VoceVista Video 5.8.0
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This is a major update with many new features. The most prominent changes are the new 3D look of spectrogram, and the live playback of the built-in sound generator, which now also gives the Vowel Chart a more realistic voice.
But there are many other improvements as well, including a completely rewritten EGG display, as well as many performance enhancements and bug fixes.
New Features
Visual appearance of UI
- new modern icon set
- redesign piano keyboard
- improve visual design of visual-range slider on timeline
- remove line-color icons from context menus
- change appearance of toolbar sliders for Windows
improved spectrogram
- use relief shading of the spectrogram to give a 3D look
memory cache for audio content
- improve latency of the display during recording
Waveform improvements
- add horizontal center line to Waveform
Sound Generator
- add Live Playback to Sound Generator, so that all settings can be modified in real-time during playback
- editor for individual harmonics
- filter curve editor (in progress)
- use sound generator voice for Vowel Chart
Stereo support
- new edit commands “Split stereo to mono” and “Combine mono to stereo”
- fix switching display between left and right stereo channel
Data and Image Export
- add drop-down list of recently used folders to ImageExport and DataExport
- on Imageexport, add button to swap height and width for vertical export formats
Internationalization
- new supported UI languages
Automatic updates
- upgraded the automatic update framework on macOS to a more modern and reliable system
EGG support
- review EGG display for enhanced signal detection and stability
Fixes
- improved synchronization of spectrogram and spectrogram time scale
- improved consistency of rounding of cursor lines and scales
- add “hide” entries to context menus of long-term and short-term view
- improve pitch track with frequency filters
- improve mouse resolution on retina displays by using physical instead of logical pixels
- improve consistency of selection management across all views
- display planetary tones in Analysis View
- export planetary tones in Peak Table
- fix selection background for horizontal orientation
- fix crash when trying to export to folder without write permissions
- use proper unicode symbols for sharp and flat in note names, so that any font can be used
- fix crash after undoing recording
- fix committing the value of an edit control when clicking outside of it
- SetSelection dialog always sets playback pos
- fix crash when changing fundamental on Sound Generator when no file is open
- prevent app from saving into its own app folder