Noise Commander 3DS (Demo) changelog

Bugfixes before new GUI rewrite

Fixed

• Saving a project after creating a new one overwrites the previously loaded project
• Channel volume gets stuck when a face-command was active during project loading and does not reset
• Normalize function labeled incorrectly

Changed

• 16Bit stereo wav files are automatically converted to mono during load (8Bit not supported)

Added

• Ability to export wav file from factotum looper (Press the "E" button) The files are saved in "/nc/samples/looprenders"
• Normalize function in waveform-view, accessible by pressing Start
• General "Mic Hold" setting: Records full length without needing to hold the A button
• General "Mic Pre Secs" setting: Waits n seconds before recording starts

Fixed

• Microphone recording cannot be trimmed in waveform-view
• Pressing B pastes the clipboard in narrow-tracker-view mode when it should only paste a single cell
• Clearing a cell in the narrow-view with B+A does not clear the clipboard and thus behaves "sticky"

Changed

• Microphone recording is now being normalized

Fixed

• Freeze when creating a new project (ouch!)
• Some lane-settings are not reset when creating a new project (bus-nr, midi-channel, chance, ducktrigger)

Changed

• Added warning about possible file corruption when saved with temp-build to splash-screen and save function
• Attempting to load song saved with newer version now shows error dialog and aborts
• Temp-build is now tagged in file header
• Added missing patreon credits

Added

• Clipmatrix-hotkey: Y + C-Pad for paging up/down by 16 steps or jump to top/bottom (as in tracker)
• Color-highlighting for current row in clip-matrix view

Removed

• "Row"-selection mode in tracker was confusing, it is now disabled

Fixed

• Buses are not re-initialized when creating a new project
• X-Fade misbehaves when sample is 8Bit
• Truncating in waveform-view does not free sample memory
• Maximum slice-number is now 15 instead of 16

Added

• Column-header bus-color-coding in tracker-view and clipmatrix-view
• User may alter 16-color-palette by adding a "/nc/colors.cfg" file with one RGB value pair per line: (example:) 0 50 128
• The colors.cfg file can be created by pressing the "Sv Clr File" button in the general settings
• Can now edit instruments in browser (delete, rename, duplicate)
• "Auto Sync Selection" setting in browser: Selects instrument/sample when pressing a pad
• "Auto Assign" setting in browser: Assigns the selected sample to current instrument or the selected instrument to the current pad while browsing.
• Press X when in either the samples- or instrument-list to show the toggleable settings
• "Randomize values" function in tracker-menu: mutates existing values by given percentage
• Pressing X in splash-screen shows recent files
• "Duplicate Repeatedly" function in tracker-menu

Changed

• Wav-header loop points are now applied to instrument every time a sample-number is assigned
• Unique random names are assigned to microphone/looper recorded samlpes
• The browser settings "Preview", "Sync Selection" and "Auto Assign" are now persistent
• The last selection mode is now remembered ("cursor"/"row") in tracker/matrix view

Fixed

• Bus/master automation has no effect while a track is soloed
• Crash when truncating sample in waveform view

Removed

• "Insert Note Stops" function from tracker-menu (seemed broken, needs investigating)

0.1.6

Added

• Ability to set arbitary loop in/out points in waveform-view (press L/R respectively)
• "Linked Playback" option in Settings: Both decks start/stop at once when enabled
• "Keep Tempo" option in song loading dialog
• "Stylus Margin" setting for calibrating the selection range in the waveform view This is to avoid unselectable areas at the horizontal screen borders
• Sample list in browser can now copy samples from/to other deck or file system or delete samples (Use the Select button to show the sample-list and the Y button to cycle the deck)
• Can rename samples in sample list
• Can audition/preview deck-samples in sample list (press B to audition, toggle auto-preview in options)

Changed

• Now reading loop-points from smpl chunk in wav-header (tested with renoise)
• When a value is selected in the instrument-column, pressing B selects or "picks" that instrument

Fixed

• Waveform-view: Cannot select last sample with the cursor
• Waveform-view: No panning possible at maximum zoom level

Added

• "StdyClck" setting in tempo-dialog: Keeps clock running and causes START to wait for next bar to start playing

Changed

• Wav recording now creates a new file instead of appending to the previous

Fixed

• Value in master volume column may lead to incorrect instrument look-up and stopping of a sustained looping note
• Octave +/- buttons skipping a value making it impossible to play the -1 octave
• App force quits when pressing upload button and wifi is disabled
• Now a message suggests to enable Wifi
• Networking is re-initialized and does not fail after wifi is switched multiple times
• If you start the function too quickly after enableding wifi you'll see errors, just start it again

0.1.4

Changed

• Renamed "Gated" to "Hold" in piano and de-coupled the setting from drum pads. Hold is off per default.

Fixed

• Creating empty clip assigns instrument 255 (Can now insert new row number without losing instrument)
• Pad-view does not refresh instr labels when new row plays
• Capturing loop to song in Factotum looper always copies only one bar when set to two
• Set fade default value to 16 in Factotum looper to avoid pops at boundary
• Pitch envelope amount not applied when selecting instrument
• Tapping "Sub-Tab" button (2nd from left at bottom in drum-pad view) does not toggle to previous sub-tab
• Stopping of transport not transmitted when connected via UDS
• Current slice-number not stored in song-file and lost at reload

0.1.3

Added

• Ability to connect and synchronize multiple 3DS consoles via local "multiplayer" Wifi (UDS)
• Starting or re-starting playback on the host will also restart playback on the connected clients
• The switches are in the General Settings (press down and tap the "General" tab)
• Note that normal Wifi-features (Browser-upload) is not possible while UDS is active
• "Neutral Preview" setting in preferences causes browser to play samples at original rate (default: on)
• New Piano Buttons:
• "Gated" toggles whether lifting stops the note and sets the instrument playmode
• "Slide" allows pressing keys by sliding the stylus, else it needs to be lifted
• "Off" is a shortcut for stopping current sound and recording/inserting an note-off
• Columns for fold distortion enable, width and gain
• Tempo Dialog: left/right buttons nudge playhead by one step to adjust phase with external audio (e.g. other 3DS)
• REC toggle in Bus-FX view
• New Tracker/Bus-FX screen combo (press right three times) for inserting slider-automation visually

Changed

• Retrig-column uses slice-positions now (i.e. works in combination)
• Repeat mode in drum-view now uses last slice-position. Nice in combination with linear slice trigs
• Enabling Right-channel-click-track disables stereo-widening effect
• Piano key background color now changes while pressed
• Fold-width (distortion) range now allows better articulation
• Brought pitch envelope back and added columns for animation
• Motion recording ability for most sliders in Bus-FX screen
• "Mono to stereo" settings are now preserved

Fixed

• Shifting notes with A+Up intermittently not working
• Playback position is no longer shown in Waveform-view after pressing A
• Memory-alignment crash when resampling (only happened with -O3 i.e. in release)

Fixed

• Note-events on buses may cancel other note-lanes. Such insertion is no longer possible.

Added

• Pressing SELECT in drum pad screen toggles "Loop Row" setting
• "Tracker Row Increment" option in general settings: Advances the cursor by x rows after note insertion
• "Tracker Grid Snap" option in general settings: The cursor stays on grid when moving up or down

0.1.1

Added

• Option "Zip-Upload creates named folder" in general settings
• "SampleReduce" column in tracker master section for automation (set 0 to disable)
• "Reduce" toggle button in FX view (bottom right) acts as disable override

Changed

• Retrig-column no longer requires a note, values of 0 and 1 retrigger the current sample
• Renamed "Instrs" to "Palette" in drumpad pie-menu

Fixed

• Sample loop setting has no effect

Removed

• Hid pitch envelope in page3 of instrument settings temporarily until improved

Added

• WiFi-Midi support via DSMI and custom VST3 plugin made with Juce
• Supports note-, control-change and program-change events (no clock nor sysex)
• User needs to compile and install either DSMI or the Juce VST3 plugin
• When using DSMI you'll need to disable and enable midi in the settings to send a discovery signal
• When using the VST3, click on "Discover 3DS" and then press/tap "Discover VST3 Server" in NC
• It should find the right ip-address after a couple seconds. If not, the addresses can be manually be set in both sides
• Caveat: NC has a fixed audio latencty of 43ms. Midi out events are delayed by this amount to stay in sync
• Program changes are only sent when the value changed, equal values and are not sent repeatedly but only once
• A midi-channel 1-16 can now be selected for each lane (0 means disabled) and the setting persists within the song file
• Midi note-on events use the instrument volume value as velocity
• Five Midi CC lanes for sending messages to external gear (hidden by default, unhide in column menu B+DLeft in tracker view)
• New "midi.cfg" file allows configuring up to 10 CCs for up to 10 midi out devices via text
• The first five Midi CCs can be configured in the Midi Settings UI
• "Fill to clip length" option in tracker menu and "Fill" in set length dialog
• New "Delay" column in lane allows for "micro-timing", delays note and overwrites swing delay for the given note
• New "Retrig" column: Repeats note x times or if >= 0x20 then digits are amount and number of steps (use for triplets)
• New "BusNr" column to animate the bus-output assignment
• "Set content length" in tracker menu shows the assigned shortcut (B + D-Left)
• Rotary sliders for quick insertion of row-values (volume, probability, repeats etc.)
• 16 Levels screen: Each pad plays current instrument at different volume
• Repeat screen: Plays held pad repeatedly, pressing D-Pad while held changes frequency
• Notes screen: Each pad plays a fixed note (may offer different scales in the future here)
• "Dedupe All Instruments" entry in clip-matrix menu, collapses duplicate instruments to one
• New buttons for managing column visibility: Show used, all, none, default
• "Delete" menu entry in instrument palette, deletes instrument and clears palette slot
• Looper: "xfade" slider cross-fades between dry and wet
• Looper: "Synced" button starts recording at next bar and stops after 1 or 2 bars (according to "bars" setting)
• Looper: "bars" setting allows up to two bars if the tempo is greater or equal to 88 BPM, else only one bar (512k limit)
• Looper: "Automix" toggle sets dry when starting recording and wet when recording finishes
• Looper: "Overdub" toggle - does what you expect
• Looper: Momentary "Reverse" button
• Looper: Rate slider resets when releasing to allow performing a a tape stop effect of sorts
• Looper: "Capture" saves the loop sample into the song as new instrument (Disabled in Demo version)
• Renamed bottom right button label from "Select/Play" to "Silent" in pad/performance view for clarity
• Quantization slider in general settings for changing all lanes at once (temporary solution)

Changed

• Partly new color scheme, thanks to Keffu for submitting/suggesting
• New functions in help: Pressing X shows Shortcuts list for current upper view and pressing Y for current lower view
• Pressing Select in help view toggles "Auto-Show" mode which jumps to the upper screens shortcut list whenever help is opened
• Empty pads show black color in instrument palette, all but first are now initialized as empty
• Tracker lanes now show the phrase- and clip lengths at the bottom
• Copy/pasting single notes with the B-button in compact tracker-view now copies all row values
• Increasing phrase length also grows clip length but not the other way around (does not shrink)
• Column visibilities now persist, stored in file
• D-Pad functions now repeat when held in help view

Fixed

• Copy/paste operations exclude columns other than note in narrow/compact tracker view mode
• Note-stops turn into notes when transposing selection by holding B+C-Pad direction
• Menu no longer opens after inserting a note-stop with B + Y
• Waveform display now supports 8Bit samples

Removed

• "Set Lenghts" menu entry from clip-matrix menu as it seems broken

0.0.15

Added

• Pads show current instrument number in lower right corner
• New generic "set length" dialog for changing current phrase- and clip-lengths
• New tracker-view hotkey Y+X - shows "set phrase-length" dialog
• New clipmatrix-view hotkey Y+X - shows "set clip-length" dialog
• New tracker hotkey: Y + C-Pad for paging up/down by 16 steps or jump to top/bottom
• Large status-icon displays deck's playing, looping or stopped state
• B + D-Right as an alternative way to start an entire row in clipmatrix-view to double tapping A
• "Set Lengths" menu item in clipmatrix view assigns length to all twelve row-cells at once

Changed

• Assigning a pitch value to an instrument sets num-beats to zero, otherwise the pitch may change unexpectedly later
• Muting lane via B + Pad now works in tracker- and clipmatrix widgets too
• Swing amount is now per deck instead of global (current was disturbingly changing when loading new song)
• Volumes are adjusted when loading files from versions before 0.0.14 but the levels still sound quite different
• Piano octave-setting no longer affects drum pads
• Default volume is now 70 instead of 50
• Instrument number is shown in hex in instrument-view to be consistent with tracker columns
• Tracker-operations now work in clipmatrix too: shift cell selection w. A+up/down, select above/below w. X+up/down
• Select button now toggles "row-loop" mode in tracker view too

Fixed

• Pressing START sometimes plays random clip row - it should play selected clip row
• Cross-fading exports sample (forgot to un-comment)
• No instrument number inserted with linear slice notes menu-function
• Some instrument parameters are not reset when creating new project (loopEnabled)
• "Reload" and "Reload Seq" in project view causes app to freeze
• Pressing A to disable follow mode while deck is not playing leads to confusing behavior (cursor stays locked)

Removed

• Removed shortcuts which re-order lanes as they don't work as intended (A+D-Left/D-Right)
• Hid shortcuts from tracker/clipmatrix menus as they aren't functional
• Removed "Rotate" menu item from clipmatrix menu

0.0.14

Added

• New Bus- and Master lanes in tracker- and clipmatrix view for automating effects and volumes
• Fade-commands for lane/bus-volume and bus-filter for long fades can be accessed with B + D-UP/D-DOWN
• Available commands (upper case letter): fade (I)n, fade (O)ut, set (T)arget, slide (U)p, slide (D)own, (S)top
• The time-unit is amount of steps, so larger values result in longer fades and vice versa
• Only available on the lane-volume, bus-volume and bus-filter-cutoff columns (more to come)
• Filter type option in Bus view: State Variable Filter LP/BP/HP and Biquad LP/BP/HP
• Preliminary Filter-Cutoff Sine-LFO per bus with amount and rate setting
• CIA files can now be installed from the file browser (press A when selected)
• Extremely simple waveform-view with truncating function (removes everything before or after the cursor)
• Factotum: Looper with pitch-shifting and time-stretching as a master effect. Work in progress.
• Parameter-columns can now be dynamically shown or hidden via B + D-LEFT (opens a menu)
• Pitch sliding (portamento): When a note has no instrument value, it will slide to the new note
• Pitch envelope (WIP) in third page of instrument-view
• The time can be set via the PSlide instrument attribute and automated via the new "GL" tracker-column
• Added cross-fade button, produces seamless loop by fading the first half into the second
• Tracker: An entire row can now be deleted by holding B and pressing A twice when the note e column is active
• Log-widget (open with Select + DDOWN)
• Rotary stepped-mode (toggle w. DLEFT while holding) - snaps to coarse parameter values
• Euclidean / Tracker screen-combo to allow selecting tracks quickly (press D-Right three times to show)
• B + DPAD-Left allows to choose which columns are displayed per individual lane
• Clip-lengths in clip-launch-matrix view are now shown as hex values
• Decimal value is shown in status-line when user changes hex-values
• "Insert Note Stops" (to first call if doesn't hold a note') option in tracker menu - to stop notes of previous pattern
• "Apply mutes" option in clipmatrix-menu: Assigns clip zero to all muted lanes and unmutes the
• "Double/Halve content length" options to clipmatrix- and tracker menus

Changed

• Volume levels change! A square-law curve is now applied to make fades perceived more evenly for humans
• File browser: Directories can now be recursively copied or deleted
• Tracker: Follow is disabled when transport is stopped to avoid confusion (user could not move cursor)
• Tracker: Follow is now initially disabled (enable by pressing A)
• Tracker: Can now edit multiple values in selection mode
• Tracker: Value-insertion waits for button B release, to avoid unwanted insertions (less confusing)
• Tracker: Releasing B on empty cell inserts previous value except if user moved to a different column, then it's the 'default value
• Tracker: Pressing B + A now deletes the selected values as you would expect
• Tracker: Moving left when on the left most lane+column the cursor no longer wraps to the right-most column
• Tracker: Horizontal scrolling changed internally
• ClipMatrix: B + A clears selection or current cell like in tracker
• ClipMatrix: Replaced "Duplicate uniquely" with "Duplicate slots unique" and "Duplicate instr unique"
• Tracker/ClipMatrix: No longer pasting at cursor x-position if clipboard is from entire row but at 0 instead
• Drum pad selection reflects tracker-lane selection changes (and vice versa as before)
• Bus-number is displayed at top-right in drum pads

Fixed

• Send effects on bus 4 have no effect
• A loop end-point at the last frame produces a click because the interpolation reaches out of range
• It means that single cycle samples can now be used, useful for chip-tunes
• Moving a selection upwards would cause a freeze when moved beyond the first row
• Flickering playhead in tracker-view during playback
• Cannot insert value with B + C-Left (only C-Right worked)
• Visual glitch in selection drawing where the cell before the value had differnt color
• Entering and exiting the Rosalina menu freezes the console, due to framebuffer grab? (Still wonky but no more freezing)
• Interpolating in row-selection mode freezes the app, now does nothing instead (supports only column mode)
• Trig condition: x out of x triggers every time
• Http data leaks into file uploads via curl and corrupts them

0.0.13

Added

• Ability to start/stop playback by pressing the START button (play current row when in clipmatrix view)
• Doubled Master- and bus-effects so each deck has their own - uses more CPU
• Decks can be disabled in DJ-Mixer view to allow reducing CPU usage temporarily
• Decks are initially disabled until the user starts playack
• Rudimentary playlist functionality in twin-file browser
• Press X and choose "New Playlist" in menu
• With an *.nsm file highlighted, press X again and choose either "Copy" or "Add to Playlist"
• Hold A + C-Pad Up/Down to re-order items inside the playlist
• Press Select to cycle the panel-view-types: FILES -> PLAYLIST -> SAMPLES (not implemented yet)
• Press A to load a song to the current deck as usual
• Press B to exit back to files mode and show the "/nc/playlists" directory
• The current playlist selection is persists, remembered during next app launch
• Browser: Visual scroll-bars appear in long lists to indicate paging is possible (press L/R to page)
• Browser: Pressing Y toggles deck selection
• Browser: new functions: Dulicate, Rename, Create directory, Jump to opposite dir
• Browser: The operations above support multi-selection but currently directories cannot be deleted or copied
• Browser: Multiple rows can be selected by holding X and moving the circle-pad up/down
• Header shows current deck's' loaded file name now

Changed

• Doubled Master- and bus-effects so each deck has their own - uses more CPU
• Toggling display in clipmatrix has been re-assigned to the L button
• The right-hand status column now shows the currently playing row of track 1
• Audio init error now shows instructions on dumping DSP firmware to fix it
• Browser: Switching side with circle-pad left/right now
• Browser: Cursor now stays in position when paging with L/R fore more comfort
• Browser: Pressing A when a .lst (playlist) file is selected opens it (switching to PLAYLIST panel type)
• Browser: Copying large files is now slightly faster
• Browser: Shows warning when attempting to load song into deck which it playing and audible (crossfader not off)

Removed

• Opening a project or creating a project no longer auto-plays the deck (must press Start now)
• Start button no longer cycles pages in instrument view, use B+Circle pad instead.

Fixed

• DJMixer view: Both "Deck Gain" sliders affect only the selected deck instead of respective side

0.0.12

Added

• HTTP upload feature (button): User can drag a file into a served web-page to transfer it to the 3DS console
• zip-files are automatically extracted to /nc/samples after uploading
• Uploading via Firefox seems much slower than via Chrome
• Tracker + pads/piano screen combo, selectable by tapping D-PAD right twice
• Bus FX screen can be access by tapping D-PAD left twice
• New "Instrs" (palette ) mode - allows assigning instrument numbers to pads and record them to the current lane
• Different numbers can be assigned by holding the pad and pressing left/right on D-PAD
• Pressing Up on the D-PAD while holding a pad will start a drag session. A copy/swap/clone menu appears when dropping.
• Pressing D-Down while holding a pad will show a menu for overriding certain values:
• Pitch, Volume, Slice-number, sample-number and lane number

Changed

• Ther user can no longer insert notes into phrase number zero
• Allow sliding touch on piano to trigger different notes (needed to re-tap before)

Fixed

• Muting via B+Pad does not stop sample like PAD + Dpad-UP does

0.0.11

Added

• Current octave is displayed in right-side status column
• B + Y inserts a hard note off value (in contrast A + B changes the note length to current row)
• "Tune to C" button in instrument view - simple zero-crossing method, sometimes off by one note - not perfect
• Pop-up dialog for downloading demo-samples appears at startup if the samples directory is empty

Changed

• Changed initial reverb default value from 10 to 0
• Matrix view displays phrase numbers in hex now and coarse edits offsets by 16
• Renamed "Pattern Settings" screen to "Mono to Stereo Settings" and remove redundant controls
• Hid obsolete Grid-Editor view and replaced "Assign" button with "Randomize all samples" button
• Double tapping A shortcut for row-launching in clip-matrix view

Fixed

• Shifting single note row with A+DPAD UP/DOWN does not work without selection sometimes
• Row lengths don't update when inserting or removing row in matrix view
• Bus-numbers display range started at zero, now starts a one
• Notes are still played when erasing notes with L + Pad
• Clearing a pattern un-assigns samples from instruments
• Avoid handing reserved sample, pattern or instrument with zero index to the user (adjusted related functions in code)
• Wrong tempo value shown in tempo-dialog

0.0.10

Added

• Per-bus probability setting ("BChance" in Bus-FX view)
• Per-lane probability setting ("LnChance" in tracker bottome companion view)
• Per-note probability setting in tracker companion screen (Percentage column)
• If the first hex digit is zero then the second number represents a percentage (1=10%, 5=50% etc.)
• 0F ("First") is a one-off trigger, only fired when the phrase plays for the first time
• If the first hex digit is non-zero then the trigger occurs every nth out of x times (x being the second digit)
• e.g. "14" plays every first out of four times and so forth (the maximum is 8/8)
• Splash screen

Changed

• Removed automatic insertion of note length in tracker editor
• Files are now sorted alphabetically in browsers
• The phrase length now updates to the total length of the four euclideans whenever a value is changed
• Added dynamic length toggle ("Len") button to second page in euclidean view (off by default)
• When enabled, the clip length is set to the total euclidean length whenever a value is changed
• The "All", "Bus" and "Selected" lane mode buttons now behave as mutually exclusive radio buttons
• The Y-button now resets the selected parameter in instrument view
• A unique instrument is assigned to each lane's first clip when creating a new project
• Default template is created by code when no template.nsm file is found
• Follow- and narrow modes are now initially active by default in tracker view

Fixed

• Deleting notes by holding L+Pad was broken
• Reverb-tail never ends due to fixed-point math (replaced with float for fix)
• Instruments not duplicated by "Duplicate Uniquely" if instrument column is empty in matrix view
• Note with no volume value should play at full level but was quieter (64 instead of 0x64)