MusicDevelopments • Latest update: RapidComposer v5.0.8 (December 27, 2023)

v5.0.8 maintenance update (December 27, 2023)

Improvements:

• Fixed when melody generators were used as ghost copies (track variations were not applied on them)
• Fixed wrong velocities when editing phrases in the inspector during loop preview
• Improved searching in the browsers; you need to press Enter to start searching
• Fixed 'save cc envelope to browser' button in the Phrase Editor
• [macOS, plug-ins] Fixed rare font size problems on retina screens
• Reworked low-level locking

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v5.0.7 maintenance update (December 4, 2023)

Improvements:

• Chord naming selector inserted in the 'properties' bar.
• New MIDI import option: "Throw away redundant CC events"
• Fixed "Save plug-in state in history" when it was turned off.
• Stability improved when loading plug-ins and during undo/redo.
• Fixed crash because of a race condition when selecting an instrument in the menu.

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v5.0.6 maintenance update (November 28, 2023)

Improvements:

• In the Melody Editor adding a new section will select Motive 'A' by default rather than adding an empty 'rest' section
• Minor fixes in the Melody Editor
• [macOS, VST3] Fixed plug-in window resizing in Cubase

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v5.0.5 maintenance update (November 13, 2023)

Improvements:

• A VST3 plug-in initialization issue has been fixed when using Synthogy Ivory 3
• Crash fixed when saving a track template
• Fixed issues with chord progression generation and with displaying wrong scale degrees
• [macOS, AU] Fixed a 'black window' issue when re-opening the plug-in window in Logic Pro X.

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v5.0.4 maintenance update (November 8, 2023)

Improvements:

• Fixes for wrong chords displayed under the 'Scale Degrees' tab in the Chord Selector
• Fixed: when editing 'Notes To Use', octave/scale/semitone offsets did not update the values on screen page

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v5.0.3 maintenance update (October 31, 2023)

Improvements:

• Memory usage optimized: loaded phrases reserve considerably less memory with less allocations
• Fixed a minor issue with random number generation
• Fixed chord progression generation using rules: sometimes out-of-scale chords were created
• Fixed soundfont paths when soundfonts were not located in RapidComposerV5/Soundfonts
• [Plug-ins] RapidComposer plug-in offers playback instrument selection on the MIDI Mutator page

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v5.0.2 maintenance update (October 23, 2023)

Improvements:

• A warning and a suggestion is displayed when the operations result in an empty rhythm pattern in the Rhythm Lab
• Fixed: MIDI CC's in phrase ghost copies were not updated when the CC's were edited in the original phrase

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v5.0.1 maintenance update, macOS only (October 19, 2023)

Improvements:

• [macOS] Fixed display and window resizing issues in the RC AU and VST3 plug-in on retina screens

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v5.0 major update available (October 16, 2023)

Improvements:

• New flexible rhythm generator: 'Rhythm Lab' makes several old rhythm generators obsolete
• All phrase generators use 'Rhythm Lab' by default. Default settings were revised.
• New phrase generator: MIDI Transformer (full edition only). Drop a MIDI file to this phrase generator (in the inspector) to create a new phrase of similar style. This phrase generator creates absolute notes because it forms new chords!
• 'DAW view' added with optimized display for working in the composition globally as in a DAW. Select and move phrases in multiple tracks, use rubber-box selection in multiple tracks, drop multi-track MIDI files, etc.
• Ghost tracks added, with 'unghost' option. Ghost tracks contain all phrases of the original track, rendered with or without the original track variations
• VST/VST3 FX plug-ins can be added to instruments. Plug-in handling was reworked internally.
• Blacklisting implemented for crashed plug-ins during scanning. Scanning options menu added. You can still load the blacklisted plug-in manually, but for the next scanning the crashed plug-in is skipped.
• Variation presets implemented
• CC envelope browser added. Save and reuse your favourite envelopes
• Contributed phrases are installed too, and loaded in a few seconds
• Velocity editor added to 'Manual Editing' and a velocity bar is displayed in notes. Velocity can be directly changed when moving or resizing notes. See Settings / Miscellaneous / Rhythm Editing
• Reworked/simplified phrase resizing. Shift-drag edge to scale, Ctrl-drag edge to repeat/crop. Dragging the edge means scaling for normal phrases and setting generator length for phrase generators
• Scales may contain additional notes, so the special "major set", "minor set", "major/minor set" scales are properly represented
• Lots of UI improvements
• Separate folders created for each file type under Documents/RapidComposerV5: no more DB folder
• [Plug-ins] UI rendering and event handling fully reworked in the plug-ins
• [Plug-ins] It is possible to set up loop in the RC plug-in, independently of the host! To set the time position freely, enable "Start playback from the current position instead of the host position" when using loop in the plug-in.
• Lots of internal rework, optimizations and bug fixes

Upgrade info:

Read all details on this page.

Important:

v5 comes as 64-bit only on Windows, and the RC VST plug-in is not available anymore, only VST3 and AU (+AU MFX) included. Windows 7 and macOS 10.11 is not supported, only newer OS versions.
v5.0 can import v4 composition files, but due to the internal rework the virtual instrument plug-ins are not loaded. Phrase resizing was simplified, so resized phrases may look different when imported from a v4 composition.

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You can download the update by clicking on "Check For Updates" under the Support tab, or using the download URLs sent to you in e-mail.

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