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• Focus Loop: Loop a selection until stopped
  • Shift + Play now loops the selected section of a pattern until playback is stopped
  • If 1 bar is selected, playback now starts at the selected bar
• New 10th Anniversary UI theme
  • Subtle changes to the original theme to align with the 10th anniversary Mini aesthetic and increase contrast
  •  Change themes in Config > Display

• The project scale affected the preview sound in the Sample Editor
• Live preview in Rec mode was not functioning with the external clock
• Switching patterns using the Pattern and left/right arrows displayed the previous pattern number in the footer and header
• MIDI Note Velocity jumped to 100% when playing chords
• External note input did not record while the sequence was playing
• Copy and pasting blocks in Song Mode did not change the pattern length
• Monochrome UI theme fixes
• The encoder skipped values if not perfectly centered on a “click” at power-on
• Performance Synth FXs were turned off when selecting and deselecting a Track
• Rendering a selection of Synth steps did not include send effects

INSTALLATION GUIDE:

1. 1. Download and extract the firmware file
   2. Copy the .ptf firmware file to your Tracker SD card > Firmware folder
   3. Optional: Save your current project to avoid any potential data loss
   4. Navigate to Config > Firmware > Update Firmware > .ptf file
   5. Press Select and confirm with Yes
   6. Navigate to File > Create New Project to correctly initialize the Config settings

NEW FEATURES

• Sampling over USB

FIXES

• Reverb was inactive after exiting a game
• Glitches could appear on game screens
• The Instrument MIDI Mapping list was off by three places
• Previewing the overdrive effect in the Sample Editor overwrote the first loaded Instrument
• OFF/FAD/CUT was not pasting when copying from tracks 1-8 into tracks 9-16

How to use USB Sampling:

• Connect the device to a USB host.
• In Config > USB, select audio output. This will output audio to the Tracker via USB.
• Open the Sample Recorder and Select USB to record USB audio.

UI CHANGES

• Outside of the Sample Recorder, USB overwrites the internal mix only when the Input+Output option is selected and the device is attached to a host.
• Unlike line-in playback, USB playback(Output) will not mix in the USB audio when not in the sample recorder.
• Previously, Tracker overwrote the output in every mode if some data from the connected host appeared. *Now it is dependent on the config option and USB connection detection. For example, if you have no USB connection and have USB set to input+output, you will not get output at the line out. In the past, you would hear audio playback at the line out.

This Tracker+ firmware hotfix addresses two critical issues.

FIXES
• Line-in audio crackles when playback is running
• OFF messages are not placed correctly during live recording.
  
  

This Tracker+ firmware update adds Synth engine performance options and crucial bug fixes for smother synth operation.

NEW FEATURES

• Performance FXs for Synths:
  • Separate FXs including Delay/Reverb sends and 6 Macros for all 3 synths
  • cosmetic updates to existing Sample Instrument / MIDI perform FX
• All synth Init patch macros are now unipolar (Bipolar = Off)

FIXES

• Rendering the selection on the Pattern page resulted in a long silence at the end of the sample
  • The Render Selection feature in the pattern editor has been redesigned to create a sharp cut at the start and end of the selection. This contrasts with the Export Song/Pattern function, which retains the old behavior and keeps the tails of samples and effects. If you want to include the tails when rendering, simply extend the selection accordingly
• Disappearing steps after using specific Fill Notes settings/scales, while navigating through the Pattern Editor. Additionally, in this state sometimes it wasn’t possible to manually edit pattern steps and Tracker could also freeze completely
• Pattern length FX in Perform mode did not function properly when set to a value of 128 steps.
• Render & Load samples were loaded in mono (if used immediately after rebooting the device)
• Breaking of the Preview in Sample Playback page. Caused by previewing Samples on the Pattern page, while the cursor was located on one of the MIDI #9-16 Tracks
• Previewing samples on the Pattern page, while the cursor was located on one of the MIDI tracks 9-16, caused the Preview function in the Sample Playback page to break.
• Hanging of MIDI and Synth Notes while using pads and external keyboards
• Multiple issues when Synth Macros were not reset or initialized correctly (in cases such as after loading or previewing patches, starting/stopping playback, changing Macro polarity, loading or starting a new project, etc)
• When Synth Parameters and Macros were used as pattern FX, they didn’t reset after playback was stopped. Instead, they would keep the last sequenced pattern FX values.
• Duplicating or expanding short patterns on the 9-16th MIDI tracks resulted in corrupted pattern data and freezing

This Tracker+ firmware update officially adds the PERC drum machine and synth mixer to Tracker+ and includes critical bug fixes.

NEW FEATURES

• PERC drum synth engine
  • Added lights on the Synth Parameters page and patch editor to indicate different drum hits
• Synth Mixer on pg. 3 of the Master page with separate level control of all three synth engines
• Reverb and Delay send for the Line In channel have been moved to dedicated Master Reverb / Delay screens on pg. 1 of the Master page
• Ability to reset Macro parameters to default values (using Delete) in the Edit Patch screen
• Instrument Synthesizer functionality (on Instrument Parameters/Effects screen) renamed to Instrument MIDI Mapping to differentiate from actual Synth instruments

FIXES

• The instrument header label “Synth (Off)” didn’t update correctly when changing synth Polyphony (between 0 and other values)
• Sometimes the section name (above screen buttons 5-7) in the synth Edit Patch screen was cut too short
• Reverb/Delay send values displayed wrong initial values after opening the Synth Parameters screen
• Parameter list was missing up and down arrows (screen buttons) on the synth Edit Patch screen
• Improved editing of parameters which have a big range of values in the synth Edit Patch screen (for example Filter Cutoff) using the encoder
• Edit Patch screen showed the wrong notes for PERC synth drums (one octave lower, for example, C4 instead of C5 for triggering the kick drum)
• When synth patch changes were the only changes in a project, they were not (auto)saved
• The text description in the Config menu > General > “Line in channel” was wrong.

INSTALLATION GUIDE

1. Download and extract the Tracker+ Firmware 1.0.1 file containing firmware 1.0.1 and PERC presets
2. Copy the extracted .ptf firmware file to your Tracker SD card > Firmware folder
3. Copy the extracted PERC folder to your Tracker SD card > Patches folder
4. Optional: before updating save your current project to avoid any potential data loss
5. In Tracker navigate to Config > Firmware > Update Firmware > .ptf file
6. Press Select and confirm with Yes
7. After the update, navigate to File > create New Project to correctly initialize Config settings

This is Tracker+ 1.0.1 public beta release which brings the PERC drum synthesis engine and a new synth mixer on page 3 of Master pages.

NEW FEATURES

• PERC Drum Machine
• Synth Mixer – Pg. 3 of Master.