I thought I would start this fresh thread, for those that wish to share new discoveries about unpublished C9 improvements. Could we keep it to that rather than likes/dislikes. For which there are many other threads.
Share the knowledge!
To get us started here is a list of what we know is included, from the PR.
• Lower Zone
• Sampler Track
• “Frequency” a new eq
• Overhauled plug-in GUIs speed up workflow.
• 10 Marker Tracks
• Plug-in Sentinel protects your system against invalid plug-ins [new]
• 3,030 included instrument sounds
• Instrument rack is now resizable
• Recoloured editor (if you want that)
Here are a couple of things that might have passed you by…
1] The Lower Zone becomes much more powerful when you discover the “Inspector Editor”. Find this at the very bottom of the inspector as a tab. This is area blank until the lower zone displays an audio or MIDI track. When this happens, it displays your editors for the appropriate type of track. For example if you are in score editor you can chose a clef, if in audio editor you can see vari-audio.
2] There is a new function in score called rhythmic notation, found here at 8.00 minutes in
There is a new section in the Preferences > Scores > Editing:
Computer Keyboard Note Entry: Legato
disabled by default = the same behavior as it was in C8.5
enabled = Open Score Editor; Enable Compute Keyboard Input; Hold-down Alt modifier, insert a MIDI Note. Keep Alt down, use right-arrow to move your next note later (not the very next Grid value). Set the MIDI Pitch; Hit Enter. The 1st note length is extended up to the 2nd Note = legato.
Computer Keyboard Note Entry: Require Alt Key
enabled by default = the same behavior as it was in C8.5
disabled = You don’t have to hold down the Alt modifier to be able to insert MIDI Notes in the Score Editor. The Note is ready to be inserted immediately.
Computer Keyboard Note Entry: Use Virtual Keyboard Key
disabled by default = the same behavior as it was in C8.5
enabled = (Require Alt Key has to be disabled, to make it work) even if the Virtual Keyboard is hidden, you can use the QWERTY keyboard to insert a MIDI Notes. Q = C; W = D, etc. Same as it is on the Virtual Keyboard.
MixConsole in the LowerZone behaves like a 4th MixConsole, kind of.
When I start to use Visibility, MixConsole is open in the Lower Zone and no Sync Visibility of Project and MixConsole is enabled, the Visibility of the MixConsole in the lower zone is synced with the Project window anyway (without syncing!).
Thanks for the information Martin.
Meanwhile I reported this behavior as a bug as I couldn’t leave any rest between notes, and I wasn’t aware of these new entries in the Preferences
Legato was enabled by default here.
So problem solved.
Ha … finally a ‘feature’, that would make me update …
Double Ha! Introducing a universally hated feature no one ever asked for into C8 that was so goddamn annoying that you’d do almost anything to get rid of it…like buying the next version. Brilliant marketing strategy.