MiniHub 0.9.0 — beta

The first beta. Still unsigned, and still 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 0.8.0 keeps your work.

0.9.0 rather than a new count from 0.1: the number keeps climbing, so nothing reads this beta as older than 0.8.0.

The Patch Bay's menus

A right-click on the empty canvas — or a double-click — now opens one list of every node type under its family, with a search field on top. Type mix and Enter: a Mixer, under the pointer. No more three levels of submenus.

The search finds your plugins too. Type val and the Valhallas are offered, their maker beside them; take one and a VST node is placed with that plugin already loaded. The plugin list waits for a search, so the menu stays short until you type.

• On a node: Open Plugin Window, Open Page, Duplicate (Ctrl+D), Copy, Disconnect All Cables, Delete. With several nodes selected it acts on all of them, and a right-click on a node that is not selected selects it first.
• On a cable: Disconnect, under the names of the two nodes it joins.
• Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V carry several nodes, pasted in the arrangement they were copied in. Cables are never copied.

Muting a track mutes its clips

A muted Sequencer track now silences its own clips and nothing else. An armed track that passes an Audio Player or a keyboard on to the output keeps passing it, and a MIDI track's instrument keeps sounding whatever else plays it. To leave the whole arrangement out, use Plays: Players.

Audio Players

• Back to the start, back five seconds, forward five seconds, around Play and Stop. Back stops at the start; forward goes round a looping player.
• Mute, which silences that player alone and keeps its level for when you bring it back. It is saved with the project.

The project's name, where it belongs

The top left of the window names the open project, with a • while it has unsaved changes. The name is the file's: a project renamed or copied in the Explorer opens under its new name, and saving under another name renames it.

A clock ruler you can read to the hundredth

The arrangement's time ruler measures time on its own, no longer stopping at the second: zoomed in, it reads tenths and hundredths of a second.

Fixed

• The Sequencer's right-click menu on a clip did nothing when an entry was chosen: it closed on the press, before the click reached it.
• The project name at the top stayed on "Untitled" for a project saved under another name.

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.
• In Task Manager, MiniHub.exe still calls itself Electron.

Verifying the download

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