MidiSoundSynth news

Bug fixes:
This version is a major update with many bug fixes, improvements and new features

Bug fixes:
    • Version 1.1.1.0 crashed at startup on a fresh installation
    • MidiSoundSynth could not start if no internet connection was found
    • When playing a playlist to audio files, MidiSoundSynth got stuck on the last song
    • MidiSoundSynth could not create MP4 files
    • Pan for midi channels did not work
    • Some midi file karaoke events were not correctly read from file
    • Since 1.1.0.2, the SoundFont Preset was reset to the default when playback started
    • When changing Tempo, the song length was not updated

New features:
    • The "Explorer" in "Files & Playlist" now receives a notification from Windows if a file or folder is changed by another program (for example, renamed)
    • You can choose the playlist to play to audio on the page "Create audio file"
    • Lyrics can now be displayed as "long lines" filling up the whole page
    • The primary lyrics window can now be a floating child window (as the secondary)
    • Improved support for midi channels with multiple midi program changes

This version is a major update with many bug fixes, improvements and new features

Bug fixes:
• Fixed a large number of other reported defects

New features:
• Support for Karaoke files. An new button, “Lyrics” in the row of main buttons:

• More Options in a new page (“Options” in the image above)
• You can now also change the Volume level, Loudness level, Pan position and Pitch for each channel in Channel Effects:

• You can now let MidiSoundSynth use values for Continuous Controllers #91 and #93 to set Reverb and Chorus for each channel. See “Options” for how to activate. (You can still add your own Reverb and Chorus effects on top of these)
• In the row of playback buttons, there is a new button to play all files in a list – either in the Explorer folder or in a normal Playlist

• The buttons Play Previous file and Play Next file now works also when not playing files in a list (using the new button above)

• In “Create audio file” there is now an option to create audio files for all files in a list (Explorer or Playlist)

• MidiSoundSynth now handles System Exclusive messages the make MIDI channels 8 and 11 act as percussion channels

• MidiSoundSynth now handles Creative Lab’s SoundBlaster definitions for NRPN messages for setting low pass filter cutoff frequency and resonance.

• There are several new keyboard shortcuts. See documentation for a list (for example online help)

Bug fixes:
    • This version can now correctly identify and install new versions of purchased SFKR files
    • Some odd Playlist-related bugs fixed
    • A few other minor reported bugs fixed

New features:
    • The button “New playback” in “Create audio file” turns into “Stop” to enable you to interrupt the writing process
    • If a Playlist has been changed but not saved, you are notified of this when switching to another Playlist
    • In the files list in “Files and Playlists”, the list header with the text “[X]” can be used to change the check state of all files.
    • In “Search”→ “Files found” files now have checkboxes and there is a button for adding all checked files to the current playlist. There is a button to change the check state of all files. See image:

Other:
    • This version is compiled with Google's Skia graphics library. Skia is an open source library for drawing 2D Text, Geometries, Images, focused on accurate, high quality and high performance rendering, which provides common APIs that work across a variety of hardware and software platforms. Skia serves as the graphics engine for Google Chrome and Chrome OS, Android, Flutter, Xamarin, Mozilla Firefox and Firefox OS, and many other products. (The file sk4d.dll has to be present in the same folder as the executable.)

Bug fixes:
- Since version 1.0.2.0, the menu for selecting a SoundFont for a MIDI channel has been empty
- The option to always keep MIDI channel 4 muted (in Options) was not applied to the currently opened MIDI file
- The SoundFont information for the newly introduced Berlin Orchestra SoundFont was missing in all other languages than English
- Tried to fix a few other reported bugs as well

New features:
- The button "MIDI Channels" has now a dropdown menu with two items: one to play all channels - useful if some channel has been muted - and an alternative way to set the "Keep MIDI Channel 4 muted" status without going into Options (see image)

Bug fixes:
- A few reported bugs fixed

New features:
- The About dialog has a new button, "Open Registration code file", which you can use if you have saved the registration code file MidiSoundSynth.slp in another location than "Documents" or "Documents\MidiSoundSynth"
- MidiSoundSynth now keeps track of SoundFont versions for commercial SoundFonts in the SFKR format and offers to download and install the latest version
- MidiSoundSynth now displays available SFKR+MidiSoundSynth packages (in page "Install SFKR files") as a scrollable list.

Bug fixes:
- Sometime when changing the SoundFont Preset while playing, MidiSoundSynth would randomly freeze.

- On rare occasions, randomly, the very first notes in a file with notes at time 0, may have been lost in playback

- MidiSoundSynth can save Arranagements in a special ".mss" file, but not everything was properly read back when the file was reopened.

- MP4 files were broken.

- Could not download and install the MSSKetronSD1000 XL SoundFont

- A few reported bugs fixed

New features:
- You can save the current set of Main Effects to be used as default when opening MIDI files in the future. On the Effects page, there is a new button. On the Effects page, a saved preset with the name "<Autosaved>" will show up in the list (see image down left).

- On the Effects page, a saved preset with the name "<Arrangement>" will show up in the list for an Arrangement file

- New language: French

- Effects: the range for the Compressor Pregain value has been changed from 0..100 db to 0..10 db. Also, the Threshold range is now narrower: -50..-10 dB

- The trial period length is now 30 days instead of 10 days

- In Options, you can set the size of the playback buffer to either 1024 or 2048 for the standard audio output. The default value is 1024, but on older systems 2048 may be better. In MIDI IN mode, use WASAPI.

- The dropdown list for SoundFonts to choose, now sorts the SoundFonts in alphabetical order.

Bug fixes:
- Some SoundFont Presets would play at a lower than expected volume due to MidiSoundSynth respecting the original SoundFont specifications to 100%. MidiSoundSynth flexes now and plays according to "SoundBlaster Live!" specifications, also used in all other programs in the SynthFont family.

- MidiSoundSynth could not save Arranagements for MIDI files with the extension ".kar" or ".midi", using the extension ".mss". The original extension was used, effectively overwriting the original file. Thus, to be able to open a ".kar" or ".midi" file overwritten in such a way, you need to change the file's extension to ".mss".

- The button to play the next song was not enabled when playing songs from an "Explorer" folder (on page "Files & Playlist")

- A few reported bugs fixed

New features:
- On the first purchase of a package MidiSoundSynth + GoldMidSF2 SoundFont, a file called "MidiSoundSynth.slip" is sent to you as an attachment in an email. You can now register your copy of MidiSoundSynth by saving the "MidiSoundSynth.slip" file in your "Documents" folder. Alternatively, if you prefer, you can save it in a "Documents\MidiSoundSynth" folder.

- New button in About box: "See version history" - to read the history (this web page)

- You can now also save the audio data for each MIDI channel (see image below, left)

- As many Karaoke files have the voice part in MIDI channel 4, it is now an option (in Options) to keep channel 4 muted when a MIDI file is opened (see image below, right). Note that the "Mute" checkbox "M" will be automatically checked for Ch 04

- Added one more product package offer to the list: "MidiSoundSynth + MSSKetronSD1000 XL GMGS SFKR", on page "Install SFKR files"

What is new in the latest MidiSoundSynth versions?

Version 1.1.1.1 - replaces version 1.1.1.0 that had a serious bug

Version 1.1.0.2

Version 1.1.0.1

Version 1.1.0.0

Version 1.0.4.1

Version 1.0.4.0

Version 1.0.3.4

Version 1.0.3.3 and 1.0.3.2

Version 1.0.3.1

Version 1.0.3.0

Version 1.0.2.1

Version 1.0.2.0

Version 1.0.1.1

Version 1.0.1.0