Dear Steinberg team,
it’s been 7 months since I reported the following errors. Unfortunately, this didn’t elicit any reaction. For me, a lot of this is important for ongoing development. I’ll try to explain the individual points differently and hope to be heard this time.
Graphical Errors (H/HS 7.0.20):
On certain Win10 systems, graphics errors like these occur:
Until H/HS 7.0.10, these errors were resolved by enabling d2dfix, a registry entry provided by Steinberg. Starting the latest H/HS 7.0.20 with d2dfix enabled now results in a crash.
d2dfix is provided and explained by Steinberg here:
Pulldown Menu Behaviour (H/HS 7.0.20):
Bug or “feature”? From H7.0.20 on you need 2 clicks to select a UI standard menu item (like amp type within amp fx): the first one only opens the menu list, then you have to release the mouse button and click again to select the item. It is common practice in GUIs (also in HALion until 7.0.10) , that you click-open a menu and release the mouse button over the desired item (=“pulldown”). Why are comfortable proecedures like this getting changed unnecessarily? What is the benefit?
FM Zone:
Muted or detached FM Operators still fully consume CPU. This means, a 1-operator FM Sound consumes the same CPU power as an 8-operator FM Sound! Could this please be optimized please, like with the VA Zone?
Macro Designer / Internal Script Editor:
Macropage with embedded UI script (no external file): each save/reload adds a space character at the end of each code line.
Macro Designer / Envelope Controls:
The focussed node frame is always painted in pink color regardless of definition (as shown below), because of misinterpreted elements of the Envelope control:
“FrameFocus” fills selected node instead of defining frame color,
“FillSelected” is ignored instead of defining filling color.
Macro Pages / Curve Editor:
ValX/ValY/Curve readouts don’t work (see vstpreset “init basic controls dl halion 7”).
Curve Editor scope loses focus after deleting/inserting layers via script.
Macro Pages:
Envelopes, Grids, Menu Controls controls steal hover focus even of higher level elements (e.g. a hover button on top of a grid control).
HalionSonic File Browser:
Docked browser doesn’t remember size and divider position after closing and reopening.
Undocked browser appears at different positions after closing and reopening.
“Program”-Tab , click “load layer”: loaded layer preset replaces the whole program instead of the selected layer.
Random Crashes:
Occasional crashes when closing H7 standalone and then opening HS7 standalone, replacing a preset while opened in Designer, etc.
After quitting standalone version, Windows Task Manager sometimes shows H/HS continue running as background task. So the ASIO driver is not getting released and I have to restart the PC.
Freezedump-Files with 0 bytes size often appear in the Steinberg/CrashDumps folder.
Popup Preset Browser Size (urgent suggestion, no bug):
Some popup browsers remember a changed dimension when reopening, e.g. the Wavetable browser. Can you please adapt this behavior for the Custom Preset Browser template, as its default dimension is far too small and has to be laboriously expanded every time it is opened!
