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Sheet Music
- Sheet music should now appear perfectly sharp at every zoom level.
- Instead of dragging the bar to change the size of the sheet music, pause the song and use the new + and - buttons that appear.
- Bluetooth MIDI devices should now appear in the list on the Settings screen when running under Windows 10.
- The built-in GS wavetable synth appears to be much lower latency on Windows 10.
- (Both of the above require the 4 new DLL files found in the download to be placed alongside Synthesia.exe.)
- New "Simple Names" label mode that always shows C, D, E, F, G, A, B on white keys only, regardless of song's current key signature.
- The other key-based label modes now only show text on pitches that belong to the song's current key signature. You can revert to the old behavior using Settings -> Gameplay -> Note Labels.
- Synthesia now renders text using your system's default font (instead of the Trebuchet MS font).
- New "Toggle Bookmark at Current Position" shortcut, set to the ? key by default.
- V-sync is now enabled on Windows by default. Control via the "Graphics.Vsync" advanced setting.
- Added "Metronome.ProgramChange" advanced setting for users that don't have a percussion patch and want to hear the metronome use something other than piano.
- About another dozen fixes/changes. Check the readme for the complete list.
- On Windows 10, you may need to set your devices up again. The new MIDI layer names things slightly differently, so Synthesia thinks they're different devices.
- Sheet music has quite a few regressions that will be fixed over the next few previews. Things that are currently missing:
- Currently held notes aren't shown.
- The page-flip animation is missing.
- Ledger lines can look a little wonky depending on adjacent notes.
- Lines are left-justified instead of fully-justified.
- The existing sheet music engine can still choose to create beams that are at an unrealistically steep angle, which the new beam drawing code doesn't handle very gracefully. Steep beams appear rather jagged.
- Lots more. The spacing between pretty much everything is still pretty rough, too.
- There were huge technology changes to make the new sheet music rendering happen. If you see anything obviously broken (solid red music, everything stretched weird, completely invisible, crashes, etc.) please say so! Graphics hardware details (make/model of your GPU) are very helpful.
- The Windows 10 MIDI code (both ours and Microsoft's!) is very new, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were still rough edges. If you see anything strange (bizarre device names on the Settings screen, MIDI not sending at all, etc.) that is another good reason to say something.