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2.30.4 (2024.03.05)
What’s new
- Paste individual instrument groups: New buttons to copy and paste in Band Gui
Bug fixes
- Export stems modal in band gui couldn’t be closed
- For some instruments, pan settings were resetted after stopping playback
2.30.3 (2024.02.21)
What’s new
- Tritone substitutions primary relative chord graphic now labeled with text “∆-sub”
- Bass pattern “Funk”
- Button “Open Instrument Mixer” turns blue when mixer is open instead of showing piano icon
Bug fixes
- Progress bar stayed when already cached instruments were loaded
- Empty bars of TheoryTabs are trimmed (bug introduced 2024.02.17. The source of the bug was from a release of Hookpad from December 2023. However, we had not recompiled the TheoryTab player so the bug did not present until 2024.02.17)
2.30.2 (2024.02.17)
What’s new
- Tritone substitutions for secondary dominants. Use the chord inspector to swap a secondary dominant with its corresponding tritone substitution
2.30.1 (2024.02.13)
Bug fixes
- Songs with key changes crashed (bug introduced in 2.30.0)
- Last section flag couldn’t be deleted in rare cases
- Metronome was enabled on MIDI exports
2.30.0 (2024.02.12)
What’s new
- Automatic section colorization. Settings can be found in App Preferences → Section Colors
- Colorization now supports numeric and alphabetic section naming conventions.
- Improved buttons in measure GUI
Bug fixes
- User gets warned of lost unsaved changes before opening a song from disk, opening a demo song or recovering a song from an earlier save
- Couldn’t copy notes and chords into clipboard when lyrics editor was opened in rare cases
- Arrangement view crashed when no voices were selected in certain keys
2.29.1 (2024.01.29)
Bug fixes
- App settings for “Show Rewind Control” and “Recording Input Latency” are now remembered when App reloads
- Instruments playback is stereo again
2.29.0(2024.01.26)
What’s new
Instrument Mixer
- Added instrument mixer to band browser. New capabilities include:
- Better control over instrument volume with bigger fader
- Control group volume directly from instrument mixer
- Activate solo for individual instruments in band
- Pan: Position instruments from left to right in stereo panorama
- Delay: Adjust timing of instruments by up to 100ms
- Pitch: Detune drums by up to two octaves
- Deactivate all Solo: Deactivates all solo for both instruments and instrument groups
- Changed colors of all mute and solo buttons in Hookpad:
- Mute: Red
- Solo: Yellow
- Octave sliders for harmony and bass instruments now have a grid from -12 to 12 to account for every possible semitone in octave
- New button which switches between instrument browser and instrument mixer
Rhythm Patches
- Harmony: Piano : Funk
- Bass: Funk Syncopation
- Drums: Rock 4 On The Floor
Bug fixes
- Changed color of mute button in band browser to white in dark mode
- Fixed mp3/wav export for single instruments from band browser
- Buttons in band browser disapeared for smaller window with in Safari
- Guitars don’t struck chord again if chord is longer than on bar
2.28.6 (2024.01.03)
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug where in rare cases lyrics of older projects weren’t displayed in the correct position
- Chords on guitar fretboard using frets above 9th fret no longer crash Hookpad
- Muted strings on the guitar fretboard are now displayed correctly
2.28.5 (2023.12.20)
What’s new
- Lyrics editor now uses Ctrl/Cmd + Z to undo and Ctrl/Cmd + SHIFT + Z to redo written words when lyrics editor is focussed.
Bug fixes
Lyrics Editor
- Autoscroll function no longer hides Navbar and show Youtube field
- Lyrics from older projects are now displayed at the correct position in the music region
- Lyrics no longer disappear when skip notes are entered with “_” or “1”
- Lyrics with curly apostrophes are now displayed correctly in the note editor
- Song lyrics no longer show undefined in rare cases
- In rare cases the last section was missing
- In rare cases an extra section appeared at the end
Other fixes
- Lyrics export: Text content now wraps at page break
- Export: Sheet export no longer shows word “skip” under last note
- Some band templates didn’t work
- Erased export type from header of exported sheet music
2.28.4 (2023.11.25)
Bug fixes
- Lyrics editor: Punctuation after skip-note and punction after space before word don’t count as unique syllable anymore.
- Lyrics editor: Words with curly apostrophes are now syllabicated correctly.
2.28.3 (2023.11.22)
Bug fixes
- Fixing issue with loading songs containing empty lyrics sections sometimes causing Hookpad to crash
- Fix project scrolls navbar out of sight after opening lyrics editor
2.28.2 (2023.11.18)
Bug fixes
- Fix test config of hooktheory-auth
2.28.1 (2023.11.18)
Bug fixes
- Bump hooktheory-auth to 1.0.34 to fix issue with the header of the auth modal in dark mode
2.28.0 (2023.11.18)
What’s new
Improved lyrics editing and new lyrics export
- Lyrics editor now groups lyrics by section. Moving/editing/removing sections in the section editor will make corresponding edits to your lyrics.
- Lyrics editor now has a syllable counter that displays syllable counts for each line.
- Added buttons to control note skipping, as well as a note skip token in the lyrics UI to replace the underscore “_” and “3”. Use these tokens to create a single lyric over multiple notes.
- Added a new lyrics export to print out lyrics sheets for easy reading.
Bug fixes
- Serializing compressor and limiter on WAV and MP3 exports to fix compression artifacts that were occuring every 6 seconds or so due to OfflineContext refreshing.
- Clicking the text label on the WAV stem export radio button no longer toggles relative notation preference.
- WAV/MP3 export progress bar now properly reports which action is being performed (bouncing, encoding, zipping, compressing)
Under the hood
- Bump hooktheory-auth to 1.0.33
2.27.0 (2023.11.07)
What’s new
New WAV and MP3 export
- Migrated export technology to WebAudio OfflineContext. New capabilities include:
- Exports are now audio glitch-free. Data is recorded when browser resources are available rather than in real time, e.g., exports are now “bounced” rather than “recorded.”
- For most projects, this means exports happen 2-10X faster than before!
- WAV and MP3 export now support track stems! Choose “Track stems” option to export each track type (e.g., lead1, harmony, bass, drums) to separate files at the same time!
- Instrument stem export now available! From the band browser, click the export icon next to the MIDI clip icon to export a single instrument from the current selection to WAV or MP3.
New Guitar instrument
- Added a guitar instrument that shows chords in relative notation as you add them to your project and during playback.
Other updates
- Added an option to display timestamps in section markers. Enable with Settings → App Preferences → Show Timestamps
- Added Sign in with Apple
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug causing exported sheet music where lyrics contained punctuation directly to the left of some words to fail (e.g. “Hello .now”)