Lightningbeam v1.0.8-alpha
Pre-release
Pre-release
1.0.8-alpha:
Changes:
- Mobile/touch UI (experimental, testing only — not built or packaged for mobile yet; enabled on desktop with the LB_MOBILE_UI environment variable): work-in-progress phone-friendly interface with a vertical sliding-window pane stack you drag to reveal panes, a new-file intent picker, a selection inspector sheet, a keyboard-primary music surface, a Focus/Patch node editor, long-press context menus, a command palette, and landscape/orientation support
- Text layers: add and edit text with a chosen font; non-bundled fonts are embedded in the project so it renders on machines that lack them
- Animated GIF export (parallel palette encoding)
- Audio tag metadata (title, artist, album, genre, year, track, comment) is written into exports — ID3v2 for MP3, iTunes/MP4 atoms for AAC, Vorbis comments for FLAC, RIFF INFO for WAV — with sensible defaults (year, artist/album remembered between exports)
- Lossy WebP image export, so the quality control now actually applies
- SVG export now includes text layers, as real font-independent glyph outlines
- Crash recovery: the editor autosaves your work to a recovery file in the background and offers to restore it after an unclean shutdown
- Prompt to save unsaved changes before starting a new file, opening another, or quitting
- Faster saves on painting projects: unchanged raster frames are no longer re-encoded every save
Bugfixes:
- FLAC export previously wrote a WAV file with a .flac extension; it now encodes real (compressed) FLAC
- ProRes 422 export always failed; it now encodes 10-bit 4:2:2 correctly
- Fix VP8 video export with audio (muxed into WebM instead of an incompatible container)
- The WebP "Quality" slider had no effect
- Starting a new file now fully resets the audio engine, so instruments and voices from the previous project no longer linger
- Fix oscillator/synth phase drift over long playback