Fasoft n-Track Studio 6

FASoft has announced the release of n-Track Studio v6.0.

n-Track Studio now costs $64; owners of a previous version can upgrade for $34.

What’s new in n-Track Studio v6.0

New features:

Realtime crossfade between parts overlapped in timeline, crossfade option in timeline popup menu.
RMS Level meters, with RMS+Peak option and support for K-System metering. Allows for more accurate metering of audio loudness and enables monitoring using Bob Katz K-System, with presets for K-12, K-14 and K-20).
Signal Path View window (Shows a realtime representation of the routing of audio signals in the audio engine, enables to intuitively alter signal routing parameters and connections).
Support for Wave64 file format (Support for wave files that have length that exceeds the 2 Gb limitation of regular .wav files, using either .wav or .w64 extensions).
The program no longer requires Microsoft .NET to be installed and the 'Enable Microsoft .Net’ setting in Preferences/Option can be disabled so that n-Track will not use .NET even if it is installed on the computer (a few UI features will be then disabled such as the Navigator window).
Duplicate waveform dragging while holding down Windows key.
Per part volume knob in part properties box (that appears double clicking on waveform). Volume adjustment is visually to waveform.
Dragging a waveform beyond the end loops the wave file.
Angled edges of waveform frame, more angled when waveform end is open or looped.
Volume Envelopes: “Click adds node” toggle option to avoid inadvertently adding envelope nodes. When “Click adds node” is disabled “Add node” must be selected from popup menu.
Volume Envelopes: when “Click adds node” is disabled mouse drags envelope segments.
Volume Envelopes: set selected node to Maximum, Center, Minimum context menu commands.
Volume Envelopes: text entering of selected node value.
When skin doesn’t contain a button in multiple-buttons image files (e.g. ntrck4.bmp) program reverts missing button to default button in default skin image file.
Color of track name text in left track bar customizable via Skin dialog box.
Mixer Sliders customization based on slider type: “Track_Audio”, “Track_MIDI”, “Master”, “Aux”, “Group”, “Instrument”, “ReWire”, “Surround_Output” with “SendVolume” for send sliders (e.g. Slider0Track_AudioSendVolume.png, Slider0MasterDown.png, SliderHover0Track_MIDI.png, SliderDown0Instrument.png).
Track EQ window Minimize-Maximize button in place of “Show All EQ Controls” popup menu command.
Removed odd 'Create also an [Mp3/Wma/Ogg] version in Mixdown dialog box and moved output format selection in Save As file selection dialog box.
Toolbar button to toggle the 'Song Comments’ window.
“Open Containing Folder” option in audio file right click context menu.
Wave file sizes are now expressed in Gb, Mb or Kb depending on size instead of always Kb.
Multiple external wave editors can be defined in the Settings/Preferences/Paths dialog box.
Transport buttons (Play, Rec etc.) can now have custom width defined in Skin.xml.

Optimization:

Improved program startup time.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed Mixdown dialog box asking twice if you want to overwrite destination file.
Fixed mixer stripe selection toolbar and mixer buttons not updating when skin is changed.
Fixed crash when importing MIDI files that have erroneous or corrupt information (e.g. some files exported by Hydrogen drum machine).
Fixed 'Revert to last zoom’ button having no action after 'Zoom All’ command.
Fixed 'Voice-level activated recording’ sometimes getting stuck always recording. Now it also disable 'auto-scroll timeline’ (Ctrl+T).
Fixed graphic redraw problem on Windows Vista of lower portion of CD Burn window.
Fixed problem in CD Burn and Sampling Frequency Conversion window multiple-file file requester dialog box.

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