The MONO mode has been reengineered to keep track of any key still pressed and returning to that when the subsequent key is released. This makes trills and ornamentation much easier.
We have added a new Portamento DECAY knob that lets you define how sounds decay when using portamento. The minimum Decay value retriggers each sound from start, with full attack. The maximum value picks up the sound at the time since the first key was pressed.
You can adjust this knob to find the value that suits you best, emulating the slight pick-up of every new note being triggered.
By default, portamento and mono chains are limited within a specific playing style (orange rectangle). But now you can extend that by setting multiple styles to the same group number.
This is achieved by the new Group Number dropdown visible when selecting a style (set to unique numbers by default).
So far, modulations where global, for all MIDI channels. You can now make that channel-specific by checking the By Channel box on a modulation definition.
Starting with Expansion Pack 12, we are adding room mics to the mix. You can customize the level of stereo and mono ones in the MICS pane.
Here is the list of changes in SwarPlug v 5.3.0 update:
Here is the list of changes in SwarPlug v 5.2.0 update:
Our latest release, Expansion Pack 14, features a sweet Mandolin and two Rababs (both Afghani and Punjabi versions), all sampled with the highest quality in mind: multi-layered, multi-mics, round-robin and including various strumming styles (normal, muted, short trills, long trills, ...).
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