Audio Design Desk 2.0 is now available!

Audio Design Desk has been redesigned for a superior user experience and new features. Find out more and download the update at add.app

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New Features:

• Your Account - You'll need to sign up for a new ADD account, but after that you'll be able to manage, cancel and upgrade on your own terms.
  
• Auto Level - Need to balance your mix quickly? Auto Level uses ADD's content-aware timeline to automatically adjust gain levels for an audio element.
  
• New Extensions - In addition to Final Cut Pro's ADD Audio Bridge introduced in ADD 1, we now have extensions for Davinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere.
• Improved Search - Totally rewritten and much faster
  
• Improved Replacement Tools - New ways to find and replace similar sounds
  
• Media Bridge - Access audio and video files from nearly every stock media site, right within Audio Design Desk
  
• Custom Workspaces - We know it takes time to set up your workspaces and configure everything the way you want it. ADD 2.0 now offers the option to save and recall customized workspaces and window sets.
  

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🎛️ Changes in 1.10.19

• Fix: 🎬 FCPXML import is improved (synchronized clips, multi-cam clips, etc)
  
• Fix: 🎬 FCPXML export is now rounding project duration correctly.
  
• Fix: 🎬 Final Cut Pro Share destination (ADD H.264): Wasn't importing the video properly after rendering from FCPX, shouldn't of been sending fcpxml to ADD, and now will prompt for where you'd like to save the render to.
  
• Fix: ⌘ selecting track headers wasn't toggling their selection state properly
  
• Fix: 💥 Opening the Element detector was crashing
  
• Fix: Select menu wasn't selecting time and pitched regions if they were rendered
  
• Fix: Undo for Create Duplicates is better handled
  
• Improvements to Audio Unit management and validation
  
• New Safe Mode for disabling all AUs and Sound Packs on startup. (Hold down Shift on launch)
  
• New timeline preference for always zoom to playhead regardless of Auto Scroll preference
  

❄️ Changes in 1.10.18

• New: LUFS, EBU R 128 standard loudness analysis for metadata.
  
• New: Plug-in Manager for Audio Units
  
• New: preferences for max gain adjustment for regions and tracks
  
• Final Cut Pro extension update
  
• Key commands for assign energy in ADD Tags
  
• Metadata guessing updates
  
• Performance improvements when parsing large amounts of files for indexing sound packs, adding to playlists, triggers, ADD Tags, importer etc
  
• Sound Pack images in the library trees
  
• Sound Pack Manager: Added search
  
• Sound Pack Manager: Filter by sound pack type in install all and uninstall all
  
• Sound Pack icons and location shown in library
  
• Updated Replace region popover dialog in Timeline
  

🐞 Fixes in 1.10.18

• Audio channel state (L-R, R-L, Mono) in regions not loading correctly when duplicating or loading regions from a project
  
• Blacklist functionality, search and replace
  
• Replace presets weren't saving Key information
  
• Replace via region history menu now has undo
  
• Right click on video or video track was potentially crashing
  
• Selection in and out points might not be saved into project
  
• Set Master Tempo From Region now has undo
  
• Sound pack indexing and error detection
  
• Timeline mov files weren't exporting correctly to other formats
  
• Timeline region dragging and copy placement is more stable
  
• Timeline updated track names weren't saved in projects
  
• Track lock via the SHIFT L key command now can toggle
  
• Track offset UI issue with swap replacing with addClip files.
  
• Various memory leaks and stability fixes for file management
  
• Video regions in the timeline were being duplicated on organize timeline
  
• A number of issues with Paste Attributes
  
• Click in timeline track while playing (if preference is selected) will now scrub to new location
  
• Creating sound pack elements during the export process was disabled
  
• Stacks and Freeze regions weren't duplicating with properties correctly in the timeline.
  

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🍢 Updates in 1.10.17

• Audio Unit validation is much improved. Previously failed AUs will likely load.
  
• Dropbox Replay marker xml import
  
• Preset format is supported again
  
• Relink in the Timeline and Playlists is much much better
  
• Updates to the Consolidate Project to allow creating a new folder in a different location
  
• Various preference items have been consolidated to the ADD->Settings menu
  

🍡 Fixes in 1.10.17

• Audio Unit state in projects wasn't being saved correctly
  
• Edge case situation where the playhead positioned at the very end of a region might play it from the start
  
• FCPXML and Premiere XML won't set the master volume to max on import
  
• FCPXML import warnings (rounding errors) for frame boundaries
  
• Fixes general undo not working if the certain child windows were focused
  
• Potential crash when playback via Final Cut Pro extension
  
• Preferences could cause a reset of the audio system when it didn't need to
  
• ß: Stacks indexed in sound packs will now get their paths updated.
  
• Stability fixes
  
• Stacks timeline number display wasn't updating correctly
  
• Stacks waveforms weren't immediately loading when opened in the Stacks editor
  
• Timecode greater than 24 hours will now wrap back to 00:00:00
  
• Track level meters and record waveforms are more accurate
  
• Track mono/stereo/flipped state wasn't being restored on project load
  
• UI color fixes
  
• Unsaved projects are now auto saved
  
• Various fixes specific to macOS 10.13 support
  

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❄️ Updates in 1.10.16

• Regions will now display more than 2 channels if it's a multi channel file
  
• Premiere exports had incorrect end edit points when regions weren't overlapped in ADD
  
• Relinking regions in the timeline were being offset to a different position on update
  
• ADD Audio Bridge (Final Cut Pro extension) UI update
  

🍙 Updates in 1.10.15

• Import Adobe Premiere XML (fcpxml v4, v5). Same command as Final Cut Pro import.
  
• Option to export sync markers or not to Premiere
  
• New waveforms. Better performance. Will be crisper, improve visual clarity, show stereo, swapped or merged channels.
  

🍙 Fixes in 1.10.15

• A few key commands in dialogs not working or were misfiring.
  
• A number of issues with reversed audio and rendered time stretch
  
• Export to Premiere Pro now will export stereo tracks and regions correctly. They were previously showing up in Premiere as mono, even if stereo source.
  
• Faster shut down
  
• FCPXML import has been updated
  
• Projects: Don't set audio devices from projects - just preferences.
  
• Projects: Loading projects with a different sample rate will now give you the option to switch the device rather than automatically attempt to (and likely fail)
  
• Projects: Potential crash while saving
  
• Reversed audio is exported to Premiere correctly
  
• Timeline: various UI bugs
  
• Triggers: Dragging folders to the triggers buttons didn't recursively load the folder or package contents
  
• Browse tab doesn't reload your downloads every time you select it
  
• Changing of your location preferences is handled better
  

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🍂 Improvements in 1.10.14

• Overall performance improvements
  
• New project creation, parsing and management system
  
• New timeline versions allows better management.
  
• Added relink right click item for missing files in playlists and triggers. This currently just searches your loaded sound packs for matches.
  
• Improved auto-relinking of moved or renamed files
  
• Improved error reporting for project parsing
  
• First run startup allows a user to select their default locations before running ADD for the first time
  
• Startup dialog improves key command shortcuts
  
• Launching of external applications from timeline export is now more responsive
  
• Fixes Key command management issues in 1.10.13
  
• Fixes various UI glitches in the timeline, dragging regions, cursors
  

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✨ Improvements in 1.10.13

• Updated for Premiere 2023 direct export
  
• New preference for opened videos to set start timecode and frame rate or not. Previously always would if present.
  
• Timeline export "included muted" option now will use the solo state of regions and tracks
  
• Zoom key commands mirrored in keypad
  
• 1.10.13: 30d / 60d / 120d frame rates could of had incorrect values
  
• 1.10.13: Region markers in timeline might not display
  
• 1.10.13: Key commands for various buttons in modal dialogs weren't working properly. OK, Cancel, No, etc.
  
• CAF files could be exported on timeline export when they should of been converted to WAVE or AIFF.
  
• Cut might not cut some regions if time stretch is on
  
• Key commands could get through when they shouldn't - such as during bounce operations
  
• Missing default images for custom stock media providers.
  
• Missing generic Audio Unit interfaces for AUs that have no UIs such as some of Apple's ones.
  
• Various fixes for timeline bounce and cancellation operations with different operations
  
• Other minor fixes
  

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📦 Improvements in 1.10.11

• Compatibility with 10.13 High Sierra is restored
  
• Improves initial start up time to launch ADD
  
• Metadata guessing improvements
  
• MP3 export support added. Also fixes crash where 'same as source' MP3 source files would crash on import
  
• Main timeline bounce selection intelligence improved
  
• New: Selectable (right click on header) columns in the audio tables to choose what columns you want.
  
• Video export's audio is MP4 AAC now. PCM audio in videos was causing some issues on some sites that woudn't play PCM in MP4.
  

🪚 Fixes

• Fix: (Timeline) Slice on a region will now update the cut regions edit points if cut during playback
  
• Fix: Conversion error that could happen with incorrect bit depths for PCM files
  
• Fix: CSV export from ADD Tags wasn't exporting Mood value.
  
• Fix: Devices with incompatible sample rates such as air pods could cause a crash
  
• Fix: Invalid images in sound pack manager items will be removed.
  
• Fix: Stock media URL validation was failing for some URLs. Validation is temporarily disabled to allow them
  

🔰 Stacks Changes

• Stacks Editor is moved into the main timeline.
  
• Stacks editor will use the timeline preference "Click in track moves playhead".
  
• Fix: Dragging folder of stacks to timeline or audio tables
  
• Fix: Improved loading stacks that could have invalid paths in them
  
• Fix: Improved replacing stacks in the main timeline with other stacks or other files
  
• Fix: Stacks Editor was removed from UI if engine audio was reset due to a device or sample rate change in preferences
  
• Improved automatic metadata tagging for Stacks when saving
  
• Improved finding mis-pathed URLs in timeline stacks for unpack
  

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🦟️ Fixes in ADD 1.10.10

• Fix: Crash if attempting to bounce a selection outside of the project time range
  
• Fix: Bounce window not showing under some circumstances with videos in the timeline
  

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☀️ New in ADD 1.10.9

• ADD Tags, Ability to add artwork for sound packs
  
• ADD Tags, metadata fields: Instrument, Section Number and Moods
  
• Audio Markers are written to file as well as in the metadata
  
• Essential collection for Sound Pack Manager
  
• Export CSV and XML metadata descriptions from ADD Tags
  
• Metronome sound selector
  
• Timeline bounce dialog that lets you adjust in and out points
  

🦟️ Fixes in ADD 1.10.9

• ADD Tags, Recently added type and subtype values weren't persistent for new files.
  
• ADD Tags, Remove folder button would remove 2 folders
  
• Cleanup temp files that could of been left on disk as a result of a crash
  
• FCPXML, Audio Unit enabled state wasn't being used
  
• FCPXML, markers in multicam clips or on transitions had incorrect offsets
  
• Improved handling of sample rate selection, and a fix of an unresponsive interface state that could happen if another application changed the sample rate ADD is using.
  
• Improvements to Audio Device changes while running
  
• Improvements to Timeline Region Groups
  
• Potential crash when creating regions
  
• Remove all markers will also remove embedded markers
  
• Track VU meter wasn't registering input level while record enabled
  
• Video thumbnail track wasn't using inital start offset in project
  

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🎬 Improvements in 1.10.8

• Fix: ADD would stall on startup if there weren't any sound packs loaded
  
• Fix: Greatly improves FCPXML audio import either via the FCP extension or direct import in ADD
  
• FCPXML audio import will now load Audio Units on regions
  

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🎬 Improvements in 1.10.7

• Added save/render prompt to Stacks editor when closing window if unsaved
  
• Added snap to frame in timeline
  
• FCPXML Import. Can now import audio clips (This is still in Beta) and sequence duration from your Final Cut Project.
  
• Final Cut Pro: ADD Audio Bridge, now has 2 drag targets for a full session with audio or just the session data such as frame rate and duration
  
• Improved filename sorting in file tables to be more similar to the Finder's sorting
  
• Improved handling of missing locations when launching ADD, giving you an option to plug in your drive and rescan
  
• Improved Metadata and BPM guessing
  
• Improved Sound Pack loading on startup
  

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🐞 Fixes in 1.10.7

• Fix: Auto transpose in timeline was causing a crash
  
• Fix: Auto-creating trigger elements from stems won't clear the whole trigger on drop now
  
• Fix: Better handling of dragging from audio editor to timeline
  
• Fix: Improved waveform redrawing after zoom events
  
• Fix: Installed Sound Packs and playlist preferences could be lost when running an application update
  
• Fix: Main timeline bounce required a selection. Will now bounce your full timeline if there isn't one.
  
• Fix: Possible crash with MIDI on Mojave
  
• Fix: Problems with Shift dragging timeline regions. Added ability to press shift after the drag was initiated.
  
• Fix: Resolve will now import our FCPXML. Resolve v18 imports 1.9+ and v17 will import fcpxml 1.7
  
• Fix: Reversed regions could lost reverse state in the timeline with certain operations
  
• Fix: Sending audio to timeline from editor could have incorrect scale if time-stretching was on
  
• Fix: Triggers made with Clips could have incorrect sync points
  
• Fix: Waveforms in regions might not display in some cases
  

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🐞 Improvements in 1.10.6

• AAF, exports with the start timeline marker offset had incorrect times
  
• AAF, Improved auto-editing when timeline clips were overlapped. For complex sequences that require sample accurate placement (vs rounded to frame) -- We recommend rendering tracks with the freeze button or SHIFT M on groups of regions to merge edits for export.
  
• ADD wouldn't launch if there wasn't an internet connection available
  
• Added key command to reset your replace settings: ⌃⌘R
  
• Autoplay was misbehaving in the library for certain file types
  
• Export settings were ignoring the Organize Timeline checkbox option
  
• Fix possible crash when guessing metadata
  
• Key commands, ⇧⌥⮐ and ⌃⌥⮐ weren't working via the playlist and trigger tables.
• Shift R, replace wasn't finding some Sound Pack files
  
• Some video types such as mov were interpreted as audio files on Big Sur and up
  

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📺 New features and fixes in 1.10.5

• 🌟 Our Stock Media browser is now in beta and included in the public release, please try it under the Browse tab
  
• Improved video and image preview popup functionality
  
• Fix: Potential crash when resizing main window small with triggers panel open
  
• Fix: Master timeline was restarting playback after master fx changes
  
• Fix: Optimized file searching in playlist audio tables. Much improved.
  
• Fix: Possible sample rate mismatch between device and timeline on launch and handling of dynamic changes in device sample rate on dropped content in timeline
  
• Fix: Preview popup player now responds to Enter for rewind or CMD left for rewind
  
• Fix: Preview popup player wasn't showing addClip waveforms
  
• Fix: Regions were being restarted on selection events during playback if playing
  

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Fixes in 1.10.4 (876)

• Fix: 10.13 High Sierra Crash when opening preferences
  
• Fix: Problematic color contrasts in 10.13 and overall color scheme update
  
• Fix: Importer/ADD Tags, loss of selection after making a metadata change while arrowing through the table
  

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New features and fixes in 1.10.3 (875)

• Added project end timecode field to project preferences
  
• Change Add Sound Effect Marker to just Add Marker without a Category
  
• Improved dragging segments from editor to timeline
  
• Improved element detector in editor
  
• Removed 'click in track selects regions preference' as it was causing issues and isn't useful. Click in the track header instead.
  
• Fix: Cursor issues in timeline
  
• Fix: Cut region actions when time stretch is on.
  
• Fix: Seek to timeline start / end not scrolling correctly
  
• Fix: Selecting regions could slightly move them and cause a snap event
  
• Fix: Show Region Replace, ⇧R not showing if triggered quickly
  
• Fix: Various issues with Object snap
  

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🇮🇹 New features and refinements in 1.10.2 (868)

• UI responsiveness dramatically improved in larger sessions. Overhaul of all region graphics waveform rendering and rewrite of interactive behavior of objects in the timeline. This solves the issue where ADD was dropping window updates due to too many objects in the window.
  
• Improvements and fixes to the way Reverse region works
  
• New track meters
  
• Reworking the marker ruler area to show lines for sync regardless of region selection state
  
• Added DaVinci Resolve to export targets
  
• Added Final Cut Pro connection item to main Timeline menu
  
• Media Composer export setting changed to Pro Tools AAF
  
• Added timeline key commands: Go to End (end key), Go to Beginning (home key, also ⮐)
  

👚 Fixes

• Audio Unit bypass state could get out of sync
  
• Audio editor render to new file wasn't allowing saving
  
• Dragging sections or sending audio from the editor to the timeline had various issues
  
• Enforce project sample rate on timeline audio on auto import to FCPX
  
• FCPXML had potential rounding errors in region positions
  
• FCPXML, markers that were embedded on edited clips will now have correct time references when brought into ADD
  
• Folders added as Sound Packs weren't being reloaded on restart
  
• If soundpacks are on a missing volume, they'll be saved still between runs
  
• Sample rate selection in project preferences and saved projects will now sync correctly
  
• Video will scrub to position while adjusted region edits (and stay there after edit if playhead sync is active)
  

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🐰 Audio Design Desk 1.10.1

• Video will scrub to position while adjusted region edits
  
• Fix: Creating stack from timeline wasn't adding metadata to it on save
  
• Fix: Effects are preserved when creating stack from timeline regions
  
• Fix: better MIDI stability
  

🎬 ADD Audio Bridge: Final Cut Pro Workspace Extension

• Fix: Some frame rates were incorrectly handled for FCPXML exports from ADD which caused regions imported to FCP to be edited incorrectly.
  
• Fix: Next marker actions weren't consistently working correctly when attached to ADD
  
• Improved connection between the extension and ADD when extension window is closed.
  
• Play button now responds to space bar outside of the trigger mode.
  
• Remember last UI state between runs
  
• Optimized the refresh updates in the extension
  

🔰 Audio Design Desk 1.10

• Export options to auto-launch an application associated with the export.
  
• Most file references (sound packs, trigger definitions, playlists, etc) can now auto resolve in new content if moved on the file system. Old content such as projects need to be resaved to have this functionality.
  
• Auto-Divide element markers in stem into clips when dropped into a trigger
  
• Modality options and fixes, improved ability for enharmonic replacements in timeline
  
• Select menu item for selecting just Comment markers
  
• Updated Mini Library replace panel to show Volumes and current User Locations
  

🎬 ADD Audio Bridge: Final Cut Pro Workspace Extension and improvements

• ✨ New workspace extension for Final Cut Pro allows direct integration from your Final Cut Pro projects. A current version of Final Cut Pro is required for this feature.
  
• Custom share destination for Final Cut Pro
  
• FCPXML can dropped into the timeline of ADD or app extension to import markers, framerate and start timecode
  
• FCPXML now can be exported as version 1.7 or 1.10
  
• FCPXML now manages time reference (timecode) offsets which could be included in Wave BEXT chunks.
  
• FCPXML now exports fades and gain correctly
  

🔰 Stacks

• ✨ New way to manage layers of regions as a single object. Freeze files can be converted to Stacks and edited in the Stacks timeline. Think of Stacks as a mini project you can use as a single region.

🪲 Fixes

• Long startup time when there are missing files in playlists or triggers
  
• Copy and paste regions in main timeline was inaccurate in regard to your selected track
  
• Fade out's weren't updated correctly on region edits, also more flexible drag gestures on regions for fades
  
• Import to Library wasn't adding to Latest Import playlist
  
• Interleaved AAF export format to not cause duplicates in Logic
  
• New track was scrolling to the wrong location if auto scroll was enabled
  
• Possible crash on loading projects with certain Audio Units
  
• Project consolidation now will maintain correct paths to consolidated files in subdirectories of a project such as Audio Files
  
• quickly previewing and deleting items from tables could cause a crash
  
• UI fixes and improvements
  
• Many other small refinements and bug fixes...
  

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💥 Updates in Audio Design Desk 1.9.3

• Fix: Playlists weren't loading correctly
  
• ADD Tags: Improved metadata guessing
  
• Show audio table rows as disabled if file referenced is missing. Triggers, Playlists, ADD Tags, etc
  
• Timeline preference for selecting track regions when selecting the track body
  
• Fix: Dragging the timeline playhead could of been inaccurate
  
• Triggers preset loading is now a background task and can be cancelled
  

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✨ Updates in Audio Design Desk 1.9.2

• ADD Tags: CSV export for sound packs now includes a Sync marker column
  
• ADD Tags: New guess categorization metadata item for when you don't want it to guess everything
  
• Fix: Basic subscription level was being blocked some features and is now in line with the personal plan except for amount of tracks and regions
  
• Fix: Deleting from triggers table doesn't leave a progress dialog on screen
  
• Fix: Frame.io auto upload of audio bounces weren't playable from ADD
  
• Fix: Frame.io don't upload audio bounces when Export Audio isn't selected
  
• Fix: Open remote video dialog didn't show if video was hidden
  
• Fix: Ruler bar numbers could be incorrect
  
• Fix: Using arrows for navigation in the tables will now correctly skip hidden indexes if there are search results
  
• Freeze BIP files now will use the first sync point for its sync marker
  
• Improved metadata guessing for Key
  
• Refinements and fixes to device sample rate management
  
• Windows menu will now show all popup windows
  

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✨ Updates in Audio Design Desk 1.9.1

• Double click volume sliders to enter exact dB values
  
• Frame.io markers can now be imported as audio similar to XMP and Chapter
  
• Frame.io videos are now able to upload to their original location stacks regardless of if they were added to a project
  
• Nudging, Editing or dragging region will scrub video when the playhead sync is still set to None
  
• Progress dialogs can now show multitasking operations
  
• Library and video now remember their docked and undocked size and position
  
• Undocked video window now offers Always on Top preference in its right-click menu
  

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Add Sound Pack Folder might not work if you had previously dismissed the dialog with a don't show again.
  
• Big Sur+, Audio Units with no UI could be missing instead of default sliders
  
• Frame.io login wasn't working correctly
  
• Video full screen mode now integrates with Spaces when possible
  
• If you were scrolled in the timeline downward, selecting markers in the marker track might not select
  
• Imported video markers when imported as audio will now correctly use your sync setting
  
• International keyboard conflicts for German keyboard for zoom commands
  
• Main window icon wasn't set correctly on Save As project
  
• Marker scale was incorrect on launch
  
• Playing Clips in the preview popup player might not play
  
• Preview player responsiveness
  
• Video drag to video area now works
  
• Shift select tracks selects interior regions as well, selecting track selects its regions
  
• Project and clips weren't showing duration in the library panels
  
• The timeline selection rect would move with the drag when drag scrolling downward and regions the scrolled out of view would become deselected
  
• Various fixes related to dynamic timeline looping and changing regions during playback
  

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Updates in Audio Design Desk 1.9.0

🎹 Triggers

• ✨ Create MIDI note trigger pools
• ✨ MIDI input mapping window - assign MIDI events to common trigger and replacement actions
• Triggers preset and trigger pool contents are remembered between app launches
• Triggers area now gains focus when selecting pools
• Confirmation dialog shows when loading a preset if there are unsaved changes to trigger pools
• Dragging audio files between trigger pools now moves by default, and copies when Option key is held
• Trigger pool selection buttons (number keys or MIDI notes) can be dragged to move or copy their contents
• Holding Shift on the keyboard while selecting a number-key trigger pool in the triggers area now selects its Shift pool variant
• When triggers has focus, typing 1...0 or ⇧1...⇧0 now switches selected pool
• Added trigger pool color swatches and pool contents summary to triggers menus
• Added missing triggers to Triggers Pad (Beds and Pitched)

✚ More

• Improved metadata guessing
• Location preferences for caches, media and more
• Project cleanup now has more options to help transition from legacy locations
• Added "Reset column sorting" item to audio file table column right-click menu

🐞 Fixes

• Project frame rate now is correctly set during video open
• Timeline loops could play region just before loop start
• Video markers should ignore snap settings
• Preserve effect tails creates infinite export if effect amplitude never hits zero

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🎅 Updates in Audio Design Desk 1.8.8 (725)

• Fix: Invalid replace settings could be saved in a project or the replace settings which could generate random replace results rather than intended ones.
• Better notification if external drives in your locations are missing on startup
• Bounce in place: Added saftey limit of 5 minutes for Audio Units renders that could have runaway tails such as infinite delays
• Improvements to Project Cleanup, includes some legacy locations due to the reorganization of the newer locations in preferences.
• Moved video thumbnail cache to Media/Video/Thumbnails
• Updated to AAF 1.2.

✨ Updates in Audio Design Desk 1.8.7 (720)

• New: License types added for yearly plans and a new basic plan
• New: Disk space available shown in Locations and Sound Pack Manager with safety checks when downloading Sound Packs
• New: Manage ADD's file cache, download locations for Sound packs and file locations much easier in a new Locations preference panel. This allows you to set the processing cache away from your boot drive. There will be some transition to change to the new file structure that will be improved before public release.
• New: Premiere XMP and Final Cut video metadata and markers import. Fun feature to auto convert markers to audio directly.
• Improved: License selection UI
• Improved: Sound Pack Manager UIs.
• Improved: Metadata guessing accuracy
• Fix: ADD Tags Sound Pack export where filenames conflicted. Now you can auto create unqiue file names. Helpful in huge Sound Pack creation.
• Fix: Audio tables such as ADD Tags now have more consistent behavior
• Fix: Wave and aiff file descriptors could be leaked which could result in a too many open files error and subsequent no more file processing or opens. Especially important for large file pools in ADD Tags.
• Fix: Various other smaller bugs

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Updates in Audio Design Desk 1.8.6

🏷 ADD Tags

• Added ability to remove folders
  
• Building Sound Packs now allows for file name conflicts to be auto-resolved
  
• Fix for maintaining selection during edits
  
• Improvements to search, table management, metadata editing and more.
  
• Metadata guessing is now much more accurate.
  
• UI update for exporting sound packs and importing to into your library
  
• Updated search bar to have more controls. UI Refinements, hide show panels in view menu. Updated search bar to have more controls. UI Refinements, hide show panels in view men. Fixes potential problems working with search data vs full table data.
  

🏷 Playlists

• Fix: Audio Tables (playlists, triggers, importer, etc), had inconsistent data results when editing, adding to, or removing files
  
• Fix: Playlists are now saving and loading correctly
  
• Playlist tables: Added ability to reset the column header order by right click
  

🏷 Various

• Audio Units will now update in all menus after a new validation. If Audio Units are added while ADD is open you will now be notified.
  
• Fix for possible bad characters in project metadata
  
• Fix: Drag from editor had incorrect end edit point when added to timeline
  
• Fix: Presets weren't loading FX and were making needless project folders
  
• Fix: Synth or music type Audio Units won't be added into effects chains. They're still available for the moment to allow content sample based AUs into the timeline
  
• Refactors and various other bug fixes
  
• Updater will now only nag you on launch, not over and over
  

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Updates in Audio Design Desk 1.8.5

• New Dynamic Duplicate region dialog that has options for amount of duplicates, preserve group selection, align sync markers and if you want to auto-replace to create new variations.
  
• Improved colors on Video track for solo and mute states
  
• Improved marker importing, now will import RIFF, M4A or MP3 chapters
  
• Restored Save As Preset feature to file menu. Note this feature will soon be replaced by something better.
  
• Restored the Interleaved AAF format to export options. Still a valid format for Studio One. Logic re-interleaves split mono regardless.
  
• Brief notification now shows when project start timecode and frame rate are updated after opening a video with this information
  
• Updated ADD Manual to be current with 1.8
  
• Fix: Playlists weren't always being saved, or contents were being overwritten with empty data on launch
  
• Fix: If canceling an Audio Unit scan mid-scan, it would result in no AUs at all despite previous scans. Now it will revert to your previous cached list.
  
• Fix: Possible crash when writing markers to wave files
  
• Fix: ADD Tags, Importer window: Saving or editing files when search bar has filtered table wouldn't update table when search was deselected. Also search will now filter all table folders. Search itself is slightly improved as well.
  

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Audio Design Desk 1.8.4

💾 AAF and Export

• Added 'Include Muted' checkbox to include muted regions in your export or not
• AAF is now a single export type.
• Export settings are better remembered between launches
• Fix: AAF audio files that have odd characters in them were preventing export

🎛 Audio Units

• Audio Units now can sync bpm and timeline position
• Audio Units have focus visual indicator around window now
• Fix: Arturia AUs crashing when removed from screen either via new selection or rendering
• Fix: Many Audio Units didn't display in Big Sur on Intel Macs.
• Fix: Audio Units weren't being displayed in alphabetical order
• Fix: for iLok based Audio Units
• Fix: Soundtoys Audio Units crashing on load
• Fix: some Audio Units having the wrong visual scale

🔈 Misc

• Transport moved to top of window so that library and timeline can be easily resized on smaller screens
• Control+click now opens context menu in places where only right-click worked previously
• Improved License dialog, error messages, and activation usages for products
• Video now has buttons for show / hiding the thumbnails and audio waveform for performance reasons. If you're getting lag on long videos, you can turn these off.
• Fix: Sound Packs weren't in alphabetical order in Search and Replace
• Fix: Bar numbers on the ruler would sometimes be off by 1

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🎃 Audio Design Desk 1.8.3 🎃

• Fix: Possible crash on playback of long timelines (recently after restarting your mac)
• Fix: AAF region durations could be over-estimated resulting in an audible click in some programs
• Fix: Replace from numbered trigger key command (⌥1 etc) wasn't working in previous release
• Added Uninstall All and Install All buttons to the Sound Pack Manager to easily let you install or remove all local packs.
• Changed license selection window to show all license types without scrolling.

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Audio Design Desk 1.8.2

• Fix: New Audio Unit window. Solves issue with Waves 12+ which uses Metal for rendering. The UIs would be unresponsive after a window was closed and reopened.
  
• Fix: Select new Home location for relocating your User Library folder. Wasn't working.
  
• Fix: Triggers 11-20 now work again via the keyboard
  
• Multi-threading code changes and fixes.
  
• Region pan wasn't being saved correctly in projects
  

Audio Design Desk 1.8.1

• Fix: AAF frame rate issues led to clip placement inaccuracy
  
• Fix: FCPXML placement and rendering of regions is now accurate.
  
• Fix: FCPXML and Premiere XML, exporting files that were background rendered
  
• New export option for include audio tail in export renders
  
• Fix: Audio Unit windows remained floating when ADD is put in the background.
  
• Fix: File → Open and pressing Cancel in project save prompt now works properly
  
• Fix: Updating a big pack can cause huge amount of memory usage
  
• Fix: Various file conversions: bit depth is now allowed to be upsampled from a lower bit depth to a higher
  
• More controls for individual Trigger presets, save and delete trigger collections
  
• New license type: Produce Perpetual
  
• Purchasing is now done on add.app rather than in application
  

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Audio Design Desk 1.8.0

Key Changes from 1.7.2:

• Updated Audio Engine
• New background time and pitch renderer
• Realtime audio triggering and region placement
• Sample accurate timeline looping
• Clean up project and workspace
• Lock Duration, Auto-Transpose and Lock Key for replace
• Tempo sync and transport state for Audio Units

New Features and Refinements

• Added Multi-Output and Aggregate output device support to Audio Preferences if Input is disabled
  
• Added preference to set Timeline BPM from first audio file if tempo is embedded
  
• Audio Units given access to ADD's tempo and timeline position
  
• Preference for auto-pausing background rendering while playing
  
• Detachable track FX windows
  
• Fades in looping regions will update in realtime
  
• Improve realtime pauses in playback during various edit operations
  
• Improvements and fixes in MIDI control, MTC send is being scheduled much more precisely now. Sync is tighter.
  
• Dialog for bounce in place
  
• Preference to return to play location on replace
  
• Spot Mode export format preferences
  
• Lock Duration when replacing: Global and per region replacement controls for locking a replacement duration using time stretch or duplication and editing.
  
• Option to trigger from start or timeline position for real time triggers
  
• The way that the audio engine is managed is rewritten to be more flexible. All audio connections are changed and the automation system has been rewritten.
  
• Unmerge / BIP regions will maintain relative position when moved
  

Bug Fixes

• AAF export using project start had incorrect values. Also fixes for various frame rate issues with AAF
  
• Audio Editor marker editing, saving and inconsistencies in main window and ADD Tags
  
• Audio Units could be removed in a project when switching Audio Devices
  
• Audio Units with complex data might not load correctly in project
  
• Potential crash on Audio Unit startup scan
  
• Big Sur, Work around added for bug in Apple Audio Units that didn't have a UI such as Reverb2, MatrixReverb, etc
  
• Improved handling of Audio Units requiring tempo and playback state information.
  
• Bug with project loading and 'Sync markers lock to time regardless of tempo changes'
  
• Changing frame rate won't change project start's timecode unless necessary
  
• Changing Lock to original BPM will maintain sync position
  
• Don't snap to zero if region snap is set to sync
  
• Dragging regions to muted tracks or from solo tracks
  
• Improve playback when engaging timeline loop
  
• Metronome wasn't playing during MTC chasing
  
• MTC sync wasn't working after initial play event
  
• Muted regions were rendered in freeze file
  
• Potential crash on Audio Unit startup scan
  
• Quantize markers would favor lower bound incorrectly
  
• Renaming frozen region overwrites freeze info
  
• Slider labels were blurry until text was set
  
• Stereo state for tracks in projects
  
• Undo move region from marker not registering
  
• Upload to Frame.io automatically after video export
  
• YouTube download fixed - again
  
• Various bug fixes related to threading issues
  

🪲

Audio Design Desk 1.7.2 Build 579

• Library, fixes for sluggish display and redrawing errors on some systems.
• Library, Send to Timeline wasn't sending or replacing sequentially
• Added a recent URL menu to the Open Remote Video dialog.
• Confirm quit if downloading Sound Packs or Videos
• Fixed indexing issue when addLibraries were inside of your home Library folder
• Marker track start offset was behaving strangely, both in drawing, thumbnails and in video offset
• Preference frame rate was out of sync with the timeline transport frame rate preference
• Video download, ability to cancel and replace with a new video while in progress.

Audio Design Desk 1.7.1 Build 575

• Audio Editor: New Element Detector to identify transients and create sync markers and element markers
• Recent Projects were being alphabetically sorted, now restored to most recent
• Confirmation on quit if you're currently downloading a Sound Pack
• Improved replacement settings management when there are no matches found

Audio Design Desk 1.7.0 Build 574

✨ New Features
• MIDI Timecode Send support
• Added channel names for input selector on tracks for hardware devices
• Timestamps throughout ADD are now consistently formatted
• Audio Engine will now use the preferred output channel selection that is registered for that device. Previous was always using channels 1 and 2.
• Interactive Tour

📗 Library Improvements
• File management speed improvements
• Tree browser and file list tables throughout ADD now dynamically show file durations in short or long time format depending on available screen space
• Improvements at startup when Sound Packs require reindexing. Now the user will get info about what is invalid and they can choose to rebuild the index or not. Solves the problem of huge startup times when there are invalid Sound Packs in the library
• Quoted exact string matches in search
• Replace panel: Update to better allow content to be limited to selected Sound Packs dynamically

🪲 Various Bug Fixes and Improvements
• Transport timecode entry field now accepts timecode entered without delimiters
• Timecode ruler now correctly shows consistent timecode stamps for all frame rates
• Fixed rare video sync and locate issues with timeline display
• Video thumbnails were incorrectly offset if project start was moved
• YouTube was't accessible
• Audio Editor rendering fixes
• Background rendering improvements
• Improved logic for the Audio Engine Overload notifications.
• Number key commands (1...9) added to startup dialog for quick recent project selection
• ADD Tags: Conversion from MONO Wave to M4A was failing if the bit rate was above 256.

🐞 Audio Design Desk 1.6.9 Build 552

• Fix: Sample Rate changes weren't being set until relaunch if you didn't also change a device
• Drag from Library or Playlists to other applications such as a DAW.
     - Pro licenses can ⌘ or ⌥ Drag a single addAudio file and have it be converted to the underlying open audio type such as wave or m4a.
• Missing project files will now show as blank regions in the timeline allowing you to selectively replace or select a new file for it
• New sequential replacement feature (Key Command change):
     ⌘← = Replace with previous file in the same directory
     ⌘→ = Replace with next file in the same directory
• Sound Pack Sources are now displayed with title (vs filename) and alphabetized

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Audio Design Desk 1.6.8 Build 548

✨ New Features
• Offline Rendering for time stretching and pitch shifting in the timeline. You can disable this behavior in preferences if you wish. This solves scheduling issues and reduces the strain on the audio engine.
• Redesigned License dialog that shows more information and all your licenses
• Caching of video thumbnails - speeds up video loading after the initial thumbnail creation.
• New preference to make importing a video's audio optional
• Option to export CSV of metadata summary when creating a sound pack from the ADD Tags window

🐞 Bug Fixes
• The search panel could return incorrect results when clicking on selector buttons
• YouTube import stopped working
• Frame.io was crashing on login if a user didn't belong to any teams
• Ability to cancel loading large data sets into playlists or importer
• Canceling during a freeze now hides the dialog
• Duplication of freeze regions wasn't working correctly.
• Corrected download button state in initial load of sound pack manager - could be listed as download when a pack was out of date and not installed
• Dragging an addProj file from the finder won't create an empty track and ask you if you want to save
• Edited rendered regions didn't have the correct edit points
• Freeze Files weren't found in a consolidated shared project on load
• Library->Add Folder would crash if you tried to add the same folder twice
• Quirks with click to fade in or out in editor when region is edited
• Quirks with fades and slip tool in editor
• On project close, orphaned render or freeze files will be deleted. This is similar to a Clean Project command.

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Audio Design Desk 1.6.6 Build 530

• Audio Engine can now support independent device selection from the System selection if Audio Input is disabled in preferences. This is similar to how ADD behaved before v1.6. This is helpful in cases where you are using virtual devices such as Screen Recording using Zoom or Loom.
• New option to go back to play location when stop event happens. Matches Pro Tools' `Insertion Follows Playback`. See: 'Timeline → Transport and Navigation → Return To Play Location On Stop'
• Improve search results
• Single freeze regions will now freeze markers into relative locations if time stretched
• Updated license terms for the Produce plan to indicate Internet distribution license
• If you had a pre-existing 'Create' free license, you can now enter it.
• Fix: Potential playback crash after rendering regions
• Fix: Bug with Undo and moving regions to new tracks
• Fix: Option dragging (copying) regions could be snapped to an unintended track
• Fix: Don't create new project folder structure if save is adjacent to another addProj file. Assume it's a Save As...
• Fix: MTC preferences where the default virtual input was showing as missing and required reselection.
• Fix: AAF export will convert 32 bit files. Previously it didn't convert bit depth if no other changes were needed to the source audio. Pro Tools wasn't relinking 32 bit files.

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Audio Design Desk 1.6.5 Build 522

• Gain control will now visually adjust the region waveform
• Single frozen regions will now retain the same metadata as the original allowing for replacement
• When freezing regions the gain for the region wasn't being rendered
• Remember last playlist selection in bounce dialog
• Save last bounce location into the project
• Mini Library (⇧R) UI adjustments
• Reorganizing the Main Timeline / Transport and Navigation menus
• Sometimes timeline keycommands wouldn't work if the wrong window was focused

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Audio Design Desk 1.6.4 Build 517

• Important Audio Device fixes for systems without audio input and overall improved handling of multiple devices. Tighter sync with Audio MIDI Setup for device and sample rate selection.
• Palette Window is renamed Trigger Pad and has 3 sections for User triggers, Sound Design and Music
• Preliminary support for sending DAW time information for external Audio Units

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Audio Design Desk 1.6.3 Build 512

• ADD Create (The Free Version) is now retired. If you already have an existing license it will still work as it did before. Instead of the free version, there is an unlimited 30 day trial for new registrations.
• Triggers Palette button window for common types in the Triggers Menu
• Audio input preference to disable input entirely
• Preference to show the audio engine overload message or not
• Added close button to editor, Fixes for editor waveform being the wrong scale when loaded with tempo stretching from timeline
• Added "Unspecified" as an option for 'Key' replacement settings to allow empty values
• Refined Lock to Natural Tempo region command, added lock in effects popup
• Added Music/Loop trigger key commands, ⌃1 - 0
• Fix: Save dialogs often only worked one time. Also changes for Open dialogs
• Fix: MTC sync with incoming timecode that is negative such as with a count in from Logic
• Fix: Auto save user trigger presets on preset change or quit
• Fix: Trigger playlists and general playlists will now search loaded sound packs for files if paths have changed and they aren't found on load
• Fix: Potential conflict when starting and stopping audio engine during a project load that has video (could freeze)
• Fix: Adjusting for potential latency values that are greater than the incoming buffer size. This can be the case with bluetooth audio devices.

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Audio Design Desk 1.6.1 Build 498

Refinements

• Addition of I/O Device Buffer Sizes for hardware in Preferences
• Added button for Quantize Marker Placement
• Library indexing now displays progress
• Notification on Audio Engine overload when hardware can't keep up with processing requests
• Refined Sound Pack creation tools
• Project Info Dialog in View menu that is useful for sending to us if you have a problem
• Write project BPM to newly recorded audio files

Bug Fixes

• Fix for periodic crash during MIDI Time Code (MTC) receive
• Recording latency improved and tightened
• Handle hardware that has no input device such as the 2014 mac mini
• Better handle devices during engine start that have invalid formats such as low sample rates. (Consumer Bluetooth Headphones)
• Better handling of invalid sample rates in device management via preferences and audio engine when conflicting with other applications
• Crash when record enabling track after sample rate change in preferences
• Metronome isn't lagging as much now behind the beat
• Don't allow record enabled tracks to be deleted
• Able to correctly disable tempo stretch on a per region basis via right click (wasn't working)
• Allow setting of subcategory during contextual trigger assigments
• Playlist tables not preserving sort order on deletion
• Canceling track freeze wasn't resetting the track header state
• Triggers metadata browser selector didn't have a sub category selection
• Quantize marker trigger Placement wasn't working for user triggers
• Some UI fixes for High Sierra windows not being dark (Such as the Preferences window)
• Tempo stretch button state saved to preferences
• Track automation toggle command not working as a toggle
• ADD Tags: allow bpm guessing if overwrite is true and bpm is already set
• ADD Tags: Paste attributes pastes sync markers even when marker options are not selected
• ADD Tags: Prefill sound pack export as version 1 if no version is added

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Introducing Audio Design Desk 1.6: Musicans and podcasters, this one's for you.
This version of Audio Design Desk has got you covered from production to post to export. Instantly create professional-sounding content in one place or in direct connection with any DAW.

New Features:

• 🕒 DAWSync via MTC: Effortlessly sync Audio Design Desk to any DAW including Pro Tools, Nuendo, Studio One, and Logic to add sound design, sound effects, and music 10x faster.
• 🎤 Audio Recording and Editing Tools: Now musicians and podcasters can record directly into Audio Design Desk without the need for an additional DAW. New features include advanced snap settings to duplicate, trim, and place music to the beat, the ability to automatically quantize sounds as you’re placing them, and a metronome you will actually like.
• ➰ LoopDNA: Audio Design Desk knows your loops from Splice or LoopCloud—so replacing, time stretching, and mixing and matching is immediate. LoopDNA brings the full power of Audio Design Desk to every sample you import, offering users a real-time creative experience that keeps them in their flow.

Enhancements and Fixes:

• Adding Ruler display options such as Minute : Second, Timecode and Bars.
• Improved device and sample rate handling
• Improved Sound Pack Manager and Sound Pack handling
• Improved canceling various operations that refused to cancel before
• Added support to remember if Library or Video is hidden in both preferences and projects
• Added ability to type directly into the timecode display and use shorthand, such as 1 for 1 frame, or 0:02 for 2 frames
• Better metadata guessing in the Importer
• Added a remove all metadata menu item in Importer
• Loop button in preview player
• Many other bug fixes...

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Audio Design Desk 1.5.1
• New: Delta update support for Sound Packs. Sound Pack updates can now be delivered incrementally.
• Fix: Don't allow the install button to be pressed more than once in Sound Pack Manager items
• Fix: Improved drag selection from editor to timeline
• Fix: Resume in Sound Pack Download wasn't working correctly
• Fix: Track displacement when autoscroll dragging a track
• Fix: Track effects latency is now being taken into account
• Fix: Effects item tool tip is showing previous plugin name • Fix: Nudge gain/pan/pitch values after replace and undo

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Audio Design Desk 1.5.0 (Build 419)

• New in 1.5: Redesigned Sound Pack Manager and Store. Immediately get access to an additional 10,000 premium sounds in addition to the 20,000+ sounds that come free with Audio Design Desk.
• Much improved Sound Pack export in ADD Tags.
• Musical Key panel replaces tonic and modality in Replace
• Importer, more tools and reorganization, better handling of multiple folders.

Bug Fixes 🪲
• Auto play wasn't always working correctly in the library. Better handling of preview audio player.
• Projects loaded that contain Audio Units not on the system were forcing a crash. The missing Audio Unit is shown in the Effects dialog popup
• Track headers and main timeline scroll wheel sync with 3rd party mice
• Replace panel related genres fixed and redesigned UI.
• Issues with Audio Editor, fades and time stretch inconsistencies
• Various other smaller fixes!

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🌵 Audio Design Desk 1.4.12 (Build 397) Universal Build: Intel + Apple Silicon. macOS 10.13 → 11+ Big Sur.

• Audio Editor and Importer Editor render now uses the selection, edit points, or whole file in that precedence. Removed the export selection item.
• New preference for Live zooming in the timeline to redraw waveforms and automation as zoom events happen.
• Added key command for clear fades
• Option click designated Search and Replace buttons will allow multiple selection.
• Fix: Library resizing was being restricted. This has been improved to allow some flexibility in the various panels and an overall smaller ADD window is allowed.
• Fix: Tracks weren't dragging quite correctly
• Fix: Threading issue when freezing items with effects
• Fix: Importer metadata was missing, genre, composers, albums
• Fix: Colors of effects popups

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🤦‍♂️ 1.4.11
• Addressed an overlooked issue in .10 where audio from the editor and importer was disconnected.

🐞 1.4.10
• Problem with Mojave (10.14) and older was found in regard to scheduling some regions on tracks. The timing could be off due to a sample rate mismatch internally in the internal mixer. This problem appeared after switching to a universal binary.
• Consolidated project video audio files weren't being found in Audio Files folder when reopening a consolidated project
• Cannot select/deselect sound packs in the search window when no other search criteria is present

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🧨 Audio Design Desk 1.4.9 (Build 388) Universal Build: Intel + Apple Silicon. macOS 10.13 → 11+ Big Sur.

Effects
• Added true bypass to effects stacks. This totally removes the Audio Unit from the processing chain and doesn't rely on the AU to implement its own bypass (which not all do).
• Effects can now be rearranged by dragging the row, Holding down option allows you to drag while clicking the butttons as well.
• Latency from effects is now accounted for in scheduling and rendering
• Audio Unit window positions are now saved in the project
• Color enhancements for effects windows and components, Audio Unit windows are also now linked to reveal button in effects popup.
• Tool Tips in the effects controller window that shows info and latency.
• Added additional bypass button in menu controller and redesigned buttons

Other Improvements
• Sliders: Master Volume, Region Editor and Audio Tracks now go to +6db
• New Freeze options: Freeze Individual Regions, to allow for freezing individual regions in place rather than mixing them together
• New, Freeze Track Buttonn
• Track Automation now contained in popup menu via the A button in the track header, also right click the automation layer to get the same menu
• New Select Menu for: Freeze, Effects, Time + Pitch region selection.
• Overall audio performance improvements.
• Reorganized left Library area, removed Presets heading.
• Improved latency when playing timeline loops
• Sound Pack downloads will now go to one of 3 mirrors, Asia, US West, or Europe
• Additional video audio import formats. Some videos weren't importing audio.
• Some changes to timeline key commands to enable a clearer mixing solution. See main menus.

Bug Fixes
• Various freeze state edge cases involving mute, pan, effects and so on.
• Regions with effects (audio units or time + pitch) would have latency that was unaccounted for. This update handles it on a region by region basis. This is quite important for tighter syncs or converting regions with effects to freeze files.
• Fades sometimes not rendering correctly with time stretched regions
• Master FX button not lighting up on project load if master has FX
• Changing region pitch doesn't stop playback
• Track Automation wasn't always being disabled correctly
• Option copy region now copies all properties
• End loop point marker was inaccurately placed in the UI when changing zoom level
• Various other optimizations and minor refinements and fixes.

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🍏 Audio Design Desk 1.4.8 (Build 371)

• Native support for new Apple Silicon M1 Macs, Universal Binary, x86_64 + arm64.
• New Feature: Replace from Trigger, allows you to replace from a given trigger pool. For example ⌥1 will replace selected regions from Trigger 1.
• New Feature: Replacement Panel, added Tonic and Modality to filters. New music pack coming soon...
• New Feature: Importer, Allow multiple comma delimited keywords in the Replace Keyword Metadata tool
• Added direct support for FLAC files in the timeline.
• Cache certain file collection generation speed up subsequent pool generation for matched criteria.

• Fix: AAF export, overlapped regions would incorrectly offset the times and subsequent regions would be misplaced at delayed locations
• Fix: Memory leak related to markers in WAVE and AIFF files - namely in our sound packs. File descriptor was being left open when parsing for markers. This would cause issues on large sound pack re-indexing and subsequent file opens would fail silently.
• Fix: Trigger data could contain missing files, and triggers would result in file not found
• Fix: for video nominal frame rate incorrect guessing stopping load progress of video
• Fix: Importer, problems with tables getting incorrectly sorted after save events.
• Fix: Importer, Copy, Cut and Paste wasn't operating on selection in Metadata editor fields
• Fix: Replace panel reset button wasn't always reflecting if settings had been changed

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🥁 1.4.7 (Build 360)

• Fix: AAF/XML export region fades weren't being rendered if the only change to the region was a fade
• Fix: Premiere video import wasn't working when video didn't have an audio track
• Fix: Crash when trying to load videos of an unsupported codec. Now offers an informative dialog.
• Fix: Adding or removing Sound Packs will refresh replacement terms for Albums, Composers, Keywords
• Fix: Marker track was incorrectly labeling bar numbers
• Fix: Importer, Preserve selection after save all metadata
• Fix: Importer, Importer editing metadata loses current table sort.

🤺 1.4.6 (Build 355)

• Improved the responsiveness of playback in the timeline. Less latency.
• Fix: 3rd party mice could cause tracks to be offset from the track headers when scrolling.
• Fix: Show All, Shift Z.
• Fix: Clips when used as triggers weren't installing their effects
• Misc smaller bug fixes.

🌅 1.4.5 (Build 346)

• Update for compatibility with macOS 11, Big Sur. Apple Silicon is still untested, but Big Sur should run fine.
• Fix: Some Audio Units may have had issues loading their interfaces
• Fix: Can now shift + drag select to continue selection regions in the timeline

🐜 1.4.4 (Build 345)

• Fix: Various render operations such as AAF or XML region export, Bouncing Tracks and multi-channel wave could of been aborted mid render.
• Fix: Incorrect region edits when using the Copy Original Audio setting in AAF
• Fix: Projects weren't saving selected frame rate
• New: Add a folder as a Sound Pack. It will index the audio files it finds for use as another library source. This allows you to add a folder of your own sounds without needing to create a Sound Pack.
• New: option to Quantize your trigger placements to bar, beat or subdivision (or not) in the Triggers menu. This is related to your ruler snap setting.

🐛 1.4.3 (Build 342)

• Fix: Update to address region gain changes below 0dB not being honored on subsequent playbacks

🎉 Audio Design Desk 1.4.2 (Build 341)

• Additional frame rates added including drop frame support
• ADD won't change your system output device now
• Things like solo and mute don't interrupt timeline playback
• Timeline ruler is now labeling bars, not beats
• Changed the notification of Audio Units needing validation. You can now elect to not validate or do at your choosing via preferences
• Various bug fixes...

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🎃 Audio Design Desk 1.4.1 (Build 325)

1.4.1 has some important updates for AAF Export as well as many new refinements and fixes.

• Export using AAF or XML will now only render regions if actually needed, as in they have effects, are edited, reversed, etc. Otherwise, the audio will be copied instead. (Faster and supports mono audio). Rendered audio is always stereo.
• disallow bad characters in track names as they can mess up AAF export
• AAF when using rendered audio would have incorrect clip position due to incorrect gap calculation.
• AAF mono regions would be incorrectly rendered and missing. Now they'll be rendered as stereo files.
• Disallow bad characters in track names as they can mess up AAF export
• FCPXML frame rounding errors.
• Progress bars added to various bounce and export commands to better inform progress towards completion.
• Contextual menu commands in playlists and timeline to add selected files to a trigger slot.
• Added refresh metadata contextual command for playlist tables as the tables cache the metadata so they need a way to be updated if metadata is changed
• Allow region snap setting to dictate trigger sync, create regions from the start, sync or end. None setting will also go to sync.
• Snap triggered markers to ruler snap setting on creation.
• Improvements to copy and paste in various areas. Library trees, playlists, triggers, timeline, and editor. Editor will paste into Timeline as a clip.
• Upped contrast for region text in unselected state
• Updated Audio Unit preset format for better compatibility with various Audio Units
• Various UI Improvements
• Timeline grid wasn't drawing the master tempo correctly.
• Audio playback continues to play when adding effect in Editor
• Drag files and folders to trigger numbers
• Triggers placement is incorrect with master time stretch on.
• If project loaded has bad edit data, remove edits from region.
• Mini library double click replace
• Incorrect key commands for send to timeline variants
• Fixed option T key command for tempo stretching button shortcut
• Sequential send from library wasn't exactly lined up as it was offsetting to sync markers in later regions added
• User saved track name was being overwritten in projects after being reopened if auto name tracks was on.
• Recent projects menu will move recently opened older project to top.
• Editing in ADD Tags Editor marks table item as changed

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⚡️ Audio Design Desk 1.4.0 (Build 314)
Hi there! Lots of new features, fixes, and refinements have been added in ADD 1.4. Here's a quick summary:

• All audio playback has been overhauled for improvements to CPU usage, multi-threading, scheduling and sync with video
• Much improved export options for AAF and XML output. Rendering regions, better support for non-destructive fades and volume adjustments
• User Triggers can be randomly chosen from its playlist or sequential
• User Triggers, improved UI, drag to button and drop, drag over states on buttons, improved coloring and auto-description to playlist
• Realtime audio playback option for triggers. Much faster placement of newly triggered files
• Performance improvements to replacement and randomization
• Redesigned the Region Editor, more features and better usability.
• It's possible ADD could of started up without verifying your correct license in which case it'd ask you to register again.
• Lots of UI improvements

And many other bug fixes...

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🐞 ADD 1.3.3 (Build 252)
• All open and save dialogs are now modal (non-sheet, non-attached) windows. There seemed to be some issues with certain dialogs not showing as sheets in an unpredictable manner.
• Improved dragging presets to Timeline so that new regions are stacked better on tracks, or new tracks are created.
• Improved dragging multiple items from the library to a track. Will now be stacked by default in the timeline. If you hold down ⌘ they will be sequentially added.
• Select next and previous marker commands (⌥→ ⌥←) will now work more predictably.
• UI refinements to the importer window.

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🐞 ADD 1.3.2 (Build 251)
• Crash Fix for deleting a file while playing.
• Fix: File extensions weren't always being read correctly which could result in your files not being accepted into Audio Design Desk.

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🐞 ADD 1.3.1 (Build 250)
• Frame.io improvements: Delete multiple items, better handling of version stacks and uploading.
• Tags and Metadata editor: Intensity and Complexity UI improvements.
• Tags and Metadata editor: Guess Metadata now can guess Intensity and Complexity via a simple file naming convention. Example: Hits_i3_c5.wav would guess: Intensity 3, Complexity 5.
• After a crash, restore project URL reference vs create new project
• Fixes to solo, mute, and locked to better differentiate between region state vs track state.
• Group solo controls the video sound while playing now.
• Frame.io content preview wasn't correctly toggling preview player state correctly after download via spacebar. Applies to video, images and audio on first preview.
• Possible crash related to undo gain, pan, and pitch changes
• Nudge key commands for pitch, gain, and pan now have undo.
• Restore effects on undo region delete from timeline, then undo. Audio Units will be put back. Missing before.

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⭐️ New Features in ADD 1.3.0 (Build 246)

• Frame.io integration incorporates worldwide collaboration and sync accurate notes into ADD enabling a seamless roundtrip experience between the two platforms. Users can pull assets and frame-accurate comments directly from Frame.io into ADD's timeline as well as upload directly back to Frame.io for collaborative review and feedback.
• Perpetual (Non-Subscription) License available now for purchase. Contact us if you want to migrate your existing subscription with a discount.
• Preference for step and nudge by custom frame amount.

🐞 Fixes

• Reorganized various menus for clarity.
• Improved License dialogs and management.
• Sound Pack Manager fixes and improvements.
• Project or Audio files that contain invalid metadata will now parse correctly.
• Various other bug fixes and refinements.

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⚡️︎ Changes and Fixes in 1.2.4 (Build 238)

🎪 New Features
• Right click command to reindex user library or sound packs in place.
• Show Duplicate Regions right click command in timeline.
• Show in Timeline, right click library command
• Timeline Loop Pre-roll preference
• Loop markers in marker track now have mouse over state to show better mouse control with them.

⚠️ Fixes
• Metadata edits for titles weren't being shown correctly as titles were being set to the filename rather than the metadata title
• Show in Finder commands for directories wasn't working correctly.
• Show in Library wasn't working correctly for files in your User Library
• Regions added via custom number triggers didn't have their metadata added correctly, so on opening in the marker editor the metadata was missing
• Importing: Control Characters in imported metadata will be stripped. These are sometimes found in BWAV metadata.

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⚡️︎ Changes and Fixes in 1.2.3 (Build 235)

⌛️ Timeline
• Various improvements to replacement intelligence
• Replacement settings now just has 1 duration slider rather than low and high. 0-100% represents how close to a duration match. 100% being the exact duration
• Improved responsiveness when single clicking (not dragging) a region to add a fade in or out.
• Changed , and . key commands to nudge regions if regions are selected, otherwise step 1 frame in either direction as before.
• Timeline in and out points now have a draggable boundary aside from loop.
• Adjustments to auto sample rate conversion. New preference to allow for default choices of how you want it to behave.
• Faster waveform data generation.
• New preference for video full screen monitor takeover style.
• Lower CPU Usage
• Various fixes related to reversing audio both in the timeline and editor
• Divide on markers now accounts for out points in element markers.
• Fixed offline bouncing fade out on regions in cases where the region sample rate is different than the projects.
• Undo fixes

📚 Library
• All Sound Packs relocated to improved faster and more reliable hosting.
• Sound Pack Manager UI enhancements.
• Sound Pack Manager has a new download location pull down that lets you choose where to download to on your computer.
• Much improved handling of Sound Packs on removable volumes. Sound Packs won't be forgotten if the volume is missing and will automatically disappear / reappear when the volume is unmounted / mounted
• Additional Sound Pack verification that all files are in the expected place. If not, ADD will re-index that Sound Pack on load.
• New Video preview. Just press space bar like normal preview on a video file.
• Improvements to Search, more refined results
• In the Editor, .aiff files weren't being allowed to have marker edits saved. .aif was ok.
• Audio Editors have higher resolution now. Improved zoom response
• Preview Player wasn't allowing dragging playhead

♬ Projects
• Open Startup Dialog menu item added to File Menu to reshow startup dialog if wanted.
• Project files are now bookmarked when loaded, meaning that if a user moves a project file after having saved it, ADD will still find it via the Recent Projects or Startup Dialog.
• Added Revert to Saved for projects, main menu item
• Recent Projects in Startup Dialog and in Recent Projects menu item are now in sync
• Some cleanup and optimizing with Projects and missing files

🏷 Importer
• New export selection command in the ADD Tags editor
• Added partial word search to Replace Metadata Tags
• Added Broadcast wave metadata (BEXT) to general metadata mining.
• Added tagsProj file format compatibility with importer / tags. Ability to save a tags project from importer window.
• Folder creation for better project organization.
• Improved metadata guessing
• File conversion fixes

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⚡️ Changes in 1.2.2 ⚡️
• Redesigned Metadata editor and library importer. New single region popup editor from any source in ADD.
• Playlist, Triggers, Search and Replace tables will now preserve their column order between sessions.
• All sliders have had their taper changed for a better range refinement.
• Gain slider range increased to +12dB.
• Detach Video and Library commands are moved to the View menu.
• Marker Trigger button in control bar is now removed in favor of menu Item in Triggers main menu.
• Improvements to search results

⚡️ Bug Fixes in 1.2.2 ⚡️
• Timeline region snap for beat and bar wasn't working correctly
• Issue with Mojave stalling on the splash screen.
• Guessing Metadata in the importer wasn't working
• Gain control in audio editor wasn't working when files were loading from the library.
• Refinements for ADD Free, fixes for multiple pestering region and track dialog boxes

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⚡️ New Features in 1.2.1 ⚡️
• ADD is now free! Well, sort of. Rather than a trial, an unregistered ADD is now feature limited to the Demo Sound Pack, 16 Tracks, 50 Regions, 5 Imports at a time, 3 Trigger slots, 1 Freeze File, and 2 Project Versions. This only applies to unregistered users but never expires.
• Added replace action button to the timeline controls which just triggers ⌘R
• Added abort button for Loading Plug-ins during scan process in splash screen. More details of Audio Unit loading.
• ADD's Manual is now integrated into the Help menu.
• Tutorial video vimeo links added to Help menu.
• Region replacement history now saved in a project.
• New XML Cuesheet export format.
• Added duration field to cuesheet preview. (Was already in the actual cuesheets).
• There is now a clearer distinction of which Sound Packs are available for your registered license level.

⚡️ Bug Fixes in 1.2.1 ⚡️
• Potential issue with Library Detach and Video Detach not working.
• On first selection of effects pull down might not show loaded Audio Unit.
• Option Drag Multiple Regions could loose correct relative positioning.
• Gain slider in effects popup showed an incorrect position.
• Paste Attributes now works for Stereo State in Effects popup.
• Remote videos can now be cancelled mid-download with the X button
• Group solo or mute events are now exclusive of the event type and don't override each other.
• Changed Replacement Reset to also reselect all Sound Pack Sources.
• Video mute and stop not always working correctly during playback.
• Key commands were't re-enabled after certain license dialogs
• Audio Editor effects panel wasn't being removed on swap from Marker Editor
• Short videos (< 3m) weren't redrawing their audio on horizontal zoom
• Deleting automation points from video track
• Added Undo delete automation point
• Improved metadata panel display responsiveness
• Stop and Play in timeline now will use the auto scroll option as well
• Trigger region creation now scrolls to correct view if auto scroll is on
• Autoscroll preference now used for replacement actions.
• View menu items and Detach Library or Video are now in sync.
• Added Metadata and Triggers Panels to Tab cycle. Fixes focus issue sending to timeline from trigger pool.

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⚡️ New Features in 1.2.0 ⚡️
• Track Volume Automation. Automation Gain is currently post fader.
• New feature in effects popup: Flip Stereo. [L • R] vs [R • L] vs [Mono]
• New preference to choose if you want all your effects windows opened when showing the FX controllers. Track, Region and Master.
• New preference for Timeline default frame rate. It is still autoset to match an incoming video.
• Window layout is now saved both in preferences and for a given project
• New Timeline Command: Set Loop to Selection ⌥⌘L. Whatever is selected in the timeline creates the loop boundaries.
• Can now Shift or ⌘ Drag timeline loop points to move entire selection
• Can now assign a start timecode offset to the main transport. You can include frames in the current frame rate. Will be saved in your project and the last set value to preferences. Can do 01:00:00.00, 00:01, 3600, etc.
• If there is a timecode track in the video, ADD will adopt the start offset. Only mov timecode right now.
• File types other than addAudio can be re-titled directly in the Metadata tab without opening the full edit window. Useful for naming freeze files for export purposes
• Send to Timeline Sequentially command.
• Edit Metadata on a folder in the library will now open a metadata editor window loaded with the contents of that folder.
• New scroll wheel modifiers: In Pro Tools for example, using the wheel by itself scrolls the edit window vertically; command-scrolling horizontally scrolls the window; control-scrolling horizontally zooms the window.
• 1/3 video playback speed available, current rate displayed in transport area on the right
• Sample Rate can now be changed without relaunching

⚡️ Improvements
• Loading uncached Audio Units will now show progress in splash screen
• A few UI improvements, better contrast with waveform vs region frame, a few other refinements
• Region creation will be faster now.
• Autosave is paused during playback
• Dragging regions selects destination track during drag to indication destination
• Timeline regions now light up when selected rather than get darker
• Fade envelopes are now tapered.
• Added recent projects to the Dock Menu.

⚡️ Bug Fixes
• Weren't able to drag items from one playlist to another's title to add it there
• Various object optimizations to speed up region and track creation. Reduces overall object count.
• Memory leaks related to dynamic menu creation.
• Crash on Undo Region -> Consolidate To New Track while playing.
• Magic Marker doesn't select on swap when filling with fresh audio.
• Removing objects from timeline was broken in 10.13
• Corrected waveform not redrawn on new BPM event from effects popup
• Projects weren't changing the hardware sample rate properly.
• You can now save markers via the Editor with addAudio files. You will be shown a warning which you can suppress.
• Status window when bouncing wasn't showing up during timeline render
• Better responsiveness to initial playback of audio such as when creating a new track or opening a project. A number of bugs have been reported because of this initial lag that could happen.
• Group track mute wasn't coloring tracks blue
• Importer window closes on completion