Toontrack EZbass VST 1.1.8

1.1.7 is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the “My Products” area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 1.1.7 is required for the support of EZbass products released from this point forward (Q1 2023).

CHANGES
General

The Mac AAX now has native Apple silicon support.
BUG FIXES
Song Track

In the chord wheel, the current chord text was not possible to click to edit.
Fixed a potential crash, for example when loading a project or undoing/redoing, caused by rounding errors on the song track.
Grooves Tab

Changing resolution in Tap2Find could quantize notes past the end time, making the loop one bar too long (but not graphically).
Drums & Keys Tab

The “Show Similar Grooves” and “Search with Tap2Find” menu entries are now disabled if there would be no results because no grooves with the same time signature exist in the database. Before they would cause a crash in that case.
Audio Tracker

The Audio-MIDI mix slider only affected the volume of the audio part (bug introduced in version 1.1.5).

is now available to download using the Product Manager or from the “My Products” area in your Toontrack account. Please note that version 1.1.6 is required for the support of EZbass products released from this point forward (Q4 2022).

CHANGES
General

The highest playable note has been increased to A4. The grid editor has grown but shows “Above highest playable note in library” if the current sound library does not have the increased range.
BUG FIXES
General

If the plug-in received MIDI while the window was being opened for the first time in a session, it could crash.
Receiving duplicate MIDI notes could cause a crash.
Loading a project at the same time as the host was changing the plug-in parameters could potentially cause a crash.
On Windows, changing to a larger GUI scale would briefly show some artifacts in the upper left corner.
Sound Engine

Slides would sometimes not translate correctly when recorded/imported, in cases with polyphonic notes before the slide.
When importing MIDI (or playing incoming MIDI) that contained a hammer-on or pull-off when several other notes were playing, some notes would sometimes erroneously be interpreted as hammer-on/pull-off.
Bass Tab

On Mac, string animations did not look quite right at 70% scale.
Grooves Tab

Fixed some cases where the “Clear All” button wasn’t hidden when no filters were active.
Setting the velocity slider to something other than 0 and selecting a different groove would make the filter always say “+127 Velocity.”
Song Track

Recording into an existing MIDI block would change the song part to Verse.
While recording, moving the playhead before the beginning of the red block would graphically start a new block instead of extending the existing one.
“Replace MIDI” and certain other operations could cause notes to be reset to the default articulation.
The “Auto-Scroll” and “Restrict Recording to Loop Area” settings were never saved in preferences.
Edit Play Style

Adjusting Amount for a chord could in some cases remove all notes from the other parts of the MIDI block.

General

Added support for keyboard basses.
A splash screen is shown at startup of the standalone (to earlier show that something is happening). In a DAW, the same image is shown in the plug-in window the first time it is opened in a session (only for as long as the normal interface is being prepared to be shown, so this does not add any time but the window appears sooner).

Song Track

“Add Groove” has been renamed to “Add Standard Groove.”

Grooves Tab

Active modifiers no longer have their own row. All modifiers and filters now share the same “active filter” row and the clear button clears everything.

Settings

On Windows, there is now a setting to invert the horizontal scroll direction when shift+wheel is used.
“Restore MIDI Database” will now preserve user-added MIDI libraries and favorites (in libraries that are still available).

BUG FIXES

General

Changing libraries made incorrect latency get reported to the host (until a preset with a different latency was selected).
Quitting certain hosts when the VST 3 plug-in had been used could cause a crash.
On Windows, the VST 3 plug-in can now correctly be scaled by hosts in HiDPI mode and dragging (for example to the song track) should now work without any offsets.
On Windows, “Reset to Default Size and Scale” in the View menu did not always work as intended.
On Windows, if the host window was minimized and unminimized, the external windows (detached tabs) could in some cases pop up again, be blank and refuse to be closed.
In REAPER on Windows, it should now be possible to drag MIDI from DAW tracks (by holding ctrl+alt) directly to the plug-in.
On Windows, loading an auto-save would incorrectly treat it as a normal project and it would be added to the Open Recent menu.

Sound Engine

Legato trills did not work as expected if the legato key was pressed after the first Note On.
Non-legato slides as long as from E4 to A0 did not play back correctly from the song track.
If a project was saved while the legato control key (32) was pressed, the project would open with trilling automatically enabled.

Song Track

Improved error messages for failures to export as audio.
Dragging a muted song block from EZkeys to the EZbass song track would cause a crash.
When importing or recording MIDI to EZbass, trills including more than two notes would not translate correctly.
A song part type is now checked in the menu only if all selected blocks have the same type. Previously, no song part type was ever checked in the Edit menu, and the context menu only looked at the clicked block.
Stopping when count-in is active no longer rewinds the track.

Bass Tab

Turning an effect knob did not mark the current preset as modified.

Grooves Tab

The browser playhead was not always in the MIDI column (when visible), for example when the Matching column was shown for Tap2Find results.

Grid Editor

Hover effects in the grid editor were not updated during mouse wheel zooming.

Audio Tracker

The tempo detection has been improved.
AIFF files without file extension were not possible to load.
Switching between Time Ruler Seconds and Time Ruler Bars did not update the resolution button, and it now says just “Auto” if automatic is active when Time Ruler Seconds is chosen.
Trying to load broken/empty/unsupported audio files should no longer cause crashes.
In Studio One, it was not always possible to drag audio (of supported formats) from DAW tracks to the plug-in. (PreSonus Audioloop/Musicloop is still not supported.)

Standalone

On Windows, the “Adjust Scale” dialog (shown when the main window was dragged to a display with a different scale) had several graphical issues that have been fixed.