Official update status - Guitar Rig 7 (current version: 7.0.2)

Nico_NI

This thread provides information about upcoming Guitar Rig patches. It will be updated whenever new information becomes available.

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The currently available software version is 7.0.2. Please make sure that your installation is up to date.

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7.0.2 - 2024-01-03

Please run the Guitar Rig 7 standalone application after installation to ensure correct behavior. To choose your soundcard, select the audio tab in the preferences. The latest manual can be viewed or downloaded on the Guitar Rig 7 webpages.

ADDED macOS Sonoma compatibility

ADDED 33 new artist rack presets

ADDED The Metronome and the Tuner components are pinned to the top of the rack when minimized

ADDED Undo/Redo icons to the rack header

ADDED Customizable user component INIT preset. 

ADDED Show which graphics render backend is used in the About screen

ADDED LFO: smoothing parameter for Random oscillators

ADDED Loop Machine Pro: Autogrow can now be invoked on demand with the new Increase Length button

IMPROVED Guitar Rig automatically tries to rebuild the preset database in case it detects problems

IMPROVED Loop Machine Pro: it is now possible to reverse direction while overdubbing

IMPROVED Loop Machine Pro: it is now possible to switch to the other non-empty loop while recording and have playback continue

IMPROVED Bass Rage: Frequency knob sensitivity

IMPROVED Subscription license information in the About screen

IMPROVED Help text coverage in the Info Pane

IMPROVED Error messages now provide more information when loading a preset fails 

IMPROVED Control click and drag hides mouse cursor on macOS (not in all hosts)

IMPROVED Audio performance on Windows for some components

FIXED Cabinet IR Loader: IR names do not update when host preset changed

FIXED Cabinet IR Loader: The file path navigator could sometimes navigate to the wrong path if directories contain the same name

FIXED Cabinet IR Loader: adding root folder as a folder would not populate correctly

FIXED Cabinet IR Loader: Switching to empty folders could cause a crash

FIXED Loop Machine Pro: removed audio artifacts when exporting as single layers

FIXED Loop Machine Pro: input level scaling and input output sliders are now more accurate

FIXED Loop Machine Pro: the Reverse parameter no longer out of Sync and can be changed at all times

FIXED Loop Machine Pro: focus is no longer lost when clicking on the Rec/Play/Stop buttons

FIXED Loop Machine Pro: position and length displays are now rounded correctly

FIXED Loop Machine Pro: can now assign undo and redo to macros when the Loop Machine is empty

FIXED Several presets would not load parameters correctly in Ableton Live and Cubase VST3

FIXED When changing the Reference Pitch on the Tuner when in Strobe Mode the display was not correct

FIXED A crash when adding container or loading preset with container to rack or showing global effects

FIXED Dialog overlays were not displayed correctly

FIXED Pin icons in the browser can now be seen on component tiles with light backgrounds

FIXED Double-clicking on Loop Machine Pro in component browser would change the cursor to a drag cursor and pinning no longer works

FIXED The open file dialog could be opened multiple times

FIXED The state of the browser is now properly restored with host projects

FIXED Some components could introduce audio artifacts when toggling the stereo button or modulating parameters

FIXED Shop URL for the "Buy online" button on the demo overlay

FIXED The keyboard shortcut for saving a preset didn't always work in standalone mode

FIXED Impulse responses are now sorted correctly in Reflektor

FIXED Keyboard focus gets lost when resizing Guitar Rig in Logic

FIXED Knobs did not work correctly in some Windows hosts when using display scaling

FIXED Komplete Kontrol window size grows on Windows when using display scaling

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7.0.1 - 2023-09-06

Minimum OS required is Windows 10 or macOS 11. Please run the GUITAR RIG 7 standalone application after installation to ensure correct behavior. To choose your soundcard, select the audio tab in the preferences. The latest manual can be viewed or downloaded on the GUITAR RIG 7 webpages.

ADDED New ICM amplifiers: Super Fast 100, Reverb Delight, Bass Rage, AC Box XV

ADDED New Cabinet Impulse Response Loader

ADDED New effects and rack components: Noise Machine, Vintage Vibrato, Tape Wobble, +150 new rack presets, Ozone Maximizer

ADDED New Loop Machine Pro

ADDED New ICM pedals: Kolor, Seattle Fuzz, Chainsaw, IVP Stomp, Skreamer Deluxe

ADDED New sidebar

FIXED Using the sidechain input in Loop Machine Pro could cause some DAWs to crash

KNOWN ISSUE Some HiDPI configurations on Windows can result in jittery controls inside a DAW. Enable the Guitar Rig “Touchscreen Mode” from the preferences as a workaround

6.4.0 - 2023-06-21

Please run the GUITAR RIG 6 standalone application after installation to ensure correct behavior. To choose your soundcard, select the audio tab in the preferences. The latest manual is available for download on the GUITAR RIG 6 webpages.

ADDED New ICM amplifier: Fire Seeker

ADDED 13 new rack presets

ADDED Total latency is now reported correctly for zero latency components, for all sample rates

IMPROVED Performance improvements

IMPROVED All fixed components are no longer shown on first start

IMPROVED Display on HiDPI screens

FIXED Hover state issues in Pro Tools on Mac

FIXED Removed empty hover area on Tapedeck Post

FIXED VC76 some ratio modes weren't selectable via mouse click

FIXED VC76 VU meter scale upper numbers weren't showing

FIXED VST3 didn't appear correctly in Digital Performer

FIXED AU mono loading error in Digital Performer 11

FIXED Rare crash on startup related to GR3 presets

FIXED Dragging files from the OS into Guitar Rig caused slowdown

FIXED Undoing and redoing an insertion into a container bypassed some components ##

KNOWN ISSUE Some HiDPI configurations on Windows can result in jittery controls inside a DAW. Enable the Guitar Rig "Touchscreen Mode" from the preferences as a workaround

6.3.0 - 2022-02-14

ADDED New ICM component: Red Fuzz, a distortion component that has 3 fuzz modes modelled from classic analog gear

ADDED AAX Apple Silicon support

ADDED 8 new rack presets

IMPROVED Parameter changes are now undoable and redoable

IMPROVED Rack now automatically scrolls to inserted component if out of view

IMPROVED Rack now automatically scrolls to enabled fixed component if out of view

IMPROVED Container and Macro assignment sliders can now be controlled by the mouse wheel

IMPROVED Container and Macro assignment sliders now have numeric value displays

IMPROVED Files can be on loaded onto the Tapedecks by dragging and dropping

IMPROVED LFO waveforms can now be selected directly via a menu in the LFO modifier component

IMPROVED Display CPU architecture in about box

IMPROVED Default modulation range was 75% but is now 100%

FIXED Twin Delay did not sound correct when using maximum predelay/delay times

FIXED Delay time parameter display value was wrong in Sync Mode on some components

FIXED Undoing removal of Reflektor inside a Container had no IR loaded

FIXED Undoing removal of Little Reflektor component could crash

FIXED Undoing component preset load did not restore preset name

FIXED Undoing Macro assignment would not update Macro UI and could cause crash if interacted with

FIXED The rack preset menu now correctly loads the next/previous preset after performing an undo

FIXED The component preset menu now correctly loads the next/previous preset after performing an undo

FIXED Preset Volume and Metronome parameters now revert when undoing rack preset load

FIXED Some Dirt parameters were not modulatable

FIXED RC24/RC48 input and output level parameters were not modulatable

FIXED LFO waveform, amplitude offset and phase offset parameters were not modulatable

FIXED Tapedeck volume parameters were not modulatable or controllable with macros

FIXED PresetVolume dry/wet and volume parameters were not modulatable or controllable with macros

FIXED Using the “Clear Rack” button in the rack Toolbar would not update the Macro assignments

FIXED When a Macro knob was assigned to a button, assignment ranges were not taken into account

FIXED Bite no longer silences right channel in stereo mode when left channel is silent

FIXED Guitar Rig now runs again on x64 processors that only support SSE3 and below

KNOWN ISSUE Dragging files from the OS into Guitar Rig causes slowdown

6.2.4 - 2022-08-25

ADDED Apple Silicon support - restart your computer after installation to ensure correct plugins are used by DAWs

IMPROVED User filter icon is now next to text search in browser

IMPROVED GUI opening speed, especially on older systems

FIXED Using "Select All" from edit menu selects but doesn't highlight the components

FIXED Crash loading rack presets with long names containing special characters

FIXED Graphical artifacts such as flickering that can occur on some Windows systems with Intel integrated graphics

FIXED Tapedeck Save file dialog does not suggest a file name

KNOWN ISSUE Windows 10 VST/AAX only: HiDPI scaling does not work correctly which results in lower resolution graphics

KNOWN ISSUE Windows 10 standalone only: When using multiple screens with scaling of 150% or more the GUI may be drawn incorrectly or not at all

KNOWN ISSUE Dragging from a HiDPI screen to a non-HiDPI screen can result in lower quality graphics. Closing/reopening GUI on the same screen will fix this

6.2.3 - 2022-06-15

ADDED VST3 plug-in target

ADDED macOS Monterey compatibility

ADDED Windows 11 compatibility

ADDED Rosetta 2 Apple Silicon support

IMPROVED CPU overload detection no longer pauses the audio engine

IMPROVED Tapedeck loop state was not preserved when loading a file or restarting standalone

FIXED Component Browser tile selection lost when toggling filters

FIXED The browser selection was not updated when using MIDI learn to select the next/previous rack preset

FIXED MIDI program changes would not work correctly when using browser filters or color spaces

FIXED The preset list in Logic and Cubase was missing the first preset

FIXED Keyboard focus would be lost after displaying confirmation dialogs

FIXED Crash when attempting to load an incompatible IR file in Reflektor

FIXED Occasionally Guitar Rig would crash when dragging components into the rack

FIXED Inconsistent browser state when loading projects in Pro Tools

FIXED Recalling Track FX presets caused a crash in Pro Tools

FIXED Updating automated parameter names would cause Guitar Rig to crash when loaded out of process on Apple Silicon (Logic/Garageband)

FIXED Inconsistent bypass state when double clicking on component's power button

FIXED DoppelFilter audio artifacts when loading some presets (AU only)

FIXED User presets were saved with incorrect meta-data when using LE or Player versions with certain components

FIXED GUI artifacts on some macOS systems using large screen scaling with multiple HiDPI displays

KNOWN ISSUE Windows 10 VST/AAX only: HiDPI scaling does not work correctly which results in lower resolution graphics

KNOWN ISSUE Windows 10 standalone only: When using multiple screens with scaling of 150% or more the GUI may be drawn incorrectly or not at all

KNOWN ISSUE Dragging from a HiDPI screen to a non-HiDPI screen can result in lower quality graphics. Closing/reopening GUI on the same screen will fix this

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6.2.2 - 2021-07-22

FIXED High CPU usage and potential crash when starting Guitar Rig 6 while offline.

KNOWN ISSUE Windows 10 VST/AAX only: HiDPI scaling does not work correctly which results in lower resolution graphics.

KNOWN ISSUE Windows 10 standalone only: When using multiple screens with scaling of 150% or more the GUI may be drawn incorrectly or not at all.

KNOWN ISSUE Dragging from a HiDPI screen to a non-HiDPI screen can result in lower quality graphics. Closing/reopening GUI on the same screen will fix this.

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Updated for 7.0.2 release.