Imaginando has announced the release of version 1.8.0 of their Visual Synthesizer (VS) which is said to be a major update featuring key optimisations, including a more synchronised and performant render engine, improved video recording and enhanced audio-visual sync.
There are four new audio/MIDI demos, along with FLAC support and more flexible MIDI routing. Also, note range filter and an advanced new layer info panel.
THey’ve also introduced the Retro Riot expansion pack by Fernando Kopp, inspired by ’80s synthwave and ’90s arcade culture, and including glitchy textures, neon grids, pixel distortions and more.
The changes in detail are:
- New preset pack ‘Retro Riot’
- New four audio audio/MIDI demos
- New Mapping Manager panel
- New layer info panel
- Optimised rendering engine for a stability and performance
- Improved built-in recording for a better synchronisation between audio and video
- Improved audio recording with different buffer sizes and high sample rates (192k)
- Improved MIDI trigger settings with multi-channel and note range per layer
- Added font-size option to material editor
- Added setting to stop recording when player stops
- Added visual warning when FPS drops from the desired frame rate
- Added horizontal interaction in knob parameters
- Added FLAC audio files support
- Added audio to NDI stream
- Fixed visual tearing on windows
- Fixed audio file browser player playing after closing panel
- Fixed frozen frame when changing presets with video
- Fixed loading indicator not appearing when loading audio/midi
- Fixed VST plugin not being detected by DAW in Windows under random conditions
- Fixed previous patch button MIDI learn
- Fixed single file bank import
- Fixed NDI on AUv3
