BeatBake 1.0 (174)

Smoother editing

• Less repeated notation work when editing dense grooves.
• Worksheet cards and mixer controls refresh when their own settings change, keeping grid editing lighter.
• Better protection for quiet drum and click samples when the audio cache is under pressure.

BeatBake 1.0 (174). Requires Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later.

BeatBake 1.0 (173)

Spoken count-in, a new internal drum kit from your own recordings, and a louder mix with extra fader headroom. Includes 170 to 172.

BeatBake 1.0 (172) - test build

Louder recorded kit

• Raise the new Default kit and Ride Bell by 10 dB, just over three times build171's signal level, using the same boost across the recordings.
• Protect the combined output with a peak limiter so loud hits together stay within output range. Quieter sounds pass through without compression.
• Existing mixer settings, generated flam timing, MIDI and spoken voice gain are unchanged. Original recordings and prepared WAV files are untouched.

Please try the overall kit level, ghost snare, flams and loud combinations at your usual mixer settings.

Test build172. Customer release remains169.

BeatBake 1.0 (171) - test build

Updated internal drum kit

• New Default recordings for kick, snare, ghost snare, cross-stick, hi-hats, three toms, ride and crash, with consistent playback headroom and the recordings' relative dynamics preserved.
• The existing Ride Bell now has its own bundled recording. Cowbell keeps its existing sound.
• Snare and tom flams use the new single-hit recordings with the same generated grace stroke and timing. Instrument rows and MIDI mappings are unchanged.
• Open hi-hat keeps its recorded decay until a closed or pedal hi-hat chokes it.
• Non-voice count-in sounds use short mono buffers, keeping stereo recordings compatible and fast counts on time. Voice count-in is unchanged.

Please try the kit balance, ghost snare, snare/tom flams, open-hat choke and fast count-ins.

Test build171. The customer release remains169.

BeatBake 1.0 (170) - test build

Spoken count-in

• Choose Voice from the Count In sound menu for spoken English numbers. It follows the time signature and restarts at one for each count-in bar.
• At fast tempos the words shorten without raising their pitch, finishing before the next beat. Count-in length and the groove's starting beat stay unchanged.
• The first use briefly shows Voice… while your Mac prepares its English voice. If it is still preparing when you press Play, BeatBake explains that in the status message.
• Keep Internal Audio on to hear speech. MIDI-only count-ins use a rim click.

Automated app tests now render silently and block external MIDI output, preventing sudden loud drum sounds during checks.

Please try one and two bars at slow and fast tempos, odd time signatures, and stopping/restarting during the count-in.

This is test build170. The customer release remains169.

BeatBake 1.0 (169)

Smoother editing and visible grid counts

• Keep the counts in view. The counting strip stays visible while scrolling down through the instrument rows, and beat numbers, subdivisions and stickings stay aligned when scrolling sideways. Works in the main grid and Chart Builder's beat editor.
• Lighter scrolling and editing. The grid reuses more of its drawing work, and editing notes avoids rebuilding unrelated transport controls.
• Smoother playhead. The cursor glides across barlines. Play Only Bar keeps the cursor inside the chosen bar, and Pupil View stays within the selected playback range.
• Safer Reverse Bar. Ghost notes entered on 32nd and triplet grids are preserved. If a reversal would lose notes, stickings or part of a sustain, BeatBake leaves the groove intact and explains why.

BeatBake 1.0 (169). Requires Apple silicon and macOS 14 or later.

BeatBake 1.0 (167) - test build

Smoother editing and safer Reverse Bar

• Editing notes no longer rebuilds the transport controls. The grid reuses prepared note positions and triplet header labels during redraws.
• Reverse Bar keeps 32nd-note and triplet ghost notes intact. If a reversal would lose notes, stickings or part of a sustain, BeatBake leaves the groove intact and explains why.
• Play Only Bar keeps the notation cursor and Pupil View inside the chosen bar.

Validation: 305 local tests, two intentional skips, no failures. Live-versus-fresh transport rendering checked at 1100 and 1440 points, expanded and collapsed. The repeated grid screenshot is pixel-identical to the previous version. In the corrected local release benchmark, median full-window painting cost fell from about 12 ms to 6 ms. This measures CPU updates/layout/drawing submission, not display frame rate.

Please try painting and erasing dense grooves, switching grid modes, reversing ghost-note fills, and Play Only Bar in normal notation and Pupil View.

Private test build only. The customer release remains 161.

BeatBake 1.0 (165) — test build

Test build 165 (smoother grid: scrolling and editing). Test feed only; customers stay on 161.

BeatBake 1.0 (164) — test build

Test build 164 (playhead glides across barlines). Test feed only; customers stay on 161.

BeatBake 1.0 (161)

Drag, copy, paste, reverse and flip bars; right-click menus on bars and worksheet exercises; a notation Spacing slider; worksheet buttons; Save offers to update loaded presets and exercises; full backups with Restore and daily snapshots; Undo for worksheets and presets; shareable groove files, Open Recent and an example chart.