v2.17.2.0

• Fixed: Crash while attempting to open a MIDI file containing non-ASCII characters. An old bug suddenly surfaced while attempting to open a WRD file containing external lyrics.

v2.17.1.0

• Fixed: Secret Sauce crashed due to too many port resets.

v2.17.0.0

• New: Metadata MIDI_EMBEDDED_SOUNDFONT: Contains "SF x.x" (where x.x is the version number of the SoundFont specification) or "DLS" if the MIDI file contains an embedded soundfont.
• Improved: Support for XMF/MXMF files with raw deflated content.
• Improved: Tweaked the handling of embedded sound fonts for BASSMIDI and FluidSynth again.
  • The Official SF2 RMIDI Specification example files seem to work now.
• Improved: Tweaked the handling of embedded sound fonts for BASSMIDI again.
• Improved: The RIFF IPRD chunk will also be used to add an Album tag in case an IALB chunk is not found.
• Improved: FluidSynth player understands Polyphonic Key Pressure (Aftertouch) now.
• Changed: Increased the gain of the FluidSynth player.
• Changed: Disabled dynamic sample loading in the FluidSynth player. It causes distortion when playing some very short samples.
• Fixed: A pending SysEx message would get skipped when the next event used the running status.
• Fixed: More Multi Port MIDI files play correctly in BASSMIDI now.
  • The first MIDI Port message of a track is now added at the start of a track to make sure it occurs before any Program Change events.

v2.16.1.0-alpha4

• New: Metadata MIDI_EMBEDDED_SOUNDFONT: Contains "SF x.x" (where x.x is the version number of the SoundFont specification) or "DLS" if the MIDI file contains an embedded soundfont.
• Improved: FluidSynth player understands Polyphonic Key Pressure (Aftertouch) now.
• Changed: Increased the gain of the FluidSynth player.

v2.16.1.0-alpha3

• Improved: The RIFF IPRD chunk will also be used to add an Album tag in case an IALB chunk is not found.

v2.16.1.0-alpha2

• Fixed: A pending SysEx message would get skipped when the next event used the running status.
• Fixed: More Multi Port MIDI files play correctly now.
  • The first MIDI Port message of a track is now added at the start of a track to make sure it occurs before any Program Change events.

v2.16.1.0-alpha1

• Improved: Support for XMF/MXMF files with raw deflated content.
• Improved: Tweaked the handling of embedded sound fonts for BASS MIDI again.
  • The Official SF2 RMIDI Specification example files seem to work now.

v2.16.0.0

• New: Support for XMF (Extensible Music Format) and MXMF (Mobile Extensible Music Format) files.
• New: Metadata XMF_META_FILE_VERSION, XMF_FILE_TYPE and XMF_FILE_TYPE_REVISION.
• Fixed: VSTi plugins did not load or save their configuration anymore (regression).
• Fixed: VSTi plugins did not always show the correct name in the Preferences dialog (regression).

v2.15.1.0

• Fixed: The selected player now only gets overriden to BASSMIDI/FluidSynth when an embedded or a soundfont is found with the same basename as the MIDI file.
• Fixed: The BASS MIDI Resampling combo box was not always enabled correctly when switching player types.

v2.15.0.0

• New: Support for embedded DLS sound fonts in RMI files. Works only with the FluidSynth player.
• New: Support for the DBNK chunk in RMI files.
• New: Support for SoundFont layering without using SFList files. Not perfect yet but usable.
• Improved: Tweaked the player type override logic.
• Improved: Increased the number of MIDI ports supported by the BASS MIDI player.
• Fixed: A very old bug in the MIDI parsing code when Pitch Bend control change messages were encountered.
• Fixed: Some preferences were not reset when the Reset button was clicked.