v3.12.0 Beta 3

Always back up your songs before trying out the beta!

New features

• Copying and pasting notes between song tabs now also copies the custom instruments used by the selection.
• Updated the Note Block Pattern format to v2. Exported patterns now include the custom instrument definitions they use, allowing those instruments to be imported into another song automatically.
  • Beta 3 can still import older NBP v1 patterns.
  • Patterns exported as NBP v2 are not compatible with older Note Block Studio versions.
• Added an option to use a resource pack's sounds.json. This allows Note Block Studio to follow custom note block sound paths and pitch shifts defined by the pack.
• Added a mouse wheel scroll speed setting. This setting does not affect macOS trackpads.
• Added a "Fade tail velocity" option to MIDI import. The start and end velocity percentages of note tails can be adjusted independently.

Bugfixes and improvements

• Changed the NBS save format option to be set separately for each song tab.
• Fixed automatic update installation on Windows.
• Failed beta update downloads or installations now offer to open the GitHub Releases page for a manual download.
• Fixed audio files in paths containing UTF-8 characters not decoding on Windows.
• Fixed cut, copy, paste, delete and select all not working in text fields on macOS.
• Fixed maximizing and restoring the window on Linux.
• Fixed the four trumpet instruments not working in data pack export.
• Fixed WAV custom instruments and WAV reference audio only playing the first quarter of the file.
• Fixed negative reference audio offsets.
• Improved reference audio synchronization when seeking or changing its mute and solo state.
• Fixed non-resource-pack files appearing in the resource pack dropdown.
• Fixed layer names becoming blank or incorrect when adding, moving or removing layers.
• Fixed menus breaking when an instrument has an empty name.
• Fixed zero-length playback sections stopping playback.
• Fixed context menus and submenus overlapping or appearing outside the window near its edges.
• Fixed buttons activating when a mouse press began elsewhere and was released over the button.
• Fixed pitched notes appearing in the wrong piano position in Drop mode.
• Changed startup file copying to copy only user-editable bundled files.
• Removed outdated copied libraries from AppData so they cannot override the libraries bundled with the current Windows version.
• Improved system information included in logs on macOS and Linux.
• Updated the included demo songs to NBS v6.
• Updated the bundled desktop integration libraries. (Credit to @samuelvenable)
• Improved the macOS build preparation workflow with an automated Xcode project setup script.

Note for Linux users

• We cannot possibly extend our support to every Linux distro out there, but we will do our best to support as many as we can.
• Make sure to report any issues you encounter with your specific distro!
• Dependencies: KDE desktops require kdialog. Other desktop environments require zenity to be installed. You'll also need 7zip for some of the export functions to work.

macOS build

• Get the macOS build on TestFlight!