Release Notes

Sorry for the lack of updates, more news coming soon! Been busy IRL so I couldn’t work on Notessimo as much as I would like.

• Fix discourse patreon plugins with missing custom fields
• Fix memory issue / corrupted file on video export
• Default Super Mario Paint import “Tempo Compress” to multiple of 4 to ensure measures alignment
• Fix entitlements (iOS)
• Fix mac retina display issue (thanks Antonim for testing!)
• Fix missing arm64 arch support on some library for mac (M1)
• Fix default window size on mac
• Fix cursor being bigger on mac (temp fix, some cursors are not ported)
• Update to all social media (YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, etc.)
• Support for using videos for backgrounds / overlays (WebM supports transparency, maybe some other formats as well depending on the platform, see Unity’s list) on video export
• Support for changing the colors of the staff on video export
• Add support for MP4 (video export), Windows only
• Default to 48khz for audio output (instead of 44.1khz)
• Fix multiples bugs / crash reports

• Support for Super Mario Paint file format (.txt)
• Support for “Double Sharps” and “Double Flats”

HOTFIX

• Watermark for video always above
• Fix video export being clunky when rendering faster than the target frame rate
• Fix “Stop” button no longer working

• Missing OGG / MP3 encoder on iOS / Android
• Fix exporter area on iOS / Android / Mac
• Fix camera position resetting on export
• Fix missing plugins to export on Android / Mac
• Allow non-logged user to export audio
• Prevent changing tempo / key / time in read only
• Fix audio export ending prematurely
• Better icon for Mac
• Colored tags for bug fix / feature request in forum
• Fix visual bug in compose menu
• Faster export on desktop
• Video Export with customizations! (AVI support only)

• Fix crash report about tweens
• Fix Lexas bug
• Fix volume normalization of instruments (requires to create a new song to not impact previous song)
• Fix crackling when playing song before a dynamic sound was finished
• Fix playhead sometimes not stopping properly
• Fix preview icon being stretched
• Fix loading 512x512
• Fix “Key” in description website
• Tweaked color for note length
• Tweaked colors for Dark Mode
• No auto-silence in read-only mode
• Reworked native file dialog
• Export Audio (WAV / MP3 / OGG)
• Bigger Note Glyph

• Fix “sheet” list not being properly reset when changing song
• Fix out of bounds piano inputs
• Scale down icons past a certain threshold in composer mode for more details (can be turned off in “preferences” with Zoom Scale toggle)
• Fix black bar on sheet volume ui
• Read Only Mode now available for all. Any public songs are read-only by defaults until a click on the button (top left corner) and select “Make a Remix!”.
• Added popups / notice to download the native app in web version.

• Various bug fixes
• Fix prioritization of “hit test”
• When shrinking sheet, remove all empty measures instead of one at a time
• Fix undo when camera is outside the dimension of the song
• Fix bugs in sheet editors
• Do not automatically shrink measures when moving notes
• Reset cursor after move
• Fix performance and memory usage on “hover”
• Fix shrink sometimes not working
• Space now toggle last “play”
• Properly reset zoom value on loading new song
• Prevent autoplay on import file
• Up maximum volume to 20dB using slider, 50dB with text input
• Fix clearing empty cursor
• Fix saving last community website page in ios / android / mac
• Tweak long press for the dropdown (cut, copy, etc.) to only occurs on “release” to allow easier “move” motion
• Fix multi select on touch devices even on “long press” trigger
• Fix search input being all white
• Fix centering navbar
• Fix piano sounds “clicks”
• Fix some sounds not being turned off when playing piano while previewing selection
• Rewrote part of the code for adding notes for piano record (hopefully I haven’t broke anything)
• Fix piano brush once added to song
• Fix android vulkan to 2 swapchain buffer instead of 3 for better responsiveness
• Fix API requests for liked / search instruments on sidebar
• Fix invisible measures when undo on different tracks
• Record Piano (experimental, still need works)

• Fix another distortion issue

• Fix audio distortion in certain circumstances

• Multiple bug fixes
• Fix song dimension
• Fix import
• Fix duplicating new sheet
• Fix MIDI error
• Fix error GetTouch
• Better scrollbar on community website
• Added navigation buttons on community website for Windows / Mac
• Remember page between main website and community
• Add refresh button on Windows / Mac
• Fix shift and other keyboard keys not working with input
• Fix MOD playback
• Fix deleting multiple tracks
• Fix some songs not being able to play in embed
• Better “hit test” on notes

• Fix invisible webview on minimize (Windows)
• Hotfix to fix automatic crash reports received (Notessimo.Actions.ActionsManager.AddNewChannel)

Early Access (alpha) release!

• Preparing for the alpha…

• Better V3 compatibility
• Fixed dotted lines / measures with empty spaces
• Fix measures text bounds
• Fix touch hover issues
• Fix threading issue and sync image / audio
• More accurate seeking and dynamic audio tap
• Fix note displayed value
• Fix piano distortion
• Switch to new CDN
• Track viewer (zoom out!)

• Show featured playlists / soundfonts for all
• Upload instruments directly inside a soundfont
• Better click on notes
• Better occlusion
• Show length
• Added note value / accidentals
• Beat separators
• Cursors
• Switch track / layer / instrument on note tap
• Tweaked note resolutions
• Fixed notes order
• Undo / redo data

• Happy new year
• Update to .NET 6
• Fix “back” history issue with player
• Fix V3 converter on multi-samples instruments
• Updated all legacy icons with higher resolutions variants
• Update nextjs to 12.1.4
• “Chat” beta enabled in community
• Update firebase to 8.8.0
• Fix dragging scrollbar
• Fix app banner on ios
• Revert to using React 17 because of bug in safari ios
• Fix “flash” on resize on scroller
• Icon Picker
• Instrument Uploads (SF2 / MODs / WAV / MP3 / OGG support)
• Allow to re-order tags
• Improve performance while scrolling
• Improve invalidate performance
• Smoother lines display (less antialias)
• Downgrade MSAA
• Fix converter issue when multiple instruments were identical
• Decrease build size
• Fix progress bar when loading player to be more accurate
• Fix bug where song would jump to the next one unexpectedly
• Smoother scaling on album / avatar images
• Fix minimum / maximum zoom value to be more consistent
• Added keyboard inputs (arrows / + / -)
• Fix border on sprite
• Fix wrong image type being detected at upload
• Use CDN for images
• MIDI inputs on piano (WebGL / Windows)
• Experimental controller support
• Black outline on icons
• Automatic tags art / description
• More search function (playlists / soundfonts)
• Fix multithread issue with converter

• Allow to edit Tag information
• Fix iOS audio after interrupt
• Fix “private” song edit not working
• Fix “flash” when switching fullscreen in WebGL
• Update Unity yo 2021.1.28f1
• Fix embed player on community
• Change how measures auto-hide
• Search category (songs / instruments / users)
• Tag Edit popup for Mods
• Added art to tags (replace instruments one)
• Update next-auth
• Separate image optimization as a separate service
• Optimized config server
• Fix playlist showing empty sometimes
• Better history psuh / replace
• Fix “likes” number being wrong
• Allow to filter by “private” on user page
• Apple Sign In
• Universal links for iOS / MAc
• App links for Android
• Fix active playlist on sidebar
• Fix play button loading state
• Makes sure to have no-index on private page
• MP3 Encoder
• OGG Encoder
• Fix performance issue on page regeneration
• Automatic compression of WAV sample to OGG
• Smaller docker size
• Update nextjs to 12.4.0
• Update react to 18 beta
• Better cache system on WebGL
• Cleanup cache data left by newer version
• Put cache in subfolders to limit total number of files
• Revamp icons system
• More accurate loading
• Usages pages, see list of instruments in a song or songs using an instrument, etc.

• New FPS / RAM Monitor
• Fix preferences crash on mobile
• Fix Windows comms betwen webview
• Fix autoscroll on mobile
• New rounded transparent scrollbars
• Fix SSL support on older browser
• Fix JS / CSS for older browser
• Fix comms on android
• Fix rare crash that could happens when load a song
• Cleanup native WebView plugins
• Fix avatar image cache
• New uploads window
• Tags selector component
• Fix font not loading
• Update NextJS to 11.1.2
• Activate Sharp for faster image compression
• Fix scrollbar color on iOS
• Better icon in PWA
• Better image loading graphics in app
• Notch support
• Better timeline UX in mobile mode
• Open new window if domain is not notessimo.net
• Better touch / mouse controls
• Loading screen on iOS
• Tap play note / Long Press open piano
• Easier to get all the way to the edge on timeline in mobile mode
• Fix notes disappearing under certains circumstances
• Move will stops if offscreen
• Better scroll performance on iOS
• Allow GIF for avatar in player
• Better scale image routine and GIF decoder
• Show navbar icon on mobile
• Disable system gesture on iOS
• Sign out now sign out on community website as well
• Better line graphics when MSAA is turned off
• Changed all select and checkbox to custom component
• Fix error handling in API requests
• Fix react component not mounted and still doing state change
• Fix wrong avatar when using letter avatar
• Center G Clef
• Allow to delete own song
• Allow to put song in “private”
• Various fix for Android version
• Share popup
• Report popup

• Update to Postgres 13 (website / community)
• Fix mac upload to store
• Fix description not being properly rendered
• Fix android rendering performance
• Fix crash due to FPS counter
• Fix popup scrolling on mobile
• Better slider dragging on mobile
• Fix loading songs on community
• Fix player UI on mobile
• Move scrollbar on middle element
• Disabled HTML player (for now)
• Device orientation detection, landscape is always fullscreen (on mobile)
• Fix crash on iOS when user force close app
• WebView on mobile (iOS / Android)
• Fix font CORS issue

• Tweak web UI
• Fix crash on windows when scrolling
• Community front page don’t include songs / instruments (except own’s posts or one with replies). Less spammy.
• Fix progress bar for player
• Fix bad link to font in dev
• Update Firebase to 8.0.0
• Updated NextJS to 11
• Optimized Scroller
• Optimized bandwidth on some API call
• Better fade when song stops at the end
• Smaller lyrics font
• Preload next / previous song
• Fix error handling when download fails
• Playlist! (and soundfont!)

• Fix wrong HDPI value
• Fix release pipeline
• Fix loading instruments
• Queue / History system
• Removed “Open” button (will be available in the “+” button instead)
• Display version in console
• Fix broken testing player
• Previous / Next / Queue button

• Fix piano
• Better player resize on web
• Liked Page
• Fix likes sorting
• Fix release pipeline for windows
• Allow likes on unlisted and own songs / instruments (do not count for total but will appears on “liked” page)
• Added underline to links in player
• Song info / album art on bottom left of player
• Preferences now a web page instead of being in the player

• Fix download bar on forum player

• Fix details
• Fix CORS on all domains
• More SEO fixes (nav, aria, schema, etc)
• Optimized postgres indexes
• Production GIPHY api key
• Changed “Metal, Rock” to “Rock”
• Sitemaps
• Fix service worker error
• Minor CSS tweaks
• Fix stuck hover state on sidebar
• Fix first lyrics not showing background
• Likes button on website
• Updated nextjs / next-auth to latest
• Fix crackling issue on notes that had a tick delay
• Fix crash on Amalar Rising
• Revamp UI of player
• CI for nightly windows build
• Piano
• Fix alloc on tweening engine

• Test output videos + post on social media
• Fix typo in placeholder popup
• Fix release tagging
• Switch for Google Tag Manager for analytics
• Fix “Alpha Testers” group in community (+ patreon maestro tier)
• Added color for Patron users
• Fix wrong sample rate being used

• Allow to download old background file
• Fix email bouncing score
• Fix crashing in unity
• Fix when uploading NOTE that have files too big inside
• Fix uploads animation going backward
• More social meta tags
• Lyrics enabled by default
• Added a black background to lyrics for easier reading
• Granted “Alpha Testers” to all maestro and staff
• Enable community sitemap
• Cleanup community categories a bit
• Enabled Voting plugins in “Feature Request” (Community)
• Enabled Solved Answers plugins in “Helps & Tips” (Community)

• Allow to revert to old album art to re-position to contain
• Invalidate release note pages
• Tweak settings for fpm on api.notessimo.net
• Redirect www.notessimo.com
• Allow to edit entry without updating discourse
• Fix some more redirects
• Fix 404 after uploading song and automatic embed on forum
• Better tag trimming
• Fix embed on instruments
• Migrated the database for web / discourse as separate cluster
• Fix header of community on mobile
• Themed social media account
• Add social media meta tag in header
• Added Patreon login + Groups for supporters
• Fix Discord Login

• Fix playback on old website

• Changed CDN

• Fix error album URL

• Moved to a new backend
• Migrated the old website
• New website launch !!!

• Mobile CSS tweaks
• Fix ios popup
• Optimize hero header on mobile
• SEO tweaks
• Fix network requests issue with etag
• Fix order of player
• Fix dropdown toggle
• Adjust popup on mobile
• Fix hydration on User / Tag pages
• Move builds / nextjs into Dockers and into a Kubernetes Cluster
• Add CDNs for static assets + players

• Fix navbar on mobile web
• Improve performance of scroll list
• Embed player on community website
• About page for User
• Featured Topic can be set as the about page for User
• Improved importer IPB → Discourse
• Allow embeds (youtube / soundcloud / etc) in song page
• Replaced momentjs with dayjs + improve initial page size
• Removed bootstrap from dependencies
• Added sidebar
• Search will auto-redirect to page
• Navigation button (back / forward)
• Navbar change to page title when scrolling down
• Re-design and polish of the website
• Removed most of the dependencies
• Improved lighthouse score
• Tons of other stuff

• UI start hidden

Testing release

• Colors username / group
• Have a separate build for older mac (10.12 and lower)
• Optimization Website (removed dependencies on discourse)
• Installable as a PWA
• Fix autoplay in iframe

• Happy new year!
• Tweaked Image component from nextjs
• Optimized scroller for mobile
• Default colors when no album art is available
• Re-designed user page
• Liked By sort on user page

• Discord integration
• Analytics / Crash Reports ON
• Fixed bug in unity wait frame for ios
• Fixed race condition crash on ios when updating media
• Fixed non-fatal issue when detecting test lab on android
• Various improvement to the website to improve lighthouse score
• Use the new image optimizer from nextjs
• Better search results

• Fix missing gzip compression on data file
• Removed dynamic batching
• Fix dragging handle bar on player ios web
• Fix Safe Area on iOS at startup
• Fix leak in scroller in browse page
• Scroll restoration when going back / forward in history
• Changed getServerSideProps to getStaticProps to eliminate roundtrip to server
• Better instruments display

• Fix crash in media center ios
• Removed graphics job option
• Disabled multithread rendering on mobile
• Fix listens count
• Design tweak for item list / page for mobile
• Removed audio plugin from Graphy

• Re-design of item list
• Re-design of song page
• Update Odin to 3.0.3
• Update Unity to 2020.2.1f1
• Compensated Smoother Delta Time now default timer
• Removed incremental GC
• Disabled GC by default (manual call only after loading a song)
• iOS use XCode 12
• Remove null check / array bounds in critical code path
• API to optimize album art (+ pick dominant colors)
• Removed carousel on front page

• Auto play / send message template html
• Added new timer options
• Update to Unity 2020.2
• Removed URP from list of renderer (+URP related settings)
• Update Odin to 3.0.2
• Always-on player on website
• Re-design song page
• Add expand button (only works on new website)
• Re-design browse pages with infinite scroll
• Change domain for iframe (kicks multithread on chrome / edge, works w/ fission enabled in firefox nigthly)
• Fix TranslucentImageSource resize

• Fix singular space in Lyrics missing
• Enable ‘lock’ setting in native
• Fix performance issue in sample looping
• Better clamping for sample
• Remove notes clamping

• Fix stale values in PlayerPref
• Fix version output in CLI
• Fix versioning in CLI
• Lyrics

• Fix note tapping on MODs
• Fix release action
• Tapped note stops when song play

• Better precision on notes start
• Tests now includes V4 bytes
• Fix inaccuracy in individual sample WAV exporter
• Output version on CLI
• Tag Release on all repos

• Tween circle in timeline
• Prevent taping note when song is playing
• Breakdown sheets with mismatching tempo, most noticeable @ 3:37 on TTFAF
• Fix “Sine not properly tuned” (Spark Engine)
• Fix sheet placement / speed mismatch (I never knew you @ 3:50)
• Fix “sample” instrument note length
• Fix icon pivot
• Remove skip button until playlist are implemented
• Fix volume on brush when over 100%

• Keeping track of release notes
• Use .NET5 for CLI

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Initial release for the new player on the website