0.5.0.0

Advisory: Use the next version instead, 0.5.0.1.

This version has broken module saving functions, which will corrupt your modules upon saving!

• Important changes:

  • Dn-FamiTracker modules are no longer backwards compatible with "vanilla" and 0CC FamiTracker.
  • Dn-FamiTracker Demo Compo 1 modules are now added
  • N163 emulation core is replaced with Mesen's
  • New effects: =xx, and Nxy
  • Exports are now updated (text, NSF/NSFe, binary, asm)
  • NSF2 export added
  • External OPLL option (export only available for NSFe/NSF2)
  • Per-module expansion mixing (export only available for NSFe/NSF2)
  • Hardware-based module expansion mixing (export only available for NSFe/NSF2)
  • DirectSound backend now replaced with WASAPI

• Additions:

  • Add FDS waveform view (@EulousDev #113)
  • Add invalid note indicator (@EulousDev #119)
  • Add Dn-FT Demo Compo 1 Modules (@Gumball2415 #153)
  • Target volume slide effect (Nxy) (@ipidev #109)
  • Implement Kxx and =xx in NSF driver (@Gumball2415 nyanpasu64/j0CC-FamiTracker#122, #156)
  • Add supplemental NSF data on bin/asm export (NSF header, config, period tables and vibrato tables) (@Gumball2415 #156)
  • Add mixe chunk support and per-module device mixing (@Gumball2415 #68, #156)
  • Add hardware-based expansion audio mixing (@Gumball2415 #156)
  • Implement external OPLL patchset editing (@Gumball2415 #68, #156)
  • Implement VRC7 NSFe chunk (@Gumball2415 #156)

• Improvements:

  • Register view improvements (@Gumball2415 @nyanpasu64 @EulousDev #118, #120)
  • Replace N163 audio core with Mesen (@Gumball2415 nyanpasu64/j0CC-FamiTracker#151, #111, #138, #152)
  • Refactor FDS auto-FM overflow fix (@Gumball2415 #80, #65, nyanpasu64/j0CC-FamiTracker#133, #156)
  • Refactor Pxx overflow fix (@Gumball2415 #80, #156)
  • Refactor Gxx overflow fix (@Gumball2415 #80, nyanpasu64/j0CC-FamiTracker#129, #156)
  • Reset FDS modulator phase on new note (@Gumball2415 #156)
  • Refactor period table calculation (@Gumball2415 #156)
  • Update text import/export parity (@Gumball2415 #161, #162, #156)

• Bug fixes:

  • Prevent ctrl/shift+wheel edit outside edit mode (copyrat90 #87)
  • Fix random crash when exporting channels as WAV (@nyanpasu64 #92, #93)
  • Fix module reload on config confirmation (@Gumball2415 #89, #97)
  • Fix N163 volume meter level (@EulousDev #99, #103)
  • Fix VRC7 data race and use-after-free when reloading/closing modules (@nyanpasu64 #106)
  • Update source code copyright declaration and GPL 2.0+ notice (@Gumball2415 #116)
  • Fix wave export dialog refresh rate to GUI rate (@Gumball2415 #108)
  • Fix high-res spectrum visualizer at small buffer sizes (@nyanpasu64 #126)
  • Fix use-after-free race condition in visualizer (@nyanpasu64 #130)
  • Fix crash when starting program with pattern editor off-screen (@nyanpasu64 #128, #129)
  • Fix periodic noise showing cents when muted (@Gumball2415 #139)
  • Stop rejecting valid files using features missing from vanilla FT (@nyanpasu64 #150)
  • Fix N163 instrument pointer data overflow (@Gumball2415 #156)
  • Fix NSFe export from using incorrect DATA chunk size (@Gumball2415 #110, nyanpasu64/j0CC-FamiTracker#5, #156)
  • Fix 5B Wxx being overwritten by blank duty macros (@Gumball2415 #160, nyanpasu64/j0CC-FamiTracker#105, #156)
  • Fix N163 multiplex state desync (@Gumball2415 #163, #156)
  • Dn-FamiTracker modules are no longer backwards compatible with "vanilla" and 0CC (@Gumball2415 #156)
  • FamiTracker 0.5.0 beta modules no longer conflict with Dn-FamiTracker 0.5.0.0 modules (@Gumball2415 #156)

• Internal:

  • Revise README (@Gumball2415 #114)
  • Replace DirectSound backend with WASAPI (@nyanpasu64 #124)
  • Remove unused files, add headers to CMakeLists.txt (@nyanpasu64 #142)
  • Eliminate audio thread blocking on GUI messages and main thread (@nyanpasu64 #134, #137)
  • Add WASAPI resampling so all sampling rates work (@nyanpasu64 @Gumball2415 #143)
  • Fix crash when activating non-initial song then opening document with expansion chip(s) (@nyanpasu64 #147, #148)
  • Fix mostly-theoretical data race when popping from SPSC queues (@nyanpasu64 #149)
  • Properly terminate stuck audio thread when closing the program (@nyanpasu64 #155)