Issue 1.1.0.

From today, every instrument’s downloads carry issue 1.1.0.

No instrument sounds different in this issue.

Stored settings. Each instrument’s own display now lists the settings the archive issues with it and keeps your own beside them, in its house’s word: Halvyn’s program, Salo’s and Yumeo’s memory, Tekura’s setting. They are kept as plain files, one folder per instrument, where your studio already looks.

Each house’s display. Halvyn and Tekura apply a setting as you reach it; Salo holds it on show until OK, and Yumeo until PLAY. Storing always takes a second step, so nothing is stored by accident. Naming starts on the first character, and the key that moves on wraps back to the start; while you name, the computer keyboard types the name, Return stores it and Escape leaves it. On Halvyn, line one reads NAME, THEN STORE. Tekura numbers its settings and never names them.

Sharing. Press the restoration stamp. COPY LINK puts the setting in use on the clipboard as a link, and PASTE adds one. IMPORT…, or a file dropped on the plate, adds a setting or a pack. EXPORT… keeps the setting in use as a file, EXPORT ALL… keeps every user setting as one pack, and SHOW FOLDER opens the folder. Settings your studio saves in the AU or VST3 form are listed among the user settings. When a pack, or EXPORT… into an instrument’s own folder, replaces a file, the old one is kept beside it as a backup. An imported setting never replaces one.

More on sharing. The card says what its keys are for, and each key explains itself when the pointer rests on it. GO BACK returns to the setting in use before the last arrival. EXPORT… also writes the VST3 form, and on macOS the AU form. A pack shows what it holds, and for which instruments, before anything is written. A shared setting keeps its maker’s name and licence. A link opens a page on orrery.dk that reads the setting in your browser and keeps nothing.

Every control explained. Press the restoration stamp and choose CONTROLS for a note on every control and on how the house stores its settings; rest the pointer on a control for the same note. Each instrument’s page on orrery.dk lists them too.

What your studio shows. Values in your studio’s parameter lists now read as the plates do: whole percentages, kHz from 1000 Hz, no long decimals, and Off or Auto where a control has them. A value typed as 6 kHz is read as 6000 Hz. Key and Pitch show st, Detune shows cents and Bits shows bit. Factory programs on nineteen instruments no longer show stray characters in their names, and your studio now gives orrery.dk as the maker’s address.

The plates. Thirty-five plates change size and BYPASS moves on thirty-one; the loan chip and the restoration stamp now share one line along the foot of each plate. The About card is larger. Plate controls no longer take the keyboard, so Return never presses a key a second time and your studio keeps its shortcuts; the loan card takes the keyboard into its key field when it opens.

Salo 3210 and 3510. A studio that sends its bypass to the instrument now works the BYPASS key on the plate; earlier issues kept the two apart. A session saved with an earlier issue that moved the studio’s bypass over time does not carry those movements into 1.1.0; write them again on BYPASS. Everything else in the session loads as saved.

Salo 2110. HUM sets the mains under Line Noise: 50 Hz, as before, or 60 Hz. Sessions saved with an earlier issue keep 50 Hz.

Yumeo GX-1 and GC-16. The GX-1’s Input and Output and the GC-16’s Output now move in steps of 0.01 dB, as on every other instrument. A session saved with an earlier issue lands within 0.005 dB of where it was, which cannot be heard.

Session files. Each instrument now checks the state your studio hands it before reading it, so a damaged or crafted session file cannot stall your studio. Sessions saved with any issue load as before.

Earlier issues. Each instrument’s page on orrery.dk now keeps its earlier issues, from 1.0.2, in case a new one ever misbehaves in your studio.