Greetings Friends!
A massive update of Paint Composer is nearing completion. Please test it out on the 'beta' channel if you like. All feedback is highly encouraged and welcome!
- Complete rewrite of the audio system
- MIDI support (drop a MIDI file into the app to load it). Tested with hundreds of MIDI files with great results.
- MIDI continuous controls (volume, pan)
- MIDI pitch bend support
- SoundFont support (drop a SoundFont into the app to load it for a song)
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