Synchron Harp Player - Version History
Windows 10 and newer
macOS 10.14 and newer
v1.3.763 - October 23rd, 2024
Fixed
- Crash when opening Surround version
- Slow preset changes
- Windows: Vienna Helper tool opened in Command Line
- Cubase on Windows: Slow GUI closing / crash when closing the session when GUI was open
v 1.3.740 - October 14th, 2024
Fixed
- Ocasional crash after loading an empty (!) preset
- macOS: Ableton Live VST2 - Hang when loading a preset.
Improved:
- Digital Performer: Player reacts now to ALLSOUNDSOFF controller message
v1.3.657 - 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
v1.3.630 - July 18, 2024
Fixed:
- Harp volume too quiet on medium and low dynamics
v1.3.610 - July 2nd, 2024
Added
- Multicore processing
Fixed
- Possible crash when accessing a preset in a corrupted volume
- Audio bursts when using compressor, expander or limiter DSP modules
v1.3.471 - March 1st, 2024
Fixed
- High CPU load of algorithmic reverb
- High CPU load of room reverb FX DSP module
- High CPU load of velocity crossfade
- Delay DSP module would occasionally cause distorted signals
- Flickering numerical value of Velocity Controller
- Crash when setting the pedals to an unknown scale
- Opening the Player for the first time after installing content on a new drive could lead to a GUI crash
- Occasional crashes on exit
- Occasional wrong window size of standalone in multi-screen systems
- AAX: Potential hang when re-opening ProTools projects
- macOS: Poor performance on M1/M2 Ultra CPUs
- Win: Uninstall routine would not fully remove all files from system drive
- Win: Uninstall routine would not fully remove all files from system drive
Improved
- General performance on CPUs with high core counts
- Behavior of mouse cursor when dragging knob, spin and slider elements now more consistent
- Removed option to use buffer size 32 in standalone
- macOS: Player GUI no longer requires accessibility permission
Added
- New Master Bus on the 'MIX' page
v1.3.182 - June 16th, 2023
Fixed
- macOS: Plugin validation failing in Logic Pro X
Improved
- Reduced CPU load when triggering voices
v1.3.159 - May 31st, 2023
Fixed
- Occasional crashes related to an obsolete and now replaced part of the player engine
- Possible loss of mixer settings after making adjustments to sample rate or buffer size
- Wrong settings file handling (affecting Synchorn Player)
- Mangled text on GUI elements when operating certain audio parameters
- A rare crash upon exit
Improved
- Faster plug-in instantiation times
- Reduced CPU load
- Removed option to use buffer size 32 in Standalone
- macOS: Apple Silicon ready
v1.2.92 - February 13th, 2023
Fixed
- Possible delay when closing the plugin
- 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
v1.2.88 - December 13th, 2022
Fixed
- Recently saved user presets could not be opened
- Status of "Unload samples with mixer channels" settings not recalled, correctly
- Crash when moving FX plugins on AUX channels
- Occasional crash during plugin close
- Possible crash when having unlicensed volumes present
- Possible crash on startup when an older version of Vienna Assistant is installed
- Rare crash on preset loading
- Possible crash when checking plugin updates while the plugin is being closed
- Possible crash during installation and subsequently when opening in Logic
- 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: Prevent Vienna Assistant from opening when using AU plugin
- macOS: Correctly reset the Vienna Assistant popup during installation
- Win: Possible crash during installation
Improved
- Mouseovers
- Logging
- macOS: Prevent GUI from opening during installation in Vienna Assistant on systems older than Monterey
v1.2.79 - August 25th, 2022
Fixed
- 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
- 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
v1.2.64 - July 20th, 2022
Fixed
- MIDI Dump functionality, with minimal distance between keyswitches
- Rare crash involving keyswitches with multiple instances
- Crash when canceling save-as dialog in quit dialog
- Some typos in mouse-overs
- Background image of mixer FX windows
Added
- macOS: MIDI Driver (has been missing until now)
- Keyboard shortcuts for quit dialog in standalone, including mouse-overs
Removed
- Checking for updates in standalone, will be handled in Vienna Assistant
- Unintentional activation of Sound Variations (Studio One)
v1.2.54 - March 30th, 2022
Fixed
- Magenta colored popup menus in plug-in menus in Logic on Apple M1
Added
- Silent installer
March 17th, 2022
Changed
- Switch from eLicenser to iLok protection
- Attention: All newer versions are iLok only
v1.1.77 - March 8th, 2022
Fixed
- Open last playmode when relaunching GUI
- Don't act on keyswitches set to "None"
- Correct keyswitch symbols for octave -2 when using C3 as middle C
- Correctly recall scale settings on DAW project launch in VST3
- Only play one release sample after release of sustain pedal, when playing repetitions
- Crash when GUI restarts with mixer in FX or AUX state
Changed
- Disable Sound Variations
- Faster load time by using pre-defined blurred background and compiling/creating cache after installation
Added
- Allow DAW plugin to set a default preset, not only standalone version
- MIDI Dump functionality
v1.1.61 - January 24th, 2022
Hotfix
- Pedaling Bank Window showed wrong keyswitches
Fixed
- Correctly open latest used play mode when re-opening plugin GUI in DAW
- Blurred background image not created on the fly anymore -> accelerates launch
- Remember user's controller assignment choice for master volume
- Correctly update scale picker, after preset load, to reflect changes in keyswitch assignment
- Don't act on keyswitches set to None
Added
- Enable "Set default preset" functionality for plugins in DAW, to allow to start a new instance with user-defined defaults
v1.1.59 - January 4th, 2022
Fixed
- Crashes that occured when tweaking audio parameters in the DAW
- Keyswitch labels were not updated properly when changing Middle C in Settings
- Cosmetic bugs in Settings
- macOS: AU Plug-in sometimes not validating correctly in Logic Pro
v1.1.52 - December 21st, 2021
Fixed
- Pedaling auto-save functionality didn't work, also improved wording
- "Always use velocity controller for Bisbigliando" functionality was broken
- Backwards stepper going forward
- Wrong pedaling load when switching to first bank
- Wrong URL to online manual
Changed
- Smaller installer size (removed obsolete images)
- Smaller RAM footprint (made streaming pool size smaller)