Harmonic Drive · published
Four New Songs
- I Can’t Pretend I’m Fine
- I Forgot The Sound of You
- I Learned How to Smile Without You
- We Should Let Go
Practice Mode
Practice any song without rankings, failure, or progression penalties. Pause playback, seek directly through the song, adjust its playback speed, and replay difficult sections as often as needed.
Visualizer Mode
Experience Harmonic Drive as an EMS-powered music visualizer. Select a specific song or shuffle the catalog, then choose between Player Reactive and Chart Reactive behavior. Chart Reactive uses the Professional Classic chart and performs a virtual All Perfect Full Combo, allowing every EMS reaction to unfold without displaying normal gameplay or player hit effects.
Visualizer Mode also includes song search, remembers your last song, honors EMS background settings, and introduces more varied effect placement for supported loadouts.
Chart Editor "Live Editor" Mode
The Chart Editor can now open songs directly in the gameplay view for real-time chart creation and testing via the new Live Editor mode. Live Editor includes playback controls, a movable timeline, adjustable playback speed, synchronized waveform timing, and Live Adding for taps, chords, and hold notes.
Turn Live Adding off to immediately test the section with normal judgement, combo, accuracy, and scoring. Additional improvements include a customizable hold threshold, live timestamps, marquee-selection auto-scrolling, better reduced-speed synchronization, improved layout scaling, and substantially faster note insertion during playback.
Expanded EMS Progression
All EMS Loadouts are now unlocked with previous unlock requirements removed.
Sections 15 - 20 now have official names and EMS Loadouts:
- Spectrum: Chromatic Rift
- Horizon: Skyline Mirage
- Resonance: Crystal Reactor
- Orbit: Gravity Well
- Hyperdrive: Hypernova Flow
- Singularity: Singularity Bloom
Balance and Fixes
Remix Difficulty is now more tap-focused, with fewer generated chords competing with normal tap notes. Cyber Ocean’s waves now accelerate gradually from sustained combos and rapid hits instead of becoming extremely fast after a single note.
This update also includes fixes for Visualizer backgrounds and reactions, Chart Editor clipping and frame drops, waveform and judgement-line synchronization, menu behavior, EMS presentation, progression data, and general gameplay stability.
Demo Updates
Many of the updates above have also been brough in to the Demo with the primary exceptions of the Visualizer Mode and Chart Editor updates.