Disco XT Revisions

Version 7.9
2022 August
64bit Mac version.


Version 7.8.5
May 7, 2018.
-Improved sound quality of 'EWB4' time-stretch/tempo processor.
-Added new time-stretch/tempo processor 'HougTD' selectable by rightclicking deck 'Tempo' label.
-Added new tempo processor (FX) 'Accumulato'.
-Extended and improved the effect 'EW Bander'.
-Fixed issue where on newer macOS, transitions and tabs might be loaded in incorrect order after relaunch.
-Fixed issue with 'add silence' and 'add text track' menu selection.
-Improved quality of multiband dynamics processor (previously 'Multiband Limiter EQ' renamed to 'Multiband Dynamics' and added optional 'Expander' mode to it. (also updated the single-band dynamics effect)
-Added new effect 'Lo-Fi' which can be used to reduce audio quality and cause distortion (????).
-Simplified the older 'Du Mbeddy' effect, though that effect is not of usual interest.
-Change in EQ user interface, frequency knobs are now above the gain knobs.
-Fixed noise-pattern issue of 'reverb fade' audible mostly at low frequency input.
-Added a new playlist rearrange tool 'Rearrange by Numbers' selectable by right-clicking on a playlist and from the menu: Alter.
-Documentation of most new features as a PDF in the Disco XT download folder.


Version 7.8.1
January 19th 2018
-Fixed issue where tempo/pitch bypass at idle (unmodified) still processed the tempo/pitch causing artifacts and use of CPU.
-Fixed issue where transition effect dynamic pitch/tempo did not work properly.

Version 7.8
January 18th 2018

-User interface elements "Devices" can be resized to larger or smaller from preferences. (Note that the image files itself are not yet new and will have some blurring when enlarged).

-Fixed issue where song information in the song library was lost on every 1/4th re-opening of Disco XT due 1-line-of-code error.

-Size of menubar and menus can be edited (if using the menubar in window option) and fixes to the menubar accessing.

-Added new preferences for adjusting the tempo and rate, NOT the tempo DSP processors but the displays: able to have equal amount from the center of the slider and to display the altered speed as percentage 100% 90% etc instead of +/-.

-Mixer display can now show the BPM with two decimals (although the automatic BPM detection fails to provide BPM values as accurate).

-BPM and percentage displays for tempo and rate can be clicked and dragged to alter the value, as an alternative to adjusting using the tempo slider only.

-Delay effect displays as set to seconds mode instead of BPM synced delay (unclicking any of the BPM buttons).

-Added brightness and contrast adjustment option to "Content Colors" to make the user interface brighter or darker.

-Improved the RAM usage for temporary audio data storage and moved the preference to a new preferences page.

- "Top Folders" feature which is allows to group created playlists and/or folders to these top folders, as was thought the playlist list with folders is not enough if many playlists are created. Is located as a popup menu above the playlists list. Also allows to temporarily list playlists without folders as a single list and to sort playlists so that recently edited playlists are first. By right-clicking a playlist, the playlist can be moved to another top-folder.

-Fixed issue where playlists were deleted on exit if not edited in the session.

-Songs imported is saved to Disco XT song info file after import if more than 30 files were imported (otherwise on app quit).

-Transition editor effects: alt key to scroll the waveform view display position.

-Added "cancel" button to naming a new playlist or folder and added scrolling to the text field.

-Reduced opacity of file info/song info for clearer reading.

-Fixed issue where library tab did not keep selection when returning to a tab if browser was used to narrow the list to selected values.

-Improved BPM tap counter value saving so there is a text field and on mouse hover it gives the name of text to that text field.

-Effects (with dynamic points) can be saved to transition presets in transition editor, samples can also be saved to transition presets. (By right-clicking transition editor and selecting 'Save Preset')

-Made clear that transitions saved from the transition editor in main window cannot be edited in the transition presets window from edit menu.

-Filter effect resonance/Q control is high at top instead of bottom.

-Fixed issue where some menus "checked" or "disabled" states were not sometimes visible, unless the menubar of Disco XT inside the main window was used.

-Improvements and fixes to Transition editor effects which allows to add dynamic effect point params to transitions.

-Improved accuracy of BPM tap counter slightly.

-Clicks list shuffle function/device which allows the user to add values (the time the user pressed the button and time of previous press) and shuffle song lists using slight differences in these user defined values.

-Current position in transition rotation list can be changed from the transition selection menu in playback controls.

-Adding samples to play in transitions from main window transition editor, improved and corrected.

-Also other small fixes and improvements as I didn't care to write down the changes at all times.
