Changes in TwistedWave for macOS
Version 31.2
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Released on
November 01, 2024
Fixed
- TwistedWave would crash on macOS 15.2
Version 31.1
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Released on
October 29, 2024
New
- It is now possible to save silence detector presets,
- It is now possible to use the silence detector in a batch process,
- When importing markers from .csv files, TwistedWave can now read SMPTE timecodes.
Speech Recognition
- The Whisper speech recognition engine now produces more accurate timestamps,
- Added support for the large-v3-turbo Whisper model.
Version 31.0
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September 26, 2024
New
- macOS Sequoia 15 is now officially supported,
- Added the option to export the speech markers,
- It is now possible to export markers to an .srt (subtitles) file,
- Added the "All Formats" submenu for quick access to all supported file formats without having to manually configure the formats menu.
Fixed and improved
- When selecting all, the cursor will now move to the start of the file,
- When resampling a file in a batch script, in some cases, the two channels could go out of sync,
- It is possible to disable the message that shows the peak level when using the peak detector.
Version 30.3
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Released on
July 25, 2024
Fixes
- TwistedWave will now show up in the Finder's "Open With" menu for mp4 files,
- WAV files could be rejected when uploaded to some sites,
- An error message complaining about the file extension could prevent files from being saved,
- The files could contain invalid characters when splitting a file by markers.
Version 30.2
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Released on
July 12, 2024
Fixed in 30.2
- In some cases, TwistedWave could crash when recording.
New Features and Improvements in TwistedWave 30
- You can now change the playback speed,
- Special Pasting can remember the audio used to paste between sessions,
- Added the undo history window (View > Show History),
- Added a function to identify a note (File > Identify Note),
- Added a function to measure the BPM (File > Measure BPM),
- It is now possible to customize the file format list in the file save dialog,
- Saving WAV files larger than 4GB is now possible by saving as RF64,
- The "Find Peak" will now show the level of the peak,
- When selecting, you can disable snapping to markers by pressing shift,
- The silence detector will now only work on the selected region,
- Added the ability to delete an installed Whisper model,
- Shows a "processing complete" message when a batch terminated without any error.
Most of these new features were suggested by users on this page:
https://twistedwave.com/vote
The feature suggestion and voting campaign is now closed. The experience was successful, and I may run it again in the future. Thank you all for your participation!
Version 30.1
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Released on
July 11, 2024
New Features and Improvements
- You can now change the playback speed,
- Special Pasting can remember the audio used to paste between sessions,
- Added the undo history window (View > Show History),
- Added a function to identify a note (File > Identify Note),
- Added a function to measure the BPM (File > Measure BPM),
- It is now possible to customize the file format list in the file save dialog,
- Saving WAV files larger than 4GB is now possible by saving as RF64,
- The "Find Peak" will now show the level of the peak,
- When selecting, you can disable snapping to markers by pressing shift,
- The silence detector will now only work on the selected region,
- Added the ability to delete an installed Whisper model,
- Shows a "processing complete" message when a batch terminated without any error.
Most of these new features were suggested by users on this page:
https://twistedwave.com/vote
The feature suggestion and voting campaign is now closed. The experience was successful, and I may run it again in the future. Thank you all for your participation!
Version 29.16
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Released on
June 11, 2024
Fixed
- Fixed some random crashes.
Version 29.15
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Released on
May 31, 2024
New
- Added the 768 kHz sampling rate option.
Fixed
- All the speech markers could disappear when adding a new marker,
- Some metadata fields would not be preserved when editing FLAC files.
Version 29.14
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Released on
April 23, 2024
New
- You can suggest features and vote before May 8th.
Fixed
- There was a small delay in the punch-in recording that could cause the microphone to pick up a part of the previous take,
- Fixed a freeze with some VST effects,
- When installing new VST effects, it is possible to add them without refreshing the whole VST effect list.
Version 29.12
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Released on
April 02, 2024
Fixed
- An error message could appear when clicking the "Update License" button.
New Features in 29.11
- When splitting by markers, added an option to ignore audio before first marker, and add "Track i of n" metadata,
- Added an option to paste from the clip list with a marker,
- Added an option to import the preferences and presets from a Mac App Store version of TwistedWave, in the Help menu.
Speech Recognition
- The script synchronization would not work well with words that contains accents,
- Moving the cursor when audio is playing could stutter with long files that had many speech recognition labels.
Video Synchronization
- TwistedWave could crash when opening some video files,
- The "Link Video..." will now also allow .webm files.
Version 29.11
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Released on
March 29, 2024
New Features
- When splitting by markers, added an option to ignore audio before first marker, and add "Track i of n" metadata,
- Added an option to paste from the clip list with a marker,
- Added an option to import the preferences and presets from a Mac App Store version of TwistedWave, in the Help menu.
Speech Recognition
- The script synchronization would not work well with words that contains accents,
- Moving the cursor when audio is playing could stutter with long files that had many speech recognition labels.
Video Synchronization
- TwistedWave could crash when opening some video files,
- The "Link Video..." will now also allow .webm files.
Version 29.9
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Released on
February 14, 2024
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed a crash with some AudioUnit plugins,
- There was an extra "&" in some menu items,
- More work to make audio glitches less frequent,
- The rows in the batch processor are smaller, more consistent with previous versions of TwistedWave.
Version 29.8
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Released on
January 22, 2024
Fixed
- With Rosetta, TwistedWave would crash on launch.
Fixed in 29.7
- The title bar and toolbar were unified on Intel Mac devices. Now reverting to the old behavior.
Fixed in 29.6
- The custom keyboard shortcuts were broken in 29.5,
- The speech recognition could show extra speech markers at the beginning of the file.
Fixed & Improved in 29.5
- The tiny icon in the upper left hand corner of the waveform can now be dropped on Apps other than the Finder to make a quick export to an external DAW, for instance,
- The AUMultibandCompressor GUI doesn't work on macOS Sonoma, so TwistedWave will show a generic GUI instead of refusing to open until it gets fixed by Apple.
Speech Recognition
- Whisper speech recognition is now much faster on Macs with Apple Silicon,
- Added support for Whisper's new Large-v3 model.
Video
- Some video files could appear stretched,
- Saving a video could result in a new file with a wrong orientation,
- The video would not be synchronized correctly when changing the sample rate.
Version 29.7
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Released on
January 22, 2024
Fixed
- The title bar and toolbar were unified on Intel Mac devices. Now reverting to the old behavior.
Fixed in 29.6
- The custom keyboard shortcuts were broken in 29.5,
- The speech recognition could show extra speech markers at the beginning of the file.
Fixed & Improved in 29.5
- The tiny icon in the upper left hand corner of the waveform can now be dropped on Apps other than the Finder to make a quick export to an external DAW, for instance,
- The AUMultibandCompressor GUI doesn't work on macOS Sonoma, so TwistedWave will show a generic GUI instead of refusing to open until it gets fixed by Apple.
Speech Recognition
- Whisper speech recognition is now much faster on Macs with Apple Silicon,
- Added support for Whisper's new Large-v3 model.
Video
- Some video files could appear stretched,
- Saving a video could result in a new file with a wrong orientation,
- The video would not be synchronized correctly when changing the sample rate.
Version 29.6
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Released on
January 20, 2024
Fixed
- The custom keyboard shortcuts were broken in 29.5,
- The speech recognition could show extra speech markers at the beginning of the file.
Fixed & Improved in 29.5
- The tiny icon in the upper left hand corner of the waveform can now be dropped on Apps other than the Finder to make a quick export to an external DAW, for instance,
- The AUMultibandCompressor GUI doesn't work on macOS Sonoma, so TwistedWave will show a generic GUI instead of refusing to open until it gets fixed by Apple.
Speech Recognition
- Whisper speech recognition is now much faster on Macs with Apple Silicon,
- Added support for Whisper's new Large-v3 model.
Video
- Some video files could appear stretched,
- Saving a video could result in a new file with a wrong orientation,
- The video would not be synchronized correctly when changing the sample rate.
Version 29.5
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Released on
January 19, 2024
Fixed & Improved
- The tiny icon in the upper left hand corner of the waveform can now be dropped on Apps other than the Finder to make a quick export to an external DAW, for instance,
- The AUMultibandCompressor GUI doesn't work on macOS Sonoma, so TwistedWave will show a generic GUI instead of refusing to open until it gets fixed by Apple.
Speech Recognition
- Whisper speech recognition is now much faster on Macs with Apple Silicon,
- Added support for Whisper's new Large-v3 model.
Video
- Some video files could appear stretched,
- Saving a video could result in a new file with a wrong orientation,
- The video would not be synchronized correctly when changing the sample rate.
Version 29.4
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Released on
October 04, 2023
Fixed & Improved
- The cursor would be hidden when it fell on a marker on non-retina displays,
- TwistedWave could crash at startup in some cases on macOS 10.13 and 10.14,
- Punch-in recording wouldn't work when monitoring levels,
- Command-dragging can now be used for both zooming and dragging the waveform,
- The analyze batch action will now remember its settings,
- When deleting audio from the beginning of the file, if there is a marker at the beginning of the file, it will not be deleted,
- The display would not correctly switch to light mode when waking the computer from sleep in the morning.
Version 29.3
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Released on
September 26, 2023
New
- The macOS Sonoma update is officially supported by TwistedWave,
- It is now possible to configure the sample rate batch action to only convert the sample rate up or down.
Scrubbing
- You can now scrub by holding the ctrl button while click and dragging with the mouse, or dragging with the right mouse button,
- The cursor will not wiggle anymore when scrubbing in repeat mode,
- In repeat mode, a smaller portion will be repeated for better accuracy.
Cursor
- The cursor is now dark green by default, for better visibility,
- It can now have a different color inside a selection, also for better visibility,
- It is thinner on non-retina displays, and can be made even thinner on retina displays,
- The above can be changed in "Edit > Edit Colors" if you don't like the new defaults,
- The mouse cursor is now the I-beam instead of an arrow for better pointing accuracy.
Speech Recognition
- Added speech recognition based on OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition engine,
- Supports many more languages than Apple's built-in speech recognition,
- Can be configured to be either much faster or much more accurate than Apple's speech recognition.
Video Synchronization
- The video rotation would not always be preserved after editing,
- Many more video types can now be edited without re-encoding the whole file,
- Some h264/h265 video files could not be saved.
Fixes
- The export text script and export waveform image batch actions were broken,
- TwistedWave was unresponsive for a fraction of a second when switching from another application,
- TwistedWave would stutter a bit when starting playback or moving the cursor when there were many markers or speech markers in the file,
- Some .WAV files could crash TwistedWave.
Version 28.9
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Released on
August 03, 2023
Fixes
- Fixed a crash when opening .wav files that contain mp3 encoded audio,
- Fixed a problem where the speech recognition would never finish,
- The channel order could change when saving AAC files with more than two channels.
Version 29.2
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Released on
July 10, 2023
Fixes
- Some AudioUnit plugins such as Oeksound's Soothe2 and Matthew Lane's StereoDelta could cause crashes,
- The speech recognition could sometimes hang and never complete processing,
- TwistedWave would fail saving an .m4v or .mp4 video if it originally contained PCM audio,
- When editing a video, in some cases the aspect ratio was not preserved,
- The display could be corrupted if the overview was hidden,
- The preferences file could sometimes get corrupted, preventing TwistedWave from starting up,
- With some audio interfaces, the input device had to be manually selected every time TwistedWave was restarted in order to be usable.
Version 28.8
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Released on
June 28, 2023
Improvement
- When clicking a TwistedWave 29 license installation link, install the license and offer to download TwistedWave 29.
Version 29.1
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Released on
June 27, 2023
Fixed
- TwistedWave could fail to run on macOS 10.13,
- A message box was confusing when upgrading to TwistedWave 29
Version 29.0
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Released on
June 26, 2023
New
- Added support for video in the batch processor,
- Added the "Rename Markers" batch action,
- Improved the marker renaming tool,
- The analyze action in the batch processor will now generate the total samples, duration and sample rate of the analyzed file,
- It is now possible to enable / disable play through while recording,
- Some improvements to help with glitches.
Fixed
- Running TwistedWave with Rosetta was broken,
- The FabFilter Pro-L 2 VST3 plugin didn't work, and the VST2 version only processed the left channel,
- A problem exporting mp3 files if one channel was shorter than the other,
- A crash when quitting TwistedWave with AudioUnit effects applied globally,
- An error message when opening the "Edit" menu if no TwistedWave window is open and the default shortcut for the "Delete" item was changed.
Version 28.7
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Released on
June 26, 2023
New
- Added the "Rename Markers" batch action,
- Improved the marker renaming tool,
- The analyze action in the batch processor will now generate the total samples, duration and sample rate of the analyzed file.
Fixed
- Fixed an error message when opening the "Edit" menu if no TwistedWave window is open and the default shortcut for the "Delete" item was changed.
Version 28.6
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Released on
March 11, 2023
New
- Added the "32-bit float" option when creating a new file,
- Added the "Markers > Move Markers..." function.
Fixed
- Selecting "File > Print" on an audio file from the Finder would crash TwistedWave,
- Fixed a crash when analyzing an empty file,
- The format settings button was not always updated correctly when editing the format (macOS Ventura only),
- Some 32-bit float files could display 16-bit in the status bar.
Version 28.5
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Released on
January 03, 2023
Fixed
- It is now possible to name markers ending with a #,
- The glitch detector was broken.
VST Fixes
- When refreshing the VST effect list, the uninstalled effects will be removed, and the effects installed since launch will be detected,
- Fixed a UI glitch with some VST effects,
- Fixed a crash when closing an effect stack containing VST effects,
- The main menu should be more responsive when many AudioUnit and VST effects are installed.
Speech Recognition Fixes
- The speech recognition while we are recording would not work if the option to auto mark recordings is enabled,
- Fixed a problem where the speech recognition would never stop on macOS 10.15,
- All the speech markers were duplicated when moving a marker,
- The speech markers would not be placed correctly when doing a punch-in recording,
- Fixed a crash performing speech recognition while recording.
Version 28.4
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Released on
December 04, 2022
Fixed
- Splitting a file by markers was broken.
Version 28.3
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Released on
December 03, 2022
Fixed
- Fixed a crash with some AudioUnit plugins,
- The Punch-In Recording didn't work if the audio before the cursor was shorter than the pre roll duration,
- Manually entering a new sampling rate in the sampling rate conversion batch effect didn't work,
- Re-enabled the options window when loading multiple files on macOS 10.15 Catalina.
Version 28.1
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Released on
November 24, 2022
New and Fixed
- When the effects in a stack can't be loaded, warn and show them as missing,
- Fixed a crash with some AudioUnit effects.
Important
- Fixed a crash when saving files with the upcoming macOS 13.1 Ventura update.
Version 28.0
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Released on
November 21, 2022
Important
- Fixed a crash when saving files with the upcoming macOS 13.1 Ventura update.
New
- Added support for VST 3 effects,
- The comments fields in the metadata editor are resizable,
- Added an option to prevent playing from the beginning of the file when the cursor is at the end,
- Added an option to disable the automatic scrolling of the text script when recording,
- It is possible to specify the start number when rename the markers.
Fixed
- Fixed a crash when cancelling a FLAC export,
- TwistedWave could freeze while opening more than one file at the same time on macOS 10.14 Mojave,
- AIFF files containing 32-bit floating point audio would be saved as 32-bit integer by default,
- Removing the speech markers would also remove the regular markers if the selection is active,
- Fixed a discrepancy between the ruler and cursor position in the toolbar when SMPTE 2398 is selected.
Version 27.1
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Released on
June 17, 2022
New
- It is now possible to make the level meter even larger.
Fixed
- Saving video files with the h264 codec could sometimes result in unplayable files,
- Fixed a crash when the option to recognize speech when recording was selected,
- Fixed a crash when using a marker name with too many digits, such as a phone number,
- The progress bar wouldn't show any progress when loading a file,
- Reverting to the default color scheme was broken in dark mode,
- The analyze window was too small on M1 Mac computers, and it had to be scrolled to display all the lines,
- TwistedWave could stop playing if we started playing before the file was fully loaded,
- The option to show only 5 seconds when opening a new file was broken.
Version 27.0
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Released on
January 07, 2022
New features
- When loading multiple files, they can be opened in tabs
- When dropping multiple files, TwistedWave asks what to do with them (load in windows, load in tabs, merge channels, append the files, append with markers)
- When selecting, the video will follow the cursor
- Pasting multiple times from the clip list now duplicates the pasted audio like the global paste does
- Added "Mark Transients" to the batch processor
- It is now possible to open Ogg Video (.ogv), .dsd and .dff files
Fixed
- TwistedWave could run out of memory when exporting some videos
- Some files, especially compressed AAC files, would open truncated, or padded with silence
- Some AudioUnit plugins would not render audio correctly with mono audio
- TwistedWave could freeze for a fraction of a second when switching between applications
- It wasn't possible to configure Cmd-Space as a custom keyboard shortcut
Version 26.8
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Released on
October 05, 2021
Fixed
- The first channel was not normalized correctly when normalizing the RMS or LUFS level of multichannel files,
- TwistedWave would crash instead of reporting an error when recording fails,
- Opening files with many markers or speech recognition markers was slow.
Version 26.7
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Released on
September 21, 2021
New feature
- It is now possible to normalize marker separated regions independently.
Fixed
- Loading a file that contained many markers, or speech recognition markers could be slow,
- The speech recognition should now be faster, not remain stuck before it finishes, and shouldn't stop before the whole file is processed anymore.
Version 26.6
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Released on
September 10, 2021
Fixed
- Fixed a distorted sound issue when using some AudioUnit effects with mono audio.
New features
- Added a function to remove markers that are duplicate or very close to one another,
- Added a function to rename all the markers,
- Added a function to mark the transients.
Speech recognition
- The batch processor can now export the recognized text script to a text file, or save it to a metadata field,
- TwistedWave could crash in some cases when the option to recognize the speech while recording was enabled,
- The speech recognition didn't work when there was no internet connection.
Version 26.5
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Released on
September 06, 2021
Fixed
- TwistedWave could crash when closing a file if the video window was open.
Version 26.4
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Released on
September 02, 2021
Fixed
- Some AudioUnit effects would not render correctly, causing sound level issues.
Version 26.3
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Released on
August 27, 2021
Fixed
- Typing a space in a marker name would instead start playing the file.
Version 26.2
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Released on
August 26, 2021
Fixes and improvements
- It is now possible to configure the behavior of the zero crossing detector (rising / falling edge or any zero crossing),
- Some AudioUnit effects would be broken when working with mono files,
- The voice list for the speech synthesis was empty on macOS 10.14 Mojave.
Speech recognition improvements
- It is now possible to press space to control audio playback when the text script window has the focus,
- Added an option to export a text script from the recognized speech,
- The speech recognition would sometimes fail to match the end of the text script.
Video synchronization improvements
- The video window would remain empty in some cases,
- In some cases, the video window would appear even when loading audio only files,
- If you close the video window, TwistedWave will remember this, and not open it when opening video files.
Version 26.1
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Released on
August 06, 2021
Fixed
- TwistedWave would fail to save some edited video files,
- The bit depth button had disappeared when using the ALAC codec.
Version 26
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Released on
August 05, 2021
New: Speech Recognition and Video Synchronization!
This version of TwistedWave introduces two important new features
that allow you to synchronize an audio file with a text script, and
edit videos!
These features have to be purchased separately, but you can try them
during a 30-day trial period.
Fixes and improvements
- The zero crossing detector will now only detect rising edges, making cuts and pastes less likely to introduce audible clicks,
- Some files would fail to save when the metadata contained invalid UTF-8 characters.
Version 25.8
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Released on
April 20, 2021
Fixed
- Show an error message when trying to preview an AudioUnit with an unsupported sample rate,
- TwistedWave could freeze when recording on versions of macOS before 10.12.
Version 25.7
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Released on
April 07, 2021
Fixed
- In some cases, a long silence could appear in recordings,
- Trying to reduce the occurence of glitches in recordings.
Version 25.6
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Released on
March 22, 2021
Fixed in 25.1 to 25.6
- Play-through wouldn't work when the recording was paused.
- A glitch could be heard when doing a punch-in recording.
- The glitch logger didn't work on macOS prior to 10.15.
- TwistedWave will gather statistics on recording glitches in order to help determine if a specific hardware or macOS version is more likely to cause them.
- TwistedWave would not start on the M1 chip.
Version 25.5
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Released on
March 22, 2021
Fixed
- Play-through wouldn't work when the recording was paused.
Version 25.4
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Released on
March 13, 2021
Fixed
- A glitch could be heard when doing a punch-in recording.
Version 25.3
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Released on
March 09, 2021
Fixed
- The glitch logger didn't work on macOS prior to 10.15.
Version 25.2
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Released on
March 08, 2021
New
- TwistedWave will gather statistics on recording glitches in order to help determine if a specific hardware or macOS version is more likely to cause them.
Version 25.1
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Released on
February 17, 2021
Fixed
- TwistedWave would not start on the M1 chip.
Version 25
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Released on
February 16, 2021
New Features
- TwistedWave is now optimized for the M1 chip.
Fixes and Improvements
- Reduced the occurrence of glitches at the beginning of recordings,
- Adjusting AudioUnit presets in the batch processor was broken,
- TwistedWave can now read metadata from RF64 files,
- Fixed a crash when moving TwistedWave from a retina display to a non-retina display,
- The slider for the trim effect now goes down to -100 dB.
- The vertical zoom with Command-Wheel was broken with non-magic mice.
Version 24.3
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Released on
November 18, 2020
Fixed
- Cosmetic issues with the toolbar on macOS Big Sur,
- Fixed a UI glitch when moving the TwistedWave window to or from a retina display,
- The AudioUnit windows would not remember their positions.
Version 24.2
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Released on
November 03, 2020
Fixed
- Re-enabled the dark mode,
- Some AudioUnit effects would not appear correctly.
Version 24.1
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Released on
October 04, 2020
Fixed
- The analyze action in the batch processor would complain that the csv file was write protected.
Version 24
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Released on
September 18, 2020
New Features
- Added a noise reduction effect,
- Automatically detect glitches caused by missed buffers when recording,
- Show an error instead of falling back to the built-in microphone when the selected audio interface is not available for recording,
- Added an Analyze action to the batch processor,
- You can now opt to automatically get beta versions of TwistedWave through the automatic update system,
- When a punch-in recording is initiated while the selection is active, the contents of the selection will be replaced, and the recorder will stop when it reaches the end of the selection.
- Added the "Open Recent Document" item in the "File" menu to re-open the last viewed file,
- Added an option to format the times like H:M:S in the toolbar, to show the number of hours,
- Added a button to clear the metadata,
- The toolbar can be customized with a big version of the cursor position,
- Added an option to close all the document windows at once,
- When saving a file while recording, the document wouldn't be marked as dirty, and you would not be offered to save it again after the recorder was stopped.
Changes
- Dropped the "1." from the version number. Versions with three digits, like 24.0.1 will be beta versions,
- When moving the cursor to the beginning or end of the file, the selection is now discarded.
Fixes
- Saving color schemes was broken,
- Video files shouldn't open with TwistedWave by default,
- The lambda and quality parameters were swapped and didn't work as expected in the "Change Pitch and Speed" effect in the batch processor,
- TwistedWave would crash when asked to generate a tone with a negative frequency.
Version 1.23.1
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Released on
March 30, 2020
Fixes and Improvements
- When saving files, the "Settings..." button will now show the codec, bit depth and bitrate details of the selected format,
- Saving files was broken on macOS 10.9,
- TwistedWave now shows the correct bit depth when opening ALAC files.
Version 1.23
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Released on
March 09, 2020
Fixes
- The toolbar would not show the stop button when doing a punch-in recording,
- The ID3 metadata in some WAV or AIFF files could be ignored by TwistedWave,
- When converting an MP3 file to WAV with TwistedWave, the metadata wouldn't appear in the Finder,
- More bug fixes.
Version 1.22.2
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Released on
November 14, 2019
Fixed
- Some AudioUnit plugins wouldn't update their GUI correctly.
Version 1.22.1
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Released on
November 08, 2019
New Features
- The batch processor can now process files in parallel,
- Added support for saving OPUS files,
- Retry a punch-in recording by selecting "Audio > Punch-In Recording" while a punch-in is already in progress,
- Added an option to configure the audio interface sample rate to match the file being played,
- Automatically bypass the effect stack when it was applied.
Fixes
- The cursor could stop moving when playing audio, bug introduced in 1.22,
- Saving .m4r files on Catalina was broken,
- Batch processing split multichannel files was broken,
- The bitrate parameter was not taken into account when saving AAC HE files,
- The level meter could show nan or inf when recording audio,
- A small click could be heard on a punch-in point.
Version 1.22
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Released on
November 07, 2019
New Features
- The batch processor can now process files in parallel,
- Added support for saving OPUS files,
- Retry a punch-in recording by selecting "Audio > Punch-In Recording" while a punch-in is already in progress,
- Added an option to configure the audio interface sample rate to match the file being played,
- Automatically bypass the effect stack when it was applied.
Fixes
- Saving .m4r files on Catalina was broken,
- Batch processing split multichannel files was broken,
- The bitrate parameter was not taken into account when saving AAC HE files,
- The level meter could show nan or inf when recording audio,
- A small click could be heard on a punch-in point.
Version 1.21.9
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Released on
June 13, 2019
Fixes and improvements
- Some ALAC files would fail to open with TwistedWave,
- The ID3 metadata in WAV files would not be recognized in some cases,
- It is possible to use Command- and Alt-Arrow shortcuts to navigate in text fields,
- When exporting the selection with "File > Export Selection...", a mono file is generated if audio is selected in one channel only,
- The audio playback could glitch while adjusting the left edge of a selection while playing in loop mode.
Version 1.21.8
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Released on
May 09, 2019
Fixed
- When doing a punch-in recording, the pre-roll could sound glitchy in some cases,
- Fixed a crash with some keyboard shortcuts with international keyboards,
- The marker editor sheet could be very large when the marker name is very long,
- Changing the speed with the "Change Pitch and Speed" effect could introduce glitches when ZTX is disabled and speed is 30% or less.
Version 1.21.6
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Released on
April 15, 2019
Fixed
- Fade in/out effects could introduce clicks, or fail to fade correctly,
- A punch-in recording in an almost empty file could crash,
- Many AudioUnit plugins were incompatible with TwistedWave built for Mojave, resulting in an invisible UI. I have reverted this change. Unfortunately, that also means no more dark mode in TwistedWave.
Version 1.21.5
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Released on
April 11, 2019
Fixed
- TwistedWave would fail to start in some cases,
- Some AudioUnit plugins, such as Sonnox plugins, would crash TwistedWave.
Version 1.21.4
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Released on
April 10, 2019
Fixed
- TwistedWave would fail to start on macOS 10.10.
Version 1.21.3
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Released on
April 10, 2019
Fixed
- Automatic updates were broken in 1.21,
- VST and AudioUnit plugins failed to load,
- TwistedWave could crash when recording,
- The dark mode could be used enabled on older versions of macOS,
- mp3 encoding was slow.
Version 1.21.2
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Released on
April 10, 2019
Fixed
- Automatic updates were broken in 1.21.
Version 1.21.1
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Released on
April 10, 2019
Fixed
- A couple of bugs were introduced in 1.21 preventing some VST and AudioUnit plugins from working, and causing crashes when recording.
Version 1.21
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Released on
April 09, 2019
New
- Added support for punch-in recording,
- Added support for dark mode on macOS Mojave,
- Added a function to find the peak in the file / current selection,
- It is now possible to re-apply the last used effect with Command-F,
- It is now possible to paste multiple times by repeating Command-V,
- It is now possible to delete a marker with backspace,
- TwistedWave can now optionally ask for a name when a new marker is added,
- The batch processor can now resolve aliases.
Version 1.20.2
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Released on
December 04, 2018
New
- When playing a loop, the loop is updated immediately while the selection is adjusted.
Fixes and improvements
- When running a batch process with the "Normalize" effect, temporary files could accumulate on the scratch disk until TwistedWave was restarted.
Version 1.20.1
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Released on
November 13, 2018
New
- TwistedWave can now read .opus and .webm files
Version 1.20
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Released on
November 05, 2018
Fixes and improvements
- TwistedWave can now read Ogg/Opus audio files,
- Some AIFF files would fail to load,
- Some Wavpack files would not open in TwistedWave,
- The markers from some WAV files would fail to load,
- TwistedWave would record silence if it does not have the authorization to use the microphone on macOS Mojave,
- Customizing the toolbar could crash on macOS Mojave.
Version 1.19.3
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Released on
April 25, 2018
Fixes and improvements
- WMA file export was broken.
Version 1.19.2
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Released on
April 17, 2018
Fixes and improvements
- The AUNBandEQ effect could produce silence when applied to mono files,
- More bug fixes.
Version 1.19.1
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Released on
February 08, 2018
Fixes and improvements
- When saving a file, the file formats now appear in alphabetical order,
- Some VST effects could crash TwistedWave,
- A directory named "A file being saved by TwistedWave" could remain after saving a file to an external drive
Version 1.19
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Released on
January 23, 2018
Fixes and improvements
- Double clicking an effect stack to install it could sometimes fail,
- The effects would not appear in the alphabetical order on High Sierra,
- The markers from some WAV files would not be read by TwistedWave,
- Added the ability to normalize channels independently,
- Some SD2 files could fail to load.
Version 1.18.3
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Released on
September 01, 2017
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed a problem where the waveform could fail to update correctly when recording.
Version 1.18.2
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Released on
August 22, 2017
Fixes and improvements
- Reverted the scrolling behavior to the original and less confusing behavior
Version 1.18.1
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Released on
August 22, 2017
Fixes and improvements
- TwistedWave could freeze after using the normalize effect
Version 1.18
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Released on
August 22, 2017
Fixes and improvements
- The format selection box would be invisible in High Sierra,
- Some AudioUnits could crash TwistedWave when batch processing,
- Some AudioUnit effects could cause a glitch at the end of the processed audio,
- Recording a file while simultaneously editing another one works better,
- Save battery life by not requiring the high performance GPU.
Version 1.17.4
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Released on
May 15, 2017
Fixes and improvements
- Playing a file could change the current sample rate of the audio interface
- Saving files to an external drive could fail in some cases
- Fixed a crash when a batch process contains artwork metadata
Version 1.17.3
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Released on
September 21, 2016
Fixes and improvements
- TwistedWave would fail to start when installed for the first time.
Version 1.17.2
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Released on
September 19, 2016
Fixes and improvements
- It is now possible to change the scratch disk location,
- The "File > Revert to Saved" option was broken,
- TwistedWave could crash when saving files on macOS Sierra,
- TwistedWave could crash when reading some WAV or MP4 files.
Version 1.17.1
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Released on
June 23, 2016
Fixes and improvements
- Added the possibility to generate sweeps with the signal generator
- TwistedWave could fail saving a file in a different file format
- Applying an AudioUnit effect on a very short selection could produce silence
Version 1.17
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Released on
June 06, 2016
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed a crash when saving an mp3 file with many markers
- Resizing the editor window was jerky El Capitan
- Fixed a crash when opening DV files if the "Auto play" option is enabled
- When doing a batch process with a VST effect, the tail of one file could appear at the head of the next file
- Some AudioUnits would not update their user interface correctly
Version 1.16.1
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Released on
February 08, 2016
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed a crash when saving a file introduced in 1.16
Version 1.16
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Released on
February 08, 2016
Fixes and improvements
- Added support for markers in MP3, OGG and FLAC files
- The metadata was not saved correctly when it contained accented letters, and the comments field did not appear in iTunes
- Fixed a small delay when starting playback or recording with some audio interfaces
- Fixed a crash when running TwistedWave on OS X 10.7
- Fixed a couple other crashes
Version 1.15.1
Released on
January 20, 2016
Fixes and improvements
- TwistedWave failed to run on older versions of OS X.
Version 1.15
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Released on
January 20, 2016
Fixes and improvements
- Better handling of corrupted mp3 files,
- Added support for the VOX file format,
- Some Audio Unit plugins (esp. from Meldaproduction) would not be displayed correctly,
- The view doesn't jump to the beginning of the file when double clicking,
- It is now possible to open files with the .BWF file extension
Version 1.14.6
Released on
December 17, 2015
Fixes and improvements
- TwistedWave could freeze in some cases
Version 1.14.5
Released on
December 13, 2015
Fixes and improvements
- Some Audio Units would not appear in the list,
- Clicking "Select Channels..." in the preferences could crash.
Version 1.14.4
Released on
October 06, 2015
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed a crash when using the silence detector,
- A correct serial number could be refused,
- The cursor position and selection length in the toolbar could be shaking when playing audio in El Capitan.
Version 1.14.3
Released on
October 05, 2015
Fixes and improvements
- Restored the compatibility with OS X 10.6
Version 1.14.2
Released on
October 04, 2015
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed a crash when reading some WAV files,
- The markers were deleted when silencing a selection,
- The metadata from mp3 files was not read in some cases,
- TwistedWave would use too much memory when opening .avi files,
- More fixes and improvements...
Version 1.14.1
Released on
March 03, 2015
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed a crash when playing audio through when recording.
Version 1.14
Released on
March 02, 2015
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed some issues where AudioUnit plugins could crash, or be irresponsive when playing back audio
- MP2 files are generated without frame padding, to comply with some radio broadcasting agencies
Version 1.13.3
Released on
January 13, 2015
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed a crash when using the AUPeakLimiter effect on a mono file.
Version 1.13.1
Released on
November 05, 2014
Fixes
- Fixed a performance issue when loading large files.
Version 1.13
Released on
November 03, 2014
Fixes and improvements
- Added the loop crossfade batch effect
- TwistedWave now remembers the visible tab in the prefs window
- Fixed a problem when creating a batch process with an effect stack
- Some .mov files would fail to load correctly
Version 1.12
Released on
July 31, 2014
Fixes and improvements
- Added an option to trim silences from a file
- It is possible to select the tail behavior with AudioUnits in a batch process
- Install an effect stack by double-clicking it
- Some .mov files could not be opened, such as those produced by the ecamm Skype call recorder
- Many other bug fixes...
Version 1.11.4.1
Released on
October 24, 2013
Fixes
- Batch processing was broken.
Version 1.11.4
Released on
October 22, 2013
Fixes
- Opening empty files failed.
- Saving WMA files failed.
- Playing a very small selection, smaller than 0.01s would fail.
- Fixed a bug when deleting a small click where it would still be displayed in the waveform when zooming out.
- TwistedWave would hang at startup if spotlight is disabled.
- Updating the artwork metadata in a batch process was broken.
- (A Document Being Saved By TwistedWave) folders could be created next to the file being saved.
- Splitting by markers would overwrite files if some markers have the same name.
- The markers labels and cut handles would be too small on retina displays.
Version 1.11.3
Released on
June 04, 2013
Fixed
- Some Audio Unit and VST effects would fail to run.
Version 1.11.2
Released on
June 03, 2013
New Features
- The sample rate conversions are done with SoX one of the best
available implementations available.
- Normalizing to a target RMS, LUFS or true peak value, in
addition to the peak value.
- Support for the retina display.
- Support for the 32-bit floating point codec in the WAV and AIFC
files.
- Support for the "AAC High Efficiency" compression.
Fixes
Version 1.11.1
Released on
May 31, 2013
New Features
- The sample rate conversions are done with SoX one of the best
available implementations available.
- Normalizing to a target RMS, LUFS or true peak value, in
addition to the peak value.
- Support for the retina display.
- Support for the 32-bit floating point codec in the WAV and AIFC
files.
- Support for the "AAC High Efficiency" compression.
Fixes
Version 1.11
Released on
May 31, 2013
New Features
- The sample rate conversions are done with SoX one of the best
available implementations available.
- Normalizing to a target RMS, LUFS or true peak value, in
addition to the peak value.
- Support for the retina display.
- Support for the 32-bit floating point codec in the WAV and AIFC
files.
- Support for the "AAC High Efficiency" compression.
Fixes
Version 1.10.1
Released on
May 20, 2011
Fix
- TwistedWave would not remember the preferences if a version older than 1.10 was used previously.
Version 1.10
Released on
May 12, 2011
New Features
- Upgraded to DIRAC 3 Pro, for a faster speed and better quality when pitch shifting or time stretching.
- Added support for saving mp2 files.
- Added the TwistedWave Remote, to remotely control TwistedWave from an iPhone.
- Added the ability to append files together when multiple files are selected from the open dialog.
- It is now possible to drag/drop files directly from iTunes.
- Added the volume and loop toolbar items.
Fixes
- YouTube import was fixed.
- Fixed a problem with the RemoveDC effect.
- Other fixes...
Version 1.9.1
Released on
December 12, 2010
New Features
- Support for VST plugins.
- Import YouTube soundtracks.
- Integration of Apple's speech synthesis.
- Support for reading .wmv, .flv and .ac3 files.
- Support for Audiobook .m4b files.
- The markers are loaded/saved as chapters in mp4 (.mp4 .m4a .m4b .m4r) files.
- Split multichannel support for batch processing.
- New batch processing actions: cut, fade in/out, reorder channels, add/remove/split by markers, copy a metadata field to another.
- Support for trackpad swipe and pinch gestures.
- Automatically place markers at regular intervals.
Improvements
- Smoother zooming and scrolling with the magic mouse or trackpad.
- Uses Sparkle for automatic updates.
- Added the possibility to undo all the previous actions of the same kind at once.
- Much faster file loading, especially reading mp3.
- The Insert Silence effect will replace the selections if a selection exists.
- Use shift-space to stop playing without moving the cursor back.
Fixes
- The markers from some wav files would not load.
- Fixed a problem when saving files whose samples were more than 0 dbFS.
- Saving/loading MP3 files would add a small silence at the beginning/end of the file.
Version 1.9
Released on
May 07, 2010
New Features
- Support for VST plugins.
- Import YouTube soundtracks.
- Integration of Apple's speech synthesis.
- Support for reading .wmv, .flv and .ac3 files.
- Support for Audiobook .m4b files.
- The markers are loaded/saved as chapters in mp4 (.mp4 .m4a .m4b .m4r) files.
- Split multichannel support for batch processing.
- New batch processing actions: cut, fade in/out, reorder channels, add/remove/split by markers, copy a metadata field to another.
- Support for trackpad swipe and pinch gestures.
- Automatically place markers at regular intervals.
Improvements
- Smoother zooming and scrolling with the magic mouse or trackpad.
- Uses Sparkle for automatic updates.
- Added the possibility to undo all the previous actions of the same kind at once.
- Much faster file loading, especially reading mp3.
- The Insert Silence effect will replace the selections if a selection exists.
- Use shift-space to stop playing without moving the cursor back.
Fixes
- The markers from some wav files would not load.
- Fixed a problem when saving files whose samples were more than 0 dbFS.
- Saving/loading MP3 files would add a small silence at the beginning/end of the file.
Version 1.8
Released on
January 20, 2010
New Features
- Automatically split a sound file by detecting silences.
- A 64-bit version is available.
- Exporting iPhone ringtone files.
Improvements
- Seting a default zoom when opening documents.
- Editing the selection by dragging its edges.
- Option to keep the processing tail when applying an effect stack.
- Once an effect stack was applied, it becomes bypassed.
Fixes
- The sound level could be reduced when using the "Change Pitch and Speed" effect.
- Recording or playing could stop working if an audio device is unplugged/replugged, or when the computer goes to sleep.
- Auto extend to crossing didn't work when playing audio.
- Saving 8bit aiff files was broken.
- Reading markers would fail for certain WAV files.
- Importing markers was broken.
Version 1.8
Released on
January 20, 2010
New Features
- Automatically split a sound file by detecting silences.
- A 64-bit version is available.
- Exporting iPhone ringtone files.
Improvements
- Seting a default zoom when opening documents.
- Editing the selection by dragging its edges.
- Option to keep the processing tail when applying an effect stack.
- Once an effect stack was applied, it becomes bypassed.
Fixes
- The sound level could be reduced when using the "Change Pitch and Speed" effect.
- Recording or playing could stop working if an audio device is unplugged/replugged, or when the computer goes to sleep.
- Auto extend to crossing didn't work when playing audio.
- Saving 8bit aiff files was broken.
- Reading markers would fail for certain WAV files.
- Importing markers was broken.
Version 1.7
Released on
December 06, 2009
New Features
- Batch processing.
- Support for DIRAC time stretching/pitch shifting and automatic pitch correction.
- Exporting waveform images.
- Support for saving WMA files.
- Added support for the MS and IMA4 ADPCM codec.
Improvements
- Clicking on a marker moves the cursor.
- Selecting markers in the markers window selects the corresponding audio regin.
- Prevent doing a selection by mistake when doing a simple click.
Fixes
- Fixed a problem exporting CAF AAC and IMA4 files.
- Fixed a problem with Audio Units whose GUI would resize.
- A crash when Command-dropping a file before 0.
- Applying an ohm force plugin failed.
- The default preset for Audio Units was broken.
- TwistedWave failed recovering a session where the signal generator was used.
- TwistedWave was not looping seamlessly.
- When using the special paste, the cursor could move to the start of the file in some cases.
Version 1.6.3
Released on
October 28, 2009
New Features
- Added the ability to change the pitch and speed.
- Added the loop crossfade effect.
- Improved the custom fade window.
Fixes and Improvements
- A crash when opening the preferences window.
Version 1.6.2
Released on
October 26, 2009
New Features
Fixes and Improvements
- Fixed a freeze when applying some audio unit effects, or changing the speed.
Version 1.6.1
Released on
October 23, 2009
Minor improvements
- Adjustable buffer size.
- The selection is now replaced when pasting.
- Move the cursor to the beginning/end of the selection with option-left/right.
- Scroll left or right with page-up/page-down.
- The cursor remains visible when moving it with the arrow keys.
Fixes
- Improved play through with lower latency.
- The crash recovery could fail in some cases.
- A crash when loading T-RackS 3 plugins.
- Ozone4's GUI could disappear in some cases.
- The audio could get corrupted when recording with an Apogee duet.
- Playing 192kHz files was broken.
- The manual would not open correctly from the help menu, or the help buttons.
- Marker names with accents wouldn't show up correctly.
- Markers would be duplicated when converting to mono.
- The audio units from the effect stack were applied in the reverse order.
- Some audio unit plugins, such as soundhack's ones could produce a few seconds of silence.
- TwistedWave could record with a wrong sampling rate, resulting in a pitch shifted audio.
- When recording, play through could play only on the left side in some cases.
- Some jpeg files did not work properly in mp4 files artwork metadata.
- Scrolling with shift + mouse wheel was broken.
Version 1.6
Released on
February 20, 2009
New Features
- Support for markers.
- Added the ability to manipulate cuts/crossfades.
- Automatically restore the session after a crash.
- Drag and dropping the selection.
- Play through when recording.
- Saving the color scheme presets.
Fixes and Improvements
- Wave64 support was broken on 10.4/intel.
- Ability to zoom when command dragging the overview window.
Version 1.5.1
Released on
December 03, 2008
New Features
- Added the ability to automatically apply a crossfade when deleting a region.
- Ability to export channels as individual files.
- Added the ability to register TwistedWave for all users.
Fixes and Improvements
- TwistedWave remembers the selection and cursor position when performing an undo/redo.
- The TimeReference is correctly updated when exporting the selection, creating a new doc with the selection, or changing the sampling rate.
- Fixed a crash when reading large files.
- Fixed some clicks when reading a 32bit floating point wav file.
Version 1.5
Released on
July 02, 2008
New Features
- Vertical zoom.
- Scrubbing.
- Support for WavPack and Wave64 files.
- Added a level meter.
- Added the File/Analyze menu item to gather some info about the waveform.
- Added the option to lock the channels together.
- Ability to display times in SMPTE.
- Uses the TimeCode reference from .wav and .aiff files.
- It is now possible to select the channels used for recording/playing.
- New shortcuts: shift mouse wheel to scroll, and command wheel for vertical zoom.
Fixes and Improvements
- The presets of individual effects in a stack would not always be remembered.
- When saving a preset, the new name was not taken into account when OK was pressed. Only when validating with return.
- TwistedWave now handles properly Audio Units whose GUI can resize.
- When saving a WAV file, TwistedWave would fail if the extension is not in lower case letters.
- Saving as OGG would only write 44100kHz files.
- Closed files would remain open by TwistedWave, preventing them from being emptied from the trash.
Version 1.4
Released on
April 25, 2008
New Features
- Support for metadata.
- Added a signal generator.
- A configurable special pasting that automatically fades in/out.
- Added an icon for the files saved by TwistedWave.
- Added the ability to export the selection.
- Added the ability to create a new document with the current selection.
- Added the ability to choose whether to open an untitled document at application launch, the last visited, or nothing.
- When applying an audio unit effect, there is an option to tell TwistedWave whether to truncate, insert, or merge the tail with the rest of the sound.
- Added the ability to have an audio unit applied globally to all documents.
Fixes and Improvements
- TwistedWave could crash reading some WMA files.
- TwistedWave could crash when using the Apple Matrix Reverb audio unit.
- TwistedWave could fail saving a file in some cases.
- Fixed a memory leak leading to some crashes when reading some large files.
- TwistedWave could not read wav files larger than 2GB.
- In some cases, when recording, only one channel would be recorded, or the channels could be swapped.
- TwistedWave could crash when selecting a region extending beyond the visible area.
- AIFF files produced by TwistedWave could not be read by MaxMSP.
- When editing keyboard shortcuts, all the menu items are now enabled.
- The audio units GUI would not display properly in some cases.
- The 'Remove Channel' command now removes the channel the cursor is in.
Version 1.3
Released on
December 21, 2007
New Features
- Added the ability to move the cursor to the next transient.
- Saving OGG/Vorbis files.
- Reading WMA files.
- Added the ability to disable the automatic scrolling when playing.
- Added the insert silence effect.
Fixes and Improvements
- Improved the audio units management.
- When loading a split multichannel file, the document name was Untitled.
- The audio units GUI would not reflect the changes when a preset was loaded, on Leopard.
- TwistedWave would fail reading files that were several GB in size.
Version 1.2.1
Released on
October 27, 2007
New Features
- You can stop recording by pressing the space bar.
Fixes and Improvements
- A crash when trying to rename channels in the channel reordering tool.
- A crash when trying to save a file with a number of channels not supported by the codec.
- A crash when trying to save a file in a format that TwistedWave can only read.
- A crash when trying to record for the 33rd time.
- TwistedWave would continue recording if the document was closed.
- The default file format with new documents is now the last used one (was always CAF).
- Opening and closing files repeatedly would not free all the resources, and eventually lead to a crash.
- The bit depth was not taken into account when saving in AIFF or SD2.
- Saving an 8 bit WAV file did not work.
- The bit depth in the status bar would not be accurate for ALAC files.
- A crash when 'Reverting to Saved', and the original file cannot be read.
Version 1.2
Released on
October 18, 2007
New Features
- Ready for Leopard!
- Reading/Writing FLAC files.
- Reading OGG/Vorbis files.
- Saving CAF files.
- It is possible to choose the sample size, bit rate and codec when saving a file.
- Added the cursor position and (optional) selection length in the toolbar.
- Added two dialogs for editing the cursor position and selection.
- Added the ability to reorder the channels.
- The file duration is displayed in the status bar.
- Added support for split multichannel files.
- Double click to select a whole channel, triple click to select all.
- Added the 'Invert Polarity' effect.
- It is possible to change the timeline font size.
Fixes and Improvements
- Recording would crash if the sound file and input device didn't have the same number of channels.
- Previewing the "Change Speed" effect could crash.
- The check for updates should pass through proxies.
- The help buttons would not always open the documentation at the right page.
- Shift-clicking will select everything between the cursor and the mouse pointer.
- Improved the way TwistedWave follows the wave when recording.
Version 1.1
Released on
September 20, 2007
New Features
- Added the 'multiple paste' option to the clip list.
- It is possible to preview the files from the file open dialog.
- It is possible to move the cursor to the beginning or end of the file or selection with the arrows.
- The normalization level is adjustable.
- Clicking on the rulers sets the cursor position on all channels, making it easier to work on multichannel files.
- Added support for reading Ambisonic sound files.
- Added the menu items to move the cursor to the beginning or end of the file.
- Automatically checks for updates.
Fixes and Improvements
- When previewing an audio unit, there was a 1 second latency when changing a parameter.
- Improved the behavior of the zoom in/out buttons.
- Reading a WAV file, and saving it in MPEG4 would crash.
- Trying to save a document with more than 2 channels in mp3 would crash.
- Applying an effect when there is not enough disk space would crash.
- TwistedWave would refuse a valid serial number if the user name was not capitalized correctly.
- The 'Select All' shortcut would not work in text fields.
- When saving a new clip, the name entered was ignored, and the default name was used when clicking Ok.
- Added a friendly message instead of a crash when an audio unit fails to initialize.
- It was possible to apply some effects when no document was open, leading to a crash.
Version 1.0
Released on
August 12, 2007
First release