Version 2.3

July 8, 2024

What's new

Alter Songs's Harmony from the Piano Roll

You can now add any chords to your song's harmony, even if they aren't present in the Chord Palette. Also, you can alter your song's harmony on the note-level much quicker:

  1. Select the notes that will form the new chord
  2. Right-click the selected note that is to become the root note
  3. In the context menu, go to "selected notes" and pick either the add or set option

Linked playback now snaps to the DAW's timeline

You can pick the grid to snap linked playback to by right-clicking on the Linked-Playback button:

Other Changes

  • Klimper now automatically adopts DAW's track names (on DAWs that support this plug-in feature, like Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Cubase)
  • Fixed occasional error when exporting midi clips
  • At least Windows 10 is now required on PCs
  • OpenGL is no longer required, on any platform

    How to update

    Download and run the appropriate installer after closing all running instances of Klimper:


    Version History

    November 28, 2023: Version 2.2

    • Improved copy+paste
    • [alt] + drag to quickly duplicate notes
    • [alt] + scrollwheel to zoom vertically (+ [shift] to zoom horizontally)
    • Keyboard shortcuts for transposing notes by step/octave (as shown in the piano roll's context menu)
    • Other usability improvements
    • Performance improvements
    • Fixed some issues in Logic on Apple Silicon

    June 30, 2023: Version 2.1

    • Updated UI color scheme
    • Minor bugfixes

    May 24, 2023: Version 2.0.92

    • Issues with Ableton 11.3.2 have been resolved

    April 19, 2023: Version 2.0.9

    • Audio Settings in standalone now available via File/Audio Settings
    • Some UI rendering glitches have been fixed

    March 30, 2023: Version 2.0.8

    • Issues on Logic using Apple Silicon have been fixed
    • Timing issues have been resolved

    February 2, 2023: Version 2.0.7

    • When entering notes into empty spaces within a melody track, a new enclosing section is created automatically
    • Simplified setup of the Track plug-in: when adding a new track plugin to your DAW, a corresponding track within Klimper Main is created and connected automatically
    • Tamed over-ambitious auto-scrolling behaviour in the piano roll
    • Fixed crashes in Logic Pro
    • Fixed UI state persistence issues (especially in Studio One)
    • Fixed exporting of Midi clips
    • Now uses Metal instead of OpenGL for UI rendering on macOS

    December 14, 2022: Version 2.0.6

    • Problems occurring when Klimper's Track Plugin instances are duplicated within the DAW are now fixed.

    November 30, 2022: Version 2.0.5

    • High DPI Displays on Windows: the scaling of menus and dialogs was fixed.
    • Note names are now shown in the piano roll.

    November 28, 2022: Version 2.0.4

    • Occasionally, the internal instruments sounded out of tune due to improperly adopted sample rates. This is fixed now.