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Debra Midi Player 1.3.0

The biggest update yet: Debra now plays in Final Fantasy XIV — with in-game chat, zero-latency direct notes through the Hypnotoad plugin, a new Eorzea Night theme, and a melody-saving Phrase Fold for wide MIDIs.

Final Fantasy XIV support

  • New WWM / FFXIV selector in the title bar. Each game keeps its own process target, key layouts, and theme — switch any time.
  • Your keybinds, automatically: Debra reads your Performance keybinds straight from the game's KEYBIND.DAT (37 keys, C3–C6). No manual setup.
  • FFXIV-aware playback: notes are held for their duration (real sustain), chords become BMP-style rolls, with chord alignment, reduction, and adaptive voicing tuned for the game's one-note instrument.
  • New Eorzea Night theme with its own artwork — hero, sidebar, player corners, wallpaper. Each game now remembers the last theme you used for it.

FFXIV chat (Hypnotoad)

  • With the Hypnotoad Dalamud plugin (XIVLauncher), a chat panel appears under the player: pick Say / Yell / Shout / Party / FC and send — playback never pauses and never drops a note.
  • Start a message with / to send any game command; ↩ /r replies to the last /tell you received.
  • 📣 Now-playing announcements with a template ({title}, {duration}) — manual or Auto at every song start.
  • No plugin? The panel greys out and links you straight to the download page.

Direct notes — zero latency 🎹

  • When Hypnotoad is connected, notes are played inside the game: no keyboard input, works in the background, immune to keyboard layouts and focus issues.
  • True legato: notes ring for their musical length instead of being cut short for key release — melodies sing, staccato stays staccato. Chord rolls got a humanized strum too.
  • If the plugin disconnects mid-song, Debra falls back to keyboard keys note by note — the music never stops.
  • Your live MIDI keyboard also plays through the plugin, with real held notes.

Phrase Fold — save your melodies

  • New per-song toggle (player bar → More): when a MIDI is wider than the game's range, whole melodic lines shift by octaves as a unit — in-range notes follow their out-of-range neighbours, so the melody keeps its shape instead of collapsing note by note. Chords and accompaniment stay put.
  • Works with every mapping mode and is remembered per song, like octave and track.

Help & languages

  • The Help window got a facelift: themed cards with icons, bold lead-ins, and new sections covering the two games, FFXIV chat & direct notes, and Practice / Piano Academy.
  • Localization sweep: ~120 texts that had shipped in English are now properly translated in all 9 non-English languages, and every new feature is localized in all 10.

Fixes

  • Settings loading hardened: settings written by a newer version can no longer crash an older exe at startup ("The JSON value could not be converted…") — unknown values now fall back to defaults, and an unreadable settings file starts the app with defaults instead of failing (the old file is kept as settings.json.bad).
  • FFXIV sidebar: menu highlight no longer paints over the golden frame.
  • Theme-per-game settings corrupted by an earlier migration self-heal on launch.

Install / update

  1. On v1.1.2+: use the header Update button, or download DebraMidiPlayer-1.3.0-portable.zip from GitHub.
  2. Close Debra. Extract over your portable folder — same level as your current DebraMidiPlayer.exe, not into a new subfolder.
  3. Run DebraMidiPlayer.exe. Header should show v1.3.0.
    ⚠️ If you still have an old copy somewhere (an old folder, an old shortcut, or a leftover WhereWindsMeetMidiPlayer.exe), delete it — launching an old exe after using 1.3.0 crashed at startup on versions before this one.
  4. For FFXIV chat & direct notes: install Hypnotoad via XIVLauncher → Dalamud (repo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GiR-Zippo/Hypnotoad-Plugin/master/PluginDir/pluginmaster.json).
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