What is new in the latest VSTSynthFont [3] version?

• The Visual style, User interface and Reverb Mode selections are now menu items in the Options button. All of these selections are still found in the Options window. Additionally the functions for the deprecated “Arrangement files” are now in the Options window.
• There are two new buttons as alternatives to track menu items: “Open SoundFont” and “SoundFont & Preset Manager”
• You can click anywhere in the track bar belonging to a “Mixer” parameter ("Volume" in the image) to set the value. Use CTRL-Click to the select the default value (if available)
• New track menu item in SoundFont list: Erase history
• The Presets menu has been simplified to show only Presets in the active SoundFont
• When changing user interface between compact (one single channel) and standard (16 channels) some hosts can resize the window immediately. Some other hosts require that the window is closed and reopened. In order to switch to and from the Screen Reader view, the window always must be closed and reopened
• The selected track is now outlined with bold borders at the top and the bottom, as can be seen in the image for track 03. Additionally, the Value edit box is highlighted
• To select one single track you can click on the check box in column “SEL”. To select multiple tracks, keep CTRL down while selecting the check box. Press “SEL” to toggle the selection for all tracks

- The Open SoundFont window has received many changes:

• The window is now “non-blocking“, meaning that you can work with the host while the window is visible
• You can audition SoundFonts and Presets either using the inbuilt virtual keyboard, play a track on the host or using an external keyboard
• Two new buttons: Delete and Rename. Delete moves the SoundFont to the Recycle bin. In order to Rename a SoundFont you must at first change the name in the “File name” edit box and then press Rename
• The size of the window is saved for later

- The SoundFont & Preset Manager is now also in non-blocking mode and can be resized. The size is saved for later. The Preset search engine has been improved. The window also supports audition of Presets like the File Open window.

Says Chris, one hard-core user, about the new audition functions in these two windows: “I was just able to audition 43 separate organ sounds embedded within different SoundFonts in about 15 seconds. No other plugin can do that.”

- The plugin now publishes 9 parameters: Volume, Pan, PitchWheel, Reverb amount, Reverb OnOff, Attack, Release, Filter Fc and Filter Q. Of these Volume, Pan, Reverb and Release are also found in the plugin’s ”Mixer” drop-down menu. The host can use these parameters in various ways. For example, in Cubase you can use them in Quick Controls (QC):

What is new in version 3.300 of VSTSynthFont / VSTSynthFont64?

Bugs fixed:

- Just a few minor ones

New features:

- Support for multiple CPU cores. Results in faster handling of larger number if note events (voices / polyphony). Can be switched off at will (see image ->)

- Slider to set the polyphony limit (see image ->)

- Improved means of routing the MIDI channel to the tracks  (see image ->)

- MIDI events filter. Most useful in case of multiple tracks for a channel, that is, combined with the routing feature above (see image ->)