TiMax panLab – v1.5

New Features

·      Sequence Shape Palette. There is now a second way to create Sequences. When you click Add Sequence you can choose between drawing a movement path (as before) or generating a Sequence from a ready-made shape — Circle, Square, Triangle, 2D Spiral (In or Out) or 3D Spiral. The shape previews live in the 3D Panner as you adjust its size, node density, total duration and X / Y / Z rotation, and you can drag it anywhere in the panner to reposition it. Closed shapes (Circle, Square, Triangle) start out looping.

·      Sequence bounding-box tool. When a Sequence is displayed in the 3D Panner, a box is now drawn around its movement path so you can reshape it as a whole. Drag the corner or edge handles to resize the path — corners scale on several axes at once, edges on a single axis, and holding Shift scales symmetrically about the centre.

·      Behringer Wing console support. panLab now supports the Behringer Wing range of mixing consoles. As with Yamaha consoles, buses can be used either as speaker outputs or as pannable input sources.

3D Panner

·      The camera now keeps the floor well-framed throughout the whole orbit. As you tilt from the top-down plan view down to a near-ground angle, the floor automatically stays fully in view and settles into the lower part of the frame — with no manual zooming required.

·      Selected Sequence nodes are now highlighted with a blue halo, and the first and last nodes of a Sequence are shown in red so the start and end of the path are easy to spot. Nodes also grow slightly as you hover over them.

·      When the Panner is locked, speaker labels are now hidden until you hover over a speaker, keeping the view uncluttered.

Sequences

·      You can now delete individual Nodes and edit the duration of any Node in a Sequence by right clicking on the Node.

·      Sequence playback now follows the total duration you specify much more accurately (previously a Sequence could run slightly long).

Snapshots

·      There is now an Update Current button that saves your current changes back to the last recalled Snapshot. It is only enabled when that Snapshot has unsaved changes — including position changes made over OSC or MIDI. Please note: the Current Snapshot OSC addresses and MIDI mapping have changed, so if you recall the current snapshot over OSC or MIDI, please check your mappings.

·      Snapshot Recall Scope changes can now be bulk applied to multiple Sources at once.

Other improvements & fixes

·      Improved the smoothness of live Sequence playback.

·      Fixes several crashes, including a 3D Panner rendering crash.