Synchron Player - Version History

v1.3.1836 - November 5th, 2024

Added

• Support for Duality Strings Essentials
• New Splash Screen for Standalone

Fixed

• Studio 1 Sound Variations: Fixed Sound Variations on the first loaded Flow Preset

v1.3.1785 - October 23rd, 2024

Fixed

• Crash when opening Surround version
• Windows: Vienna Helper tool opened in Command Line
• Cubase on Windows: Slow GUI closing / crash when closing the session when GUI was open

Improved

• Implemented iLok's workaround for AMD Zen 5 CPUs

v 1.3.1748 - October 14th, 2024

Fixed

• Ocasional Start-Up crash due to corrupted cache file

Added

• Increased Output Channel Count to 11

Improved

• Digital Performer: Player reacts now to MIDI ALLSOUNDSOFF controller
• macOS: Ableton Live VST2 - Hang when loading a preset.

v 1.3.1674 - September 10th, 2024

Fixed

• A crash when closing the GUI of the surround plug-in
• A crash when clicking/moving mouse on specific locations of Flow preset page
• A rare crash on sample loading when hosted in Vienna Ensemble Pro / Vienna Ensemble
• An update issue in the slot xfade editor
• A potential crash during initialization of Flow User Interface
• Keyboard events not passed on to host when in Flow View
• A potential crash upon loading
• Window size being stored/recalled incorrectly
• View size too large for AU plug-in in Digital Performer
• Studio One: Sound Variations not working properly when switching from Flow to Precision mode
• Digital Performer: Articulation Maps didn't work

Improved:

• Performance when automating dimension controllers
• Threading optimizations

v 1.3.1657 - September 3rd, 2024

Fixed

• Various stability fixes

Added

• Flow support for Synchron Prime Edition
• New control switch: Interval

v1.3.1577 - August 7th, 2024

Fixed:

• Possible crash when loading large Vienna Ensemble Pro projects
• Envelope causing clicks after triggering a large amount of voices
• FL Studio: Sustain pedal hanging
• FL Studio: Mixdown hang
• Studio One: SoundVariations not working correctly for dimensions with slot crossfade enabled

v1.3.1499 - July 12th, 2024

Fixed:

• Possible crash when having multiple plug-ins using the same content
• Possible crash when scanning incompatible files

v1.3.1485 - July 5th, 2024

Fixed:

• Crash when triggering dimensions with a single slot and assigned continuous controller
• Crash when using time stretching

v1.3.1463 - July 2nd, 2024

Fixed:

• Master channel EQ not reset when loading mixer presets
• Compressor, Limiter and Expander losing sound after copying effect or restarting audio engine
• Limiter make-up gain ignored on bounce
• Possible exit crash
• Possible crash when unplugging iLok key

Added:

• Support for libraries using Lossless compression
• Slot Crossfade Editor
• New Slot Controller: Sequence

v1.3.1263 - April 11th, 2024

Added

• Vienna Power House support

Fixed

• Crash when scanning volumes with broken permissions/access
• When reloading a previously selected humanize preset, that preset was empty

v1.3.1242 - March 28th, 2024

Fixed

• Clicking User tab in MIDI Loop Player caused a GUI crash
• ADSR Curve: Can increase Sustain value above 0
• Muted Sound and red meters when restarting playback in the middle of a MIDI region in Logic
• Tiny and miscolored menus after moving player to a second monitor
• Return channel names were not properly updated after loading some presets

Improved

• Handling of Transpose spinboxes in Edit view

v1.3.1137 - February 2nd, 2024

Fixed

• A crash when renaming columns in the dimension tree
• Timbre Adjust functionality did not consider octave/tuning settings
• Inconsistent drag-n-drop reordering of slots
• A parameter sync issue which could cause DC offset on the output
• First slot not automatically renaming upon adding new patch
• Mixer channel names not updating properly to reflect the state of loaded presets
• Mixer FX view sync issue, not reflecting loaded preset
• NKS Lightguide not working properly with VST3 plugin
• Slot sometimes sticking to mouse pointer while dragging
• macOS: Bad performance on M1/M2 Ultra CPUs

Improved

• General performance on CPUs with high core counts

Added

• Master Bus

v1.3.810 - August 18th, 2023

Fixed

• Cmd/Ctrl-A command for selecting all text inside text field not working in certain hosts
• Pasting text would paste twice in certain hosts
• Dragging a patch name into a slot should auto-rename the slot, unless slot has been manually renamed
• Clearing the name of a slot does not allow the slot to be auto-renamed
• Loading of pasted sampler data could fail when rangeFrom/rangeTo is missing
• Opened FX editor becoming unresponsive after changing project sample rate
• FX slots not updating when loading Mixer Presets

Improved

• Faster loading of patches/presets (up to 3x faster for largest presets)
• Faster opening of Player GUI
• Faster addition/removal of mixer channels
• Faster switching between mixer BASIC/AUX/FX view

Added

• Patch counter on status bar

v1.3.781 - Jul 26th, 2023

Hotfix

• Clicks in legatos of all Special Editions

v1.3.734 - Jul 4th, 2023

Fixed

• Room Reverb and Plate Reverb modules cutting off sound too early if no input signal is present.
• High CPU load of room reverb DSP module
• Phasing issues when clicking with mouse on slots while using Dim.Ctrl/XFade
• Rare crash in voice triggering
• WIN: Volumes with file paths longer than 260 characters not working
• WIN: Clipboard could end up non-functional after paste operation

Improved

• Increased loading speed of presets/projects
• Lower realtime peak CPU usage
• Slot title now kept when creating folder from slot
• Last location now remembered when saving/loading mixer presets

Changed

• Renamed the classic “Dynamic Range” Controller to “Dynamic Compression” for all existing products

Added

• Support for new libraries
• New “Dynamic Range” Controller that can now compress and expand the Dynamic Range
• Clear Slot option
• Humanize settings for upcoming libraries

v1.3.636 - May 15th, 2023

Fixed

• Losing mixer settings after adjusting sample rate or buffer size

Improved

• Removed option to use buffer size 32 in standalone

v1.3.602 - April 25th, 2023

Fixed

• Possible crash when using the Rotary DSP plugin followed by another plugin in a mixer channel
• Occasional distorted sound in DSP module Delay
• Crash when loading Vienna Power Drums Presets
• Occasionally not loading background image after changing preset

v1.3.526 - March 9th, 2023

Fixed

• Delay FX plug-in could lead to sound bursts
• Sound Variations for Studio One didn't work (VST3)
• Program Changes were not handled
• After long idle time release samples were not triggered anymore

Improved WIN

• CPU performance when using XFade

v1.3.518 - March 1st, 2023

Improved macOS

• Apple Silicon ready

Improved

• Faster plug-in instantiation times
• Faster convolution engine

Fixed

• Occasional crashes related to a now obsolete engine part
• A rare crash upon exit

Changed

• Attention Win: Windows 10 is the new minimum system requirement

v1.2.229 - January 30th, 2023

Fixed

• Possible delay when closing the plugin

Fixed Win

• Crash at start, if the Windows user name contains special characters

Improved

• Logging

Changed

• Attention macOS: Mojave (10.14) is the new minimum system requirement

v1.2.220 - December 13th, 2022

Fixed

• Possible crash when checking plugin updates while the plugin is being closed
• Possible crash on startup when an older version of Vienna Assistant is installed
• Possible crash when having unlicensed data volumes present
• Rare crash on preset loading
• GUI hang when loading certain user presets
• Occasionally, GUI would not correctly load background & controllers
• Possible crash when launching the player, if content on an external SSD is scanned
• Repaired "Set as default preset" in preset browser's right-click menu
• macOS: Possible crash during installation and subsequently when opening in Logic
• macOS: Correctly reset the Vienna Assistant popup during installation
• Win: Possible crash during installation

Improved

• Mouseovers
• Logging

v1.2.197 - October 3rd, 2022

Fixed

• Crash when moving FX plugins on AUX channels
• Occasional crash during plugin close
• MIDI Loop Player not showing MIDI files
• macOS: Prevent Vienna Assistant from opening when using AU plugin

Improved

• Performance and behavior of Velocity Xfade
• Copy/Paste on PERFORM and CONTROL pages now only acts on its own page, added option to copy/paste settings of both

v1.2.174 - August 30th, 2022

Hotfix

• Recently saved user presets could not be opened

Improved

• macOS: Prevent GUI from opening during installation in Vienna Assistant on systems older than Monterey

v1.2.171 - August 25th, 2022

Fixed

• Loading a project with missing impulse (missing content), and then saving it, caused the impulse information to be lost
• Some older user presets not loading
• Some elements in the "Perform" tab were greyed out, even though they were still functional
• Master Volume could load with wrong value in certain situations
• Standalone App not showing complete version number
• Digital Performer: VST2/VST3 plugins sometimes failing plugin scan
• macOS: Missing VST3 surround plugins
• macOS: Arrow keys not working inside of edit boxes in Standalone player

Improved

• Loading speed of presets and patches
• Instantiation speed of plug-in
• Faster operation when using iLok Cloud
• Drag-and drop of multiple paths from Finder/Explorer now works in database settings
• Software update check now using Vienna Assistant
• Performance of Vel.XF use with very large presets
• Performance of pitch shifting with very large presets

v1.2.124 - July 14th, 2022

Fixed

• macOS: Sound Variations not working at all

v1.2.123 - July 8th, 2022

Added

• Auto-guessing MIR instrument profiles when loading SYNCHRON-ized presets in VE Pro

Fixed

• Potential crash when loading certain presets

v1.2.112 - March 30th, 2022

Added

• Silent installer

Fixed

• macOS: Magenta colored popup menus in plug-in menus in Logic on Apple M1

March 17th, 2022

Changed

• Switch from eLicenser to iLok protection
• Attention: All newer versions are iLok only

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v1.1.2063 - Dec 9th, 2021

Improved

• General optimizations and maintenance

v1.1.2060 - Nov 24th, 2021

Fixed

• MIDI Loop Player did not open

v1.1.2053 - Nov 15th, 2021

Fixed

• Mac: Plugin GUI not showing on macOS Monterey

Improved

• General imorovements and stability updates

v1.1.2046 - Sept 20th, 2021

Added

• Auto-humanize settings for new instruments

Fixed

• Offset error in Control Change parameters for VST3
• A rare crash when loading presets

v1.1.2037 - July 13th, 2021

Added

• Possibility to "set collapsed/expanded by default" for Factory and User Presets (right-click the folder to see the options)

Fixed

• A bug concerning Velocity used as a controller to switch between slots in a dimension
• Removed CC1 a "default controller" from mouseover description

v1.1.2032 - July 6th, 2021

Added

• Timbre Adjust feature
• Dark Mode support for Standalone Player
• Fullscreen Mode for Standalone Player
• Larger buttons for adding mixer channels
• Autohumanize settings for new libraries
• Widener insert effect

Improved

• Sound of patches with Velocity X-fade filtering
• Performance when triggering >256 voices at once
• Scripting performance

Fixed

• A forward compatibility issue causing GUI hang when loading presets created with a newer version of Player
• Wrong position of preset button
• Slot output routing configuration could fail when switching between similar presets with different routing
• Visual Studio redistributable sometimes not installed

Changed

• Attention macOS: High Sierra (10.13) is the new minimum system requirement

v1.1.1976 - April 7th, 2021

Improved

• Poly Legato behavior

Fixed

• A crash in Standalone Player on macOS 10.10 and 10.11
• Missing visual studio runtime requirement on some Windows 10 systems
• Possibly wrong slot output routing matrix when loading presets created prior to the introduction of this feature

v1.1.1967 - March 7th, 2021

Hotfix

• Polyphonic legato not working as intended

v1.1.1966 - March 5th, 2021

Added

• Legato transition threshold support for upcoming content
• Humanization settings for new instruments

Fixed

• A crash when increasing buffersize from small to large while playing
• A crash when hovering mouse on different presets in preset browser
• Improved behavior of file dialogs
• Using the "Disable MIR" option in VE Pro could cause unexpected behavior in mixer
• Excessive GUI logging causing lag for certain operations
• Clicking "info" buttons could cause multiple tabs to open in browser

v1.1.1954 - August 20th, 2020

Fixed

• A memory leak in the key information window
• A memory leak in insert FX editors
• Possible crash when adjusting sample start offset parameter while playing
• Sample start offset parameter showing the wrong value when switching between slots
• MIDI Dump: Dumping current keyswitches and controllers (through midi driver) didn't work properly for slots having keyswitch set to "white notes"
• Updating player software on Windows uninstalling any installed VSL NKS content

v1.1.1949 - August 7th, 2020

Added

• Missing mouseover help texts for various elements
• Slot Legato Mode "Off"

Improved

• Lowered RAM usage per player

Fixed

• An issue that could cause streaming to drop out on machines with many CPU cores
• An issue that could cause a crash when setting a default preset in Synchron Pianos
• Mixing stacked slots with and without legato behaving improperly. A new option in the SLOT Legato Mode option (Off) solves this.

v1.1.1939 - July 17th, 2020

Added

• Autohumanize entries for newer BBO: Brass products

Fixed

• Flaw in the behaviour of Velocity XFade (introduced with 1.1.1937)
• An issue that sometimes no enabled keyswitch was found on NKS keyboard

v1.1.1937 - July 7th, 2020

Added

• Feedback dialog upon application crash
• Link to online manuals in plugin header (?-Button)

Improved

• Visibility of Xfade mode in the PERFORM Tab

Fixed

• NKS keyswitches now latching when appropriate
• WIN Crash when scanning VST3 plug-in with Cubase 8.5

v1.1.1906 - May 25th, 2020

Fixed

• Some preset descriptions not showing up when hovering over preset name in browser
• Problem displaying presets using international characters
• WIN Problem displaying GUI in Digital Performer
• WIN GUI positioning in Digital Performer
• WIN Standalone: Broken channel loading

Fixed

• HotFix WIN: Possible Crash during update check on some systems

v1.1.1892 - May 13th, 2020

Added

• Output slot routing for multi-mic patches
• Windows HiDPI installers

Improved

• Plugin opening times
• Automated crash reporting
• macOS: GUI responsiveness in Cubase
• WIN: Switched to more modern folder selection dialogs

Fixed

• Handling of plugin scaling in multi-monitor setups with mixed resolutions
• Crash when using samplerate other than 44.1kHz and leaving project idle for a long time
• Hang when pressing "Refresh" on context menu below preset/patch browsers
• Crash when repeatedly opening mixer context menu
• Copy/paste clipboard issues
• Non-legato samples not shut down when triggering legato samples
• Buggy window resizing behavior in certain VST/VST3 hosts
• Sample start offset attack initialized to 0ms even though 5ms was displayed
• Custom names of Perform page sliders behaving irregularly when adding/removing sliders
• Last mixer channel title not updating under certain circumstances
• A possible crash in context menu handling
• Scaling of Standalone when loaded on a non-primary display
• Folder- and file-dialogs not respecting monitor scale settings
• Settings in the "Invert" insert effect not updating properly after bypass on/off.
• Playing range display bug when using stacked patches in a slot
• macOS: Graphical glitch occuring when hosted in Cubase
• macOS: Bad looks of Synchron Library Installer in Dark Mode
• WIN: An issue that could cause a crash when closing host app
• WIN: Mouse pointer position being off after tweaking knobs/spinboxes with display scaling

v1.1.1838 - March 6th, 2020

Added

• Slot real-time time-stretching

Improved

• Design of slot editor

Fixed

• Slot Editor not updating after copy/pasting slot settings
• Slot Editor not updating when switching between certain presets
• Impulse bypass not properly restored
• Crash when loading presets while playing
• (Rare) crash when hosted in Komplete Kontrol

v1.1.1780 - January 23rd, 2020

Improved

• Preset/Patch folder structures for all products

Fixed

• Possible crash when loading Standalone
• Possible crash in Standalone when starting automatic update
• Crash after 12.5h of playback at 48kHz (6.25h at 96kHz)
• Reverb output setting not recalled properly

v1.1.1765 - December 16th, 2019

Added

• Drag-n-drop of folders into database

Fixed

• A problem with handling international characters in content paths, causing plugin to crash on open

v1.1.1760 - December 9th, 2019

Improved

• GUI Browser stability

Added

• Possibility to label PERFORM page sliders

Fixed

• Presets were loaded incorrectly on PERFORM page
• "Auto Select Slot on keyswitch" turned off by default (Preferences)
• Bugs when updating GUI elements like keyboard
• Lower part of active keyboard range now shows correct color
• Windows Logging

v1.1.1744 - November 18th, 2019

Fixed

• Vel.XF parameter affecting voice xfade, gain and filter after voice has been released.

v1.1.1740 (macOS only) - November 13th, 2019

Fixed

• MacOS (AU) Plug-in window could crash host upon closing.

v1.1.1735 - October 29th, 2019

Improved

• Release Samples now follow humanize settings
• Visibility of browser tabs
• NKS Visibility of active dimension

Fixed

• A bug in the VST3 plugins, causing undefined behavior
• Potential crash when loading a preset
• Wrong keyboard colours if a white note keyswitch is present
• Wrong scaling of child windows on differently scaled monitors
• Load mixer settings from disk on blank instance didn't work
• Windows Junction Point paths not resolving for volume scan paths
• Windows Crashes when scanning plugin in Cubase 8.5 Vienna Symphonic Library

v1.1.1709 - October 8th, 2019

Added

• MacOS Catalina support
• Support for new library updates

v1.1.1702 - September 25th, 2019

Added

• Auto-humanization entries for English Horn
• File-system type detection in library installer

Improved

• behavior of Settings/Database
• Preset browser now always open with Factory presets open

Fixed

• Menu behavior behaving erratically in EQ Window
• Impulse not loading after changing buffersize in host (Cubase and certain other hosts)
• Root drive not allowed as library location (Windows)
• Library installer sometimes not showing 100% upon completing installation
• Presets with disabled cells not loading on midi activity when using standalone player

v1.1.1680 - July 30th, 2019

Added

• Standalone app

Improved

• MIDI Dump behaviour

Fixed

• Midi Dump CC not synchronized between instances

v1.1.1644 - July 2nd, 2019

Added

• Mixer Presets as separate browser tab
• Midi Dump

Improved

• Convolution backend
• Light Convolution sound
• Streaming optimization for Optane drives

v1.1.1621 - June 4th, 2019

Added

• Search function for Presets and Patches

Improved

• Added "Light Convolution" Setting for CPU friendly convolution (Preferences / Engine)
• Setting for Auto selecting played slot in Slot Editor
• Added copy / paste function for mixer EQs only
• Slot Editor: Pitch, Volume, and Pan settings are viewed with the correct values, that are influenced from parent slots' values
• Can see full Mixer Preset name on hover

Fixed

• Dimension Control not updating correctly when switching to another Dimension Control

v1.1.1559 - April 8th, 2019

Fixed

• GUI bug when removing Impulse Response Reverb in integrated mixer

Added

• Compatibility Improvements for Vienna Ensemble Pro 7

v1.1.1552 - April 3rd, 2019

Improved

• Faster saving speed
• Faster GUI creation / opening speed
• Responsiveness of the preset/patch browsers
• Added compression for data save, drastically reducing project sizes
• Smoothness of Velocity XFade
• Better logging

Fixed

• Installer not compatible with macOS Mojave dark mode
• VST3 "Dancing" parameters bug when loading certain presets
• Humanize tuning bug with certain release samples
• Bugs in slot copy/paste functionality
• User preset description not shown properly when hovering over preset name
• Windows/Cubase Possible hang when loading certain presets

Added

• Compatibility improvements for upcoming Vienna Ensemble Pro 7

v1.1.1491 - February 18th, 2019

Improved

• When in help mode, help area shows current preset description when mouse is hovering over the description field (below the Preset Browser)

Fixed

• User preset description not shown properly when hovering over preset name

v1.1.1469 - February 5th, 2019

Added

• "Enable all slots" now available in the context menu of the root slot

Fixed

• Occasional freeze when closing the plug-in or the session
• Channel FX not working after sample rate change
• Synchron Player showing too many control mapping parameters
• Windows Hang when closing Cubase

v1.1.1445 - January 9th, 2019

Fixed

• 'Modulation/Auto Gain' mixer effect didn't correctly work with the Sync Option "N8"

v1.1.1443 - January 8th, 2019

Added

• 'Modulation/Auto Gain' mixer effect for modulation of gain and stereo balance

Improved

• Performance when running at a sample rate higher than 44.1k

Fixed

• Potential crashes when switching preset
• Broken sync behavior in 'Modulation / Flanger/Chorus' and 'Modulation / Phaser' mixer effects
• Missing controller assignment context menu for master volume knob in top bar
• Learning of new parameter assignment from Control tab add button not working properly
• Rendering producing silence in FL Studio
• Crash when sending VST3 note expression events to plug-in

v1.1.1336 - November 27th, 2018

Fixed

• A possible crash when browsing MIDI loops (Synchron Power Drums)
• Windows VST2 plug-in editor showing blank in Cubase 10

v1.1.1327 - November 22nd, 2018

Improved

• Preset loading speeds

Added

• Support for Synchron Power Drums

v1.1.1275 - October 26th, 2018

Fixed

• When loading presets, the Dry/Wet Values of the impulse response module snapped to the default value.

v1.1.1268 - October 24th, 2018

Fixed

• Missing items in PERFORM slider target context menu
• PERFORM page not updating when loading certain presets
• Possible silent outputs when quickly switching between presets
• Potential crash when enabling/disabling mixer channels

Optimized

• FX Plug-in performance

v1.1.1226 - October 5th, 2018

Added

• New, improved Noise Gate effect module

Fixed

• potential crash when closing GUI
• Bug that could cause multi-microphone voices to have a filtered sound
• Broken delay and latency compensation for surround channels
• Slot Editor not showing current slot on first open
• Mixer channels not being reset to default settings when removing/adding mixer/aux channels

Improved

• Mixer can have up to 32 channels

v1.1.1172 - September 10th, 2018

Added

• Effects rack per mixer channel
• Mixer Aux Sends and Returns
• Key Range Adjustment and Extension (one octave up/down)

Fixed

• Possible Crash when switching presets
• Keyboard shortcuts not going through to host application when popup windows visible

Improved

• Playable keys visibility in parallel dimensions
• Key description visibility in parallel dimensions

v1.0.1141 - September 3rd, 2018

Fixed

• Highest Preload setting causing clicks with certain waves (in Preferences).

v1.0.1140 - August 31st, 2018

Added

• Separate LFE (mix) setting to surround panner

Fixed

• Possible crash when activating disabled slots
• Release controls not functional for some slots
• Hanging notes when stopping playback in certain hosts
• Slot Velocity XFade mode (global/on/off) not respected

v1.0.1118 - July 30th, 2018

Improved

• GUI opening speed
• Impulse parameter control map naming

Added

• Feature to synchronize slot colors when dimension name and level matches

Fixed

• Crash that could occur while simultaneously playing many notes
• Possible crash when using multiple disabled slots

v1.0.1080 - July 13th, 2018

Fixed

• Broken legato when using slot transpose functions
• GUI hang when double-clicking CPU meter icon
• (Rare) crash when playing back while loading
• An issue that could cause the wrong release velocity for repetition-legato notes
• Legato being triggered with a keyswitch placed close to a following note
• Drop-down menus not working in Ableton Live 10

Added

• Auto-Naming slots (can be deactivated in Preferences => Interface)
• "SYNCHRON-ized" Impulse Reverb plug-in to mixer channel (available with SYNHRON-ized products only!)

Improved

• Memory usage when using the same patch in several slots - Improved: Loading speed
• Streaming performance
• Memory handling

v1.0.1036 - June 19th, 2018

Fixed

• VelXFade On/Off can be learned on Perform Page
• Notes that were held down were released on Sustain Pedal up
• Fixed Hanging notes. When Playback stops, all Notes will receive a Note Off
• Occasional crashes on loading large sessions
• Freezes during offline bounces

Added

• Disable all slots (in Root Slot context menu)

Improved

• General Stability

v1.0.919 - May 23rd, 2018

Fixed

• Gain offset (6 dB louder)
• Voice Limit is now Global Voice Limit, not per Mic

Added

• Copy/Paste on root slot context menu
• Copy/Paste for PERFORM tab context menu (right-click on menu item)