Version X0.64 - 8/20/01

• VSTi: many bugfixes, error messages problems, screen/editor update problems, no sounds at all problems, softsynths crashing.
• Audio: faster processing
• Automation: dragging automation events will update the faders in the FX param editor if the editor is open. This only works when the song is stopped
• AWE32/64: clear, load and select WaveFx by name

Version X0.63 - 7/29/01

• VSTi: added a choice for buffer size of 1024 sample frames in Audio setup. Some VSTi softsynths will crash unless the buffer size is set to 1024.
• Automation: vector based visual editing of "automatable native Massiva plug-ins" (MFX's)
• Song: tracks from MIDI files can be added into the song. Select the track in Massiva where the first track in the MIDI file should be read into and then select Append from the file menu.
• MIDI keyboard: real-time playback/recording of Softsynths. This only works when the song is playing/recording.
• MIDI keyboard: MIDI led is now shown on the right/selected track
• Softsynhts: If more then one instance of the same softsynths is loaded into the song, they will be numbered
• Filter2 plug-in uploaded. Lowpass, highpass, bandpass, frequency and feedback params. The params of this plug-in can also be changed in real-time with Massiva X0.63
• Master plug-in uploaded. Gives real-time volume and pan changes of Softsynths and samples in Audio tracks. Req. Massiva X0.63
• Softsynths can now be added directly from the Output menu. Click the Output menu, select add and then the Softsynth. The output of the active track will be assigned to this Softsynth automatically

Version X0.62 - 6/18/01

• Mixer: select between mixer devices for playback and recording (if you have more than one soundcard)
• AudioSynth 003 Beta uploaded
• Song edit: cut-copy-paste parts with Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V or from menu
• Skins: the beginning of skin support in Massiva...starting with skinable plug-in windows
• Shortcut: Ctrl+Return plays song from first selected part
• Shortcut: Numpad 4 restarts the song from the position play last was pressed
• FX: delete FX also updates track FX on Softsynth tracks
• AudioSynth 005 uploaded
• Massiva is now Shareware
• Test version of Synthetic softsynth uploaded
• Time signature: 2-12 beats per measure
• Song edit: select snap resolution to beats or bars. Snap to beat/bar is used when setting left/right locatos and moving, copying and resizing parts.
• Mouse wheel: use the mouse wheel to scroll horizontally in Song edit, Part edit and Audio edit
• Tempo: lower limit set to 10 bpm
• FX faders: added a menu for showing the FX window and removing plug-ins
• Track layout added to the Track menu
• Support for skins on scrollbars
• SBLive!: Soundfont banks are saved with song
• Mixer: added scrollbar and skin support
• FX faders: position, size and visible state is saved with song
• FX faders: double-click caption bar to minimize/restore window
• MIDI faders: user definable MIDI faders. Saved with song.
• Skin1: first skin editor for X0.62. Create a "skin" folder in the massiva directory and unzip skin1.dll into it. Start Massiva, select Show + Customize + Global + Skin. To edit the skin, in Song edit, select Show + Edit skin to open the skin editor.

Version X0.61 - 2/27/01

• Softsynth tracks: VST instrument support. Use at own risk
• AudioSynth 002 Beta uploaded
• Softsynth tracks: Double-click a track to open the associated softsynth
• Audio recording: enabled. Didn't work in X060
• Groove Q: fixed bug

Version X0.60 - 2/11/01

• Audio setup: select Audio playback driver/card
• Audio setup: select number of playback buffers. Use more buffers for more stable playback
• Audio setup: option for pre-processing playback buffers for faster Play response time
• FX: enable/disable individual FX's
• Bank layout: added MSB/LSB mode
• VST 1.0: use at own risk
• FX: Save FX's with plug-in names and params to disk. It's like having a virtual multi FX processor. Example: If you often use Reverb + Fanger + RingMod on voice samples you can save this combination as "Voice FX". Then Voice FX can be added to a (new) song with a few clicks later...
• Compose Controllers: Sinus mode with modulation option
• New track mode: Softsynth. MIDI controlled Audio plug-in synths
• Win2k: MIDI playback.
• Audio recording: Select record driver/card
• Audio recording has now it's own "Enable" button, making it possible to record with non-duplex cards and to record with better quality on half-duplex cards.
• Uploaded the first beta of AudioSynth

Version X0.59 - 9/15/00

• Beep: parameters are now saved
• SBLive!: Select Presets by name. Bank layout must be SBLive!
• SBLive!: Load/Clear Soundfonts. Set bank layout to SBLive!, select a bank and click the Action button to load and clear Soundfonts

Version X0.58 - 8/7/00

• Audio recording with four modes: Add, replace, overdub and sample pool. Stereo, mono
• Audio playback: Samples can now be played back from anywhere in the middle (of the event), not only from the beginning.
• Audio: Resample with effects
• Groove: Fixed Groove quantize messing up pan on audio events
• Audio: added a column for FX. Click in the FX column to assign effects to sample's
• Audio: added a new Export window with the option to add time to the end of the song so that effects like Reverb and Delay are not cut off
• New mixer in the Song edit browser window. This should work with SBLive!, too. Right-click faders to mute on/off
• Audio export: added options for export with effects on/off and export all or just selected parts
• Audio: Recording control mixer. Right-click faders to select on/off

Version X0.57 - 4/2/00

• Export Audio to wav with effects in Song Edit
• Support for Win2000. Only Audio playback is supported right now, but there are plans for MIDI also. DirectMusic that is.
• RETURN key now doubles as play and stop
• MIDI faders: It's not possible to change the height of the window
• MIDI faders: Releasing the Pitch bend fader centers pitch
• Audio: Fwd/Rew in 16th instead of bars
• MIDI faders: Added a fader for modulation.
• Sync: improved MIDI clock sync. Added (missing) song position pointer message after (forward/rewind) and when jumping from ritgh to left locator in a loop
• The volume fader on Audio tracks can now be used as main volume for all the sample in a track. Dragging the fader all to the left (showing ---) will set volume to max (same as 127). This gives 3 levels of volume control: one on the track, one on each sample and one on each event.
• Audio: Disabled one-fx-only on samples.

Version X0.56 - 3/12/00

• Audio: Support for MFX Audio plug-ins. An Audio effect may contain any number of plug-ins. Assign effects to samples in the Audio editor. A "snare drum" may be assigned to FX1 (delay) or FX2 (delay + filter) etc, or no effect at all
• Audio: Audition now uses the right volume and pan
• Audio: Dragging the pan fader on a sample which isn't selected now updates the right events, not the events on the selected sample. Dragging the fader all to the left also resets pan on the events
• Audio: Enabled tripplets
• The visible state of the Transporter and the MIDI faders are saved on exit
• MIDI: Added a Pitch bend fader to the MIDI faders window. It's now possible to record Pitch bend in real-time with the mouse
• Track: Select between Default, GM, GS, AWE and User layouts for selecting bank/program.
• User programs: Added bank select modes GM, GX Normal, XG User, XG SFX and XG Drums

Version X0.55 - 12/11/99

• Part edit: changed layout of PC-keyboard play/record into tracker style. See the topic "keys" in the help file.
• Sysex: Removed dialog box showing the number of bytes in a sysex message when hitting play.
• Song edit: resize a part in both ends using mouse and the [alt] key

Version X0.54 - 11/21/99

• Audio: Fixed one looping Audio bug (still one more to go with FR samples...)
• Sync: MIDI clock - enables sync with Rebirth
• Help: Added Getting started with Audio
• Audio edit: individual volume and pan on audio events

Version X0.53 - 11/7/99

• Compose controllers: modulate excisting control change messages. Use this to fade patterns of previously composed or recorded control change messages. Modulate is only enabled in compose/fade
• AWE faders: Write Env1ToFilterCutoff to part didn't work properly - fixed
• Echo: avoid double notes
• Added shortcuts to editres: [Shift] + [1-6]
• Precount now also works with Audio
• Part edit: Simple sysex editor. Open the sysex editor from Part edit + Event menu + Insert sysex or Edit sysex

Version X0.52 - 10/19/99

• Audio edit: Edit order of samples with drag'n drop
• Audio edit: Undo replace sample
• Audio edit: keeps name of external edited sample
• Song edit: Split parts by [Alt] + Double-click
• Audio edit: Import samples from songs
• Song edit: Renamed locators to Areas (now all organizing is done in the Area browser)

Version X0.51 - 10/7/99

• Audio edit: Copy samples between tracks
• Audio status (on/off) is restored on start-up
• Audio: Finally fixed the "Floating point error"

Version X0.50 - 10/3/99

• Audio Edit: Added some popup-menues
• Create new User banks, see help
• Customize toolbar fonts
• Right click on the panel below the tracks in Song edit to select the number of columns to display. Same goes for Event list in Part edit and the panel below the samples in Audio edit.
• Audio edit: Use keys 1-9 to audition the first 9 samples or F5 to audition the selected sample
• Part edit: Move events with CTRL + arrow keys in step mode - notes
• Audio edit: Step mode
• Song edit: Invert selection
• Song edit: Favorite folders. Right click in directory list and select "Add to favorites" from menu
• Part edit: After deleting one or more notes, the following note will be selected automatically
• Audio edit: Export a single part to wav. in Audio edit, click on audio menu and select "Export part to wav..."
• Audio edit: Favorite folders. Right click in directory list and select "Add to favorites" from menu

Version X0.49 - 6/16/99

• Hotkeys. Control playback when Massiva is in the background. When Syncing Massiva to other apps or using Massiva for playing background music use CTRL + ALT + RETURN for play, CTRL + ALT + NUMPAD 0 or SPACE for stop, CTRL + ALT + HOME for resetting the song position, CTRL + ALT + NUMPAD 1 to go to the left locator and CTRL + ALT + NUMPAD 2 to go to the right locator
• Moved the AWE faders into Song edit
• Right click the AWE faders to insert current value or delete NRPN's from selected part
• Quick select AWE NRPN's in Part edit. Any AWE NRPN contained in the part will show up in the Quick select popup menu
• Song position pointer in the event list
• MIDI to Audio synchronization. Massiva now uses Audio / DirectSound as master clock. DirectSound timing isn't exactly rock solid, so if you're not using Audio, you should not enable Audio either.

Version X0.48 - 6/7/99

• Save song as wav (only the Audio part).
• Simple multimedia mixer (Master-, Mic-, CD-, MIDI- and Wave volume or whatever mixer devices you have on your PC)
• Unmix track by MIDI channel
• Real-time record of PC-keyboard in Part edit

Version X0.47 - 5/14/99

• Impoved audio edit: volume, pan, rename samples, drag & drop (add or replace) samples from the file browser. Playing samples from file will stop when play button is released.

Version X0.46 - 5/10/99

• Remix tracks
• Audio is starting to take shape, but there is still a lot of coding to do. Priorities on audio is know to make it more stable and support DirectX plug-ins. Right know it doesn't take much to bring it out of sync: starting another program, windows working in the background etc. However, the author knows how to fix this, it will just take some time. To play audio in Massiva, DirectSound must be installed. To sequence audio in Massiva, select a MIDI driver in audio setup which supports streaming. Most drivers do. But if one doesn't work, please try another. I will remove this "workaround" in the future.

Version X0.46 - 5/10/99

• Remix tracks
• Audio is starting to take shape, but there is still a lot of coding to do. Priorities on audio is know to make it more stable and support DirectX plug-ins. Right know it doesn't take much to bring it out of sync: starting another program, windows working in the background etc. However, the author knows how to fix this, it will just take some time. To play audio in Massiva, DirectSound must be installed. To sequence audio in Massiva, select a MIDI driver in audio setup which supports streaming. Most drivers do. But if one doesn't work, please try another. I will remove this "workaround" in the future.

Version X0.45 - 5/2/99

• Made it possible to un-mute tracks in Solo mode
• User defineable bank/program lists
• Use the PC keyboard as a music keyboard in Part edit for recording and playback
• Cut & paste ANY event in Part edit (not only notes)
• The column widths in the track window is now stored on exit
• Select program change > 127

Version X0.44 - 4/22/99

• Enable/disable MIDI devices
• Bug fix. Using MIDI channel Off and saving as a Standard MIDI file resulted in an invalid file
• Faders for Volume, Pan, Chorus and Reverb on each track
• Roland GS patch select

Version X0.43 - 4/3/99

• Edit position/time of all events, icluding control change, program change etc
• Step record Pitch bend
• Select events having the same status. Select all pitch bend events, all program change events etc
• Some improvements in Part edit

Version X0.42 - 3/29/99

• Improved real-time record with external MIDI devices
• Some internal improvements

Version X0.41 - 3/14/99

• Fixed the problem with opening the right MIDI input device on start-up (if the selected device wasn't the first item in the input device list)
• Display, edit and step record program change
• Controllers toolbar with quick selection of controllers etc
• Pitch bend support finally added
• Insert and edit sysex
• Minor improvements and bug fixes

Version X0.40 - 3/1/99

• MIDI Time Code. Sync Massiva to Audio multi-track recorders. Have been tested with Cool Edit PRO, Sonic Foundry ACID PRO using MIDI Yoke.

Version X0.39 - 2/22/99

• Fixed the problem with SoftSynths and MIDI devices using DirectX not working with X.037 and X.038 (Open MIDI out error)
• Step record control change messages
• View Sysex in Part edit