Version 1.8.0 (released 17 February 2022)
This update is recommended for all Unify users. It includes significant enhancements and important bug fixes.
- New feature: Key Zones
- Patches can now optionally reference a "key zones" text file, which defines colored/named zones on the MIDI keyboard view in the GUI footer area.
- When zones are defined, ops-menus for MIDI and INST layers include a sub-menu to quickly set the layer key-range to match any named zone.
- New feature: Linked Media
- Patches can now have associated media links, which can reference local image files or web pages.
- Green border around thumbnail image indicates a local file link, blue border indicates a web link.
- Click on thumbnail to open linked content.
- New feature: INST layer titles automatically track name of the instrument preset
- Explicitly adding your own title disables this (edit back to blank to re-enable).
- Note not all third-party plug-ins report their current preset name to host.
- Unify itself and Guru Sampler now do report their current patch/SFZ name.
- Layer titles now update correctly when layers are rearranged/renumbered.
- New feature: Global Gain control
- Red slider next to thumbnail image, only active in stand-alone app.
- Allows reducing output level to avoid distortion due to overdriving audio hardware.
- Setting can be saved once the right level is found.
- New feature: Random patch button
- New "dice" icon between arrow buttons next to patch thumbnail image.
- Click to select a patch at random from among those currently displayed in Chooser (lower half of sidebar).
- Respects current Load-mode selection (menu at bottom-right corner of sidebar).
- Patch Browser changes
- All lists in Patch Selector (top half of sidebar) now update after you select a Library.
- All lists in Patch Selector display a "Clear" button when any items are selected.
- New "..." button next to Search text box allows selecting which fields are searched.
- "Genre" items have been removed. (They were unused, and there was no way to set the "genre" field.)
- Patch-load modes menu (bottom right of sidebar) now labeled "Mode", has an added "INST1 only" choice.
- Guru Sampler
- Numerous changes to SFZ file format, for compatibility with Bjoern's Sample Mapper.
- Several bugs fixed, mainly relating to mono/legato mode.
- Pump House
- Smoothing checkbox added.
- On by default: reduces DC clicks due to discontinuity between end of one cycle and start of next.
- Switch off to restore original, perfectly sample-accurate modulation.
- MIDIBox
- Added rising-edge triggered parameters corresponding to next/prev track and next/prev MIDI file.
- You can now use knobs and host-automation to select tracks and files.
- MIDI Filter
- New checkbox to filter out ALL note-events.
- Bundled plug-ins
- LoudMax updated to v1.4.1.
- All MOrgan plug-ins updated to latest versions.
- Smaller changes
- Channel pressure (aftertouch) can now be assigned to any macro knob.
- All pop-up (right-click) edit boxes now close automatically when you press Enter.
- Mouse wheel now works in CC sliders in ShowMIDI View.
- Ops menu for VST3 plug-ins includes "load .vstpreset" item.
- ShowMIDI keyboard-size and number of CC sliders are now remembered for future sessions.
- New setting to force embedded Unify layers to load with Master Effects layer enabled.
