After months of busy developing (not), I have finally decided to release klystrack 1.5. In short: feature creep. iLKke also joined the dev team and I have to thank him for graphics, testing and general support (motivational kicks in the butt). I also got some very good feedback from quite a few people, even though not every request was possible to implement (thanks nonetheless).

What is new in 1.5:

• Improved editing
  • Undo/redo for most actions
  • The “compact” pattern display mode can be configured to display exactly the needed pattern columns
  • There’s now an edit mode similar to most classic trackers (you can jam in the pattern editor without changing pattern data)
• New audio driver features
  • Wavetable for sampled drums etc.
  • Bitcrush effect has now optional sample rate downsampling
  • Extra parameter column for volume (like in FT2)
  • New commands such as setting filter resonance and restarting the instrument program from pattern data
• Improved GUI
  • A lot of general laziness has been fixed, e.g. own menu items for opening a sample even in the pattern editor, keyboard control in all editors
  • Editors can be switched with buttons located bottom-right
  • The menu is less obscure with a new added menu button top-left
  • New default theme (no more eyesore)
  • Themes can now use PNG images instead of BMP
  • Program icon
• Fun stuff
  • VU meters and a fake spectrum analyzer (think Protracker)
  • AHX/Protracker/C64 etc. retro themes
• Experimental stuff
  • MIDI sync (not tested very well) and MIDI keyboard support (great for instrument editing)

Get it here. Don’t forget the Facebook page, updates get posted there more frequently.