Jan 12 2024

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Happy new year! Here's a couple of minor features and fixes that I didn't bother to push until now.

• LZMA2 compressed MIDI support (.mid.xz, .mid.xz.xz, .mid.xz.xz.xz.xz.xz.xz.xz...)
• Customizable UI scale and font
• Disable UI option
• Experimental(!!!) support for MIDIs with more than 1 billion notes (up to around 2 billion)
• Fixed color loop, muting tracks, and hiding tracks
• Fixed window spawning offscreen if PFA was closed while minimized (stock PFA bug)
• Minor MIDI load progress dialog adjustments

HOTFIX: Actually show .xz files in the file pickers and fix a UI scale bug. Clearly, I use drag and drop too much.

Oct 6 2023 (again)

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Even more random fixes!

• Make updating state less of a cache nightmare (even faster crash points!)
• Fixed black track color bug (for real this time)
• Fix Discord on about dialog
• Fix seeking for the millionth time (I don't know if anyone noticed that it was broken)
• Seeking support for pitch bends and piano override

Oct 6 2023

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Just a few more minor tweaks.

• Native KDMAPI support
• Multithreaded state update (faster crash points!)
• UI restored to pre-DX12 look
• Free up more memory after the MIDI finishes loading (11GB -> 9GB after loading finishes on LBSFS 110m)

Oct 4 2023 (again)

Try the AVX2 binary first. If that doesn't work, use the SSE42 binary.

This release fixes support for older graphics devices (e.g. Intel HD4600) by reverting a shader model update.

Oct 4 2023

Try the AVX2 binary first. If that doesn't work, use the SSE42 binary.

Hey, it didn't take me a whole year to make another release this time! This release contains a couple of minor changes, both new and old.

• Completely removed the "Finalizing" step from MIDI loading
• Heavily reduce memory usage (19GB -> 11GB on LBSFS 110m)
• Update checker
• Fixed track colors getting corrupted on certain badly merged MIDIs
• Fixed color channels being in the wrong order for FFmpeg mode
• Fix loading MIDIs over 2GB (thanks @KaleidonKep99)
• Better patched winmm.dll check
• Fix notes jittering when they scroll (much more noticeable at low note speeds)
• Don't freeze when trying to load corrupt MIDIs

Dec 20 2022 (again)

Small bugfix update:

• Fixed background picker file extensions
• Fixed status size breaking after resizing window
• Fixed image backgrounds sometimes applying when they shouldn't

Dec 20 2022

Over a year after the last official release, here's a big update! Think of this as an early Christmas gift.

• DirectX 12-based renderer
• Improved memory usage and MIDI loading speed ("Finalizing" step is completely gone)
• Custom image background support
• Notes per second in nerd stats because AG89 kept asking
• Color loop option (prevents PFA from picking random track colors)
• Easy resolution changer (Menu bar -> View -> Set Window Size) for FFmpeg mode
• No more minimum resolution
• No more 1px keyboard gap
• Probably more stuff I forgot

D3D12 Test Build 3

This is the third (and probably final) pre-release build of the new DirectX 12 rendering backend, which improves performance by doing note outlines in a pixel shader and tweaks ImGui's appearance a bit.

DX12 Test Build 2

This is the second pre-release build of the new DirectX 12 rendering backend, which fixes the 5 million note limit and readds FFmpeg mode.

Current issues:

• Non-ASCII markers don't render properly
• GPU can't be manually selected
• Probably some more issues I forgot

DX12 Test Build 1

This is an initial pre-release build of the new DirectX 12 rendering backend.

Current issues:

• Only 5 million notes can be rendered at once
• FFmpeg mode doesn't work
• Non-ASCII markers don't render properly
• GPU can't be manually selected
• Probably some more issues I forgot

HOTFIX 1: Reduce D3D12 support requirements
HOTFIX 2: Fix upload buffer flags
HOTFIX 3: Fix Intel iGPU support