nota-daw/nota v0.60.1

Nota 0.60.1

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🎛 Nota 0.60.1 is out

The biggest Nota release yet: a new look you can make your own, recording on many tracks at once, device cards rebuilt around their graphs, a browser for your whole computer and keyboard shortcuts you choose yourself.

1. A new look, and it's yours
The shell is flat and grey, so the track colours carry the music, and orange means one thing at a time: solid for what is live, a soft tint for what you picked. Prefer how 0.59 looked? Settings → Appearance → Look → Classic brings it back, with any colour theme. Or drop your own theme file into the Themes folder: colours, a typeface and corner roundness. Text size, phrase lines every 4–32 bars and group trays in the Arrangement come along.

2. Record the whole band in one pass
Arm several audio tracks and Record takes them all at once, each from its own input of the interface, sample-aligned. Every armed instrument track records too, each from its own MIDI device and channel, and several Session slots can record in one take. On an interface with more outputs, a private Cue mix goes to your headphones while Main goes to the audience.

3. Device cards built around their graphs
Every built-in effect lays out like Auto Filter: the graph fills its tab with its knobs beside it, and the right panel follows the tab. Most effects fold to a small S card. The instruments share one filter graph with the live spectrum and one envelope graph with curves and Lin / Exp. EQ-8, Dynamic EQ-8, Lens and Auto Filter open XL over the chain or in their own window, and Reverb and Delay draw what your audio actually does.

4. A browser for your whole computer
Add your own sample folders, all indexed and searched. Browse any folder or drive from the Files tab, and Locate a clip's file in the browser or in Finder / Explorer. The Projects tab lists your newest work first, with tempo, key and length.

5. Your own keyboard shortcuts
Settings → Shortcuts: every key in Nota can be changed, including the computer-keyboard notes. Conflicts are caught before saving, changed keys are marked, and each one resets on its own.

6. Articulation maps
Import a Cubase expression map or a Studio One keyswitch list, pick the technique per note in the piano roll, and Nota sends the keyswitches to your sample library just ahead of the notes.

7. Also new
Custom wavetables in Nota Aurora, a Modular tab in the browser with the Arrangement's track headers beside the canvas, a ☰ Menu key in place of the menu bar on Windows and Linux, a ⋯ menu that keeps the whole transport bar in reach, and Nota Remote in the new look with clip previews on its Scenes screen.

Added
• Record several audio tracks in one pass, each from its own input, sample-aligned and in one undo step; linked group tracks all record (cbd7701)
• Every armed instrument track records, each from its own MIDI input (a device or All inputs, and a channel) (cbd7701)
• Several Session slots, audio or MIDI, record in one take and stop one by one (cbd7701)
• Name and switch off the interface's inputs in Settings → Inputs; track menus list only the inputs that are on (cbd7701)
• A private Cue mix on its own output pair: a Cue key on every track, a Cue strip next to Master, and the click to Main, Cue or both (f239a74)
• Classic look: 0.59's colours, corners and value type, with any colour theme; Clips Solid or Tinted (eec6a4f)
• Your own themes: theme files in the Themes folder set every colour, a typeface and the corner roundness; Duplicate a theme to start one; MCP tools to design, check and preview a theme (45eb7ef)
• Text size in Settings → Appearance, from a point smaller to two points larger (cbd7701)
• Phrase lines in the Arrangement every 4, 8, 16 or 32 bars (2f879c7)
• Your own sample folders in the browser, each indexed and searched, one as the default for sample packs (e191a57)
• Browse the whole computer from the Files tab: Back, Forward, Up, Home, a path bar, a typed path and Copy path (e191a57)
• Locate an audio clip's file in the browser or in Finder / Explorer; projects remember each clip's source file (e191a57)
• Custom keyboard shortcuts in Settings → Shortcuts: every key rebindable, a second key per action, conflicts caught before saving, edited marks and resets (6fca8d9)
• Articulation maps: import Cubase, Studio One or Nota maps, pick an articulation per note, keyswitches sent to hosted plug-ins; a map manager, a track MIDI offset and notes coloured by articulation (1581075)
• Custom wavetables in Nota Aurora: drop a WAV, FLAC or MP3 on an oscillator; the tables are saved inside the project and presets (7a4f0af)
• XL for Nota EQ-8, Dynamic EQ-8, Lens and Auto Filter, a large editor above the device chain, and a key to open them in their own window (cbd7701)
• An S size for most built-in effects and for Nota Volt; the size is saved with the project and left alone by presets (cbd7701)
• Reverb and Delay draw your audio: the measured tail, the ring time per frequency, the echoes' level and spectrum (cbd7701)
• Decay and release curves and a Lin / Exp switch on every envelope of the built-in instruments (cbd7701)
• A Modular tab in the browser, the Arrangement's track headers beside the Modular canvas, group graphs and Show in Modular (3a67d23)
• A ⋯ menu at the end of the transport bar holding whatever the bar has no room for, and the interface scale (7544437)
• A Mixer button in the toolbar (b214127)
• Nota Remote: clip previews on the Scenes screen, notes or waveform in the clip's colour (c613167)
• Nota Remote: choose the address in the link and QR code, open the Remote page here or copy its link (0741084)

Changed
• A new look across the app: a flat grey shell, tinted clips, two-row track headers, a wider header column, a piano-roll strip above the notes, value bars and capped knobs on the device cards (cbd7701, a1181eb)
• Groups in the Arrangement read as trays of the group's colour, nested ones inside each other; the classic look keeps 0.59's stripes (39c7857)
• Built-in effect cards: no status line or side columns; each graph fills its tab with its knobs beside it, and the right panel follows the tab (cbd7701)
• Built-in instrument cards: no status line, one shared filter graph with the live spectrum, one shared envelope graph, envelopes on their own tab, and one Volume knob in place of the rail meters; parameters, presets and automation are unchanged (cbd7701)
• Nota Aurora shows both oscillators side by side on one Osc tab (4508a93)
• On Windows and Linux the menu is under a ☰ Menu key (or Alt / F10) and the menu bar is hidden; View ▸ Show menu bar brings it back; the Windows title bar names the project (83c1787)
• Settings reorganised: Outputs and Inputs get their own pages, Remote and AI control (MCP) form a group, Language and Editing are their own pages (45eb7ef)
• An audio track can record any input of the interface, mono or a stereo pair, labelled In 3 or In 3/4 (cbd7701)
• Nota Remote follows the desktop's style guide, your theme's typeface and corners included (c613167)
• The manual opens in the interface language instead of the system one (ad5b1c6)
• The shell text is a point smaller by default, and the key picker is a one-octave keyboard (cbd7701)
• The project format is 32: projects saved by this version need 0.60.1 or later; older projects open unchanged (7a4f0af, f239a74)

Fixed
• Curved automation eases smoothly instead of jumping at the start of a segment, and cutting a curve keeps its shape (f90a639)
• Monitoring a track through an audio track no longer crackles on Bluetooth or resampled outputs (60f3956)
• Discard and retry keeps the count-in out of an audio take (5e5e1ce)
• Nota Strata: Record and Overdub close the first pass, quantised Play and Stop land, Count-in, Set tempo from loop and Export work (cbd7701)
• Short clips keep their name on one line (f90a639)
• Track header meters stay inside their header (39c7857)
• The Compact Mixer's MIDI-in selector shows its whole name (4c54a36)
• The Files icon in the browser rail is the same size as its neighbours (e191a57)

Removed
• Modular's + Add menu and its Tracks list: nodes come from the browser's Modular tab and the command palette (3a67d23)

Contributors
@ambertape, @chrislaupama, @NopeCharon, @vv7r, @thoi1

Thanks for the feedback
@norveganon, @openSourcerer9000, @ultralooper

Install

First launch: Nota isn't signed with a paid certificate yet. On macOS, if it says Apple could not verify Nota, open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway — step-by-step guide. On Windows, click More info → Run anyway in SmartScreen.