FL Studio 8.5 Public Beta 4!

Hi,

You can find FL Studio 8.5 (Beta 4) in your account (Fruity Edition & boxed users as well).

It will expire on the 20th of July and we’ll post a new on by then (not as copy protection but to make
sure people test/use the new beta’s and don’t complain about fixed bugs).

Here are the issues fixed between beta 3 & beta 4:

Additions:
• Updated to LAME 3.98.2.
• Improved playlist mouse wheel scrolling.
• Right-clicking the playlist clip focus button brings a list of either audio, automation or pattern clip sources.
• Improved “split mixer tracks” rendering filename management.
• Edison: new “natural weighting” & improved “natural scale” for better spectral display, as well as new (slow) high quality mode that brings both time & frequency accuracy (especially in natural scale mode).
• PEQ2, Wave Candy & FL now use natural weighting for their spectral display.
• Added note helping lines in piano roll when notes are played.
• Improve envelope editor’s envelope smoothing tool & decimation tool.
• New envelope filter tool in envelope editor.
• Wave Candy: improved scale feature, and added piano kb helper to spectral display.
• Fruity Reeverb 2: added option to process side.
• Improved mixer’s input “automap” feature (doesn’t map mono inputs, and doesn’t route them to master to avoid feedback).
• Updated scripting engine used by Edison scripts (should allow VB scripts now).
• Wrapper: now reports the sound device’s i/o latency to the plugin
• FPC: layer shows newly added item (i.e. scrolls to it)
• FL Keys: high notes are now always decayed on release, instead of released immediately

  Implemented & removed:

• Right-clicking playlist items no longer deletes them (hold halt to do so). (thrown, user complaints)
• Can now middle-click working area to “pan” plugin windows (ONLY plugins, as it’s designed for oversized VST’s). (thrown, too many annoyances)

  Bugfixes:

• Wave Candy: Auto visual mode state now properly restored, some other bugfixes.
• Slit pattern by channel now preserves pattern’s beats per bar setting.
• Fixed some common window-related weirdness (windows covering others while they shouldn’t, etc).
• Fixed troubles with snapping grid with specific PPQ settings.
• Fixed minor bug in envelope smoothing tool.
• Edison: fixed problem when reloading a state that had envelopes not mixed down.
• Fixed problem with FL’s hint bar sometimes not refreshing when loading things.

  DirectWave:

• added control to set maximum release time for sampled notes
• implemented new downloader interface, modeless
• click on empty area in scrollbar(s) to go to that position
• Updated CT dll
• Reduced max polyphony to 256 to reduce cpu usage when idle
• cache results of product code registration check to speed it up a bit
• implemented ilreg system
• improved filter speed
• only filter when filter text is at least 3 characters
• Implemented delete, move up and move down for items in manager’s list
• ToxicBio, Sawer and Morphine downloads can now also be downloaded from the selector (if the plugin is installed!)
• improved “last view” behaviour a little bit
• flush plugin if a sampled note didn’t reach silence
• all zone parameters are now changed for all selected zones, when “current selection” switch is on
• mod reset now works for multiple selected zones
• fixed the way a soundfont property was counted on import
• Overwrite existing wave files when sampling a vst (but only .wav files)
• make sure the samplerate is sent to the plugin before processing a vst plugin
• DW no longer steals keyboard focus, except for edit controls
• Loading a DWB file now tries to load a sample from file if it’s not in the DWB
• DWB files now save a reference to the file instead of the sample data when total recall is off
• fixed acm import – sample length wasn’t adjusted after conversion (was sometimes less than predicted)
• Fixed mouse position inaccuracy for pitch bend and mod sliders (multi tab)
• put critical section for sample preview slightly earlier

  Downloader:

• store location in global registry during installation, instead of just in local registry
• fixed some crashes when the downloader couldn’t find the download dll
• selection window now has minimum size
• fixed bug that caused downloads to start again after being finished
• fixed download location calculation in manager

  Wrapper:

• Ampersand was shown as a shortcut underline in the options window (info section)
• Fixed a bug loading Arturia AnalogFactory settings
• midi port changes after a plugin was dragged didn’t make the wrapper ask the host to enable midi input
• Added code to load shell plugins from different filename than when they were saved
• use different way to determine if a plugin is VST1 or not
• removed first check for value of FruityPlug in UpdateSize to make sure editor size is updated when loading the plugin fails
• don’t get parameter labels and value for shell plugin (waveshell) to prevent crash
• fixed buffer (effect version) now doesn’t zero output buffer and takes into account plugins without inputs
• fixed assumption that an effect would have inputs
• “onlysavefirstprogram” workaround for Blood Overdrive and Compressor is now used for all VST1 plugins

Here are the issues fixed between beta2 & beta 3:

• The browser preview mixer track can’t be set higher than 64.
• all my projects with zebra2 get noise on the zebra channel (like a full peak digital noise)
• Loading an older project with Fruity Delays in it, now the delays are out of sync.
• Every time when I open Riff (from tools or from Piano Roll) and turn off “show details” and then switch to “Levels” and turn “show details” back on.
• By the way the Parameter Automation record is a bug I tried all the non FLStudio VST I have and they do the same thing.
• janko keyboard input mode, the enter key also is translated, it’s a bit disturbing.
• BeepMap crashes
• just a small issue in the “Scale levels” tool: the tooltip of the new center knob says “Tension”.
• Load the New Stuff FLP file. Project starts to load. Gets to Fruity Multiband Compressor and crashes.
• garbage when last of the mixer/playlist icons was used
• very long hovering display in browser when a drive letter was added as an extra folder
• browser F5/F6 making it lose kb focus
• FSC score saving being broken (was actually saving them as MIDI files)
• display bug for piano roll note levels (I also made slide notes no more on top of normal notes)
• reeverb 2’s early reflection bug
• bug in envelope smoothing tool in Sytrus

Enjoy!

The Image-Line Team