GT Player Express

By DSound

 

Not Rated

 
2.5
  • ReWire Support: Allows connecting to ReWire applications
  • Track Recording: Allows recording of the processed or clean sound
  • VST Plug-In Functionality: GT Player is functional as a VST plugin which can be used in all VST host applications
  • Keyboard Transpose: MIDI notes can be triggered from computer keyboard with transpose possibility


2.3.1

  • 0-127/1-128 MIDI Program Change mapping fixed in preferences
  • Graphics for heavily smoothed fonts fixed
  • Smart Program load used also with MIDI program change

2.3

  • A selector for Track Player output is added to
  • Preferences/Audio
  • Faster loading: Programs are internally prepared before they are activated
  • Program change setting is correctly retrieved in preferences
  • MIDI mapping window rebuilt
    • Sorting by Effect position or controller number allowed in MIDI mapping window
    • Easy selection of controller added
    • Disabling MIDI controls by menu selection or by button click
  • Audio devices up to 16 channels supported, the selected
  • channels are stored in preferences now
  • Performance optimizations
  • Factory presets volume settings changed

2.2.5

  • RT Player keeps track on renamed or deleted plug-ins in programs
  • Several utilities added to program editor. User can clear whole program here etc.
  • An option to insert or remove effect slots added to Program Editor (RT only)
  • Two effects can be swapped in Program editor (Move Up, Move Down) (RT only)
  • MIDI tempo is selectable in MIDI Preferences

2.2.4

  • A bug when effects re-appeared when switching applications fixed
  • Spacebar has Play/Pause functionality, Esc key stops playback
  • Plugins appear correctly when loading program by F1 - F12 buttons
  • Graphic contents of knobs fixed

2.2.1

  • Import to all kinds of GT Player and RT Player PC Programs fixed
  • Problem, when restoring Factory Presets failed is fixed

2.2

  • Support for NIB based VST plugins
  • Support for Carbon Events based plugins
  • Support for WaveShell by Waves
  • Improved compatibility to certain VST instruments
  • Bundled plug-ins delivered as mach-o

2.1.5

  • Play/Pause/Stop buttons redesigned, play always starts playback, pause is moved to the STOP button.
  • Midi controllers for various devices allowed - MIDI map editor rebuilt. Now RT/GT Player keeps track on devices sending MIDI controls and includes these in stored MIDI map.
  • Midi THRU control changed
  • Focus on windows changed

2.1.3

  • New program icon, new Dock Tile
  • Playlist and Midi Map windows changed

2.1.2

  • Smarter Program load: Already loaded plug-ins are not reloaded, if used in another program
  • Effect window management improved:
    • Tile Windows with regards to position of racks
    • Bug when Rack on bottom moved occasionally to top fixed
    • Three rearrangement modes introduced: Never, After Program load and with every window open/close

2.1.b5

  • DSound programs created and included
  • Possibility to restore default programs
  • New help, ReadMe, FAQ and ReleaseNotes inside the app bundle accessible from Help menu
  • Effects open a bit slower to allow non-interrupted playback
  • Playlists selectable from main menu and more GUI changes

2.1.b2

  • Open folders menu added
  • Main menu changed
  • Edit Program - E, B, S buttons to set processing mode
  • Load/Unload DOES NOT bypass processing for a moment anymore

2.1.b1

  • Drag and drop to playlist
  • MIDI engine rebuilt

2.0.5

  • New management of effects and instruments
    • Searching in subfolders into unlimited depth
    • Files with the same name in various subfolders allowed
    • User name independent storage - programs can be transferred to another computer

2.0

  • Plugins management rebuilt:
  • There are four locations for VST plug-ins supported: User and Root Libraries, private location inside RT Player application and a folder selectable by user. The RT Player programs remember the selectable folder choice, so RT Player can find the proper effects later, although user could select another folder.
  • Processor saving mode extended (more properties changed in this mode)
  • Sound is turned OFF whenever accessing Audio Preferences pane to increase stability

1.7

  • Playlist & Sample rate behavior improved. Playlists are related to a certain sample rate (as in PC version), invalid files are unchecked. Track player jumps over these tracks
  • Bug when TrackPlayer repeated the last song instead of the whole playlist fixed
  • Many more opcodes for plug-ins supported - this should increase compatibility to certain plug-ins
  • GUI changes - new M-Audio logo, playlist and prefs window changed
  • Track player has selectable buffer size (preference pane added) allowing reliable CD playback
  • Toolbars on effect windows are ON by default. A new checkbox in Preferences/GUI is provided to change this option.

1.6

  • Playlist window has minimum bounds
  • Playlist controls changed for EXPRESS version
  • Installer available

1.5.5

  • Level Meters changed:
    • Standard range extended, overload range decreased
    • L and R indicators fixed, changing their color to RED when overloaded
  • General Preferences changed to operate immediately
  • More Opcodes for plug-ins requests supported (extends compatibility)

1.5.4

I had allowed setting of some parameters parallel to the audio thread. This was removed because of stability issues (when quitting RTPlayer sometimes crashed it)

  • Latency field in Audio Preferences fixed
  • MIDI Mapping window is always updated, it can be always opened, the edited parameter is automatically highlited and the bar on the right shows MIDI controller value.

1.5.3

  • The bug when effect window didn't redraw if RTPlayer was hidden->->->shown is fixed

1.5.2

  • Edit Program Name change
    • Program name is copied from Loaded Program to the Edit Program window, so clicking Store, the program, which was not edited (==copy of program) has the same name as the source program.
    • A disclosure triangle was added to the Edit Program window. It allows keep the window opened with a smaller size when browsing programs. Edit text is automatically selected with every program change. It makes renaming programs more comfortable (Especially PRO version, where chain editor buttons cover a significant area on the screen).
  • Files in VST folders are correctly filtered
  • REW function in TR Player scrolls backward thru multiple tracks as expected
  • Preferences and MIDI mapping added to OPTIONS button for PC similarity
  • Options popup menu in Track Player window is functional now
  • Close buttons in preferences, Playlist, MIDI mapping and Program edit windows removed -> Standard Mac behavior is updating everything at once, not clicking OK button as on PCs

1.5.1

  • MIDI Program change fully functional in two modes
  • A possibility to autosave programs when browsing added to preferences
  • TC|Works FX Machine (finally!!!) fully functional
  • Multiprocessor stability improved

1.5

  • Jaguar compatibility
  • Top Mode NONE is enabled, it means that the window groups are layered by mouse click
  • NOTE: All window behavior is ONE CLICK (no need to activate windows) achieved using window groups!!!
  • MIDI preferences pane shows names of inputs (e.g. Port A/ Port B for 2x2)
  • Bug when RT player sometimes crashes if quitting with processing off fixed
  • Bug when RT player crashes storing playlist for the first time
  • Hide/Show toolbars for all effect windows added

1.4.3

  • display shows always program in program mode
  • pause -> play behavior changed
  • Bug where VSTinstrument had to be the first plug-in in the chain is fixed
  • Effects without published name are reported by filename
  • check hooks in menus fixed
  • display when plugin has no parameters fixed
  • plugin without editors allowed, window with bypass+solo+presets buttons opened. Faders for each param. in future versions.

1.4.2

  • GUI changed, info about Mode, Repeat displayed.
  • Menu Bar commands enabled (open, store, edit...)
  • For Express, VSTi must be the first plugin followed by FX
  • RT Player allows only STEREO 16bit AIFF or CD track playback, smple rate must be the same as in preferences/audio/format

1.4.1

  • Interactive help. Holding command key there are detailed descriptions of GUI elements available.
  • Almost all the menu items have help tags attached.
  • Performance improvements - basic processor load without effects is approx. 3x lower.

1.2 - 1.4

  • VST instruments supported.
  • There is a possibility to open plugins in both MacOS X preferred locations, USER and ROOT Libraries.
  • Spark FX Machine supported, some GUI issues to be fixed
  • there is a folder com.dsound1.RTPlayer in ~/Library/Preferences, containing 3 files: Settings, Playlists and Programs. All XML, thus externally editable and exportable.
  • Last opened playlist is auto saved and auto loaded on startup.
  • GUI changed in main and playlist windows
  • There is a possibility to select display font and its size. Bounds not yet applied. 
 

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Bundled hardware and software package.

GT Player Express Demo Sounds Download Link

 

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