Team MESMERiZE | 4.91 MBreViSiT is an award-winning tracker that plugs into your VST host (e.g. Cubase), enabling a fluid tracker user experience that couples a powerful music notation with the advanced features of digital audio workstations, such as sequencing, audio recording, video synchronisation, mixing, effects, mastering, scoring and more.
Building on the celebrated design of Impulse Tracker 2 and drawing on research into creative flow, reViSiT adds many unique features not found in other programs, designed to get you interacting with your music faster and more directly, offering new levels of focus and control in digital music.
Sequencing and tracking is now possible in a single work. Use the recording, video, and scoring features of your sequencer, or turn to reViSiT for fine control of a musical part, before mixing it all together in the host.
reViSiT is designed to provide a user friendly introduction to both writing music and tracking, with dedicated features and tutorials to help get you started, plus more in-depth documentation when you're ready to go deeper.
reViSiT goes beyond the standard tracker experience - and even further with the exclusive features of reViSiT Professional:
hi-definition subrow editing
quad and surround sound (5.1)
advanced audio bus outputs
pattern layers and browser
Standard MIDI File import
pattern commenting
MIDI-triggered pattern playback
The Professional Edition of reViSiT is a more powerful and flexible composition tool, which literally adds new dimensions to your music. Compared to the free Standard Edition, the core innovations are:
High-Definition + High-Resolution Music EditingreViSiT Pro moves beyond the step-sequencer confines of traditional trackers, by opening up the spaces between the rows of the pattern - giving you up to 32x more precision when entering and editing your music. The subrow editing features allow you to "zoom" into the detail, when it is required, without losing sight of what you were working on. Alternatively, the rows-per-beat option offers you higher resolution for your patterns, overall.
5.1 Surround SoundreViSiT Pro is the first tracker with dedicated support for surround sound (Quad, 5.1), allowing surround panning (directly from the pattern), discrete fixed point sources (with support for Centre and LFE channels), panning in two dimensions and 360° panoramic panning. Together with new instrument envelopes and effect commands to support depth and theta (rotation) spatialisation, this feature literally adds another dimension to your music.
Advanced Audio Routing with Flexible Output BusesreViSiT Pro is not tied to a single audio output anymore. With an innovative audio routing mechanism; individual channels, samples or instruments can be sent to any of 16 audio busses - each of which can be mono, stereo, quad or 5.1. To deliver each bus back to the host, reViSiT Pro comes with the helper plug-in, reBUS - simply load it up on one of the host's tracks or channels and pick a reViSiT bus to listen in on, and the audio is piped through automatically. The feature provides total flexibility in how you mix your tracks - making it an easy task to apply host effects or processing to a specific channel, sample or instrument in your reViSiT song. A new pattern effects (S0x) even allows you to switch a channel's bus assignment as the song plays back.
Polyphonic MIDI-Controlled PlaybackreViSiT Pro replaces the basic tracker "order list" with the option to layer patterns using MIDI notes, where different pitches trigger different patterns according to a user-defined mapping. This not only allows you to "play around" with your song live, using a MIDI instrument, but also means you can do all your arranging - be it tracked, sequenced and recorded music - in the host; by inserting notes in a MIDI track, this feature allows you to edit your tracker song in the same way you'd edit the MIDI track itself - move the MIDI note, and the associated tracker pattern will inevitably move with it; move a block of notes (e.g. in the Arrange Window) and the pattern sequence moves too.
Standard MIDI File ImportreViSiT Pro is able to import MIDI sequences, enabling you to import music from your sequencer, or from the many thousands of MIDI files on the net. Many popular songs, soundtracks and classic tunes are available to download, giving you the opportunity to study and remix them in reViSiT. Since MIDI sequencers and tracker patterns work a little differently, reViSiT splits the MIDI song into patterns corresponding to short phrases, based on several bars of music. Should you need to move notes/bars between patterns, there's a dedicated feature for shifting rows within the whole song - Insert/Delete Rows in Song - accessed by clicking the row numbers in the Pattern Editor.
Pattern LayersreViSiT Pro offers a new way to build your song, by seperating your musical elements over different patterns, then layering them together in the order list (or using MIDI-triggering). Like photo editors, data in layers placed on top of another layer mask (hide) the data underneath. So if the bottom layer has a D#5 in Channel 1, Row 2, but the top layer has an E-5 at the same position, the E-5 will be heard - just as if you used the Paste Mix command to merge the patterns yourself. By using different tracks, you can have patterns that contibute different parts to your song - e.g. patterns for different melodies, harmonies or rhythms. Or, by using the same track, you can use the merge process in more original ways (e.g. override single notes in chords, replace an ending for a repeated pattern).
Pattern List and Pattern Comments
In tracking, it's easy to lose yourself in editing individual patterns, and forget about the 'Big Picture'. reViSiT Pro thus offers several features for managing your song and patterns. The Pattern List (Esc from Pattern Editor) enables you to zoom out and see your patterns as thumbnails, which can be moved, copied or deleted. You can also view and control playback as the song progresses. Patterns themselves can be given labels (in Pattern Options) to easily identify them in both Pattern and Order Lists. Inside the pattern, you can now also leave notes for yourself, using Pattern Comments (@), associated with a single row or selection. These notes can be used for any purpose - lyrics, to-do remarks, section labels, titles, credits, greetings, ASCII art ...
Release Notes
reViSiT v1.8 is a major update, adding support for Apple OS X (Snow Leopard, 10.6 or higher), as well as SoundFont 2.4 (SF2) and SFZ instruments, while also extending the built-in synthesizer to support advanced sample features such as velocity-mapped and layered samples, and making numerous other improvements to the UI, and audio and sequencing engines.
Latest 1.8 beta versions include significant updates to the underlying code for both the audio engine and UI, designed to facilitate support for OS X and as part of the ongoing development of reViSiT v2.0. Additionally, numerous small changes have been made to improve performance, audio quality, robustness and maintainability. Due to the scale of the changes, not all are listed in the change log below.
These beta versions have comprehensive support for the SoundFont 2.4 format, translating sample maps, layers, envelopes, LFOs, and other settings to reViSiT's synthesizer architecture. While there are numerous differences between the architecture in reViSiT and other SoundFont players (e.g. SoundBlaster hardware, SFZ+), a number of workarounds are used to adapt the font and retain the feel of the original patch. At the same time, a limited number of complex patches (especially presets that map or layer several very different instruments across the keyboard) may not be reproduced correctly - though manually tinkering with the instrument and envelope settings may improve the sound. A number of high quality SoundFont collections are available for free online. Please report the results of your tests.
This version also includes basic support for SFZ instruments, including sample loading and pitch / velocity mapping, but currently lacking support additional settings such as envelopes, LFOs, etc., which will appear in subsequent beta versions.
To support the new sample mapping and layering features, v1.8 includes a new Keymap UI, situated in the General tab of the Instrument List (F4). It is displayed by clicking the volume triangle at the top of the keymap, or by hitting Return/Enter when in the instrument column of the keyamp itself. The 2D grid that appears shows the mapping of pitch (y) and velocity (x) to one or more samples. You can use the mouse or keyboard to draw regions. Drag the mouse to draw a rectangle, then use the mouse wheel to increment or decrement the sample assigned to the region. Alternatively, use Ctrl+Cursor Keys to draw the rectangle and type in the desired sample. The new synthesizer engine supports up to 255 samples, as well as layered samples, which can be combined in a single region by adding (+) them with the keyboard (e.g. "1+2"). You can hit Enter to select the region under the cursor, which will also be automatically selected if you start typing an edit or delete (Del) the assignment.
reViSiT v1.8 also features improved Sample and Instrument Libraries for browsing and loading files. In addition to browsing and auditioning patches from SF2 banks, a new search tool (Ctrl+F) helps you quickly find samples and instruments by name. As you enter the search text (e.g. "guitar"), all matches are highlighted, and you can step through the results with the Up/Down keys, before hitting Enter to load the file, or Escape to exit the search.
Numerous other improvements have also been made, following feedback from earlier versions of reViSiT:
Channel clipboard support in Channel Configuration (F11), which will not only move channel names, labels and settings, but also the data associated with those channels in all your patterns, designed to help you tidy your patterns up after an extended period of sketching. In individual patterns, it's now also possible to insert and delete channels by left and then right clicking the channel header. You can also copy the current instrument's name and colour to the current channel (Alt-Shift-i), to help you keep your pattern data organised.
For those with large monitors and high DPI, there is now a double-size UI mode, which simply scales the image to twice the size - this is a temporary feature, which will be replaced in v2.0 with a fully-scaleable UI, already partially implemented in the Pattern Editor, which also features a number of changes to improve legibility.
As the new SF2/SFZ support is likely to see you using more samples (e.g. multi-sample instruments), the maximum number of samples has been increased to 255 and an Optimise Samples feature has been added to remove instruments not used in your song, and samples not used in instruments. An improved Sample List (F3) offers more buttons (e.g. for clipboard operations) and features to simplify editing loop points - the waveform preview will now automatically zoom to focus on the loop point currently being edited, at a scale determined by whichever digit the cursor is over, and which can be incremented/decremented with the +/- keys. Once you have found a suitable loop points, the Crossfade Sample tool will subtly edit the waveform to smooth the joins at loops points and help remove remaining clicks.
In the new synth engine, the filter envelope has altered to add or subtract from the cutoff/resonance value of the instrument (+/-32 = +/-20kHz), rather than simply scale it down.
Extending the introduction of tempo control in v1.7, this new version supports an alternative timing mode, which allows you to switch to frame/tick-based timing, for improved compatible with older tracker songs. In this mode, Axx (set resolution) also controls the speed, as in Fast Tracker, Impulse Tracker, ProTracker, etc. Old modules with tempo and speed changes, sometimes used for syncopation, should play accurately in this mode.
See the changelog for full details of changes. Please send all feedback and bug reports to info [at] revisit.info.
Change Log
[ADD] Support for OS X (10.6 or higher).
[ADD] Support for Soundfont 2.4 (SF2) instruments.
[ADD] Support for velocity-mapping, with key-velocity
matrix (Enter on Vol. column or button in KeyMap)
[ADD] Layered instruments, combining up to 4 samples.
[ADD] Initial support for SFZ instruments.
[ADD] Search tool in Sample/Instrument Library (Ctrl-F).
[ADD] Option to use ms instead of ticks in envelopes.
[ADD] Original sample pitch imported and displayed.
[ADD] Pitch map visual feedback mode in Info Page, F5.
[ADD] Double size graphics mode for users with high DPI.
[ADD] Insert/Delete Channel (right-click channel header).
[ADD] Optimise feature removes unused samples/instruments.
[ADD] Support for tick-based timing for controlling speed
using Axx - see Timing Mode in Settings (F12).
[ADD] Default Tempo setting (in F12) in Standalone mode.
[ADD] Cut, Copy, Paste and Clear buttons in Sample List.
[ADD] Clipboard support in Channel Configuration (F11),
insert/delete/copy channels and related song data.
[ADD] Assign instr. name/colour to channel (Alt-Shift-I).
[ADD] Crossfade Loops tool in Sample List, interpolates
loop points to smooth sample loops (avoid clicks).
[ADD] Shift-Enter now loads sample without exiting library.
[MOD] Digits in number boxes now inc/dec'd using +/- keys.
[MOD] Number of samples increased to 255.
[MOD] Used samples listed in Instrument List.
[MOD] Envelope UI now zooms to fit upon load.
[MOD] Effect Command and Parameter Masks combined.
[MOD] Filter envelopes add/subtract, rather than scale.
[MOD] Sample Vibrato maximum depth increased to 255.
[FIX] * Row auditions now work for subrows.
[FIX] * Set block instrument for subrows disabled in 1.7.4.
[FIX] Note input auditions sometimes off'd before on'd.
[FIX] Loading non-reViSiT sample not resetting settings.
[FIX] IT sample vibrato type/rate not imported correctly.
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