hUGETracker 1.0.9

What's New

• Fixed a bug where HT would crash on some Arch-based distributions.
• Ship RGBDS and FFmpeg with the Linux build now-- no more needing to get them from your package manager first.
• Update hUGEDriver to support RGBDS 0.8.0.
• Fixed a bug on the wave rendering dialog which had the file selector be an "open" dialog rather than a "save" dialog.

hUGETracker 1.0.8

This release fixes a couple issues with the documentation, and potentially fixes a couple bugs about focusing the tracker grid that are annoying users lately.

Full Changelog: v1.0.7...v1.0.8

hUGETracker 1.0.7

This release includes a couple small features and a new sample song by Chavez / Funktion.

What's New

• Fallback font when the built-in one can't be loaded
• Only export used instruments and waves
• Bugfix in the internal emulator where some opcodes weren't emulated correctly
• New sample song by Chavez

Thanks to @asiekierka for these fixes and Chavez for the song!

Full Changelog: v1.0.5...v1.0.7

hUGETracker 1.0.5

Important note

GB Studio now supports UGE v6, so songs made with this version of hUGETracker are compatible with GB Studio. Enjoy!

What's Changed

This is a small patch to fix song rendering on Windows. Thanks @Rezrospect for the bug report.

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Full Changelog: v1.0.4...v1.0.5

hUGETracker 1.0.4

Important note

UGE files created with this version cannot be loaded by GB Studio 3.1. Be aware of this before composing! If you want to make songs for GB Studio, until they update to support this version, use their built in music editor, or hUGETracker 1.0b9.

What's Changed

hUGETracker now supports Mac! Thanks go out to @Beatscribe and @sttng for helping test.

The Mac version might still be a little flaky-- please report any problems and I'll be happy to help fix.

Full Changelog: v1.0.3...v1.0.4

hUGETracker 1.0.3

Important note

UGE files created with this version cannot be loaded by GB Studio 3.1. Be aware of this before composing! If you want to make songs for GB Studio, until they update to support this version, use their built in music editor, or hUGETracker 1.0b9.

What's Changed

This release adds the ability to "single-step" playback row-by-row, and fixes a few issues. Merry Christmas!

• Single-step playback
• Audio playback buffer size increased, hopefully decreasing crackle
• Allow the color scheme for subpattern jump commands to be configured

Full Changelog: v1.0.2...v1.0.3

hUGETracker 1.0.2

Important note

UGE files created with this version cannot be loaded by GB Studio 3.1. Be aware of this before composing! If you want to make songs for GB Studio, until they update to support this version, use their built in music editor, or hUGETracker 1.0b9.

What's Changed

This is another small release which fixes a few bugs and quality of life issues.

• Vertical tabs
• Fixed a bug where instruments with the wrong type could be imported (#147)
• Added a new hotkey/menu item for changing selected notes' instrument. (Ctrl+I) (#143)
• The clipboard now prevents FamiTracker pastes from exceeding the normal note range. (#78)
• The version number is now shown in the about dialog. (#96)
• Better support for the QT toolkit

Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v1.0.2

hUGETracker 1.0.1

Important note

UGE files created with this version cannot be loaded by GB Studio 3.1. Be aware of this before composing! If you want to make songs for GB Studio, until they update to support this version, use their built in music editor, or hUGETracker 1.0b9.

What's Changed

This is a small release which fixes a few bugs and quality of life issues.

• Section names in asm exports now include the descriptor name, which avoids section name clashes (thanks @zlago)
• Added a new option which displays a grid on the waveform editor (thanks @Kabcorp)
• Changed asm exports to include hUGE.inc directly rather than include/hUGE.inc (thanks zlago)
• Older songs with noise macros were imported by always enabling subpattern, even if the noise macro wasn't used. This is fixed.
• Various order grid based improvements suggested by @maxoakland
• GBS files now honor timer-based tempos (thanks @datguywitha3ds)
• Added "open manual" to the help dropdown which links to the new WIP manual.

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1

hUGETracker 1.0.0

Important note

UGE files created with this version cannot be loaded by GB Studio 3.1. Be aware of this before composing! If you want to make songs for GB Studio, until they update to support this version, use their built in music editor, or hUGETracker 1.0b9.

Despite this being the first non-beta release, this is a minor bug-fixing update from 1.0b10. I hope to be putting out more frequent and smaller releases to avoid having specific versions become de-facto standards that get stuck in time like Python 2.

What's Changed

• GBS files now work in all players (thanks @ISSOtm)
• uge2source is now distributed alongside the tracker
• A new sample song from FΛDE
• A menu action that reverts to the most recent saved copy
• RELRO in Linux releases
• Fixed bug in hUGEDriver which caused 9xx to not work properly on the wave channel
• Fixed an issue where annoying dialog boxes would appear when debug logging happened
• Fixed a crash that would occur when right clicking the channel headers
• Turned off scopes by default and fixed a bug where they wouldn't show on startup

I'm also including the Linux build here, although I want to note that it's less tested than the Windows one. Let me know if it works/doesn't work on your system though and I'll help figure it out!

Full Changelog: 1.0b10...v1.0.0

hUGETracker 1.0 Beta 10

Important note

UGE files generated with this version cannot be loaded by GB Studio 3.1. Be aware of this before composing! If you want to make songs for GB Studio, until they update to support this version, use their built in music editor, or hUGETracker 1.0b9.

This is a pretty big release which includes a bunch of new stuff and bug fixes. I've been saving most of this for a proper, true, definitive, no screwing around, 1.0 release, but I've been busy with other projects so it might take a little longer to get that done. Until then, here's another new beta release which includes:

Features

• Subpatterns - this is a highly requested thing which massively improves the flexibility of instruments. It's like the instruments in FamiTracker or Deflemask, in that you can now have built-in arpeggios for instruments, or call whatever effect you want on each tick.
• Pattern looping - no longer do you have to hit play and then scramble to stop playback before it leaves the pattern you're editing! Just toggle the loop box and the song will loop the pattern repeatedly until you untoggle it.
• VGM export
• FamiTracker paste - Allows you to copy pattern data in FamiTracker and paste it into HT
• New sample songs by @datguywitha3ds and FΛDE
• The ability to preview all octaves in the instrument editor
• Much better support when holding multiple keys to preview notes in the pattern editor
• Hex labeling for the order list
• Mix Paste - doesn't overwrite cells when pasting an empty cell. Similar to OpenMPT
• Implement regular save with (Ctrl+s) which doesn't open the annoying file dialog every time
• Work-in-progress TrackerBoy import. Not 100% really ready, as it doesn't import some things fully, but should save time if you're porting a song.
• Ability to import the noise channel correctly from MOD songs, so now it should be 100% compatible with GBT Player (for the most part).
• Fix the annoying bug where it would reset position to 0 when halting the song sometimes
• Lots and lots and lots and lots of bugfixes.

PRs that other people made

• better uge2source help message by @untoxa in #46
• Improve custom font handling on Linux by @ISSOtm in #49
• Add CI by @ISSOtm in #50
• Detect failures in generating ROMs on Unix by @ISSOtm in #53
• Sync Ubuntu package dbs before installing by @ISSOtm in #54
• Run CI on PRs as well by @ISSOtm in #55
• Update Famittacker/milkytracker note keymap by @RichardULZ in #56
• more natural rolling note previews by @cluckfox in #58
• Add halt.gb to gitignore by @ISSOtm in #60
• Support opening ROMs read-only by @ISSOtm in #61

New Contributors

• @untoxa made their first contribution in #46
• @ISSOtm made their first contribution in #49
• @cluckfox made their first contribution in #58

Full Changelog: 1.0b9...1.0b10

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this! See you soon (hopefully) for the true 1.0 release.