MiniHub 0.8.0 — pre-alpha

Still pre-alpha, still unsigned. The same two ways in: the installer, or the portable ZIP you unzip over the old folder. Settings, projects and recordings live outside the application folder, so upgrading over 0.7.0 keeps your work.

A round of work on the Patch Bay, a choice of what Play plays, and knobs that can be as fine as you need.

What Play plays

Listening back to a take also played the Audio Players it was recorded from. A Plays selector now sits beside the transport at the top: All, as before; Sequencer, the arrangement's clips without the Audio Players; or Players, the Audio Players without the clips. What is played into a track — its input, its monitoring, a recording — still sounds under Players, and no fader moves. An export prints what Play plays. Anything but All is drawn amber, so a Play that leaves half the project silent is never a mystery.

A range for each knob

A MiniLab knob sends 128 positions, and spread over a pitch shifter's 48 semitones each one is 0.38 of a semitone. A bound control now has a Range in the bindings bar: set the parameter in the plugin where the knob should start and press Low, where it should end and press High. The knob then sweeps only that part — −2 to +2 semitones makes each step 0.03. The two ends are shown in the plugin's own words; Full gives the whole parameter back.

The Patch Bay

• Move a cable. Drag the end of a cable off an input and drop it on another: it is plugged there, in one undo step. Where it cannot go, it stays where it was. Dropped on empty canvas, it is unplugged, as before.
• Select several nodes. Shift or Ctrl + click adds a node or takes it out; a drag on empty canvas draws a frame that takes every node it touches; dragging one selected node moves them all. Delete removes them, Ctrl+A selects everything, Escape nothing.
• A default order for the node list. A new node joins its own kind in the sidebar: VSTs first, then Audio Players, then Mixers and the rest. It is a default, not a sort — a node you drag elsewhere stays there, and the next of its kind follows it.

Plugin windows

A plugin drawn at one size now gets a window that keeps it, with no resizing border and no Maximize: stretched, the window showed the plugin in a corner and blank space beside it. And the bindings bar under a small plugin keeps a width it can be read at instead of shrinking to the plugin's.

Fixed

• The header keeps the controller's status readable in a narrow window: the words beside the tempo and the Plays selector drop first.

Known, and not fixed here

• Zoomed in, an audio take's waveform is an outline rather than the signal: it is drawn from 256 points for the whole file.
• The piano roll still has no rulers: no bar number and no position in time.
• Ctrl+C copies one node, even with several selected.

Verifying the download

SHA256SUMS.txt lists the two files of this version and nothing else.