Major Additions
For complete list of changes see the Detailed Changelog section below.
Virtual Mappings and Mapping Editing
Virtual output ports can now be used for virtual mappings, allowing for internal control over pipe’s parameters, without a physical loopback! MIDI mappings can also now be entered and editing manually via an Add/Edit dialog. This also allows mappings to be created when Midihub is offline.
Device Naming and USB Strings
Midihub’s USB Device name reported to the OS can now be set in Device → Settings. As some applications (e.g. MIDI Patchbay on macOS) may lose or not recognize configurations after device name changes, it is important to make note of or backup important set-ups before making name changes. On macOS you may have to remove the Midihub device from the Audio MIDI Setup app before the new name gets used.
Midihub will now report the USB port names set in the Default Port Names via USB to the host OS. At this time no OS is currently requesting the port names, but we hope to see that in the future.
14-bit LFO and S&H Waveform
LFOs can now output 14-bit values (MSB produced at CC id set in params, LSB at CC id + 32).
In addition to that, LFOs can now use Sample & Hold waveform - either using internal noise for sampling, or the incoming CC value (which, from among other things, can come from another LFO placed before it).
Dispatcher Algorithms
The Dispatcher pipe got some nice new algorithms, allowing for some new creative uses:
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Round Robin - the classic algorithm used by earlier versions.
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Random - a random free channel gets picked.
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Ping Pong - picks free channels in sequence going up and down the channel numbers.
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Chord - resets the initial channel to the first one every time all the notes are released.
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Chord Asc. - waits for Grace Period for all the notes, then produces them sorted from lowest to highest.
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Chord Desc. - same as above, except sorted from highest note to the lowest.
Also there’s a new Surplus Ch. parameter which can be used to send the notes which didn’t find a free slot to a dedicated channel.
Arpeggiator’s New Algorithms
Arpeggiator got two new algorithms - Entirely Up then Down and Entirely Down then Up - it’s simillar to Up and Down and Down and Up, except instead of repeating every octave, it goes through the set Octave Range all the way in its entirety and only then switches the direction.
Transform Improved
The Transform Pipe can now use the MIDI message’s Channel when processing, making it even more flexible.
Additionally, Transform Pipe now has a ‘Drop’ mode which enables using it as a specific Filter.
Dotted Times
All pipes that could be synced to tempo have received dotted time sync options.
Harmonizer Improved
The Harmonizer now has Play Root Note?, controlling whether to play a default +0 note, as well as Inversion parameter, allowing for easy chord inversion.
Sustain’s New Mode
Sustain Pipe got a new Sostenuto mode which holds only the notes that were playing at the time the Pedal On parameter was turned on.
UI Improvements
Dragging an existing pipe with mappings while holding down Ctrl+Shift or Alt+Shift will copy the mappings too. Dragging a leftmost pipe with Ctrl or Alt down will copy the entire pipeline, if Shift is held additionally, it will copy the mappings too.
Improved Drag & Drop operations in between multiple Editor’s instances.
Added Enable All, Disable All and Inverse options for all of the pipes with many checkboxes in their properties (like the ones to select channels to use).
Advanced USB Options
For Windows users with multiple Midihubs, some special options were added to allow overriding the USB VID and PID pair used by the Midihub device, to workaround a known Windows OS driver issue where it sets the same device name to all the connected Midihubs.
Detailed Changelog
- Virtual output pipes can now be used for modified internal MIDI mappings.
- Manual adding and editing of MIDI mappings for pipe parameters.
- Transform pipe’s output message’s channel handling made more flexible.
- Added ‘dotted’ sync times for LFO, Delay, Note Repeater, Arpeggiator and Fixed Note Length pipes.
- 2 new Arpeggiator algorithms: ‘Entirely Up Then Down’ and ‘Entirely Down Then Up’.
- Chord Grace Period argument added to Dispatcher.
- Sostenuto mode added to Sustain pipe.
- Added ‘Play Root Note?’ and ‘Inversion’ parameters to Harmonizer.
- Midihub can now be named in Device → Settings menu.
- Added USB Overrides in the Settings menu, meant for Windows OS users with multiple Midihubs.
- Fixed exclusive access to Midihub’s serial port on Linux.
- Copy MIDI mappings along with pipe when dragged and dropped with Alt/Ctrl + Shift.
- Dragging a Pipe outside of the main area will not get deleted if Alt or Ctrl is held, allowing dragging of pipes between Editor instances.
- Added Enable All, Disable All and Inverse options for all of the pipes with many checkboxes in their properties.
- MIDI monitor pane fixes when monitoring single byte MIDI messages.
- Patchstorage browser performance improved.
- Use mapped MIDI events on Virtual output ports for virtual mapping processing.
- Linear remap/rescale algorithm improved for pipes using ‘In Low’, ‘In High’, ‘Out Low’, ‘Out High’ parameters.
- Fixed Arpeggiator’s Up And Down and Down And Up algorithms skipping the base note when going to another octave.
- Drop mode added for Transform.
- Channel data now available as Value for Byte 1/2.
- Fix for LFO phase.
- 14-bit LFO mode.
- Sample & Hold LFO waveform.
- Algorithms and Surplus Channel parameters added to Dispatcher Pipe.
- Send Default Port Names of USB ports to the USB host.
- Virtual port processing fixes.
