changelog

What the current version number 1.54.1 means?

The 54 means we had 54 different versions of GridSound containing at least one new audio feature, it could be a new effect or simply a new oscillator's param for example. This number doesn't get reset.
The last number is for intermediate versions: fixing, optimisation or any non-audio changes.
The last number is reset after the 2nd one increases (the little fixes will not be listed here).

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There are different emojies used in this changelog to quickly get what everything is about, here's the list:
🎚️ Mixer
💥 Effects (FX)
🌊 Synthesizer
🎹 Pianoroll
🥁 Drums (drum machine)
✂️ Slicer
🤖 MIDI files / MIDI inputs
📻 Sample library
📦 Audio patterns
⚙️ Settings (options)
📐 UX (User eXperience)
🎨 UI (User Interface)
🪟 UX/UI related to the windows
🩹 Bug fix
📕 Help
☁️ Cloud profile / saving / sharing

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1.54.1 - 2025-07-11 (current version)

• 🌊📐 Synth: Oscillator's wavetable are now an array of 2048 float instead of a dot-line (this is way better for this exact purpose).
• 🌊 Synth: Oscillator's wavetable, it's now possible to drop in the WaveEditor a WAVE file containing a raw waveform.

1.53.0 - 2025-06-21

• 🌊 Synth: Each oscillator can now has its own wavetable, with 10 editable wavetable-position curves.
• 🎚️🩹 Mixer: Reordering effects is now possible.
• 🤖🩹 MIDI: Fix, handle multi-tracks MIDI files (it will still only display the 1st track containing keys).
• ✂️🩹 Slicer: Fix, dropping a buffer from the library into the slicer works (without the need to do any action in order to trigger the buffer writing).
• 📐 UX: Upgrade the drag-n-drop system on the entire app, easier to reorder everything and also easier to understand where an item can be dropped.
• 📐 UX: Upgrade the dotted polyline editor, the slider to change the curve between two points doesn't need to be shown. This simplification fix a click problem linked to the Web PointerLock API.
• 📐 UX: Sliders can now be reset to their default value with the mouse's middle-click. #104
• 🩹 Fix: An empty composition will no more play for infinity.

1.52.2 - 2025-03-30

• 📕 Help: Write the mixer and effects documentation. wiki/help
• 🎚️🩹 Mixer: Fix, prevent reordering the main channel.
• 🌊🩹 Synth: Fix, prevent selecting the oscillator's custom wave with the prevWave button without editing one before.
• 🌊🩹 Synth: Fix, add many checks around the automation calls.

1.52.0 - 2025-03-27

• 🌊 Synth: Add a lowpass envelope.
• 🌊 Synth: Improve how envelopes works with key shorter than the attack + hold + decay.
• 🌊 Synth: Improve how pianoroll key's lowpass/highpass works.

1.51.1 - 2025-03-19

• 📕 Help: Write the synthesizer documentation. wiki/help
• 📕 Help: Clicking the top-right help icon will show/hide all the help links.
• 📐 UX: Add some help links in the synthesizer.

1.51.0 - 2025-03-14

• 🌊 Synth: Each oscillator now have an editable custom wave.
• 💥 Effects: WaveShaper, the shaping curve can be more complex with wave, arc, etc. (not only straight line).

1.50.0 - 2025-02-18

• 🌊 Synth: In addition of White noise, we now have Pink and Brown noises too.
• 🌊📐 Synth: UX, noises are at a difference place.
• 🩹 Fix: The Sliders was sometime not working.

1.49.0 - 2025-02-13

• 🌊 Synth: Add the pitch LFO.
• 🌊🩹 Synth: Fix the gain LFO square wave, now it oscillate fully between 0 and 1, before it was never really mute due to periodic wave normalization.
• 💥 Effects: Filter has now a live analyser showing exactly which frenquences are impacted.
• 🎨 UI: Update the minimap loop appearance.

1.48.1 - 2025-01-11

• 🌊🩹 Synth: Fix the stereo panner. The native WebAudio stereoPannerNode doesn't act how it should in this context so we now use our own gswaStereoPanner everywhere.
• 🩹 Fix: The keyboard shortcuts (eg. Ctrl+Z) now work with CapsLock too.

1.48.0 - 2025-01-05

• 🌊 Synth: Add a pitch envelope.
• 📐 UX: Each scrolling window has an autoscroll toggle button, to follow the currentTime automatically.

1.47.2 - 2024-12-17

• 📐 UX: Each window has its own play/pause/stop controls.

1.47.1 - 2024-12-14

• 🩹 Fix: Pressing play will start the correct focused window.

1.47.0 - 2024-12-08

• 💥 Effects: add the Reverb effect.
• 💥 Effects: Fix the WaveShaper effect.
• 🎚️📐 Mixer: UX, a better "new effect" button.
• 🎚️🎨 Mixer: UI, all the effects share the same design and colors.

1.46.0 - 2024-11-09

• ☁️ The DAW's URL has changed: gridsound.com/daw ➡️ daw.gridsound.com.
• ☁️ The DAW is able to open other users' composition in readOnly mode (if the compo is set as "opensource").
• ☁️ The DAW will no more show your compositions list from your account (you will have to open it from the website (gridsound.com)).
• 📐 UX: The Undo/Redo buttons are next to the Play/Stop ones.
• 📐 UX: The Undo/Redo list has been removed (it will come back inside a separate window).
• 📐 UX: The Tempo and TimeDivision popup has been redesign.

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0.46.0 - 2024-08-19

• 🌊 Synth: Oscillator's Phaze can now be changed.
• 🤖 MIDI: Handle velocity of MIDI devices.
• 🎚️ Mixer: Add a VU meter plugged on the selected channel.
• 🎚️ Mixer: A toggle to switch between frequency or timeDomain visualisation.
• 📐 UX: Add a dynamic scrollbar under each scrollable window.
• 📐 UX: Better algorythm for scrollable window zooming.
• 📐 UX: The Timeline (currentTime and loop) is easier to use.
• 🩹 Fix: No more crash when we move a pattern inside a muted track.

0.45.0 - 2024-05-06

• 💥 Effects: add the WaveShaper effect.

0.44.0 - 2024-04-15

• 📦 Patterns: Buffers can now be cloned.
• 📦 Patterns: Buffers can now be reversed.
• ⚙️ Settings: Key notation CDEFGAB/DoRéMi/etc.

0.43.1

• 🎹 Pianoroll: Clicking on a key or moving it will launch a preview sound.

0.43.0 - 2024-02-14

• 🌊 Synth: Buffers can be used in the synth.
• 🌊 Synth: Type noise is now stereo + random start offset.
• 📦 Patterns: Possibility to drag and drop a buffer directly from the library to the drumrows or in a synth or in the composition window.
• 📦 Patterns: parse the buffers' name to set the BPM correctly if it's in the title.

0.42.0 - 2023-09-10

• 🌊 Synth: new type noise.
• 🎨 UI: The windows are darker.
• 🎨 UI: The blocks/patterns are more discernible with little borders/shadows.

0.41.1 - 2023-06-17

• 📐 UX: fix the patterns' panels.

0.41.0 - 2023-06-11

• 🥁 Drums: Step splitting, double clicking on a drum or a drumcut to divide it.
• 🤖 MIDI: Possibility to drop a single-track midi file on the pianoroll.

0.40.3 - 2023-04-18

• 🪟 Windows: no more minimize button, only maximize and close.

0.40.2 - 2023-03-24

• 📐 UX: Now when you click a slider you can use the mouse wheel to get the exact value you want.
• 🎨 UI: Reduce the size of the patterns and the libraries.
• 🪟 Windows: There are now two sliders to handling the zoom X/Y. [tweet]
• 🪟 Windows: Preventing the windows to scroll on focus.
• 🪟 Windows: The windows can't be moved where you can't reach them again.
• 🪟 Windows: Closing a windows now free the content, meaning the app will take less memory and CPU if you want to only use the pianoroll for example.

0.40.1 - 2023-03-13

• 🎚️ Mixer: Each channel now contains a small visual stack to see all its effects. [tweet]
• 🎨 UI: Little changes everywhere.
• ⚖️ Policy: The cookie check has been moved at the gate instead of being mixed in the code.

0.40.0 - 2023-02-06

• 🌊 Synth: Unison. [tweet]
• 🤖 MIDI: Handle piano midi devices.
• 📻 Samples: make it retractable.
• 🎚️ Mixer: move the effects next to the channels inside a new Mixer window. [tweet]

0.39.2 - 2022-12-18

• 🌊 Synth: fix, reformat the older composition with fine pitch (#85).
• 🌊 Synth: fix, start the oscillators always in the same order.
• 🌊 Synth: fix, when an oscillator changes it will apply the change instantaneously in the pianoroll.
• Patternroll: muting tracks is now applied instantaneously to the audio feedback.
• 📻 Samples: show the used samples in blue.

0.39.0 - 2022-12-10

• 🌊 Synth: the oscillators now have a fine pitch parameter (#83). [tweet]
• 🎹 Pianoroll: the root octave can be change for keyboard playing (#82). [tweet]
• 📐 UX: bind the Backspace key on the Delete key.

0.38.0 - 2022-11-23

• 💥 Effects: add the Delay effect.

0.37.2 - 2022-09-11

• 📻 Samples: fix, after reloading a composition the samples was not loading again.
• 🎨 UI: make the daw's header (all the controller etc.) smaller.

0.37.1 - 2022-09-02

• 📦 Patterns: dropped buffers will now appear on the library panel (in the "local" side).
• 🎨 UI: make the windows' header smaller.
• 🎨 UI: reduce the animation of the popups.

0.37.0 - 2022-07-24

• 📻 Samples: Add a new sample library (151 samples).
• 🎨 UI: Make the patterns in the left panel smaller.

0.36.3 - 2022-07-03

• 🩹 Fix: some fixes related to the currentTime and the focus between the windows.
• ✂️ Slicer: can now set a inner loop.
• 🪟 Windows: the blocks/patterns window is now a resizable panel on the left.

0.36.2 - 2022-05-30

• 🩹 Massive rewrite of the wrap of the DAW itself.

0.36.0 - 2021-12-12

• ✂️ Slicer: introduce a new pattern type, the slices.

0.35.0

• 📦 Patterns: the pattern buffers have now metadata attached to them like BPM. Then the loop samples can stay sync with any tempo.
• BPM: the BPM can be more precise, e.g. 120.01 is now possible.
• 📦 Patterns: the drumcuts are shown as a thin bar into the drums patterns' preview.
• 🩹 Fix: many fixes related to the pattern of type buffers when they do not have their data loaded yet, and about undoing a buffer deletion.

0.34.0 - 2021-05-16

• 🌊 Synth: add a gain envelop (AHDSR).
• ⚙️ Settings: we can now change the audioContext's sampleRate for live feedback.

0.33.1 - 2021-03-21

• 🎹 Pianoroll: each key can have a special LFO gain speed and amplitude.

0.32.7 - 2021-01-04

• 🩹 Fix: Muted tracks and muted channels were not reloading well.
• 🩹 Fix: #63, some bugs related to the drumrows were still there since the rewrite of the 0.32.2 version.
• Controls: a new button next to play/stop to restart the audio engine.

0.32.4 - 2020-11-26

• Time numbering: the timelines and the clock are now counting the measures instead of the beats. [tweet]
• Time numbering: it's now possible, in the settings to makes the measures start counting from 0 instead of 1. [tweet]

0.32.2 - 2020-10-16

• 🩹 Performance: an important optimization on the Drums, Piano and Composition windows, there is now only one scrolling area on each window, no more scroll-linked elements. [tweet]

0.32.0 - 2020-07-25

• 🥁 Drums: a pan slider for each row.
• 🥁 Drums: a gain/pan/pitch attribute for each drum. [tweet]

0.31.0 - 2020-07-13

• 🌊 Synth: LFO gain, handle negative amplitude. [tweet]
• 🩹 Fix: Don't crash when we want to use two effects in the same channel.

0.30.0 - 2020-06-26

• 🥁 Drums: a gain and a pitch slider for each row. [tweet]

0.29.0 - 2020-06-21

• 🥁 Drums: introduce the drumcut, a stop button on each drum to stop all the previous drums on the same row. [tweet]

0.28.6 - 2020-06-05

• TimeSignature: changing the time signature will update the composition and patterns' duration accordingly.
• 🌊 Synth: fix the LFO background when the time signature changes.
• 🥁 Drums: fix the time slider when the drums was selected.
• 🎚️ Mixer: fix the channel redirection.
• Reopening the current composition will discard correctly the unsaved changed.

0.28.3

• version: able to reload all the old version of gridsound.
• TimeSignature: fix undo bug.
• 🪟 Windows: reduce the size of the title bar of each windows.

0.28.2 - 2020-03-20

• Composition: fix a bug related to drums blocks' scheduler.
• 🪟 Windows: magnetism, each window will naturally stick or align itself with the others.

0.28.1

• 🥁 Drums: display the buffer's wave on each rows.
• 🥁 Drums: display all the started drums playing with cursors on the waves.
• 🥁 Drums: left/right click on drumrows will start/stop their buffers. [tweet]

0.28.0 - 2020-02-16

• 🥁 Drums: a really basic drum loop editor. [tweet]

0.27.1

• 🌊 Synth: review the oscillators pitch. [tweet]
• 🌊 Add a second oscillator (-24 pitch) on the default synth.
• 🪟 Windows: the windows can't be shrank too much anymore.

0.26.3

• 🩹 Fix: 6 bug fixes.
• Better drawing algorythm for the spectrums.

0.26.0

• 🌊 Synth: add an LFO based on gain. [tweet]
• Add a pattern into the main grid by default.

0.25.4

• 💥 Effects: a new Fxs window.
• 💥 Effects: add the Filter effect.
• ⚙️ Settings: a new settings popup to set the UI refresh rate (fps) and toggle how the windows moves (direct or with a shadow).

0.24.1

• 🎚️ Mixer: the channels are now reorderable.
• 📦 Patterns: the patterns are now reorderable.
• 🌊 Synth: the oscillators are now reorderable.

0.24.0

• 📻 Samples: ability to drop and use WAV files directly in the main grid.

0.23.1

• 🎹 Pianoroll: an attack and a release can be set on each key.

0.22.0

• 🎹 Pianoroll: each key has a low/highpass values like gain and pan.
• 🎹 Pianoroll: the multi-slider area has been improved.

0.21.0

• 🪟 Windows: all the panels are now splitted in multiple windows, this leads to better performances.

0.20.3

• 🎨 UI: buttons and icons has been review.
• Clock: the clock has now a button to swap its display.
• 🩹 Performance: review the analysers and the clock to increase the FPS.

0.20.1

• 🌊 Synth: review its design.
• 🩹 Fix: The offline is fixed.

0.20.0

• 🎚️ Mixer: a basic mixer (without any effects for the moment).

0.19.2

• Cloud: possibility to drag n drop compositions from the cloud to the local and vice versa.
• 🎨 UI: use fancy fonts (Montserrat and Unica One (for numbers)).

0.19.0

• Cloud: possibility to create and update compositions online via gridsound.com.
• Splash screen: add a loading screen to force the user to click in order to allow the audioContext being constructed (cf. Autoplay Policy improvements).

0.18.3

• 🎨 UI: reduce the borders everywhere and flatten controls items.
• 📐 UX: the left panel can be more shrinked.
• 🩹 Fix: delete an oscillator doesn't soundly fail anymore.
• 🩹 Fix: key selection, the keys' gain/pan sliders were stay locked sometimes.
• 🩹 Fix: pattern change synth, when a pattern was moved to another synth, the sound was not following instantaneously.
• 🩹 Fix: cloning a pattern with the same name of another one is now ok.

0.18.0

• 🎹 Pianoroll: Able to link keys together to perform a same noise with gain, pan and frequency variations!
• Help: add a link to this help/tutorial page.

0.17.2

• Possibility to load a composition via .../daw/#cmp=https://.../file.gs.
• Patternroll: The loop selection is now savable and undo/redoable.
• 🎹 Pianoroll: fix, gain/pan/duration default value are reset when a pattern is open.

0.17.1

• CSS: adjust the min/max panels size.
• 🩹 Fix: no more issue with offset while rendering.

0.17.0

• Render popup: a popup to handle the rendering.
• ⌨️ Shortcut: Ctrl+B to copy-paste the current selection.
• 🩹 Fix: several fix.

0.16.0

• 🎹 Pianoroll: able to set a gain/pan specific to each key.
• Patterns list: able to delete the last pattern.
• 🩹 Fix: handle old compositions.

0.15.2

• Piano/patternroll: able to change the grid-magnetism precision.
• Piano/patternroll: full rewrite, native scroll, better rect-selection behaviour.
• Audio scheduler: full rewrite, a full inner streaming increase the performance.
• Patterns list: clicking a pattern doesn't preview it anymore.
• 🌊 Synth: add a tiny default gain envelope to avoid the clicking.
• About popup: the version-check is now done after clicking a specific link.
• 🩹 Fix: a bug related to the pattern selection has been fixed.

0.14.0

• 🌊 Synth: add 18 custom periodicWaves (via lukehorvat/web-audio-oscillators).
• 🎹 Pianoroll: possibility to play keys directly with the keyboard (no record feature yet).
• About: add a popup with all the GridSound's links (GitHub, Twitter, etc.).
• 🎨 UI: move the version number into the About's popup.

0.13.3

• A rewrite of one of synthesizer's subpart: gsuiOscillator.
• Don't fail if we load a composition while playing another.

Feedback on /r/programming

0.13.2

• 🌊 Synth: possibility to create different synthesizers, with different patterns.
• 🎹 Pianoroll: fix #30.
• ⌨️ Shortcut: the Alt or Ctrl keys can be used for all the shortcuts #29.
• 📐 UX: add CSS cursor feedback while resizing the panels #28.
• Controls: the pattern and the main grid are now playing in loop by default.

0.12.2

• 🌊 Synth: Keep the oscillators order while undo/redoing.
• Help: Add explications in the shortcuts popup.
• 🩹 Fix: No more bug when we render a composition while playing it.

0.12.0

• 🌊 Synth: A new panel which contains the synthesizer.

0.11.0

• 🩹 Fix: Keyboard shortcuts.
• ⚙️ Settings: A tap button in the settings-popup to set a precise BPM.

0.10.3

• Help: Add a popup to show all the keyboard/mouse shortcuts.
• ⌨️ Shortcut: Change many keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+Z become Alt+Z etc. to a better cross-compatibility.
• 🩹 Fix: Add/fix some grid events for Mac users (scroll horizontal).
• 🩹 Fix: No more problem after resizing the app.

0.10.1

• Controls: Add a main volume slider to control the output gain tab feedback without impacting the rendering.
• 🩹 Fix: No more problem when rendering with the feedback loop enabled.

Feedback on /r/webdev

0.9.0

• A New button (Alt+N) to start a new composition.
• A Open button (Ctrl+O) to allow loading a composition by a local file or with an URL.

0.8.2

• .json and .txt files are now accepted as a .gs composition file.
• 🩹 Fix: a bug when we drop a composition file into the main sample grid.

Feedback on /r/coolgithubprojects

0.8.1

• When we stop the cursor will be at loopA if present instead of 0.
• 🩹 Fix: Fixes around play/stop/loop when we change the pattern or preview a pattern.

0.8.0

• The feedback loop while playing is now finally ready :)

0.7.2

• ⌨️ Shortcut: Ctrl+A, select all the blocks of the selected grid.
• ⌨️ Shortcut: Ctrl+D, deselect all the selected blocks of the selected grid.
• 🎹 Pianoroll: At start the pianoroll is now showing the middle of the keyboard.

0.7.1

• 🎹 Add two more octaves in the low frequencies.
• 🩹 Improve the switch/focus between the grids.
• 🩹 Fix: Fix a bug event in the settings popup.
• Link the version number to this changelog.