Features

Customizable Note Colors

#36 Note colors are now customizable. Presets are available for common color schemes like ITG and Stepmania. Additionally, a number of small note rendering improvements have been made. Notes also now have a thicker stroke for better legibility and pump notes have a substantially thicker stroke to better match common pump styles.

Attack Support

#31 Attacks can now be created and edited within GrooveAuthor.

Improved Automatic Asset Detection

#50 Most assets associated with a song can now be automatically detected and applied with a single button. The logic for detecting assets has been improved.

Other Features

• #44 Added remappable actions for swapping between various note type pairs.
• Improved warning and error messages when saving files with incompatible features for the specified file format.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed occasional MacOS crashes when opening file dialogs.
• #48 Fixed copying and pasting events from loaded files resulting in some events not saving properly.
• #47 Fixed incorrect viewport size on MacOS when moving between monitors with different DPI settings.
• Fixed issue where rolls which extended below the bottom of the screen would tile incorrectly for SMX and solo charts.
• Fixed issue where when zoomed out notes would appear darker and more transparent than intended.
• Fixed some visual artifacts when zoomed out for multiplayer notes.

Installation

GrooveAuthor requires .Net Runtime 8.0.

Windows

GrooveAuthor requires Windows 10 or greater.

1. Download GrooveAuthor-v1.1.0-win-x64.zip and extract it to a desired location.
2. To run GrooveAuthor open the GrooveAuthor folder and run GrooveAuthor.exe.

Linux

1. Download GrooveAuthor-v1.1.0-linux-x64.tar.gz and extract it.
2. Inside the extracted directory run the grooveauthor-install.sh script with sudo. The grooveauthor-install.sh script will install GrooveAuthor to /opt and set up a desktop entry in /usr/share/applications

   sudo ./grooveauthor-install.sh
   

3. When complete you can delete the tar.gz file and the extracted contents.

MacOS

GrooveAuthor requires MacOS 11.0 or greater.

1. Download the mac dmg file appropriate for your architecture and run it. If your Mac has an Apple Silicon CPU you should use GrooveAuthor-v1.1.0-mac-arm64.dmg. If your Mac has an Intel CPU you should use GrooveAuthor-v1.1.0-mac-x64.dmg.
2. Copy GrooveAuthor.app to the /Applications directory.
3. Run the following command to remove the quarantine that Apple places on unsigned applications.

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/GrooveAuthor.app