What’s up you lot of tune-enthused twiddlers. We’ve got a smashing new update for ya. Also, Discord passed 1k members? Cool.
BIG KAHUNAS
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
It’s finally supported. Enjoy. Or don’t, and yell at us.
ALL NEW RANDOMIZATION ABILITIES
You can now randomize Makers from the stage. You don’t even have to enter those little guys anymore. You can finally play SONGBOY without activating a single braincell.
How to reroll: simply press and hold the left face button (controller) or left mouse button (kbm) to randomize the selected Maker from the Stage.
Here's a quick clip of it too:
NEW TUTORIAL
Y’know, so people can actually learn how to play this behemoth. Oh, and you’ll get a taste of a new ‘Goals & Milestones’ system - this is the groundwork for a progression system we’re building soon.
SLIGHTLY LESS BIG KAHUNAS
VISUALS are BETTER
The game looks better across the board. Nice new levels, particle systems, typography. It’s one small leap towards a full visual rework of SONGBOY. Feast your eyes…
MAKERS are BETTER
That’s it, they’re just better. You’ll hear it. Oh you want specifics? Okay…
Tap now runs on a brand-new procedural pattern generator under the hood. You'll get a much wider variety of smarter material when generating Tap drum patterns.
Mouse support for randomizing individual Tap drum kit parts. I bet you didn’t even know you could do that.
Makers can share FX slot setting. Sounds boring? It actually isn’t. New checkbox under START > MASTERING > SLOTS SHARE FX. Allows Makers to share one FX page across slots instead of having individual pages. This setting is saved with a Song and resets on New Song. Why’s this cool? Because it sounds cool to switch slots rapidly when all your sounds and patterns share the same FX chain.
TALKBOX is BETTER
Autotune has been completely rewritten. It’s easier to get the T-Pain instant snap feeling.
Talkbox recording is no longer locked when changing BPM or Time Dilation. You can now record, overdub, and loop across different tempos and time dilations in any order.
USER SAMPLES are BETTER
Better user samples system. Imported sounds are now copied into a User Sounds folder that we manage, so you're much less likely to break your songs by moving or deleting a sample on disk. Potential duplicates are renamed automatically on import. Talkbox exports land here too. Strides towards a fully fleshed out, robust sampler.
Editable type (loop, one-shot, or both): you can now import a sample as a loop, a one-shot, or both, and switch between them after the fact in the User Sound Manager.
User samples now work in Boom (record in Talkbox, export, set it to a one-shot in the User Sound Manager, then pick it in Boom's "User Samples" category).
Audio import failures now trigger a notification so you know when a file didn't come in.
All The Rest
Visuals
Under the Wallpaper option in the Create menu, you can find Music Video mode.
New help system: you can toggle tooltips and input legend separately.
New fidget mode for kbm users
Sequencer face lift
Maker screens show you when they are muting, soloing, and randomizing.
New mute animation (cuter, sleepier).
New outline visual when highlighting a Maker.
Better Jam/Create mode menu layout.
New fonts in game.
Improved graphics settings.
Made top bar labels more clear.
Tweaked top-bar controls for better mouse feel.
Releasing a song shows a progress bar, and if something goes wrong, it will try to tell you what happened.
Bug fixes/QOL
Quilt, Voca, and Breaker (sample-based Makers) all got major stability updates.
Song recording/export: countdown to recording now supports both 4-bar and 8-bar phrases.
Fixed a bug when clicking to exit a Maker.
Fixed a panning bug: mouse users can click and drag above the volume slider to pan now.
Squashed a bug where automation was not initializing correctly on song load.
Fixed an audio level dip when activating Stage FX.
Fixed Talkbox buffer looping slowly going out of phase.
Fixed user sample loops played by Just Loop having the wrong duration.
Removing a sound's metadata no longer deletes the file from disk. If you want it gone, open the folder and delete it yourself.
Fixed Quilt/Voca/Breaker user samples not updating on reroll until exiting the Maker.