What's New? 1999/5/3 Unrestricted last Beta now available for free 1998/12/11 Fixed GDI resource eater bug Fixed MODEM Wave devices in SETUP dialog...again Fixed 256 color palette bugs Fixed display bug with ATI GFX cards Fixed total time display with times > 99 min 59 sec Fixed Arpeggio 1998/11/30 Added CPU and FPU Cubic Spline Interpolation Added intelligent surround...MOD4WIN now autodetects if a Channel needs to play in surround or normal mode [if you turn on Surround] Added support for local PeakFiles Added Hotkeys "X" and "C" for Exit/Close Added Hotkey "N" for miNistate Added "CTRL"+"F5..8" Hotkeys for IDO switching Added HotKeys "CTRL"+"Left/Right" for skipping whole Patterns Added HotKey "BREAK" (besides SCROLL LOCK) to toggle Playback of current Pattern only Changed double click behavior to toggle ministate MOD4WIN now keeps SHUFFLE order while deleting songs from list Lowered Cubic Spline PreAmp by 2dB to avoid overamping.(Cubic splines can reach 125% ~ +2dB of the original sample value) Fixed FT2 Note with volume=0 and FineVolUp BUG Fixed Rertigger&VolumeSlide without volume slide Fixed IDO to OFF in hardware mixing modi Fixed WindowsNT INTERRUPT timer mode Forced FPU Cubic Splines for HDD recording Fixed Fast Forward and Rewind Fixed FT2 FadeOut Fixed LCD Font characters "8" and "9" Fixed PatternLoop hang up Fixed Fine and XtraFine portamento down...it did portamento up Speeded up loaders Fixed FT2 SetEnvelopePos BUG Fixed Retrigger+Volumeslide Bug Fixed Tone Portamento without Tone bug Added ST3 Period limit for portamento up's Fixed FT2 Mixed tone effects (e.g. Portamento & Vibrato on Volume Column) Fixed FT2 Envelope Sustain handling Fixed FT2 tone portamento with current Volume=0 and new Instrument Bug 1998/08/20 Fixed stupid FT2 Envelopes Fixed long time for exiting MOD4WIN with UseHardware=0 Fixed Windows NT caption display bug Added Auto-"UseHardware=0" setting when no supported hardware is detected or Windows crashes while detecting custom Hardware Fixed FT2 TonePortamento with new Instrument BUG Increased number of FT2 Samples from 256 to all possible 1024 Fixed FT2 NoteOn volume handling 1998/07/23 Fixed FineVolUp/FineVolDown/FinePortaUp/FinePortaDown (They were executed on first instead of second tick) Fixed FT2 linear arpeggio (it was in AMIGA periods) Swapped OKTALYZER Portamento Up and Down effects Fixed Pattern Loop Lockup (Thanks to IT-Alien) Enabled Win98 gradient Caption painting Made timer intervalls smaller in Interrupt mode ReEnabled the good old TASK timer mode for a better "slow machine timing" Fixed ExactPeakSearch with one channel MODules Fixed background timer bug ...sometimes the time update stopped Added GUSPnP Plug and Play detection (no need to set ULTRASND anymore!) Fixed "Move" Option in system menu Fixed PlayOffset 2x BUG Added Extension Checkup and Icons (Thanx to Mikko Lyly) Added "PeakHold" Option for WIN.INI section Tried to make Multitasking better on slow machines 1998-5-28 Fixed FT2 SetSampleOffset (...a "playing" note is required) FIX: OKTALYZER Arpeggio's were not played at all Fixed FT2 SetFineTune Fixed FT2 NoteOn without an Instrument Centralized PeakSearch cache handling (SYSDIR\MOD4WIN.PKS) Fixed FT2 Retrigger Note (now with Envelope Reset) Fixed FT2 NoteDelay Fixed Bug in "ExactPeakSearch" Fixed XM SetEnvelope Pos BUG (Now we only set the Volume Envelope Position) Fixed Interwave NoteOff (Panning->0) Fixed Loop->STOP Handling with PatternLoop (I hope) Fixed Empty Pattern loading with XM Added "ExactPeakSearch" Option to Win.INI Fixed "UseHarware=0" BUG. We always tried to detect an EWS64. Fixed again EWS64 high pitched notes Fixed SetSampleOffset BUG with notes that played off Fixed BUG in FAR loader Added Error logging Changed S3M PatternLoop like "IT" does it 1998-1-22 Limited EWS64 max Pitch to 16.0 Fixed GPF with too many Patterns and Tracks per MODule Added scanning of packed files when loading subdirs Added NoteOff and GlobalVol=DefGlobalVol at Repeat1 Removed Note limit completely Speeded up GF1 Memory tansfers in Win3.1x/95 Fixed Pattern Loop while Pattern Delay BUG Fixed SetSampleOffset with XM Fixed Set Volume with Note Delay 1997-11-24 Fixed Note Delay *.MOD compatibility BUG (All PC Players and Trackers I have except IPlay are playing this wrong!) Fixed "previous song" button handling Removed Hourglass cursor on minimized and inactive App Fixed XM Envelope Reset handling Fixed Extreme Pattern looping bug Fixed EWS64/GUS KeyOff BUG Fixed EWS64 8Bit memory management 1997-11-12 Fixed DPMI memory management in Win95 Timing changed again :(( EWSSurround on startup did not work 1997-11-05 Fixed Portamento down bug with *.MOD Fixed Display junk when MOD4WIN was started in MiniState Changed XM panning to as it ever was since v2.30 Slowed down the wave buffer timing a bit 1997-10-24 Fixed MOD4WIN's window management a bit Implemented PeakSearch cache (Player32.PKS) :-) Fixed Bug with EWS64 surround Fixed DTD "is not supported" Error message in MOD4WIN's Setup Changed DAC and DTD mode timing in Windows NT...again Fixed FT2 Panning...again :( Note: The Timer modi in MOD4WINs SETUP are fakes now! You don't need to switch them. 1997-10-20 Changed GUS Volume and Panning handling. Fixed Panning Incompatibilty with XM Implemented Timer WatchDog for Windows NT...Now you'll not need to press pause/pause anymore ;-) FIX: You do not hear the beginning of the MODule at the end anymore without "Repeat 1" Spedded up SAM9407 (not-)detection Disabled DPMI memory in Windows NT since the OS does not seem to free DMPI buffers (???) Completely changed timing in DAC and HDD modi. Removed LoBuffer detection because it slowed down the system too much without the expected effect. NOTE: Please do not set the Number of Buffers >80 in Windows NT with CREATIVE LABS wave drivers! 1997-10-10 FIX: MOD4WIN did not properly end itself without an EWS64 1997-10-8 Fixed BUG with SampleOffset Added LoBuffer detection. If the Wave buffer goes below 10% the Player32.DLL will take all time it can get to fill the Buffer to more than 50% and then it will return to normal timing. Added PeakSearch and LoadProgress Display in MOD4WIN's main window Forced ShowPeakSearch ON in DTD Recording mode Changed timing so that MOD4WIN now perfectly cooperates with Windows 95 and Windows NT tasking Implemented EWS64 Windows drivers v2.0 compatibility Fixed Retrigger+Volumeslide BUG 1997-9-18 Enabled Windows NT playback for all SAM9407 compatible cards. To use it you have to set the envirorment variable (Control Panel->System->Envirorment) "SAM9407=330" where 330 is the base port in hex...and you have to boot DOS before Windows NT to upload the firmware! fixed a bug in MOD4WIN's Button handling ...from stone age Enabled native playback for all SAM9407 cards (not only TerraTec's EWS64 XL) Removed nasty BUG with SampleOffset without a sample Fixed spelling errors in italian resources Temporarily fixed FT2 Volume Column FX Bug with note delay Fixed pattern loop handling Fixed Fadeout bug in HD Recorder 1997-8-6 Removed Nag Screen. Five songs is limit enough ;) Fixed Memory Management to allow MODules >16MB I HOPE THIS WORKS! Fixed Effect Panel move handling Changed addresses in help files and registration forms 1997-7-17 Added Fadeout in HDD mode Fixed XM tuning...I hope 1997-6-26 Fixed Borland's Pentium II Bug Fixed Problem with Retrig Note (Thanks to Brian Kemp) FIX: All Slide FX slided too fast in Betas 13 to 16 (Thanks to Valentine Michael Smith) 1997-4-25 Fixed Problem with GUS Detection Fixed Pattern loop Bug (thanks to MAZ ;) Fixed display Bug (thanks to Fredric Echols) 1997-4-21 fixed Tremolo Bug (thanks to E-Keet) Killed SetSampleOffset Clicks 1997-4-7 Final TerraTec EWS64 Playback routines TrlPlay.VxD|386|SYS handling changed S3M 16Bit Sampling changed to load IT's S3Ms ficed Command line bug while while MOD4WIN was minimized Changed Memory handling for Win95/NT 1997-2-25 Changed global FX handling (I hope this works!) Envelope problem with FT2 corrected Corrected spelling error in german resources Corrected About display on Drag&Drop 1997-2-17 Added Italian resources Fixed BUGs in the drivers exit code that left TSKxxx.TMP running. Fixed FX diplay bug in EWS64 and GUS mode when no PeakSearch was on Removed VxD-Timer in Windows 95 and 3.1x to avoid system crashes 1997-2-4 Improved Windows NT Timing especially in Task mode NT GUS-Support is much faster and reliable now...I hope Fixed memory management problem in Player32 1997-1-31 Beta GUS support in Windows NT! Set the UltraSnd=2x0,xx,xx,xx,xx envirorment! The GUS mixer must be set up in DOS/Win95 before GUS Timing not very good yet Probably more stable VxD-Timer in Windows 3.1/95 (On system hang up Problems just delete TrlPlay.* and report this to me) 1997-1-24 Background noise in Player32 removed (...again ;) Thanks to Patrick Jeantaud! 1997-1-22 Made Player32 cooperate better with M4W_MCI.DRV Corrected MOD4WINs outfit in Windows NT 4.0 Fixed Volume Envelope bug in XM playback 1997-1-21 Background noise in Player32 removed 1997-1-20 Instant PreAmp changing in Hardware mixing mode did not work 1997-1-18 Added more stable versions of trlplay.vxd and trlplay.386 (BTW: If your system locks up in Task mode with the new beta, just delete the VxDs) 1997-1-16 Player32.dll crashed if the selected wave driver was already open Fast Forward and Rewind didn't work if the FX Panel was closed GUSPnP public beta 3 drivers v2.0 do not work in software mixing mode. THIS IS NOT A MOD4WIN BUG! Start MPlayer with a big WAV file and make the sound drop (Start a time consuming 16Bit app)...the time wil count on but the sound will mute... 1997-1-14 Player32.dll had loop problems on high pitches (Thanks to Chris Meland/Noiseless for his BUG report) 1997-1-10 The PreAmp slider did not work...now it does again Player32 Task mode fixed Junk-Display problems fixed Debug output problems fixed 1997-1-9 No more Shareware count downs or expiration dates. The new version is a demo that only can hold playlists with up to five songs. GUS-PnP/Interwave playback routines TerraTec EWS 64 playback routines Several sequencing and note playback bugs fixed Faster Software Mixing routines Almost click free Software mixing Windows 95 lookalike interface In Win95/3.1 Task MODE now very reliable (VxD Timers Please Test!) Better Windows 95 multi tasking OPL4 support temporarily disabled IMPORTANT NOTE: There's no retail version yet so please don't try to order the new Beta version. Registered users will get the update to the new BETA non demo version free of charge but only via eMail. What's missing fo the next official release? Long file name support and AMIGA naming convention Playback support for CD Audio, WAVE and MIDI Unlimited play list size Pinnacle drivers AWE 32 drivers OPL4 drivers Real multi threaded timing in Windows 95/NT New easier interface PlugIn API for new sound drivers and file formats Language construction kit (Build you own MOD4WIN ;) Updated Help files ...maybe more