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NEW Tracks Window! The first thing you'll notice is the new Tracks Window, with MIDI/Audio overview for convenient and precise editing. The "new look" also includes dockable toolbars that can be personalized with your own selection of buttons.
DXi Software Synthesizers Support! Great for quick and easy MIDI to Audio rendering. With PowerTracks Pro Audio 9 you can easily merge and sync in any existing audio file (vocals etc.) with your synth output. You can also directly render your performance to a .WAV file using the DXi plug-in. Sampler-based synths allow you to assemble a huge, customized library of instrument samples to use with PowerTracks Pro Audio.
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DXi software synthesizers allow PowerTracks Pro Audio to play high quality sounds directly through your computer sound card, without requiring any external MIDI hardware. Connecting PowerTracks Pro Audio to the software synth as a plug-in provides several advantages over the previous method of connecting as a MIDI driver. The plug-in allows PowerTracks Pro Audio to merge/sync in any existing audio file (vocals etc.) with the synth output. You can also directly render your performance to a .WAV file using the DXi plug-in. To use DXi with PowerTracks Pro Audio, you can think of the DXi as a type of "MIDI Out Driver." As such, you can either visit the MIDI Driver Setup dialog (Options | MIDI Devices) and select the "Re-Route MIDI Playback to Default DXi Synth " checkbox to send all MIDI playback to the default DXi synth, or you can assign DXi synths to individual tracks. Amazing New Audio Harmony Feature! Using TC-Helicon's industry leading technology PowerTracks Pro Audio 9 can automatically generate harmony parts from any solo audio track, vocal or instrumental. This feature also makes it possible to shift the pitch of vocal wave files using TC-Helicon's state-of-the-art vocal pitch shifting technology. The Track | Generate Audio Harmonies command utilizes audio harmony routines licensed from TC Helicon, which enable PowerTracks Pro Audio to automatically generate harmony parts from an audio track (such as a vocal track). You can choose Chordal Harmony mode, which uses the song's chord symbols to determine harmony parts. (If necessary, PowerTracks Pro Audio will automatically attempt to determine the chord symbols.) If your song has existing MIDI tracks with the melody line, you can tell PowerTracks Pro Audio to use those tracks to determine the harmony parts. There is also a Pitch Tracking mode that is useful for pitch correction or for automatic double-tracking. Features allow user to: Output to single mono track, single stereo track or top multiple mono tracks Independently Pan Harmony Voices and set volume levels for each. Independently apply Gender to a harmony voice - This control affects the location of the singer's formants (and thus the perceived size of the harmony singer). Timing Humanization (affects all harmony voices) - When set to zero, all harmony voices will be synchronized so that words start and stop at the same time. As the slider is moved up towards the maximum setting, the harmony voices will appear to be more and more decoupled in time. Pitch Humanization (Affects all harmony voices) - When set to zero, the pitch of the harmony voices will be very steady and, unlike typical human vocals, will not have small pitch variations. By increasing the level of the pitch humanization, you can bring in the natural pitch nuances in the original vocal making the harmonies sound more human. Portamento (Affects all harmony voices) - When set to zero, the pitch of the harmony voices will jump instantly between notes rather than smoothly as in natural human singing. Set this slider to higher position to get smooth note transitions in your harmony voices. Octave Adjust (Affects all harmony voices) - When set to -1, all the harmony voices are transposed down one octave before being sent to the final mix. When set to +1, all harmony voices are transposed up one octave. This slider is most useful when using melody-based correction and the melody in your input track is an octave higher or lower than the pitch of the input singer. More New Features in PowerTracks Pro Audio 9 New Tracks Window with MIDI/Audio Overview. Tracks Window now has a MIDI/Audio overview section which makes for more convenient and precise editing. (The older Tracks Window is still available as the "Classic Tracks View" window.) New explorer-style dockable/undockable toolbars. These exciting new modern toolbars replace the older PowerTracks Pro Audio toolbar. GM Instrument Icon Display in Tracks Window. There are GM instrument icons displayed on the Tracks Window which will display a picture of an instrument based on a GM patch, and audio content-type icons which allow you to display icons based on the track's content. Custom user audio icons are also supported. SysEx MIDI Events. You can now insert System Exclusive data directly into a MIDI track as MIDI events. You can record SysEx data in real time and when you keep a take, the SysEx data will be added to a MIDI track as SysEx events. You could also load SysEx data into a SysEx MIDI event by receiving SysEx data from your synth, or by loading the SysEx data from a file. SysEx MIDI events can also be edited. NOTE: Although PowerTracks allows SysEx MIDI events to be huge in size, we recommend limiting real time SysEx MIDI events to 128K or less, to prevent a song from stuttering during playback. Boot up in Folder of Last Session. This is a checkbox that can be enabled or disabled. When you enable this setting, PowerTracks will boot up in the folder of the most recently loaded file from the previous session of PowerTracks. Automatically load most recent file. From last PowerTracks Pro Audio session. When selected this feature will automatically load the most recent file from the last PowerTracks Pro Audio session. Scrolling Enhancements in Big Lyrics Window. Big Lyrics Window now can be set to scroll before the bottom line instead of scrolling after the first line. Tablature for Additional Instruments. Notation Window supports tablature for additional instruments. Previous versions only displayed guitar tablature and now PowerTracks Pro Audio supports tablature display for other stringed instruments such as bass, ukulele, mandolin, and banjo. Multiple Fretboard Support. The Guitar Window now supports fretboard displays for additional instruments such as bass, ukulele, mandolin, and banjo. NEW Mute/Unmute Hot Keys. New Ctrl+M and Ctrl+U hot keys let you mute or unmute the current track. This is a convenient way to mute or unmute any track within the Bars or Mixer Window, without having to revisit the Tracks Window. Independent Channel Editing for Stereo Audio Tracks. Editing in the Audio Edit Window now lets you edit either the left or right channels of a stereo track instead of always editing both channels. This lets you Cut/Paste just the left or right channel, or you can now apply a non-real time effect (Edit | Audio Effects) to either channel independently. Visible Countdown Dialogue. Count down dialog now visibly displays the numbers (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4) during the count down. Punch In Dialogue Options. Punch in dialog now offers the option of using the From/Thru values from the main toolbar instead of the values in the dialog. This makes it easier to select the punch-in region by highlighting a section in a Bars or Audio Window. Quick Toggle for Punch-In Mode. Pressing the Ctrl key while clicking on the Punch button allows you to enable or disable punch-in mode without having to go into the Punch-In Setting Dialog. NEW Metronome Options. Metronome options now has Allow Count-In Before Playback setting which enables count in before playback and Metronome Shuts Off After Count-In setting which will shut the metronome off after the count-in. This is useful for practicing or playing live. Metronome options also included Silent Count-In. This setting ensures that the Count-In will be silent (visual count-in only). This is also useful if playing live, but you don't want an audible count in. Enhanced Mixer Display. Mixer Window now displays more tracks at a time when PowerTracks Pro Audio is running at higher screen resolutions. Mixer Window will display 24 tracks if your computer monitor is running at 1024x768 resolution or higher. Mixer Window will display all 48 tracks (as two rows of 24 tracks) if your computer monitor is running at 1280x1024 or higher. Automatic Insert/Delete Mixer Events. Delete button in mixer will automatically Delete all Mixer Events (Volume, Pan, Reverb, Chorus) that are currently embedded within the song's selected tracks. Insert button in mixer will automatically Insert Mixer Events (Volume, Pan, Reverb, Chorus) into song's non-blank tracks. Chord Wizard Auto-Detect Drums. The Chord Wizard (in Chords Window) will now auto-detect drum parts on channels other than 10. This improves chord detection of MIDI and SEQ files. Toolbar Enhancements. Main Toolbars have choice of 24x24 or 16x16 bitmap sizes. Higher PPQ Resolution. Support for PPQ as high as 3840, which allows for more precise audio editing, since, at higher resolutions, each tick spans a finer section of audio. Automatic Punch-In Override. If punch-in is enabled, PowerTracks will now offer to keep the take as regular take rather than a punch-in. This is helpful in situations where you accidentally forgot to disable punch-in and intended to record a full take. NEW Tempo Control Interface. Tempo scroll bar on main toolbar replaced with a spin control (with up/down arrows). Enhanced File Location Indicator. Now location scrollbar replaced with a horizontal slider. Enhanced Type 0 MIDI File Processing. When loading a Type 0 MIDI file and you say "yes" to extracting channels to multiple tracks, then the patches/banks are now put onto the tracks/mixer view's patch field. When loading a type 0 MIDI file, and PowerTracks Pro Audio extracts the channels to multiple tracks, the track names will be named based on the patch for each track. "Hassle-Free" MIDI Rendering. Rendering your MIDI tracks to disk is now incredibly easy and hassle-free. The Merge Audio Tracks commands (found in the File | Wave Files submenu) now all support DXi MIDI tracks in addition to audio tracks. If your song's MIDI tracks use a DXi soft synth for output, you can now quickly and easily render the DXi MIDI tracks to a .WAV or compressed file. Always Record Audio. "Always Record Audio too, if current track is MIDI" setting will cause PowerTracks Pro Audio to record audio even when the current track is to MIDI. PowerTracks Pro Audio will offer to keep the audio take on the nearest available blank track. This can be a "lifesaver" in those situations where you wanted to record audio, but you accidentally selected the current track as a MIDI track. Notation Window Enhancement. Notation Window will draw brackets around an accidental (#) in a situation where the same note in the previous bar was an accidental outside the current key. This is a courtesy which helps remind you that the note is now played as expected within the current key. Backup Most Recent Audio Take. "Backup Most Recent Audio Take" setting in Audio Options dialog, when enabled, will cause PowerTracks Pro Audio to always backup the most recent audio take as <Temporary Audio Directory>\PTABAKx.WAV>, with x being the audio input port number. This can be helpful in those rare-yet frustrating situations, such as when you accidentally recorded audio onto the WRONG audio track, or you accidentally punched-in instead of recording a regular take. If this happens you can undo keeping of the most recent take and then use the Wave Files | Import Wave File command to insert the recorded audio onto a different track, by importing the PTABAKx.WAV file which will be located in the Temporary Audio Directory. NOTE: You may have to edit the audio data's track location to get it to sound at the right time if you do this. Enhanced Paste Feature. Paste automatically works the same way as 1-track paste if the scrap buffer only has data from one track. In other words, if you copy or cut from a single track, the Paste dialog will let you choose the destination track, with the Current Track being the default value. (Now that it works this way, you would only need to use the 1-Track Paste menu item if you wanted to paste multiple tracks onto a single track.) |
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