Giada

This release introduces elastic time-stretching for sample channels, letting users independently adjust playback speed and pitch, powered by the Rubber Band audio library. The Sample Editor has been reworked accordingly with a redesigned Pitch/Time panel, a new Playback Mode selector (Tape vs. Elastic), a quick "Adjust..." menu for common pitch/time operations, and a dedicated sample info window.

• Add elastic (time-stretching) playback mode for sample channels, allowing tempo and pitch to be changed independently;
• Sample Editor: major UI rework, focusing on the pitch tools and audio file info sections;
• Sample Editor: organize the sample-spreading actions (spread to bar, spread to song) into a dedicated menu;
• Sample Editor: add "+1 Semitone" and "-1 Semitone" options to quickly adjust sample pitch in semitone increments;
• Improve audio buffer performance and internal data handling by switching to a more efficient memory layout;
• CMake: add a new WITH_ASAN option (disabled by default) to build with AddressSanitizer + UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer;
• Fix a crash that could occur when closing sub-windows;
• Various minor internal optimizations and code cleanups.

This release introduces a major overhaul of Giada's timing and sequencing engine, with a new tick-based internal timeline that improves musical precision across editing and playback. It also expands scene management with more flexible copy, clear and switching features, improves plug-in and MIDI workflow, adds CPU load monitoring to the main window and includes a broad round of internal cleanup and UI polish.

• New tick-based audio rendering engine, improving consistency across sequencing, playback and action editing;
• Rework the internal storage of actions, improving performance and simplifying action handling;
• Add support for forced scene switching;
• Add the ability to copy the current scene to another;
• Add options to clear all actions in the current scene or across all scenes;
• Add options to free all sample channels in the current scene or across all scenes;
• Allow plug-ins that generate MIDI to forward their output to subsequent plug-ins;
• Improve transport and position reporting for plug-ins;
• Add CPU load meter in the main window, along with a new footer area with extra information;
• Fix audio glitches while saving a project;
• Fix wrong sample range points computation when the system sample rate changes;
• Include broader internal cleanup, refactoring, dependency updates and UI polish.

This is the second bugfix release in the 1.4 series which makes working with scenes smoother and more flexible, fixes a few annoyances, and brings some welcome cleanup under the hood.

• Add ability to copy the entire scene to another;
• Add ability to force-change a scene;
• Add ability to clear all actions in current scene or in all scenes;
• Add ability to free all sample channels in current scene or in all scenes;
• Add missing pop-over labels to scene buttons;
• Fix sample channels being killed abruptly on scene change;
• Minor refactoring and code cleanup.

This is a bugfix release that makes Giada feel smoother and more flexible, with better scene and channel workflow, customizable keyboard and MIDI control for switching scenes and a round of fixes for playback, editing, file browsing, and plug-in stability.

• Enable scene switching via keyboard or MIDI, with support for custom bindings;
• Display inactive scenes (i.e. with no audio or actions);
• Add ability to rename a channel in all scenes;
• Add ability to undo a scene change when transport is running;
• Remove obsolete 'export sample...' function;
• Improve support for audio plug-ins with complex buses layout;
• Revert scene status to IDLE when transport stops;
• File Browser: fix bug that would allow to incorrectly browse into project folders;
• Fix bug that would prevent to successfully clear keyboard bindings;
• Fix crash when opening plug-in browser with no plug-ins detected;
• Fix wrong Wave object deletion when freeing a sample channel;
• Fix inability to play samples once removed from a scene;
• Fix inability to delete all channel actions from all scenes;
• Fix Channel 'copy to scene' function, copying too many actions;
• Sample Editor: fix pitch changes not working in scenes greater than 1;
• Sample Editor: prevent tools to get stuck in 'deactivated' state when switching between scenes;
• Update JUCE to version 8.0.12;
• Update FLTK to version 1.4.5.