| reViSiT inherits and extends the fast and powerful interface of Impulse Tracker 2 - allowing everything to be done with but few strokes of the PC keyboard, but adding an enlarged and graphical interface with intuitive and flexible mouse support. (*excluding mouse support) Like all trackers, reViSiT is able to playback by itself. However, because reViSiT is coded as a VST plug-in, it can receive time code from its host and thus synchronise is playback: use a sequencer's transport bar to start playback or move the sequencer's playback cursor to a specific bar or note and reViSiT will adapt automatically. reViSiT will also be able to adapt to time signature and tempo changes. (*time signature not yet implemented) As a VST plug-in, reViSiT assumes the audio quality of the host. So, if your host (e.g. Cubase) runs at 192kHZ, then so does reViSiT. Internal processing, however, is always processed at 32-bit - regardless of the host's output bit-depth. The net result is 64 (*32) tracks of exquisite low-latency audio quality. When the tracker is playing, the resultant audio is piped back to the VST host as an audio track. Once there, it can be processed by all the facilities affored by the host, including VST and DirectX plug-ins. Furthermore, .WAV rendering becomes a thing of the past - the host will automatically process reViSiT's output when ever the user mixes (or bounces) the audio down, using the host's own features. Complete list of features. New in v0.92.1 Beta - 9Feedback and Crash Report Features] Using Ctrl+# or the speech bubble icon (bottom right), you can now send me your thoughts, comments, bug reports and suggestions directly from reViSiT, with the additional option of including a screenshot, technical data or even pattern data. Furthermore, a similar screen will popup in the event that reViSiT becomes unstable, enabling you to send debug data that will help identify where the problem occurred, and also allowing you to briefly comment on what you were doing at the time.
- [Audio Performance and Quality Improvements] Yet more profiling and optimizing, as well as a new compiler, have led to a lighter memory and CPU load and code that can take advantage of technologies in specific processors (e.g. SSE, SIMD, etc.). Improvements in audio quality also come from an overhaul of the volume ramping code.
- [Volume/Panning Swing and Pitch-based Panning] These features complete the Impulse Tracker instrument model: swing helps add a little randomness to volume and panning settings, and pitch-based panning can be useful for broadening the spatial presence of instruments (e.g. having low notes on the left and high on the right, as a pianist might hear from their instrument).
- [ Minor bug fixes] A slightly more robust MIDI architecture should reduce the possibility of hanging notes and also allow for chord playback when auditioning MIDI instruments. The new code also supports troublesome hosts (notably REAPER) a little better. A number of small, non-critical glitches have also been smoothed over.
- [ Professional Edition Update ] v0.92.1 Pro greatly benefits from the optimisations mentioned above, meaning that the addition of surround sound and assignable outputs now comes at minimal cost to CPU load. Internally, reViSiT Pro processes over 64 simultaneous 5.1 audio channels (minimum 384 discrete channels, total), each routeable, through one of four methods, to any of 16 5.1 outputs (and additional 96 discrete channels, total). By comparison the Standard Edition is 64+ channels of stereo audio and one bus (129 discrete channels, total).
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