effect: 1/3 octave and critical bands spectra now show vertical bars rather than lines.
(Windows) VST plugin causing exception error will automatically run bridged next time.

Fixed:

Resource leak which could cause crash after running MultitrackStudio for a long time.
Some minor issues.

1. Vocal Tuner
The new Vocal Tuner effect corrects out-of-tune vocals. It features two programs: Natural, which corrects pitch in a very unobtrusive manner, and Modern, which sounds a bit synthetic and robot-like.

The key editor shows both the input pitch (dimmed color) and the output pitch (bright color). Pitch is quantized to the closest key. Using the key editor you can turn keys off for certain parts. If a key is off pitch is quantized to the closest key which is on.

2. VariSpeed improvements
VariSpeed appears in the Pro Plus edition

The VariSpeed controls have been redesigned. VariSpeed can be now adjusted while transport is running (but not while recording).

There's a new "Speed Only" VariSpeed mode which changes speed 50..150% without changing pitch. This can be used for practicing etc. "Speed Only" mode doesn't work while recording.

3. Sidechaining improvements
Sidechaining appears in the Pro Plus edition

Effects in Group/Effect Return/Master sections can use tracks and group busses as sidechain source.
Track sidechains can now be stereo.
VSTi/AUi with multiple outputs: Up to 30 outputs can now be sidechain source (was 15).

4. Redesigned "Mix down to audio file" window
The "Mix down to audio file" window can now optionally remember the destination folder. Any channel count and/or bit depth options now appear in the window itself (new windows used to pop up for this).

5. Other
New:
Transposer effect.
Automatic effect delay compensation.
Can drag effects from mixer sections to track editor's Audio Edit Control.
Grid bars (above editors): double clicking thumb starts transport, clicking anywhere on grid bar stops it.
Overview Bar: double clicking thumb starts transport, clicking thumb again stops it.
"Record Master" is no longer limited to two audio channels (Pro Plus edition).
"To Next Song" control surface action added.
Faders and rotary knobs let you type value after Ctrl+click (Windows) / Cmd-click (Mac).
Clean Up tool (Song Properties window) now lists unused alternate/partial takes as well.
Effect/Instrument selectors show format (VST/AU/DX) if the effect is available in multiple formats.
EQ spectrum display updates faster. Averaged "Output" or "Master Out" spectrum reflects changes immediately after turning knobs.

Fixed:
(Mac) Some AU instruments, like step sequencers, couldn't sync their transport to MultitrackStudio transport.
(Mac) EQ spectrum display graphics issue.
Various other fixes.

Fixed:

Changing fade type in multitrack editor caused error.
Some exception errors caused more problems than necessary.
Some VST plugins would crash if song recorded in Mac version was opened in Windows version or vice versa.
Error if Outputs setting in Song Properties window exceeded 48 (Pro Plus edition).
"Show tooltips" setting was always on again after restarting the program.
Wizard is more robust.
(Windows) Fixed 'Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window' error.
(Windows) The settings file sometimes couldn't be written to.
(Windows) VistaSound driverset better handles unplugging USB audio devices.
(Windows 64 bit) Error if Compressor's Ratio and Knee knobs were turned up all the way (vintage programs).
(Mac) Outputs of AU Instrument having multiple outputs couldn't be used as sidechain sources (Pro Plus edition).
(Mac) Error occured if audio recording and playback devices didn't have any supported samplerates in common.
(Mac) Control Surface Settings window "Info" button didn't work with most presets.
(Mac) Numerical keypad Enter key didn't work.
(Mac) Some cosmetic issues.
A couple of other fixes.

1. Mac OS X version
MultitrackStudio is now available for Mac as well.

The Mac version works with OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

The Mac version has all the features of the Windows version with a few exceptions:

No touchscreen support.
VST plugins can't be "bridged", only 32 bit plugins are supported.
No DX plugins.

It also has some features the Windows version doesn't have:

Supports Audio Unit plugins.
Can open existing .aac, .ac3, .aifc, .caf, .mp4, .m4a, .snd, .au and .sd2 files.

Songs recorded with the Windows version can be used in the Mac version and vice versa.

2. Other
The Windows versions have been updated as well.

Improved:

New Standard color theme.
Better DPI scaling.
All versions now support .aif files (was Pro Plus only)
Onscreen MIDI keyboard now works while MIDI Keyboard Splitter window is visible.
Mousewheel on small strips on left/right side now scrolls mixer sections vertically.

Fixed:

"Bridged" VST plugins received incorrect tempo information.
Master Limiter's RMS meter didn't work at 192 kHz samplerate.
A couple of other fixes.