how about adding support for MIDI keyboards? It would be amazing to create music not just with a mouse but by 'going with the flow.'

what about allowing users to import their own samples? expanding the sound library would add more variety and make it more exciting to incorporate new elements into tracks

Anyway thank you for this tool, it has been so helpful.

I'm not too familiar with  using itch's community feature but I love this app so I just had to know.

Any plans to use a "gregorian chant" styled soundfont? or at least a "voice" soundfont that changes syllables based on which key it's in?

Help?

You don't have to pay again, just re-download 1BITDRAGON :)

1BITDRAGON 4.3 RELEASE NOTES:

• User interface improvements:
  • Improved note editing:
    • click: Create note          
    • click+alt: Create attenuated note          
    • click+shift: Paint notes          
    • click+ctrl and drag:  Copy note          
    • right click: Delete note          
    • click and drag: Move note          
    • click and drag at the ends: Change the length of a note          
  • Move around the window when zoomed-in by pressing the middle mouse button or the M key while moving the mouse
  • Turn "pixel-perfect" mode on/off (i.e. Draw monophonically without allowing multiple notes in the same column) with the P key
• Bug fixes

Just a quick question, I love the default 1BitDragon instruments, I want to use them in an external DAW to improve my songs, do they come from an external instrument collection? Or are all of them "in-house"?

It also works on Mac, Mac M1 and Linux, if there are volunteers to test it 🙏

New features:

- Note length (shift+click)

- Scales beyond the pentatonic

   - Fixed backwards compatibility bug

   - Fixed some samples

- Control over note length (shift+click)

- Full scale (not just pentatonic)

- Recording of mp3 files

- Recording of flac files

Just bought 1BITDRAGON and having a lot of fun! It's quick and intuitive! :)

But, for me, MIDI Export is really needed so I can export anything unique I create and then load into Logic Pro. 

It would be good if it can export everything that is not muted as a MIDI File.  If it could do this, it would then be fully integrated into my studio setup.  

Thanks, and hope you can do this!

We are using 1BitDragon to make the soundtrack to our next mobile game. Thanks for this great DAW!

We are getting close to 30 tracks and would like to be able to use midi tracks for optimization purpose.

If I am not mistaken 1BitDragon is made with Unity, like our game. 

Is there a way to extract the instruments or use them in Unity with midi files?

Thanks!

it would be nice to gain some control over note length in the future

There currently exists Brass and several String.  Both of which is a compiling of string and blow instruments. 

But there isn't any woodwind instruments to complete the ensamble to my knowledge except for induvidual ones. and with the instrument limitation, this really limits the possibility for orchestra music to be composed. 

I would to try to compose some orchestra music one day

And good work on 1BitDragon! great software! 
Any idea when the next update is coming out? some of the upcoming features?

Choosing which instrument you start with so you wont have to manually change them everytime.

And presets that either filters or highlights instrument to the presets genre. Hip hop show instrument relevent to it and instrument often in use. And then add a few different presets for different genre.

There's a few thing I'd love to see:

• Different time signatures 
• Swing rhythm
• More scale options aside from pentatonic

I know these might be a little on the complex side for a software made for beginners, but I think they would really make the software go a lot further for more advanced users.

The software is fantastic and I can't wait to see it evolve over time. Thank you for making such a great program and sharing it with the world!

• Remove the 1sec. "cooldown" of holding CTRL and let the menu appear instantly
• Let the copy/paste menu move with your mouse
  • If the mouse enters another "square", it gets the copy/paste menu instead

Also, you can right-click the top-bar to access the copy/paste menu but you cannot right click the "squares". A small consistency issue.
(Sorry, I don't know the technical terms or the nicknames of these "squares")

I left a video here where I make the mouse-motion so it will maybe make it easier to understand. Thank you for reading :)

For instance, if you pencil draw a line of notes, you often want to Undo the whole batch of notes, not just the notes one by one. This takes more time to undo each of them… However, in some cases, granular undo is desirable, so you may want to survey your users (e.g. in this thread) to decide which behaviour to make default in which case. In any case, this could be made either a preference or a separate button / shortcut so users can still choose between granular and batch Undo.

Personally, I would make batch Undo default in all common cases, then let the advanced users select isolated Undo for specific actions if they really want.

This issue is not specific to 1-bit Dragon. In fact, I saw many apps have them, including code editors like Visual Studio that make you undo every single character change instead of a batch word change (to be fair, in normal usage it’s fine, but plugin writers may forget to batch their actions, leading to this).

Currently, the app remembers the file name but not its path, and will prompt for the save path on every save. If you don’t put your project in the default folder (the app folder), you need to reselect this folder each time.

A button that saves the project in the current/last path, as in other apps, mapped to Ctrl+S, would help. On first save, it would act like Save as.

Then the current button would become Save as with a different icon, and mapped to Ctrl+Shift+S.

The earlier version of 1bitdragon had text to describe what kind of fill/chords/bass line it was. Which I found very helpful.

Most of them were the same with the arrangement of them either being higher or lower which you fixed with the arrow keys in the third version. Like Cimena 1A all the way to 1E etc.

I would like to see the text make a return to the new version or an option to toggle the description on and off.

I especially like the sound of the Cinematic and Militaristic fills/chords/bassline. can't remember which one it was right now

Either way, great work on the software!

It would be convenient to toggle monophonic editing, so that a new note deletes the old one on the same time position.

Could we have alternate appearance notes for the generated patterns? 

Perhaps a similar technique could also be useful to show the length of longer instruments  like pads. 

I am currently testing this new feature, let me know your opinion :)

In Renoise there is a user-created tool called ChordLord. Basically, one chooses a key and mode, say key of E and Pentatonic Minor. The program shows all the available chords that fit that key and mode in a grid. The user then chooses the chord from the grid they want to add to the track they are working on and clicks to add it. It saves a lot of time and tedium not having to choose each note for a particular chord and enter them one by one. Here is a link showing the program: https://www.renoise.com/tools/chordlord

My second request would be that when loading or saving a file that 1BD remembers the last directory that was used. It saves time not having to hunt down directory tree each time.

Keep up the fine work. I can't remember the last time I had so much fun composing tunes! Best Regards and Be Well.

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or answer directly here.

Thank you!

Also, it would be a nice touch to help people without music education using the tool if there was an emoji like a happy emoji for the major and sad emoji for the minor, next to the scale/mode title/cathegory.

:)