MiniHub 0.9.2 — beta

A 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 0.9.0 keeps your work.

A new look

The whole window now wears One Ring's dark face, with its orange as the one accent and Geist throughout.

• The header is the title bar. File, Edit, View and Help sit in it, beside the transport's black readout, the time signature, Plays and Export. Space plays and stops on every page.
• A status bar names the controller, the audio engine and the audio device.
• The Patch Bay's cards say what each node holds: a VST chain's plugins, an Arpeggiator's mode and rate, a One Ring's scene, the Sequencer's tracks, and a strip per input with its own meter on a Mixer or a Morpher. Tab turns the canvas round to show the cables behind the cards.
• The Mixer, the Morpher and the VST node wear the faceplate of One Ring and the arpeggiator. The Mixer is a console, a strip per input with a pan knob, a fader, its level in dB and a MUTE key, then its master. The Morpher's steps are small faders under a rotary selector, the one playing lit. The VST node is a rack, one unit per plugin with an LED that says whether it is loading, ready or failed, and why.

Two layouts

Original, one page at a time, and Hybrid 1: the Sequencer above, and the Patch Bay or the page you open below, the height shared by a bar you drag. Chosen in the header or the View menu, and remembered.

The Sequencer

• The time signature is the project's, set beside the tempo, and it can change along the song from the ruler's menu. A track may count its own bars (polymetry); the ruler, the grid, Snap, the loop, the metronome and plugins all count the right bars.
• The loop counts bars, and keeps every note: nothing sticks and nothing goes missing at the wrap.
• Record: Overdub or Replace. Takes recorded over one another are shown in lanes, and any clip can be made inactive from a key on it.
• A MIDI take keeps the wheels, the knobs and the pedal played into it, drawn in the clip.
• A knob bound to a plugin parameter is recorded as automation on the armed track, and played back, export included.
• Audio clips fade as they do in Reaper: length, curve, the seven shapes and a low-pass fade, in the arrangement and in the Clip Editor.
• Solo on every track, and a pan on every track and every Mixer strip.
• + MIDI Track offers your instruments: take one and the track comes with its VST node, cabled and opened. Each track head opens the plugin it plays.
• The playhead is a grip: press either ruler to place it. Alt + wheel makes the selected track taller.
• The Sequencer's manual is in the application: Help > Sequencer Manual, or F1.

The Clip Editor

• A bar ruler over the piano roll, and the playhead read in bars and beats.
• A zoomed audio take is drawn from its samples, no longer from 256 points for the whole file.

The MiniLab and the instruments

• Shift + Loop, Stop, Play, Rec and Tap on the MiniLab 3 act as the header's buttons, and Tap sets the tempo.
• The arpeggiator has ON and HOLD: off, it passes notes on as played; Hold keeps them after the keys are let go.
• One Ring counts the project's bars, and a new generation's track can get an instrument of its own.
• Learn sets aside a parameter the plugin moves by itself, so arming Learn on a plugin that animates its own controls no longer grabs the wrong one.

Fixed

• An undo that takes away the node whose page is open now brings the Patch Bay back, instead of leaving the page on screen.
• A duplicated or pasted VST node loads its plugins at once; it came up empty until the project was reopened.
• A cable into a keyboard's MIDI In with no output chosen is said in the status bar, instead of going nowhere in silence.
• Changing the Morpher's number of steps redraws its steps.
• In Task Manager, MiniHub.exe calls itself MiniHub, not Electron.

Verifying the download

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