Known Issues

• Various DAW Compatibility Issues - More Information

v1.50

Important New Changes

New Top-Left Dropdown Menu

The new dropdown menu can be expanded by clicked the "menu" button in the top-left of the Jamstik Creator window.

Here you can get access to the Jamstik Creator Preferences and Calibration as well as other Jamstik Creator pages that are accessible through the main topbar.

New Jamstik Device Settings

The Jamstik Device Settings have been redesigned to make room for a consistently expanding list of Jamstik Device Settings. You can access Jamstik Device Settings once connected by clicking on the icon above Device Settings in the top bar or from the Jamstik Device Settings entry in the top-left dropdown.

Jamstik Device Settings are now where you will find detailed String Open Note Tuning settings in the Device Settings' Tuning tab, as well as the new MIDI Velocity Limits in the Device Settings' Sensitivity Tab. Detailed information on these settings can be found by hovering over the (?) icons in Jamstik Creator or on the Jamstik Creator Guide's Device Settings Section.

Device Firmware Updates Inside Jamstik Creator

When you connect a Jamstik over USB while the Jamstik Creator is connected to the internet, you can now update the Jamstik's Firmware in less than 5 minutes without leaving the Jamstik Creator. 

New

• Jamstik firmware updates can now be completed within the Creator
• Refreshed save preset dialog now allows customization of author, description, and tags
• Improved window resizing behavior
• QOL enhancements for text input
  • Text input fields now respond to keyboard modifiers as well as home/end
  • right-click context menus for text entry
• Device settings panel refreshed
• Added Min and Max Velocity device settings
• Quick links and Navigation with new hamburger menu
  • Calibration and Jamstik Creator Preferences are now accessed via hamburger menu
• Cloudfront server connection for global accessibility

Fixed

• Fixes for better international access to downloads and online information
• Fixed crash when resetting audio
• Fixed bugs/crashes related to bitcrusher effect
• Fixed bugs related to sound library update
• Fixed bugs related to text input
• Fixed issue where compressor stopped making sound
• Fixed issue where VST3 didn’t respond to all MIDI CC messages
• Fixed hang when connecting Jamstik
• Visual improvements

v1.42

New

• Enhanced preset browser
  • Shows sound pack artwork
  • Shows sound packs available online
• AAX plugin for use in Pro Tools
• Automatically check for sound library updates after installing new content or changing sound library location

Fixed

• Fixed inaccurate alert that sound library updates are available
• Fixed crashes on windows machines running pre-AVX2 x86 (Intel/AMD) processors
• Fixed bugs in on-screen piano
• Fixed preset browser not remembering starred presets
• Fixed CC modulators not saving some of their parameters
• Fixed crashes related to changing buffer sizes
• Fixed bugs/crashes in bitcrusher due to float precision
• Mac: fixed crash related to using the Creator on two different users
• Mac: fixed bugs related to setting the sound library location
• Various bug fixes and optimizations

v1.40

New

• Enhanced fretboard display
  • Visualization of pitch bend
• New Reverb effect
  • New algorithm uses less CPU and sounds better than the legacy reverb
  • Reverb now has a built-in multi-band parametric EQ
  • Pre-delay and reverb modulation parameters are assignable
  • Legacy reverb will still be loaded from old presets that used it
• New Multi-Segment Envelope Generators (MSEG)
  • MSEGs allow users to draw curves using a visual node editor
  • MSEGs support looping, tempo-sync, velocity scaling, and full polyphony (when trigger is set to poly kbd)
  • MSEG allows modulation of depth and rate
  • MSEG does not allow first and last nodes to be deleted
• Redesigned preset browser
  • Allows filtering by packs, artist, family, and instruments used
• Sound library installer/updater is now built into the Creator
• Sound library installer can detect an existing library installation at the path the user specifies
• Sound library updater is capable of updating add-on content
• Imported presets go into the new Imported category
• All LFO, ADSR and MSEG now allow copy/paste of all settings
• All ADSR modulators can now be modulation targets
• EQ Panel: bands will be selected when enabling/disabling them
• Reorganized folder structure of sound library
• Reduced ADSR modulator clicking

Fixed

• Fixed tempo sync not working in Logic
• Improved tempo sync accuracy in VST3 and AUv3 plugins
• Ensured that Jamstik Studio time-based parameters are displayed in minutes
• Restored click+drag capability in on-screen piano
• Ensure Jamstik connection is checked at startup
• Fix bugs in hybrid dropdowns and Jamstik string envelope mapping UI
• Fix bugs in fretboard UI
• (Windows) fix crashes on some computers
• Visual improvements
• Various bug fixes

v1.34

New

• Improved text input handling of some time-based parameters
  • E.g. ADSR time parameters accept us, ms, or s (i.e. microseconds, milliseconds, or seconds)
• (Windows) unify versions (AVX version, legacy version)
  • If AVX is not supported by the processor, fallback to SSE2 instructions
  • SSE2 should still provide a major CPU boost for older processors
• Add sound store button to preset browser (English)

Fixed

• Fixed bug causing files to stop loading after some time when Jamstik Service can’t be reached
• (Windows) Fixed bug preventing jspack import by opening jspack file
• Fixed bug preventing Creator instances from communicating
• Fixed crash in Jamstik Studio connection routine
• Fixed hang when starring presets
• Fixed bug loading sampler instrument with missing samples
• Don’t clear sound library location from cache if it’s not found
• Various bug fixes and optimizations

v1.33

New

• Device Settings: Added Demo Mode options for supported devices (Jamstik Studio with FW 3.20+)
  • Demo Mode will reset a Jamstik's device settings after a period of inactivity if the Jamstik is on Firmware 3.20 or above.
• Updated Jamstik Service to v000.002.017
  • Support receiving unpacked strings via SysEx
  • Support for new profile & demo mode Jamstik parameters (FW 3.20)

Fixed

• Fixed issue where previously saved window size was not properly restored
• Improved clarity of frequency response plots
• Improved clarity of text edit fields
• Fixed crash in FL Studio
• Fix crash when switching sampler instruments while playing notes
• Various bug fixes

v1.30

 Note: The factory sound library now includes 43 new and 11 updated presets that take advantage of the new sound engine capabilities for this version. Make sure to run the Install or Update Sound Library program included in the download file to access these new presets.

• Added ability to modulate parameters of modulation sources
  • LFO: Depth, rate, phase, sample & hold rate
  • ADSR: Depth, A/D/S/R
• LFO: Added unipolar mode
• LFO: Added Sample & Hold processing with optional tempo sync
• LFO tempo sync: Added 2x whole note options
• Oscillator filter: added slope options for most filter shapes
  • 12 dB/octave, 24 dB/octave, 48 dB/octave, 96 dB/octave
• Oscillator, LFO: Improved white noise generator
• Oscillator instruments: Added unison count, unison detune, unison stereo width parameters
• Oscillator instruments: Added phase reset option
• Oscillator instruments: Redesigned panel
• Sampler instruments: Added user-configurable ADSR
• Sampler instruments: Added transpose, coarse tuning, and fine tuning controls
  • Transpose affects sample selection, and does not introduce extra pitch stretching. Coarse/fine tuning always use pitch stretching.
• Sampler instruments: Gain and pan modulations can now be applied polyphonically
• Sampler instruments: All sampler instruments now share the same sample cache, meaning it is now trivial to use multiple instances of the same sampler instrument in a preset
• Sampler instruments: Redesigned panel
• Compressor: Added gain reduction (G/R) meter

Fixes:

• UI Optimizations
• Audio processing optimizations
• AUv3, Apple Silicon: Fixed crash when changing audio settings in Logic
• Various bug fixes
• MacOS: Fixed bugs related to automation in Logic Pro
• MacOS: Fixed crash related to resetting audio in Logic Pro
• MacOS: Workaround for a bug in older versions of MacOS that caused a crash

v1.20

• Workarounds for running in native Logic on Apple Silicon/M1 devices
  • Running Logic Pro in Rosetta mode should no longer be necessary on Apple Silicon machines.
• UI: Knobs now show realtime modulation value

• UI: Knobs and sliders now support Ctrl mouse modifier for increased precision
• UI: Tweak to assignable control highlighting
• Added ability to select different languages in Global Settings (requires restart)
  • Currently supported: English (US) and Simplified Chinese [More languages will be released in future updates]
• Oscillator: portamento range extended to 5s
• Instruments: minimum gain extended to -90 dB
• Effects: Wet/dry maximum value is now 12dB (except Compressor, which goes to 24 dB)
• Effects: improved wet/dry UI scaling
• Compressor: attack range extended to 300 ms
• Compressor: release default changed from 50 to 200 ms
• Compressor: threshold default changed from -10 to -12 dB
• Delay/Reverb: low shelf frequency default changed from 500 Hz to 200 Hz
• Delay/Reverb: improved shelf frequency UI scaling
• Delay: All delay parameters are linked by default
• Amp Sim: Wet/dry can now be modulated
• EQ/filter frequency: improved UI scaling
• EQ/filter frequency: improved value formatting
• ADSR: improved value formatting
• Jamstik Settings: fix bug setting first MIDI channel
• Jamstik Settings: fix bug with string envelope controller dropdown
• Various bug fixes and optimizations

v1.17

• Added support for Jamstik Studio FW 3.15
• Added transcription mode switch to Device Settings
  • Transcription mode improves accuracy and filters out unwanted MIDI notes at the cost of adding 30-40 extra milliseconds of latency and disabling some performance features like hammer-ons. This mode is primarily meant for recording rather than performing and a lower buffer size and ASIO drivers on Windows is strongly recommended in this mode.
• Effects: Mix renamed to Output Mix. Added flow graphic
• Added informational hints for MIDI compatibility mode
• Fixed bug switching between Jamstik MIDI modes
• Windows, standalone: Fixes to audio driver bugs
• Other fixes

v1.15

• Added ability to import presets and content packs into the sound library
  • Preset (.jsp) and content pack (.jspack) files can be dropped onto the Creator, double-clicked within Windows Explorer or MacOS finder, or right-clicked to import them
  • Added icons and operating system associations for .jsp and .jspack files
• Multiple instruments can be selected at a time in the instrument list, allowing parameter changes to be applied to all selected instruments 
  
  • This is accessed by holding down control while clicking on instrument blocks or by holding down shift and clicking to select a range of instruments at once.
• All effects (except EQ) now have an assignable Mix control, which is applied after the Wet/Dry controls
• Sampler instrument loading no longer prevents changing presets or sampler instruments
• Added more diagnostic info to the device settings diagnostic button
• Slightly redesigned effect panels with larger Wet/Dry sliders
• Fix bug in paraphonic note-off handling in modulation sources
• Reverb optimizations
• Optimizations to modulation sources on M1 processors
• Anonymous, encrypted usage data is uploaded to Jamstik's servers
• Standalone: Fixed issue where Jamstik config port could not be deselected if previously selected, because it was blocked
• Standalone: added audio diagnostic
• Standalone: improved handling of errors when initializing audio stream
• EQ & oscillator filters: improvements to filter response when cutoff frequency is rapidly changing
• EQ: Filter Q is now assignable
• EQ panel: optimizations to EQ panel
• EQ panel: fix blurry label text
• EQ panel: frequency response curve responds more smoothly to changes during modulation
• Oscillator filter panel: Now shows live-updating frequency response of the most recently-played active voice, or the theoretical frequency response of a voice playing middle C if no voices are active
• Oscillator Instruments: Prevent from attempting to play notes above the Nyquist frequency
• ADSR: attack, decay, sustain, and release parameters are now assignable
• ADSR: optimizations
• ADSR: improved transient behavior
• ADSR: time values are now measured in milliseconds (ms)
• ADSR: fixed bug that sometimes caused undesired transients
• ADSR default release time is now 10 ms
• ADSR modulation source maximum depth doubled
• ADSR modulation source default offset is 100%
• Various optimizations & bug fixes

v1.09

• Added MIDI compatibility mode option. This breaks up the MIDI notes from a single channel MIDI controller into guitar strings in the Jamstik Creator. This allows third-party MIDI controllers to play sampler instruments that have samples mapped to specific strings. It also allows MIDI notes to be shown on the on-screen fretboard for these MIDI controllers on more strings than just String 1.
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  • • The toggle for this mode will not appear when a Jamstik Studio MIDI Guitar is connected in MPE mode.
    • You may also want to use this setting while in Ableton Live 10/11 or Studio One where MPE is not properly implemented and channels are not maintained Jamstik Creator: Third-Party DAW Compatibility Database.
• String Envelope Mapping is now available which (once a Jamstik Studio MIDI guitar is updated to firmware version 3.10) allows remapping of the string envelope decay to any MIDI CC value or Channel Pressure. More information in the Jamstik Creator Software Guide.
• String Envelope Send replaces Expression Tracking Send for clarity/accuracy.
• Improved MPE Support
  • The Jamstik Creator now listens and responds to more MPE messages from third party devices including MPE Configuration Message, global pitch bend, and more! 
    • (In addition, the latest Jamstik Studio MIDI firmware version 3.10, available at play.jamsik.com/update, the Jamstik Studio MIDI Guitar in MPE Mode now has a default pitch bend range of ±48 as well as support for sending MPE Channel Pressure messages.)
• Oscillator instruments: MIDI pitch bend is smoothed slightly

Jamstik Service updated to v0.002.009

• Supports Jamstik Firmware version 3.10
• Improved logging

v1.05

New

• Jamstik MIDI mode is now displayed in the top bar

  

• UI is not initialized until the window opens. This greatly speeds up scanning the Creator into DAWs and loading previously saved projects.

• Added tempo-sync option to Delay effect

• Added various warnings on the Calibration screen

• Added curve knob in ADSR panels

  

• Added note mod in oscillator filter panels

  

Fixed

• Improved visual clarity
• Improved startup time
• Fixed bug causing free-running LFOs to halt when no notes are playing
• Various visual tweaks

v1.01

New

• Redesign of the Top Bar to provide more information about MIDI and Jamstik Service connection status
• Support for non-english unicode characters in files and file paths
• Oscillator instruments use expression instead of velocity for note-on amplitude when appropriate
• Positions of a custom Macro in the Macro list will be preserved when saving and loading
• Preset author and description are cleared when saving presets
• Improvements to sound quality of Flanger effect
• Pitch bend modulator has been restored to the CC list
• Pitch bend CC modulator no longer restores its previously saved value when loading a preset
• Jamstik Service will try multiple ports if the default port is taken; Creator will try to connect across all possible ports
• (Windows, standalone) Jamstik MIDI port is automatically disconnected from the Creator when clicking on the firmware update button
• (Windows, standalone) use WASAPI driver by default
• Sound Library Installer v0.70 changes
  • Add ability to install multiple sound library updates in series
  • New sound library updates can be pushed from Jamstik servers without requiring an update to the sound library installer
  • Will now show file sizes in MB or KB if appropriate
  • Requires user to exit Creator (standalone) before installing sound library to prevent file conflicts

Fixed

• Fixed crash when using the MIDI learn panel
• Fixed bug in preset browser sometimes allowing deleting a preset and selecting a preset to happen in a single click
• Fixed bug sometimes causing the Jamstik Creator to fail to connect to the Jamstik Service
• Fixed memory leaks
• Fixed ADSR bug when used in ADR mode with A and D set to 0
• Fixed bug where Jamstik MIDI channel offset was sometimes not updated in the Creator
• Fixed bug where MIDI note events and CC/pitch bend would arrive out of order
• Fixed bug where Macros and CC modulators would reset when audio resets
• Fix bugs related to DAW Macro automation
• Fixed bug where sampler instruments would sometimes have invalid audio outputs
• Fixed crash when the Learning Portal for Jamstik is being used at the same time as the Creator
• Fixed bug where sound library installer progress bar was not showing the correct values
• Fixed crash related to resetting audio while oscillator instrument is initializing
• (Standalone, MacOS) Fixed bug that sometimes caused the canvas size to be smaller than the window size
• (Standalone, Windows) Fixed bugs in preferences
• (VST3, Windows) Fixed bugs related to rapidly opening/closing plugin window
• (AUv3) Fixed audio bugs when using buffer sizes other than 1024 in Logic
• (AUv3) Fixed bugs related to opening/closing plugin window in Logic
• (AUv3) Fixed bug where Creator instances continued to run even after being deleted from a track
• Various UI tweaks and improvements

v0.91 (Beta update 5)

New

• MacOS: Jamstik Creator is now provided as a universal app built natively for both Apple Silicon and Intel processor-based machines. 
• Jamstik Studio device settings can now be changed through the Creator in more circumstances (including inside many DAWs) through the use of the background Jamstik Service.
  • This requires the Jamstik Studio to be on firmware version 2.13 or higher. https://play.jamstik.com/update 
  • This allows the Jamstik Studio MIDI to send a second MIDI port to the computer that sends and receives configuration data. This may appear as "MIDIIN2 (Jamstik)" or "Jamstik Config Out" in your DAW and is meant for use by the Jamstik Service Only. Connecting to this port with your DAW on Windows may cause errors.
  • The Jamstik runs at TCP port 60001 and may cause issues if another program or service is using this port.
• Multiple MIDI Inputs are now able to be selected in the Audio/MIDI Preferences in the Standalone Creator (the MIDI devices for the VST3/AUv3 are still enabled from the DAW).
• Sustain pedal now affects sampler instruments on all channels.
• Sound Library Installer can now resume a download if internet connection is temporarily lost.
• Sleep Timer settings now allow for separate battery and USB sleep timers with the option on either to disable sleep timer (displayed as infinite sleep timer in the Creator and is accessed by entering 0 as a sleep time or navigating to the maximum or minimum value with the plus and minus buttons).
• Issue Reporting feature added
• Support for Left-Handed Mode designed for the new Left Handed Jamstik Studio Model.
• Transpose and Sleep Timer text boxes are now able to be directly edited with keyboard value input.
• Distortion effect gain handling has been improved.
• Improved compressor effect algorithm.
• The preset browser and sampler instrument browsers should now scroll to the currently selected preset when changes occur.

Fixed

• Battery level readout for Jamstik Studio should now refresh more often.
• Fixed bug when reading pitch bend from Jamstik Studio
• Windows Installer was improved
• Preset descriptions should no longer be cut off.
• Creator should no longer crash when the sound library is not detected.
• Fixed crashes in Audio/MIDI preferences.
• Memory leak fixes
• Visual tweaks
• Various bug fixes and optimizations

v0.77 (Beta update 4)

New

• Assignable, nameable macros that can be used to control multiple parameters from the Preset Browser or macro panel
• Creator volume available to the DAW for automation
• Macros available to the DAW for automation

• Preset browser redesign

  

  • Preset browser now displays author and description of presets
  • Preset browser now has macro knobs

• Assignable controls redesign

  • 6 LFOs, 6 ADSRs, 6 Macros, unlimited control change assignments
  • Added ability to enter depth by keyboard
  • Assignment list destinations are more descriptive

• Added global settings menu

  • Configure your input MIDI device type if it is not a Jamstik Studio
  • Configure macro CC assignments, preset switching CC assignments, volume CC assignment

• Oscillator instrument voices now have a built-in filter that can be configured via the oscillator instrument control panel, and modulated by LFOs, ADSRs, etc.

• LFOs and ADSRs with Gate Trigger = Poly Kbd are now fully polyphonic

• CC modulators can be set to "per"-channel mode, so that they are per-channel polyphonic

• Right-click preset switch arrows to pop up a midi-learn panel

• Add pitch bend range setting to device settings and global settings

Fixed

• Bugfix where amp sim did not appear in the effect list upon loading a preset using it
• Instrument / FX drag and drop bug fixes
• Fix bug causing the AU to crash upon startup in Logic
• Various tweaks and bug fixes

v0.62 (Beta update 3)

New

• Tuning presets in device settings and calibration screens

• Added Velocity Scale parameter to Oscillator Instruments

• CC Modulators -- Last Control change value is saved with the preset

• Added expression mod to oscillator instruments (no longer a preset-level option)

• Revised controls for changing Jamstik Studio transpose setting (+ octave shift control)

  

• Added panning to sampler instruments

• Made sampler instrument pan and gain modulatable

• Keyboard state tracking changes

  • no longer requires MacOS permissions

• Added welcome popup message with link to quick start video

  

• Added sleep timer to Jamstik Studio settings

• Anonymously track various system-level and session level values

• Delay link states for predelay, delay, predelay-delay, and feedback are saved with the preset

• Sampler instruments handle MIDI sustain pedal message

• Display modulator assignment count on handle

Standalone

• Allowed full connection & access to settings via Bluetooth

Fixed

• Improved handling of version check request when remote server is not available (times out after 5 seconds, aborts if program closes before it finishes)
• Fix bug in sampler instrument browser
• Fix crash when using the next preset button when at the end of the preset list
• Fix UI bug in the EQ control panel
• Fix UI bug in instrument/effects lists
• Visual tweaks
• Reverse modulator enable switches
• Preset browser filtering bugs
• Preset browser crash when deleting the last item in starred list
• Bug causing Creator to hang upon exiting
• Bug in DropDowns
• Windows: Fixed windows 7/8 support
• Various audio processing optimizations

Standalone

• Handle some situations that could potentially cause a crash in preferences
• Improve handling of situations where the default audio input or output device is not available
• Fix config communication bug
• (MacOS) Fix bug where resolution doesn't properly adjust when dragging between screens of different resolution
• (Windows) Fix bug when multiple instances of the plugin are open at the same time, and one window is closed

v0.58 (Beta update 2)

v0.56 (Beta update 1)

v0.55 (Beta)