MIDIVisualizer 7.2

This is a minor release.

Features:

• Ability to have the background texture scrolling horizontally or vertically

Improvements:

• Enable Apple Silicon native support on macOS build (#145)

Fixes:

• Reset window size and position when restarting MIDIVisualizer if the window was minimized or crashed before (should help #148).

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MIDIVisualizer 7.1

This releases focused on adding many requested settings, don't forget to explore the settings menu or the command-line help to get a full list! A huge thanks to @PrimateCoder and @sreich for their contributions!

Features:

• Ability to hide some tracks or channels (#143)
• Color sets: ability to pick a new chromatic coloring mode (#130)
• Notes: define background textures for major and minor notes, border settings (thanks to #129) (#66, #88)
• Flashes: exposed new halo parameters, added texture flipbook customization (#12, #66, #124)
• Score: added lines width and color settings, new measure labels placement options
• Pedals: added a customization panel to load texture masks for each pedal, set padding and per-pedal color, and preview the result (#87)
• Wave: added a scrolling noise effect (#122)
• Particles: added a turbulence noise effect (#68)

Improvements:

• Color sets: support up to 12 sets (thanks to #130)
• Notes: improve alignment of falling notes with keyboard keys
• Improved performances when rendering the score background
• Keyboard: display outlines around all pressed keys (#140)
• Particles: added a specific panel for managing particle textures, with previews and additional options (clicking on a texture path in the list will show it in the system explorer)
• Playback settings have been grouped in a subcategory to help readability.
• All settings in the GUI now have a tooltip description
• Setting descriptions in the help message are now grouped by categories and sorted

Fixes:

• Configuration files could not be loaded on Ubuntu because of a parsing locale error (#133)
• Crash when exporting while in fullscreen on macOS (#142). The fix might have an effect on other GLFW-related errors.
• On Ubuntu, the file picker would sometimes remain open after validating a selection, partially blocking the application.

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MIDIVisualizer 7.0

Features:

• Added a new split mode for assigning notes to color sets: control points can be defined to assign ranges of keys to each set ; control points can change over time, allowing the user to define fine-grained set assignments (per-hand for instance) (#123)
• When restarting the application, ensure that the current state is restored (this covers the display and export settings and the paths to the current configuration & MIDI file/device) (#119, #120)
• In live-play, it is now possible to save a recorded session as a MIDI file (#112)
• MIDIVisualizer now creates a window that support transparency, meaning that it can be overlaid on top of other software while running (#111)

Improvements:

• Drag-and-drop support for MIDI and .ini files
• PNG export is now able to save multiple frames asynchronously, leading to faster exports (#101)
• New GUI style with a cleaner font, and the "lock colors" setting is now off by default (to help with #116 and similar issues)
• The current playback time is displayed in the main panel

Fixes:

• Active keys and flashes should now display accurately on some GPUs on Linux (#105, #115) (thanks to @Fabien-Chouteau for submitting this fix!)
• Improvements to the build compatibility (#125, #121, #118) (thanks to @MosesAlexander for submitting a related fix!)

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MIDIVisualizer 7.0(1)

This is a supplementary update to v7.0 which is fully compatible with it.

Bug fixes:

• Help and version messages were not displayed when the help/version argument was passed on the command line.
• Fixed an issue when exiting the application through the exit popup.

MIDIVisualizer 6.5

Features:

• It is now possible for notes to fade-out when they are close to the edge of the screen. The strength of the fade-out can be adjusted in the interface, and in the configuration file and command-line using the fadeout-notes parameter.

Improvements:

• The blur applied to particles and notes has been improved. Rectangular artifacts that could appear at some resolutions won't be visible anymore.
• Exporting to PNG with a transparent background can be improved by using the "Fix premultiply" option when exporting, colors should be more accurate in some software.

Fixes:

• Set colors were not applied correctly when playing live MIDI (#108). A huge thank to @todd-herbert for submitting this fix!
• When exporting PNG without a transparent background, an improper alpha channel was still exported and visible in some software.

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MIDIVisualizer 6.4

Improvements:

• Add the ability to define per-key color sets for notes (#100)

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MIDIVisualizer 6.3

New features:

• Horizontal scrolling is now available to have the score, notes, and effects move from right to left (#89)
• ProRes video export, with support for transparent background (#94)

Improvements:

• Post-roll time can now be customized when exporting (#91)

Bug fixes:

• Notes on different channels but for the same key could interact improperly (#90)
• Fixed a bug where setting the min/max keys to minors could introduce misaligned effects
• Sanitize note indices to properly handle non-compliant MIDI files (#93)
• Fixed a dependency minimum version issue on macOS (#95)

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MIDIVisualizer 6.2

Improvements

• You can now check if your build of MIDIVisualizer supports video export by running MIDIVisualizer --version
• Improved logging categories and display

Bug fixes:

• On older versions of FFMPEG, available codecs were not detected and export would fail (#85)
• Direct export could silently fail if the format requested was not supported by the build
• Direct export would not sanitize export path for video formats

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MIDIVisualizer 6.1

Improvements:

• MIDIVisualizer can now act as a virtual MIDI device and receive messages live (#83)
• Improved the location of the minor keys: they are now correctly offset (#62)
• When note colors are synchronized, a small popover clarifies it (#84)

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MIDIVisualizer 6.0

New features:

• Support for live play using a connected MIDI device is here! You can select the device to use in a new GUI panel and effects will be displayed live while you are playing. (#39, #64)
• While in live mode, you can pause and reset the timer to record extra notes or export a video of the performance.

Improvements:

• Added units where possible to clarify various effect parameters. (#81)
• Enabled all visual effects by default to improve discoverability (including pedals and wave).

Bug fixes:

• Fixed some erroneous export messages (follow-up to #60)
• Solved a shutdown crash where OpenGL calls were performed after the destruction of the context (#82).

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