Nota 0.41.5 🎛
A redesigned clip editor, bounce-through-effects in one shortcut, and live input monitoring on audio tracks.
✨ New
🎧 Paste Bounced Audio (⌘⇧V). Select a range on any track, pick an audio track and press ⌘⇧V. The range is rendered through the instrument and every effect, then pasted as a new audio clip. It renders in the background, and one Undo removes it. Just like Ableton Live.
🎙 Input monitoring. The headphones button on an audio track lets you hear your mic, interface or another track live through the track's effects, even with the transport stopped. The setting is saved with the project.
🎹 A new clip editor. MIDI and audio now share one layout: a header with the name and modes, an inspector on the left, the canvas on the right.
• A dark keyboard so the notes stand out, with selected notes in brass.
• Clip Tools previews draw as outlines over your notes, and Apply lights up only when there's something to apply.
• Envelopes draw over the notes instead of replacing them.
• Audio clips get switches instead of On/Off buttons, an Envelope tab, and their own warp-marker strip.
⚡️ Importing audio no longer freezes the app. The file appears right away as a "Processing…" track, the waveform fills in as it loads, and tempo detection runs in the background. Re-importing the same file is instant: the analysis is kept in the project's analysis/ folder.
📂 The browser folds down to a slim icon rail. Click an icon to reopen that tab; the state is remembered.
🎼 Piano roll
• Drag a note's left edge to resize it too.
• Chord notes no longer hide each other's velocity: grab a stem by its cap, or drag all selected notes at once.
• ⌘D on notes replaces whatever the copy lands on, like in the arrangement.
• When you zoom out, everything past the clip's end is darkened.
🔧 Changes
• Record and Metronome are now ⌘R and ⌘M, so they can't flip by accident while you play. The Mixer moves to ⌘⇧M.
• Preferences → Audio: a 440 Hz test tone and a CPU check for your current buffer size.
• The audio engine now has its own version, shown in About.
🐞 Fixes
• ⌘D places a clip's copy right after it, not at the end of the track.
• A note already held under the playhead now sounds when you start mid-note or loop back into it. Notes no longer hang when you drag the playhead.
• Sidechain and source pickers name tracks the same way the arrangement does.
• Right-clicking empty space on a track always opens a menu.