SynthMaker

PRESET ISSUES FIXED

22-Jun-06

All the recently reported bugs should be sorted in the new 0.9.5x release. In particular the problems with plugins not restoring preset parameters correctly has now been rectified. Plugins should also now run without crashing in Bidule.

As always you'll find a complete list of changes in the forum

June

DELAY COMPENSATION

31-May-06

New release 0.9.5w brings delay compensation. You also now have the option to store compiled code for both SSE and SSE2 PCs in your plugins and schematics. This saves the software from having to convert the code on loading greatly increasing the startup time in some cases.

24 BIT SAMPLE SUPPORT

20-May-06

Support for 24bit wave files has arrived in 0.9.5v. Theres also a new Wave Array data type and Wave File Array and Wave Array Read components. These components make it much easier to make efficient sample players.

May

MORE STABILITY IMPROVEMENTS

New release 0.9.5u furthers the recent improvements to stability in exported VSTs with two big fixes. The problem with plugins not working in FL Studio 6 should now be resolved and the rising cpu issue has also been rectified.

12-May-06

2005-2006

VST ENHANCEMENTS

Release 0.9.5t fixes a number of important bugs in exported VSTs. In particular, saving and loading presets and plugin state in a host is now significantly faster. The problem of cycling through presets when saving or loading has also been eliminated.

Exported VSTs were not being recognised in some hosts and were crashing others. These issues have now been resolved.

4-May-06

Press Releases

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New Release Notifications

New Release information is published on the New Releases thread in the General section of our forum. If you'd like to get an email notification whenever there is a new release then click here to go to the thread, scroll to the bottom and click on the 'watch this topic for replies' link in the bottom-left corner of the page.

The new user guide is now available. This is the first of a set of manuals that will be part of the version 1 release. There will be a component reference which will describe each component in the toolbox in detail. There will also be a quick start guide and set of tutorials.

You can get the new guide from the Download page.

NEW USER GUIDE

29-Jun-06

FULL SCREEN MODE

The new 0.9.5y release introducs some nice new features for exporting standalone applications. You can now choose your own icon and about box text and as requested by many of you we now have a full screen option.

6-Jul-06

The release also fixes two important issues that were causing random crashes. There were also issues with recovery and schematic files being corrupted when a crash occurred, these have been resolved as well.

MEMORY LEAKS PLUGGED

Release 0.9.5z plugs some very important memory leaks that occur when saving schematics or exporting. There are some fixes to preset handling and several crash situtations have been taken care of. We also have 2 new components including one for launching web URLs.

24-Jul-06

August

BUG FIXES AND OPTIMISATIONS

10-Aug-06

First off, if you took the 30 day trial in the past then we've reset it in this version so you can have another go.

July

NEW GRAINSKAN SYNTH

The Grainskan synth by Magalov Audio is now available for download in the Examples section. You'll find both vst and exe versions plus a handy user guide. Magalov Audio have also provided the compete schematic so you can see how it's done.

2-Aug-06

This release combines a huge number of bug fixes with some key optimisations. We've also updated all the knobs to improve performance. Finally we have a new set of components for timing related information including Bar Start Position, PPQ Position, and Time Signature.

UPDATED SYNTH TUTORIAL

We've updated the old example synth tutorial and it forms the first entry in a new tutorials guide. We'll be adding to this guide over time so watch out for the updates.

25-Aug-06

New tutorial guide

You'll find the tutorials guide in the Dowload section.

September

CONTROL YOUR ENVELOPES

You can now control exactly when an envelope is triggered using the new manual ADSR. We also have a new system for storing toolbox modules and some changes to the way user defined filter groups work. All this and a host of bugs and stability issues taken care of.

12-Sep-06

HARD SYNCABLE OSCILLATORS

The new 0.9.6a release adds hard sync inputs to all the low-level oscillators. There are new boolean stream types which pick up type just like the floating point streams.

1-Sep-06

We have a further update to the redraw optimisations introduced in the last release. The refresh limiting is now built into the redraw components so you automatically have this whenever you use these.

October

VERSION 1.0 RELEASE DATE

After an extensive beta testing period the first version of SynthMaker is now almost complete. We are therefore very happy to announce that SynthMaker 1.0 will be released on Monday 6th November 2006.

11-Oct-06

MORE OPTIMISATIONS AND FIXES

The new 0.9.6c release is now available. This update contains a whole bunch of fixes and optimisations and one new component for hiding the mouse cursor.

4-Oct-06

The Early Adopter discount will continue to run up until this date but will stop once version 1.0 is available

MORE FIXES & FINISHING TOUCHES

The new 0.9.8 release contains more fixes and some finishing touches to developer mode.

25-Oct-06

The documentation has been updated and all three guides are available from the download section. You can also access the guides from the Help menu in SynthMaker.

17-Oct-06

NEW WAVE PLAYER

You'll find a new Wave Player module in the 0.9.7 release which is available right now.

There's more fixes and optimisations and a reorganised filter group structure that makes finding components much easier.

November

Today we are very proud to announce the release of SynthMaker version 1.0.

VERSION 1.0 IS HERE

6-Nov-06

We'd like to thank all our Early Adopters for their help, support and encouragement throughout the development process.

THE FINAL BETA RELEASE

2-Nov-06

0.9.9 is the final point release before version 1. We have several fixes and optimisations and a new Float Label module. The audio stutter during preset changes has now been fixed.

December

NEW RELEASE 1.0.1

The first point release for version 1 is now available. This contains some important fixes and optimisations including changes to the way that triggered float and int types are incorporated into the stream code. This was causing some bad glitches with multiple notes playing close together during playback in a host.

8-Dec-06

COMPUTER MUSIC REVIEW

SynthMaker scooped a 9/10 rating and a Performance award in a review in the latest issue of Computer Music magazine. From the review:

18-Dec-06

" Its as addictive as it is intuitive "

" Easy enough to knock out simple designs very quickly,

though if you invest some serious time, youll

be rewarded with plug-ins of considerable power "