Toaster 0.4.16

The city, the campfire and the snow redrawn by day, scenes that get ready in half the time, and recording that can't be spoiled by a slow disk.

• Three scenes, redrawn by day.

  • The city: in brick, stucco, slate and sage, its windows glass with sills, striped awnings over the shops, OPEN signs on dark boards, the towers behind in blue glass or warm stone, and the rainy sky in banks of low cloud.
  • The campfire: its meadow in sunlit patches, with wildflowers in drifts and the earth worn bare round the fire.
  • The snow: a clear winter sky, so the white peaks and the cabin's snowy roof finally stand out.

  Their nights are as they were.

• Quicker first shows. The garden, the koi pond and Halloween get ready in a third to a half less time the first time after an update. On this PC: the garden 13.3 to 8.4 s, the koi 5.0 to 2.5 s, Halloween 14.4 to 7.3 s. Every scene's picture is the same as before, checked pixel by pixel.

• Sturdier recording (M). A slow or failing disk now stops a recording cleanly and keeps what was written, and a failed recording can't spill into the next one. Stopping always finishes. Drop clips (J) clean up after a broken recorder, say so, and switch off instead of jamming.

• Chord changes. The spectrogram and the dots camera mark a change of chord only when the chord really changes.

Windows: if you have 0.3.9 or later, Toaster offers this update by itself. Otherwise:

1. Download Toaster-0.4.16-win-x64.zip.
2. Unzip it anywhere and double-click Toaster.exe.
3. The first time, Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" because the app isn't signed. Click More info, then Run anyway.

In a browser: toaster.locust.lol, nothing to install.