Changes in TwistedWave for Windows

Fixed

• TwistedWave could fail to start with a "Bad Image" error.
• Some VST 3 effects could refuse to be applied right after being previewed.
• Plug-in effects could be applied bypassed, and quietly do nothing.
• Trim Silences could leave some silence behind on multichannel files.

New

• Added an option for independent per-document volume control.
• Zooming is now centered on the mouse by default.
• TwistedWave will now detect glitches during a recording on Windows as well.

Fixed

• Warn when exporting an MP2 with more than two channels.
• When playing a file that has a sampling rate different than the audio interface, now use a high quality sample rate converter instead of a quick one.
• The cursor would not move smoothly when playing a file with a 8 kHz sample rate.
• Previewing the pitch/speed effect with ZTX was silent if working on a selected region.
• The clipped sample count in the Analyze window was wrong for DSD files.

Fixed

• Dropping files in the batch processor was broken.

New

• The cursor position is highlighted in red when recording.
• It is possible to select a fade curve other than linear.
• When trimming silences, it is possible to specify the amount of silence to preserve on either end.
• When splitting by markers, format the file names with a format string. The batch split action gains the same options.

Fixed

• Previewing AudioUnit/VST plugins with non-contiguous selection could fail.
• TwistedWave would fail to load markers from some WAV files.
• The contents of some windows could be corrupted when the window was resized.

Video

• Added variable frame-rate video export, allowing speed changes to be saved without dropping or duplicating frames and often avoiding re-encoding.
• TwistedWave would fail saving some h264 files.
• Avoids unnecessary full re-encoding when saving video files.

New

• An ARM64 version of TwistedWave is now available for Windows.
• Installing TwistedWave doesn't require an admin account anymore.
• It is now possible to configure the dark or light mode independently of the system settings.

Speech Recognition

• You can now search within the transcription window.
• Added the Parakeet speech recognition models.
• Added the Zipformer and Nemotron real-time speech recognition models.
• You can now select the recognition language instead of relying on automatic language detection, which could sometimes choose the wrong language.
• Added an option to enable Voice Activity Detection (VAD) so that speech recognition processes only the parts of the file containing speech.
• The Whisper models can now perform real-time speech recognition.
• When an English-only Whisper model was selected, the multilingual version was used instead by mistake.

Fixed

• When selecting "File > Quit TwistedWave", TwistedWave would close the open files but not quit if other windows, such as the preferences window, were open.
• The toolbar buttons could be too small on high-DPI displays.
• The Alert dialog proportions were not correct on high DPI displays.

Fixed

• The progress bar when saving files was not very smooth.
• Stability improvements.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where metadata from M4A audio files would fail to load.
• Fixed an issue where some dialogs did not display correctly in dark mode.
• Improved toolbar buttons in dark mode.
• Fixed a crash when identifying the note in an empty file.
• Fixed an issue where some VST3 effects would fail to open or could cause crashes.
• Improved error messages in the batch processor.

New and Improved

• Added the Speech Synthesis effect.
• Fixed an issue where VST2 plug-ins could display a blank window.
• The small TwistedWave icon in the upper-left corner of the waveform view can now be used to drag audio excerpts.
• Improved the interface on high-DPI displays.
• Added a preference to open files in tabs instead of windows.
• Fixed an issue where pressing “Alt” did not display multi-file behavior.
• Fixed a crash when loading files with unnamed markers.

Video Editing Improvements

• Video editing is now supported for files using the VP8, VP9, AV1 and Apple ProRes codecs.
• Videos can now be saved in the WebM file format.
• Audio tracks in video files can now use the Opus codec.
• Improved video playback and export performance, with better handling of large video files.
• Video metadata is now correctly saved when exporting video files.
• Markers are now saved as chapters in exported videos.
• Speech recognition results are now saved as subtitles.
• Fixed an issue where exporting a video with an AAC audio track could freeze and the export task would never progress.
• Fixed an issue where editing some .flv video files could produce a corrupted video that would not play correctly.

New Features and Improvements

• Modernized the preferences window.
• Long-pressing the Undo/Redo buttons now shows a history list, allowing you to undo or redo multiple actions at once.
• Improved the "Speech Synthesis" effect.

New Features and Improvements

• Added a new "Repair Selection" effect to automatically fix short audio glitches,
• Added support for drag-and-drop colors in the waveform color editor,
• The Save action in the Batch Processor now prompts for a destination by default.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where some VST effects appeared as a blank window,
• Fixed Dark Mode: TwistedWave now correctly switches to Dark Mode, and the entire UI (not just the waveform) is displayed in dark colors,
• Fixed an issue where edited H.265 videos would not play correctly.

New Features and Improvements

• Added the "Open Batch" and "Apply Batch" in the "File" menu,
• Added the ability to apply a batch to an open file from the batch processor window.

New Features and Improvements

• Added an option to automatically adjust vertical zoom when editing quiet parts of audio,
• Added an option to disable auto-scrolling when selecting to the edges,
• In the "Save" batch action, added an option to ask for the destination when the batch is run,
• The preferences window can now be resized to fit smaller screens,
• Snapping to markers is now disabled with Command (or Control on Windows) instead of Shift for consistence with other graphics editors,
• When editing an MP3 file, the status bar now shows "MP3" instead of the confusing and incorrect "16-bit".

Fixed

• In some cases, audio could be recorded with the wrong sample rate,
• TwistedWave could fail to open a file containing special characters copied from a Mac,
• Scrolling / zooming would sometimes not work correctly,
• Selecting "Open with > TwistedWave" from the explorer could fail to load the file,
• When loading a movie, the video window could fail to attach correctly to the audio editor,
• When saving an MP3 file to WAV, TwistedWave now uses the last-used bit depth instead of defaulting to 16-bit,
• The bit-depth menu was incorrect when saving CAF files with the ALAC codec,
• 20-bit ALAC files would be saved as 24-bit,
• Sometimes, the Loop button in the toolbar would not show the correct state.

Fixes and Improvements

• The waveform display would sometimes fail to update when editing,
• Some functions are faster. Pasting, combined with the silence detector in particular, could be slow.

Fixes and Improvements

• The waveform display would sometimes fail to update when editing.

Fixes

• Some VST3 sound effects could cause a crash,
• The metadata from some WAV files would fail to load,
• The preferences window could be too high to fit on the screen.

Improvements

• Marker names now correctly display non-English characters,
• Added an option to set the file time reference to the current time when recording into an empty file,
• Loading folders with many files in the batch processor is now much faster.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when scrubbing through audio,
• Fixed a warning that appeared when using TwistedWave in dark mode,
• Fixed a bug where extra corrupted samples could appear at the end of an AMB file,
• Fixed an issue where sessions could fail to restore after a crash,
• Fixed a crash when TwistedWave failed to identify a note,
• Fixed an issue where metadata was not saved with MP4 files,
• Fixed a bug where TwistedWave could fail to save an MP3 file after editing.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where sessions could fail to restore after a crash.

New Features

• It is now possible to export markers and speech markers with the batch processor,
• Added an option to close the progress panel when the batch process is done,
• Added the playback speed to the Audio menu so that it is possible to configure keyboard shortcuts.

Fixes

• VST3 plugins would not display correctly on high-DPI monitors,
• Fixed a crash when working with a VST effect and an empty file,
• In some rare cases, two words could get flipped in the speech recognition.

Fixes and Improvements

• The level meter would not correctly show the peak levels,
• In some cases, TwistedWave would crash when closing,
• When exporting markers, the default file name would be incorrect if it contained a ".".

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,
• The text script would unexpectedly scroll to the bottom.

New

• 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

• Fixed a random crash when opening a file / creating a new file,
• 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,
• RTF text scripts could fail to load,
• It is now also possible to open a text script by dropping it on the TwistedWave window.

Fixes

• TwistedWave could refuse opening a .stack file if its name contained a space,
• WAV files could be rejected when uploaded to some sites,
• The files could contain invalid characters when splitting a file by markers.

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.

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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.

New

• You can suggest features and vote before May 8th.

Fixed

• 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.

Fixed

• An error message could appear when clicking the "Update License" button.

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.

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.

Fixed

• The custom keyboard shortcuts were broken in 29.5,

New & Improved

• The speech recognition and video sync features are now also available on Windows,
• Alt-F4 and other Alt- shortcuts to access the main menu didn't work,
• The scrollbar to move the wavefrom wasn't very fluid.

Fixed & Improved

• The cursor would be hidden when it fell on a marker on non-retina displays,
• Punch-in recording wouldn't work when monitoring levels,
• 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.

New

• 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,
• 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.

Fixes

• 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 in the file.

Fixes

• 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,
• Removed the message saying the beta version was expiring.

First version of TwistedWave for Windows