So here’s the whole thing. MIDI Designer Pro 1.6 brings a massive amount of updates, fixes and, well, stuff. Here’s the lot. Enjoy!
1.6.0 is a major upgrade: big features, stability/defect fixes, and upgrades.
PERFORMANCE MODE GAME CHANGERS
- Presets for groups of controls. This is a rich and deep feature. See midiDude.com/presets16 for more.
- Sliders and crossfaders can be made into “ribbon strips,” which jump to the absolute touch position
- High-precision sliders, knobs, crossfaders (move away in 2nd dimension for more precision)
- “Make Toggle & Hold” for momentary buttons: momentary buttons can be switched to toggles temporarily with another (toggle) button
DESIGN MODE GAME CHANGERS
- 4 different locks in design mode allow users to lock control types (e.g., panels) making the design process much simpler
- Custom page colors allow for lots of design flexibility. This feature was originally called “Gray Page” but has moved on from there [Early video on PalmSounds](http://www.palmsounds.net/2013/12/gray-page-new-advanced-design-feature.html)… new video coming soon.
- New control type: Multiline Labels
- New control type: Shapes (vertical and horizontal lines for now)
- Labels and multiline labels have adjustable alpha and LED color
IMPORTANT BUG FIXES
- Fixed: Bug with knob max values for non-retina devices and odd-numbers of ticks
- Fixed: Bug with front-back layering when same page is showing on both sides (iPad)
- Fixed: Lag and slowness on iPad retina
- Fixed: Page color picker for iOS 7
- Fixed: LED color picker (for controls)
- Fixed: Y dimension of XY pads wasn’t participating in any presets, including first load and other, similar cases
- First fix for MIDI loops in button groups with bidirectional hardware. Buttons sending off that have same MIDI message as button sending ON value will not send
OTHER NEW FEATURES
- Design refresh to Antares Peavey AT-200 Auto-Tune Guitar Layout by Chris Gretton
- “Smart-naming” for make similar is now an option
- Slightly reduced file-sizes for layouts and pages
- Throttle for batch sends (send all, reset to default, presets)
- New button shape: round (ellipse)
OTHER BUG FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS
- Panels are always behind all other controls, but now respect their order. Use send-to-back for all ordering options
- Fixed: [bug with bidirectionality and named ticks](/qa/2195/problem-with-bidirectionality-and-named-ticks-button-groups)
- Fixed: changing color highlight color doesn’t update buttons
- Labels can now be layered at any level above panels
- Label shading fixed for non-retina and retina displays
- Some assets updated for retina display
- Fixed: supercontrols no subs warning
- Removed pedalboards feature warning
- Fixed sticky editing for control names
- Page highlight color white was not persisting (older problem)