Hey everyone,
Studio Pro 8.2 is now available!
For feedback and discussion, check out the discussion thread:
You can access the detailed release notes for version 8.2 using this link:
https://s1toolbox.com/releasenotes/
Important:
If you are downloading the installer for Studio Pro 8.2 on Windows, please read this knowledge base article. This is a MUST READ!!
New Features & Improvements
1. Mixing & Plug-ins
2. Arrangement & Editing
3. Browser
4. General
Fixes
Studio Pro 8.2 is now available!
For feedback and discussion, check out the discussion thread:
You can access the detailed release notes for version 8.2 using this link:
https://s1toolbox.com/releasenotes/
Important:
If you are downloading the installer for Studio Pro 8.2 on Windows, please read this knowledge base article. This is a MUST READ!!
New Features & Improvements
1. Mixing & Plug-ins
- Trim Automation: New secondary volume automation curve for channels and sends, with manual or automatic merging into the main automation. Updated FaderPort, Mackie Control, and HUI support.
- Dim Solo: Soloed channels can now remain in context by dimming other channels instead of muting them completely.
- Freeze Improvements: Freezing tracks now preserves volume and pan settings, and properly restores multiple layers when unfreezing.
- Freeze for FX Channels: FX Channels can now be frozen and rendered into Audio Tracks.
- Replace Plug-in: Audio effects in inserts and sends can now be replaced directly via the context menu.
- Vocal Tune Improvements: New Follow mode automatically reads key and scale information from the Signature Track, plus a Low Latency mode for live monitoring.
2. Arrangement & Editing
- Multiple Marker Tracks: Add additional Marker Tracks anywhere in the Arrangement, each independently using time or bar/beat positions.
- Extended Stem Separation: Two new stems, Guitar and Piano, have been added to the offline Stem Separation feature.
- Chord Preset Preview: Chord progressions can now be previewed directly inside the Chord Preset menu before insertion.
- ARA Improvements: Clip Gain and Pitch Curves are automatically bounced and preserved when adding ARA effects, with changes included in Undo history.
- Redesigned Add Tracks Dialog: Updated dialog with a Track Preset option and improved access to track creation commands.
- Improved MIDI CC Labels: More descriptive MIDI controller names, CC numbers, and channel information, plus improved automation search.
- Per-note Sound Variations: Sound Variations can now be assigned to individual notes, keeping articulations attached when notes are moved.
3. Browser
- Auto-select Audio Files in Pool: Selecting an Audio Event in the Arrangement can now automatically highlight its associated file in the Browser's Pool tab.
4. General
- Studio Assistant Improvements (PRO+ only): Updated knowledge base and AI models for faster, more concise, and more accurate responses.
- MIDI 2 Support: Initial MIDI 2.0 hardware support with high-resolution velocity and controller data. Available on macOS and Linux; Windows support will follow in a maintenance update.
- MOTION 32 Scale Mode: The upper pad row now mirrors the lower row one octave higher in Scale mode.
- MOTION 16/32 Chord Mode: Octave buttons now transpose Famous and Simple Chords by one octave up or down.
Fixes
- Instrument ADSR envelopes curve drawing overshoots on sharp angles
- [Browser] Navigation not working correctly in certain cases when "Set as Root" was used
- [Browser] Waveform preview poorly visible with low negative luminosity values
- Cached parameter list used in VST3
- Contrast of missing plug-ins color is too high
- "Copy" button missing in Melodyne installation dialog
- "Cursor follows Edit Position" should also apply to Score Editor
- Deleting an Arranger section with Ripple Edit changes following events
- Enabling Step Record via key command doesn't open the Step Record panel
- Event Gain Curve is not completely silent at -144 dB
- Event selection commands also affect events inside Scratch Pads
- Exclude selection range is no longer working
- [External Devices] Accent color picker without function
- Find Track command selects partial match even when an exact match exists
- Folder bus channel is selected when selecting a channel group
- Freeze to Rendered Audio does not work in macro
- [Impact] .soundx files are no longer listed in preset browser
- Inconsistent colors in Note Editor lyrics lane
- Instrument Editor header shows wrong instrument name after combine
- Instrument loads with different initial sound when added via Add Tracks compared to Browser
- Korg multi/poly hanging after switching presets
- [Launcher] Potential crash when dragging to or from Cells
- [Launcher] View mode does not respond directly
- [Light Theme] Instrument inputs button icon has poor contrast
- [Linux] ALSA latency is off
- [Linux] JACK latency compensation is off
- Long macro names do not fit in text box
- Low readability of frame numbers on bright / white video thumbnails
- Lyrics TAB does not return after repeated section
- [macOS] Cannot export video to default location
- [macOS] Potential freeze on quit
- Mixdown Selection from Scratch Pad is placed in main Arrangement
- Multiband Compressor curve is partly broken
- Navigation in the Arrangement Overview isn't working smoothly
- [Note Editor] Sound Variations don't move when the event is time-stretched
- Note Repeat, Single mode continues to repeat once disabled
- On session transfer, deprecated Notion version is launched
- Plug-in Nap blocked by plug-ins with latency
- Plug-ins with high latency may work in Low Latency Monitoring path
- [Presence] Key switch list is truncated
- [Presence] UI issue in voice counter
- [Pro EQ³] The preset 'More Bass' will not load
- [Pro EQ³] Dynamic values are cropped across all bands
- Replace existing template overwrites template despite changing the name
- [Score Editor] Spacebar is not consistently advancing to next word in Score View
- "Select All" doesn't respect Global Track focus
- Selecting many tracks via scripting can take very long
- "Set Color of Selected Channels" should not colorize a disconnected Instrument Track
- Some notes in Drum View are difficult to see due to low contrast
- SoundCloud & TuneCore have greyed-out Upload button
- Speaker setup not always visible in Export Stems dialog
- [Studio Assistant] Window width is set to maximum when going to Start Page / different Session Page
- [Tonalic] Split on a merged Tonalic event hides notes visually
- UI becomes sluggish if Arrangement Overview is enabled in a Session with Bus Automation Tracks
- User Manual incorrect on key commands to toggle the mute state of an event
- Wrong default Mixdown folder is used when a Session is saved to a new folder
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