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What's new in n-Track Studio v6.0

Main New Fatures

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 Microsft .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.
Reduced resources usage: n-Track 6.0 starts faster than v5.x, uses less memory and CPU

Performance Optimizations

Performance improvements in recording/playback at low latencies
Speedup of most destructive wave editing operations (copy, cut, silence, insert etc.)
Speedup generation of npk files used for displaying waveforms
Speedup in adding/removing tracks when using a multichannel soundcard and Live input processing on

Enhancements

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 inadvertedly 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/Prefrences/Paths dialog box
Transport buttons (Play, Rec etc.) can now have custom width defined in Skin.xml

Bugs fixed

Fixed volume envelopes not correctly latency-compensated when song has plugins with latency
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 erroneos 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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