Brainspawn is pleased to announce the availability of Forte 2.0

This new version of Forte brings you many new features and improvements including 

 Adapt to New Hardware

• Powerful wizard to change MIDI port mappings or audio driver configuration.
• Easily adapt to hardware changes
• Save multiple hardware profiles in a rack file and load the rack on multiple computers with no remapping required.  Select from several compatible profiles on rack load (PRODUCER EDITION exclusive)

 Control Surface Support

• Control Forte with Frontier TranzPort or Mackie Control
• Create user-defined control surface definitions
• Mute/Unmute instruments, bypass/unbypass effects, and mix volume in realtime

 Import Scenes and Songs

• Reuse Scenes and Songs by importing them from other racks

 Enhanced MIDI Processing

• Hold notes across a scene change even if the new scene has different note filtering
• Add an initial value to controller mappings.  Initial values are set when on scene change.
• Toggle mode without an initial value for improved stomp-box support

 MIDI Output From Plugins

• Plugins that can output MIDI now appear as virtual MIDI input ports to other plugins. 

 Enhanced Audio Configuration 

• Dynamically choose ASIO driver when you create the first bus.  No need to select from preferences or restart.

 Improved Plugin Management and Compatibility

• Improved plugin menus
• Spotlight search for plugins by name, vendor, or file path.
• Route MIDI to insert effects with the same full level of flexibility as instruments, including per-port and per-channel routing and key range mapping with transpose.

 Two Editions:  Performer and Producer Editions

• PERFORMER EDITION:  Powerful live performance features with more convenient and powerful hardware change adaptation.
• PRODUCER EDITION:  Configure and choose from multiple hardware profiles and effortelessly move racks between computers.  This includes a site-license to install Forte on up to 10 computers.

And many other improvements....