Synchron Organ Player - Version History

v1.3.676 - October 23rd, 2024

Fixed

• Crash when opening Surround version
• Slow preset changes
• Windows: Vienna Helper tool opened in Command Line
• Cubase unter Windows: Langsames Schließen der Benutzeroberfläche / Absturzursache beim Schließen einer Session, wenn die Benutzeroberfläche offen war

v 1.3.653 - October 14th, 2024

Fixed:

• macOS Ableton Live VST2: Hang when loading a preset.

Improved:

• Player reacts now to ALLSOUNDSOFF controller message

v1.3.584 - 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

v1.3.540 - July 2nd, 2024

Added

• Multicore processing

Fixed

• Crescendo banks: wrong section borders after trying to move them, broken MIDI learning and CC operation
• Combination Banks window: missing GUI update after pasting a bank into the current bank
• Current registration: missing update of stop buttons after pasting a new combination into the active combination button
• Possible crash when waves are missing
• Possible crash when ilok key is unplugged
• Possible crash when accessing a preset in a corrupted volume
• Audio bursts when using compressor, expander or limiter DSP modules

Changed

• Combination Banks window: resizable, to mitigate some displaying issues for users with multiple screens
• Controller Overview window: sorted alphabetically by parameter name

v1.3.400 - March 1st, 2024

Fixed

• High CPU load of algorithmic reverb
• High CPU load of room reverb FX DSP module
• Loading a Great Rieger Organ preset could clear the user's preferred default preset
• A change of preset during playback would cause the player voice count to get stuck
• Held notes would not stop after disabling stop
• Delay DSP module would occasionally cause distorted signals
• Semitone transposing inside the stop editor (e-Button) not correctly working
• Unsaved changes to the 'MIX' view could lead to a GUI crash
• Opening the Player for the first time after installing content on a new drive could lead to a GUI crash
• Triggering MIDI note 116 with a +1 octave coupler would lead to a crash
• Occasional crashes on exiting the Organ Player
• 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

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
• MIDI-Welcome-dialog is now movable and no longer shows after the user made a choice
• macOS: Player GUI no longer requires accessibility permission

Added

• New Master Bus on the 'MIX' page

v1.3.325 - January 12th, 2024

Hotfix

• Synchron Molzer Organ: Stop Oktav 32' causing hanging notes

v1.3.278 - January 10th, 2024

Fixed

• Wrong note release when playing the same key on different manuals with different MIDI channels
• Occasional wrong window size of standalone in multi-screen systems

v1.3.176 - August 28th, 2023

Fixed

• Occasional crashes related to a now obsolete and replaced part of the player engine
• Possible loss of mixer settings after making adjustments to sample rate or buffer size
• Copy-to-all-combinations & Copy-to-all-banks feature (manual coupler) did not work as intended
• A rare crash upon exit

Improved

• Faster plug-in instantiation times
• Reduced CPU load
• Reduced RAM-consumption
• Changing the MIDI-channel mapping for individual Werks no longer requires a restart of the host
• Removed option to use buffer size 32 in standalone
• macOS: Apple Silicon ready

v1.2.151 - January 30th, 2023

Fixed

• Rare missing sound output after plugin start
• Muting of output after disabling or enabling mixer channels leaves main volume untouched
• 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

v1.2.147 - December 13th, 2022

Fixed

• Recently saved user presets could not be opened
• Popup collision
• Crash when moving FX plugins on AUX channels
• Occasional installer crash
• 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 launchting 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

v1.2.137 - August 25th, 2022

Fixed

• Standalone App not showing complete version number
• GUI error when clicking stop selection area without loaded organ
• Obscure crash when loading combinations in multiple instances at the exact same time, e.g., via key-switches
• 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

Added

• Re-enable the MIDI setup dialog upon installation (in case "Don't show again" was selected)

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

v1.2.113 - June 22nd, 2022

Fixed

• Wrong association of a few stops into the Great Rieger Organ's spread mode

Added

• Support for multiple organs, with the organ selection widget (three pipes icon)
• Support for multi-microphone recordings
• Support for repetitions
• Allow samples to be loaded and unloaded together with their corresponding mixer channels, see option in settings.
• Show large picture of loaded organ when hovering the "Vienna Organ Player" logo

Changed

• Generic logo
• Room tone knob is only shown for organs featuring a room tone recording (Play page)
• For multi-mic organs, the SPACE parameter is synchronized across all mixer channels (Mix page)
• The "Mixer Output" menu is only available for single-mic organs (Stop Editor)

v1.2.45 - 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

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v1.1.206 - November 15th, 2021

Fixed

• Mac: Plugin GUI not showing on macOS Monterey

Improved

• General imorovements and stability updates

Changed

• Mac: Minimum macOS version is now 10.13

v1.1.200 - August 4th, 2021

Fixed

• Septime 1 1/7 sometimes not sounding after loading a preset

Changed

• Removed option to "Refresh" and "Show in Finder/Explorer" from factory presets' right-click menu

v1.1.196 - July 28th, 2021

Fixed

• Old presets not setting Stepper and Clear button keyswitches
• Septime 1 1/7 unnecessarily being recreated on every preset load
• Disable stop Septime 1 1/7 in presets saved prior to its introduction
• Two typos in stop names

v1.1.194 - July 23rd, 2021

Fixed

• Wrong MIDI manual association of new stop Septime 11/7. It now reacts to input of the Schwellwerk instead of the Solowerk
• Removed red border of new stop on first start of upgraded Organ Player
• Typo 38 Nasalquinte -> 38 Nasatquinte
• Correctly reset the font size of the werk header after double-clicking on a different header
• Correct mouse-over text of help button
• Correct mouse-over texts of new stop 141 Septime 11/7
• Make spelling of pipe length consistent (use slash / for fractal length, and foot symbol ’ )

v1.1.183 - July 2nd, 2021

Hotfix

• Display new stop - Septime 11 7' - correctly under any circumstances

v1.1.169 - June 30th, 2021

Added

• Combination stepper, assignable to keyswitch or program change
• Clear button to disable all stops, assignable to keyswitch or program change
• Ignored stops and manual couplers in combinations (Alt-Click to set to ignored state)
• Missing stop 141 Septime 11/7'
• Possibility to control the tremulant speed on PLAY page
• Possibility to use key velocity (Settings/Engine)
• Optional high-contrast font color for stop buttons (Settings/Interface)
• Global Release Voice Limit (Settings/Interface)
• Possibility to assign (and learn) controllers to stops
• Swiping for EDIT buttons
• Visual feedback when manually saving a combination
• Hover response for werk headers on the COMBINE page
• Always open GUI with last used page (PLAY, COMBINE or MIX)
• Various performance improvements

Fixed

• Sustain pedal was received on all MIDI Channels - now channel-aware
• Many minor fixes
• Some crashes