Pro Audio Support

Q:
Features, Firxes & Enhancments Digital Performer 2.71 : Features, Fixes & enhancements
 
A:
>A list of additions, features, and improvements follow below... in NO
>particular order:
>
>- Fixed a crash bug involving 24 bit recording and certain buffer sizes
>- Fixed "popping" when starting playback after changed solo state
>- Fixed processor usage meter flickering
>- Fixed circular connection detection when sends are involved (fixes crash
>bug with sends)
>- Pin edge editing to zero
>- Fixed a drawing glitch when audio Graphic Editor is hanging off the screen
>- Fixed a bug with switching active data types via insert (caused a problem
>with snapshots)
>- Fixed a problem where you would sometimes make a range selection when you
>were trying to make an object selection (or the other way around)
>- Fixed crash bug when remaping to send volume in Change Continuous Data
>- Fixed problems with tracks default patches when recording in overdub mode
>and cycling
>- Fixed a bug with MIDI remotes (automation would not play after using an
>attached control)
>- Fixed a bug with record button in mixing board not becoming active after
>changing input via popup menu
>- Fixed a problem with the Emphasis label in one of the continuous data
>windows
>- Fixed a crash bug when changing play states on record enabled tracks with
>"mute frees system resources" enabled
>- Fixed a bug that would cause sound bites to stop playing when long
>automation record passes were underway
>- Fixed a bug in the way window track matching works with window sets
>- Reassigning ins and out while waiting for external sync used to cause the
>audio driver to start playback. Not anymore
>- Fixed a couple bugs involving interactions between the pause and record
>buttons
>- Fixed a drawing glitch with loops in the drum editor
>- Made Set Soundbite Tempo work for multiple soundbite selections
>- Fixed crash bug doing an audio region operation to a soundbite selection
>with soundbites whose start sample is past end of file
>- Changed mono mode attenuation under Mas from 2.5 dB to 6 dB
>- Support for Mezzo v3.7. (Mezzo can find all the audio files that belong
>to a session)
>- Fixed a bug when hiding and showing level meters in the mixing board
>- Fixed a bug when copying to a clipping window
>- Fixed a bug with effect stairstep data and the spline tool in the Audio
>Graphic Editor
>- Fixed an update bug and a scrolling bug in the drum editor
>- Fixed the problem of not being able to open Audio Desk documents without
>selecting "Show All Readable Documents" first
>- Fixed an old bug in the MIDI Monitor window that would crash if you
>dragged the window when there were no devices
>- The drum pattern list is now updated after you use Load to import new
>patterns
>- Fixed a bug where the sample system would squawk about disconnected
>samplers
>- Fixed a bug with the drum editor note caches that could lead to
>unexpectedly erased notes
>- Fixed a longstanding bug where the barline connecting the treble and bass
>clefs of a 2-staff track would sometimes draw with a one-pixel offset to the
>right if Font Smoothing is turned on in the Appearance Mgr Control Panel
>- Fixed a bug exposed by odd meter changes which could yield labels like
>2|7|420 instead of 3|1
>- Fixed mouse tracking problem that showed up when the system was heavily
>loaded
>- Fixed crash bugs involving very short playback loops
>- Fixed a bug in the drum editor when painting polyrhythms with the pattern
>brush
>- Fixed a bug entering meas/beat/tick times and beat/tick durations in the
>scale time when the data display format is 3840 ticks/quarter note
>- Fixed a bug in the drum editor when getting info about FMS "all-cables"
>devices
>- Chunk List window now scrolls to show the play chunk whenever a new play
>chunk is selected
>- Fixed crashing bug writing markers when saving as Composer
>- Fixed step recording in the QuickScribe window
>- Fixed a bug that in 2.7 will not redraw events in background layers of the
>audio GE when the selection changes
>- Fixed a problem with "selected time range" style snapshots
>- Fixed a crash bug involving undoing fade operations
>- Fixed a DAE 5.0 bug that was causing effect presets to not restore on file
>open
>- Fixed a bug that would cause Polar's recording to get out of sync with DP
>after glitching
>- Fixed a graphics glitch after launching DAE
>- Changed DAE unloading behavior. Now, when you switch to MIDI Only or MOTU
>Audio System from DAE, the DAE driver is killed but DP stays connected to
>the running DAE app. This prevents crashes resulting from trying to unload
>and reload DAE without quitting and re-launching DP
>- Removed the "Buffer Size" command from the DAE configuration menu. It
>relied on being able to unloaded reload DAE, and would crash if copy
>protected plug-ins, most notably D-Verb, were installed
>- Fixed a crash bug when opening files displaying the audio monitor window
>that cause reconfiguration of the sample format
>- Fixed continuous data insertion with grid snap in Audio Graphic Editor
>- Fixed loop previewing in sound bite editor
>- Fixed numbering of virtual inputs (fixes problems with naming inputs in
>the Audio Names window)