Bitwig Studio 2.3

What's new in this version:

New:
- Phase-4 Synthesizer
- Instrument and FX Selector Devices
- Voice Stacking and Voice Stack Modulator
- Zplane Elastique time-stretching engines in three flavours
- Time-stretching mode: "Slice"
- Retro time-stretching mode: "Cyclic"
- Formant note expressions (time stretching modes Slice, Cyclic and Elastique Pro)
- Coloured indication of stretch amount between beat markers in audio editor (no color means neutral playback)
- Time Signature Changes
- Expanded Device View
- Preference to enable/disable updating of play-start marker from arranger selection
- Added a preference entry to reverse the direction when zoom-dragging the mouse
- Open Sound Control API for extensions

Improved:
- Updated English user guide with v2.3 features
- Oscilloscope: Trigger on Notes now follow wave cycles according to the pitch
- Add command for setting loop region to selected region (Ctrl/Cmd + L) to the menu
- Indexed Controls can now be mapped with the action "Cycle Next" and "Cycle Previous"
- Mapping an enumerated control (like a filter type or effect selector index) to a button/key will map the "Cycle Next" action by default
- Automation override gets turned on for a parameter when changing it even though there is no automation on the arranger and arranger is playing sometimes
- ControlSurfaceAPI: Device.isWindowOpen() works with BitwigStudio devices
- Added border to our windows which provide better contrast to the outside and indicate if the window has focus
- Show modulation mapping on modulation source mouse-over
- Allow to remove projects from recent projects list
- Order of collections in the package manager was random
- Remove the minimize button from any floating window
- Open/close of drum-pads and instrument/FX-layers now only require a single mouse click
- Automation is now updated when setting the play start marker of the transport (when stopped)
- Recording clips from clip launcher to arranger could sometimes record incorrectly when the start marker in the clip was not at time 0
- Preview player should stretch according to the long / short samples stretch preferences
- Add track color on the layered header when editing multiple audio layers in track view
- Add information to the manual about real time bouncing (eg when using hardware instruments and effects)
- If the audio engine has an error writing an audio file while recording show this to the user as a notification
- You can now choose between onsets and a fixed rate for stretch modes transient preservation
- ControlSurfaceAPI: add color setting
- Hold mode for the random modulator
- APC40 MKII: record toggles clip overdub and session toggles clip automation recording

Fixed:
- Recording audio on the arranger in a loop results in audio clips not having the duration of the loop
- Drum machine only has 127 slices while it could have 128
- track name in VST GUI window title not updated when moving VST to another track
- ControlSurfaceAPI: Device.hasSlot() was returning true only if the slot had chains
- Under certain circumstances an extra note will be played outside clip boundaries
- LFO phase/crushing problem when not using "retrigger"
- Send settings pre and post are lost when duplicating or copy/pasting a track
- On a retina screen, you can resize the dsp graph window bigger than available data frames
- Device that contains missing modulator causes app crash when clicking the modulator slot
- Pulse audio output not working by default on Ubuntu systems
- It should not be possible to slide the waveform under the first or last beat marker
- Activating the engine for one project while another is playing asks user and selecting no left engine spinning wheel
- ALSA audio backend may allow user to choose some buffer sizes that are not supported
- Using double height cells on the clip launcher in the mixer view caused files to be dropped to the wrong scene when dragging to a - track
- Onset analysis could fail randomly
- Selected beat markers don't appear selected while dragging
- Transpose expression zoom-scrollbar does not line up with timeline content by default in audio editor
- Run out of memory if a script writes lots of messages to the console window
- Controller API: Scrolling a bank by pages would not scroll by exactly one page if there was not a full page of items to show
- Steps Modulator doesn't work in "Loop off" mode, always loops
- MIDI Modulator has no Omni mode, which leads into trouble when used inside of a Instrument Selector Layer with MPE
- Crash when closing project while having meta clip selected
- Better timeline grid contrast
- Tags not saved when adding tag by pressing space bar instead of enter
- Controller help documentation does not open anymore for the Keylab scripts
- Default stretch mode on record remains on "Stretch"
- Scaling an audio clip by 50% or 200% could crash the engine and cause problems on undo or redo
- Program changes don't work for VST3 plugins
- 25 frames MTC only really sends 25 frames when being freshly selected
- Clicking on an invalid wav file in the browser stopped the browser preview player from being able to play any other selected files
- When editing device page for an instrument layer it is possible to map to a control in a layer chain mixer
- Regression since 2.2: Issues with the Arturia Keylab scripts
- LFO modulator in instrument selector sleeps if not being in focus
- Changing the EQ parameters using the mouse wheel creates thousands of undo steps
- Queued arranger playback jumps (scheduled by double clicking in the timeline ruler) sometimes do not fire
- A controller with no mappings should not show itself in the mapping browser
- ControlSurfaceAPI: clip notes don't show their full length
- Clips in arranger start numbering at 0 instead of 1
- Duplicating a device might not initialize polyphonic modulations properly in certain case
- Clip launcher clips could leave their loop region if the arranger loop button is on
- Crashed when hitting the escape key in the sample zone editor
- Minimizing a window may cause a crash on macOS High Sierra depending on selected display profile
- Saved scenes and clips are not played back with their configured tempo when previewing
- Arranger does not repaint a clip when it's displayed title changes
- Time selection in layered audio editor is always across all lanes when only single lanes are selected
- Deleting time in arranger note editor header area should affect clip timeline instead of clip content
- Raw mode's "Play Stop" value doesn't update in real time
- Wrong clip length for "return to arrangement" post recording action
- Timeline grid painting was slow when zoomed out and using a fixed-grid setting
- Painting of automation curves in GUI was inconsistent with engine playback
- Crash when trying to paint timeline background while closing project
- MIDI Running status was incorrect on Linux
- Various issues with MIDI Timecode
- When switching between projects while one is playing using the Jack backend unwanted audio could be output
- Jack server crashed sometimes when using Bitwig Studio
- A script that logged lots of information continuously could lock up the application
- Dragging the length of an audio event longer than the contained audio may delete parts of the following event
- Random engine crashes when switching audio system and devices in the audio preferences
- Floating windows and popup windows stopped the keyboard shortcuts for transport play, undo and redo to stop working
- When bouncing or recording audio embed time stretch information into the wav files so that they are always correctly time stretched when they are used in Bitwig Studio