Release history

Changed

• Internal developer diagnostics were updated; nothing changes in how the panel works for you.

Changed

• Internal developer diagnostics were updated; nothing changes in how the panel works for you.

Changed

• Internal developer notes in the code were updated; nothing changes in how the panel works for you.
• During the trial the app tells the site once a day that it was launched — just that and the day; a line under the trial button in the key window says so.
• "Buy Key" opens the same page, tagged as coming from the plugin.

Changed

• Each project now has its own pads. A new project opens with an empty grid and no longer pulls in sounds from the previous one; a project you already used the panel in opens with its own pads. Save As carries the pads over to the new copy. Panel settings stay shared.
• Internal developer diagnostics were updated; nothing changes in how the panel works for you.

Changed

• In Report a Problem, email and text are now optional; Show What Will Be Sent is gone.
• The "Grab with Effects" button is gone: the pad takes the clip's effects by itself however you grab the sound from the timeline — with "Grab from Timeline", a click on an empty pad or a drag. A sound without effects is grabbed as before.
• A pad "with effects" places a plain sound with its waveform and puts the same effects with the same settings on it — no nested sequence. If your Premiere does not have an effect, the sound still goes in and the panel names that effect.
• Pads "with effects" made in version 1.5.0 need to be grabbed again: pressing such a pad places nothing and asks you to do so. Sound taken from a video file goes in without its picture — the video under it stays untouched.
• If a video file's sound is recorded as separate channels, the panel places nothing and suggests making the file stereo — the track next to it is not overwritten.

Changed

• In a "cycle" pad window the Onset Point strip now shows every sound of the folder in a row, each with its own marker: drag the marker on a sound to set it for that sound, "to loudest" gives each sound its own loudest spot, and "reset" clears the markers on all of them.
• Each sound from the queue now lands on the playhead by its own marker.
• In a layer pad window the Onset Point strip now shows the whole layer: every sound as a colored layer at its own place, as it lay on the timeline. A layer has one marker, dragged within the first sound — the whole layer lands by it.

Changed

• "Replace Selected": if the new sound is longer than the room before the next clip, it no longer refuses — it is trimmed at the end and placed, and the next clip stays untouched.
• A sound at another speed that lacks room for the full file while its speed changes still leaves the old clip and explains why.
• On an empty tab the second button is now "Import Sounds…" — it opens a choice of sound files on this computer. Importing previously exported pads is in Settings, "Library and Sharing…".

Changed

• Hardened protection: the part of the panel that runs inside Premiere now ships in compiled form.

Changed

• The panel's main code no longer sits on disk in plain text — it is encrypted and unlocked by the key of your purchase or your trial. The first launch of a new version needs a connection to the site.
• A key entered on a new computer now moves there on its own — no need to unlink it on the old one first. A key can move up to 3 times in 30 days; after that, through support. The old computer says "The key was moved to another computer" at its next check.
• The header author line now reads "by A.Sudorgin" instead of "by Alexander Sudorgin".
• The installer speaks English on any Windows except a Russian one; before, it was in Russian on German, French and other systems.
• The Settings, Diversify, pad set and pad settings windows fit a panel of any size: on a small panel they scroll, while the close buttons and the bottom row of buttons always stay visible. Menus and questions no longer go past the panel edge either.
• A short panel always shows at least one row of pads; scroll to see the rest.
• New look for the top of the panel: buttons in one style (the main one green, the rest glass), a Global Offset slider with the zero mark in the middle, custom checkboxes, neat tabs and ☰ and ⚙ buttons.
• A long message at the bottom of the panel wraps to a second line and then ends with an ellipsis; hover to see all of it.
• The header says "by Alexander Sudorgin" instead of "premiere". On a narrow panel the version number hides first, then the signature.
• Labels and tooltips rewritten in plain language, one word for one thing: pad, tab, preset, Cycle, volume in dB. For example, the relink button is now Find Sounds, and the set export is Export to Folder.
• Every button has a tooltip, every error says what to do next, and no raw error codes are shown anymore.
• The panel's ≡ menu speaks the panel language.
• New look for pads. The waveform is the same solid shape in the label color, but dark label colors are now lighter and easier to see.
• The layers of one pad sit on top of each other in one view, each in its own color: the loudest at the bottom, quieter ones above it with a dark outline so the sounds do not blend; color stripes on the left show one per layer, and the "+N" badge is gone.
• While a pad plays, its button shows "■" and stops the sound when pressed, and the pad is highlighted. After a successful insert the pad edge flashes briefly. A pad whose file is missing has a gray waveform.
• The "±" sign is an amber square level with "▶", the pad tooltip is colored line by line, and the menu and palette look neater.
• New look for pad settings and the Settings, Presets and Diversify windows. Card titles are in small capitals, and the first card now has a "sound" title. Fields and drop-down lists are inset and light up green while you type.
• The onset marker shows its time above the bar, the part of the sound before the marker is highlighted, and the marker is easy to drag by its tab on top. The "±" spread sliders extend from the middle both ways: the handle on the right, its mirror on the left.
• Variation in the Diversify window is amber, as in pad settings. The step chart has a legend for its colors, and the pitch line no longer hides under the volume line. The Open, Save Preset and Delete buttons sit in the preset list card.

Changed

• The panel is called SFX Machine, the same as in the Premiere Window → Extensions menu.
• Pads, tabs and presets from the previous version move over by themselves on first launch; the old folder stays on disk untouched.
• Sounds go into the "SFX Machine" bin. In a project that already has a "QuickSFX" bin, the panel keeps using it.
• Nested sequences made from layers are named "SFX Machine …".