What’s New in Liquid Music for Live 1.5.1?

The list below summarizes the new features, workflow improvements, and bug fixes included in the latest version.

Plugin Mode: Liquid Music for Live (Max For Live)

Major Improvements

• The MIDI Importer’s chord analysis engine interpreted chord progression changes at a minimum of a quarter bar, now it interprets chord progression changes at a minimum of an eighth of a bar.

Bug Fixes

• An error could occur when selecting a few presets from the Demo Preset list (for example: “Strum De Drum,” and then “Stringth in Numberz”).
• An error would occur when User would be in Rhythm mode, click the “Fold Tracks” button (that hides unused tracks), and then switch to Harmony mode on the same clip.
• A faulty “installation failed” error would appear (even though the installation succeeded) at the end of the plugin installation if User had Max 7 installed but not Max 6.
• Activating Audition mode (little speaker icon) in the Chord panel, and then attempting to audition chords in empty slots in the Chord panel would cause an error.
• Many names of Demo Presets would occasionally not be capitalized.
• Selecting the filter “8 bars” in the Demo Presets panel would display some presets that were not 8 bars long.
• Fixed a bug that would cause Liquid Music to crash if a MIDI controller was plugged in during launch.
• Fixed a bug that would cause Liquid Music to crash when using the Lemur MIDI script for Liquid Rhythm.
• Fixed a bug that would cause Liquid Music’s preferences to appear in the preferences panel when running Liquid Rhythm VST / Standalone.

Known Issues and Limitations

• Downloading and then loading Drum Kits and Voices from our server will cause a crash.  Do not load downloaded kits / voices!
• An error occurs when selecting the menu option View > Arranger twice in a row.
• An error occurs when switching between ‘Rhythm Tools’ mode and ‘Harmony Tools’ mode when no clip is selected in Live.
• In ‘Rhythm Tools’ mode, occasionally the Velocity sliders in the Accent Modifiers panel do not function predictably and can cause an error to occur.
• Clicking on the “website” link in the “About” window can cause an error to occur on some versions of OSX Yosemite.
• When in audition mode on the Chords panel, and the audition mode is set to “chords,” the highest note plays but all other notes in the chord get cut off.
• Dragging and dropping a BeatForm from the Molecule Tool’s BeatForm Pallette into the Rhythm track (in ‘Harmony Tools’ mode) can cause notes to be generated at the bottom-most MIDI note (C-2).
• The “Scramble” options in the drop down menu in the Arpeggiator panel do not affect the Scramble button’s behaviour.
• Ableton Push 2 controller is incompatible with Liquid Music.
• Some reports have been submitted about failure to use Liquid Music with the Lemur MIDI script for Liquid Rhythm.
• MIDI mapping a hardware controller in Liquid Music, saving a Live project, and then reloading the Live project, can cause a crash to occur.  

Plugin Mode: Liquid Rhythm for VST / Standalone

Known Issues and Limitations

• Opening the Mixer and then loading a Loop from the Library will cause an error
• User can’t click+drag on track headers to rearrange tracks.
• An error occurs when right-clicking on a track header and attempting to change the colour.
• Loading a BeatForm into the BeatForm Circuit, and then double-clicking it, may cause an error.
• Clicking ‘Surprise Me’ in the Randomizer panel in the Molecule Tools may cause an error.
• Using a MIDI Mapping file created on a different operating system would lead to crashes. For instance, MacOSX has the ‘CMD’ key, and attempting to use that through MIDI mapping on Windows OS would cause a crash. This is specific to MIDI mapping files that has ‘Mappable Commands’ saved within them. They are not cross platform. This will be addressed in a future release.
• Liquid Rhythm Standalone may not launch for Windows 8 users. Right-click on the application and choose “Run as Administrator.”
• Option-clicking on a pattern to audition it (in the BarForm or BeatForm Maps) will not audition if the BeatWeaver is not open.
• Overdub recording mode is glitchy.
• Real-time MIDI recording has some lag.
• Repeatedly pressing Undo during MIDI record can cause Liquid Rhythm to crash.
• Liquid Rhythm may be unresponsive when computer goes to sleep and wakes.
• MIDI Mapping track-specific controls (such as volume, solo, mute) can be lost after quitting Liquid Rhythm and relaunching.
• No automatic software updates or notifications (yet).
• No MIDI routing in Bitwig Studio

 

Download the latest version of Liquid Music here.