PYROTERRA LIGHTTOYS
Lighttoys Composer
release notes (changelog)
Last updated: September 25, 2026
What's new/fixed in version 4.5 (released 25.9.2026)
- NEW: added support for FT2 module
- TWEAK: image duplicates on subtracks (placed on top of each other) consume less device memory
- TWEAK: various multi-preview enhancements
What's new/fixed in version 4.5 dev17 (released 8.9.2026)
- NEW: added support for LED Fans FT2
- NEW: firmware package 20260907 included as the new default
- FIX: Closing the LtComposer on MAC (using the red button) threw unexpected error
What's new/fixed in version 4.5 dev15 (released 28.8.2026)
- NEW: area selection in multi-preview mode
- NEW: shape flip & reverse in multi-preview mode
- NEW: shape rotation in multi-preview mode (hold Shift key for 15° degree steps)
- NEW: firmware package 20260714 included as the new default
- FIX: memory leak when moving (undo/redo) lots of visible elements across timeline
- FIX: crash when opening project with multi-preview on MAC
- FIX: "Replace selected" image didn't work
What's new/fixed in version 4.5 dev12 (released 30.7.2026)
- NEW: multi-preview mode showing all LED props next to each other, can be arranged into any shape or size
- NEW: integration of VisualPoi.ZONE (read access only) into the Library as the third tab
What's new/fixed in version 4.5 dev4 (released 14.5.2026)
- NEW: dynamic crossfades now work also on subtracks
- TWEAK: "New track" button puts the new track right under the selected one
- FIX: max number of LEDs for FT2 chip configuration was limited to 599 instead of 600
- FIX: using Spacing parameter on stabilized pictures broke the stabilization (whole number of image repeats was off)
What's new/fixed in version 4.4 (released 26.3.2026)
- NEW: added support for Stage Light FT
- NEW: unified favorite colors in Color Wheel & Live Control
- NEW: "Fixed Track Order" option in Track Views, active by default
- NEW: firmware package 20260323 included as the new default
- TWEAK: Color Wheel improvements (Hue control, smooth/discrete colors)
- TWEAK: reduced FPS limit lowest value to 10fps
- FIX: specific order of delete operations within Track Views could delete another track
- FIX: uploaded audio files showed as corrupted in FT Remote PRO since firmware 20260226
What's new/fixed in version 4.4 dev3 (released 2.3.2026)
- NEW: Visual Poi V5 stabilized images have a new thumbnail icon
- NEW: firmware package 20260226 included as the new default
- FIX: Hue shift of an image + Undo history didn't update the adjacent crossfade
- FIX: crash on Windows when opening a project created on MAC with special characters in the video preview file path
- FIX: when a video preview file was missing, the navigation dialog had problems with special characters in the file name
- FIX: positive offset of the audio track (moving the waveform to the right) didn't work on MAC
What's new/fixed in version 4.4 dev2 (released 10.2.2026)
- NEW: Visual Poi V5 image stabilization activated (needs firmware 20251222+)
- NEW: firmware package 20251222 included as the new default
What's new/fixed in version 4.3 (released 4.1.2026)
- NEW: firmware package 20251202 included as the new default
- TWEAK: improved dynamic crossfade shapes
- TWEAK: low utilization of graphic card when LtComposer is idle and the cursor is not moved
- TWEAK: extended the Scale slider value to a maximum of 10
- TWEAK: hardware version of FT1 chip displayed in Devices menu
What's new/fixed in version 4.3 dev17 (released 24.11.2025)
- NEW: Visual Poi V5 smart file system - images are shared across all shows (the same image is uploaded only once) + perfect show timing + fast seeking (needs firmware 20251118+)
- NEW: dynamic crossfade with ramp, arrow, sine, exponential shape + smoothing option
- NEW: firmware package 20251118 included as the new default
- TWEAK: Upload dialog cannot be opened during a running show
- TWEAK: A/B setting explanation tooltip in Device Configurator
- FIX: Vertical View incorrectly displayed FT A/B tracks since dev9
- FIX: white ping signal on Visual Poi V5 in silent mode didn't work correctly (via USB connection)
- FIX: Image Warp blue edit rectangle sometimes obscured control elements
- FIX: two OSC messages sent at the same time were not processed
- FIX: some logos in Default Library didn't have proper black edges
What's new/fixed in version 4.3 dev9 (released 3.9.2025)
- NEW: a running show is now better visually indicated with red color
- NEW: option to disable the 30-min auto-off timer in Device Configurator
- TWEAK: changed Lumi Dragon & Poi default tracks to simple type (no subtracks)
- TWEAK: Vertical View now displays subtracks with correct proportions
What's new/fixed in version 4.3 dev7 (released 21.8.2025):
- NEW: added random function to the Live Control window
- NEW: implemented missing OSC commands from FT Remote PRO (color, dynab, dyncolor, dynmode, dynpos, dynspeed, random)
- NEW: total device run time (since purchase) is now shown in Devices menu
- TWEAK: OSC command 'start' now has a 'duration' parameter
- FIX: FPS limiter produced wrong timing for long tracks with many solid elements
- FIX: time inputs bigger than 99 minutes were not possible
What's new/fixed in version 4.3 dev1 (released 23.6.2025):
- NEW: increased resolution of the image pipeline (1000px) improves clarity of Image Warping and devices with high pixel count (Cyr Wheel, Aerial Hoop, etc.)
- FIX: using FT solid elements on Visual Poi subtracks led to timing errors in long shows
- FIX: replacing a warped image using the "replace selected" option crashed LtComposer
- FIX: when moving a warped image along the track its thumbnail texture was distorted
What's new/fixed in version 4.2 (released 11.6.2025):
- NEW: added support for Lumi Dragon Staff FT2
- NEW: added support for Lumi Poi FT2
- NEW: 30% faster wireless upload to FT2 units thanks to a binary format of show data (needs firmware 20250306+)
- NEW: possibility to select an exact pairing frequency in the Devices menu (needs firmware 20250611+)
- NEW: firmware package 20250611 included as the new default
- TWEAK: improvements to the Aerial Hoop preview
- TWEAK: Proportional Group View set as the new default (tries to keep the proportions of subtracks)
- FIX: in some cases, FW update on FT1 devices was stuck in an endless loop
- FIX: uploading shows to FT1/FT2 units on an FT Remote with a really large paired group often failed
- FIX: Aerial Hoop images were unoptimized and wasted device memory
What's new/fixed in version 4.2 dev4 (released 2.5.2025):
- NEW: added support for Aerial Hoop FT2
- TWEAK: possibility to drag & drop videos directly into LtComposer
- TWEAK: pop-up navigation prompt when video file is missing
- TWEAK: mute status and volume of audio & video are saved into the project file
- TWEAK: video checkbox moved to the right and RPM to the left
- FIX: Cyr Wheel FT2 Dynamic preview was broken since dev3
- FIX: negative video offsets were not properly stored in the project
- FIX: when the playback was stopped (time 0:00), the video screen didn't refresh
What's new/fixed in version 4.2 dev3 (released 16.4.2025):
- NEW: simultaneous video playback of practice sessions or show performances
- NEW: possibility to align (offset) video to the track timeline
- NEW: hide/reveal icons for audio & video tracks
- NEW: 3 different sizes of audio & video tracks available
- NEW: firmware package 20250402 included as the new default
- TWEAK: Vertical preview better distributes the track lines across the space
What's new/fixed in version 4.1 (released 7.3.2025):
- NEW: FT Remote PRO now supports the new FW update method of FT devices
- NEW: FT Remote PRO automatically turns on when connected to LtComposer
- NEW: Image Library subfolder "Logos" with sample of various brand logos
- NEW: firmware package 20250306 included as the new default
- TWEAK: Image library search can be also cancelled with the "X" button
- TWEAK: Improved Upload window error messages
- FIX: drag & drop of images into Image Library didn't work in subfolders
- FIX: Undo icon was showing inside Static view area
What's new/fixed in version 4.1 dev15 (released 3.2.2025):
- NEW: added support for longer Lumi Staffs 140/150cm
- NEW: firmware package 20250127 included as the new default
- TWEAK: improvements & polishing of the FW update assistant
- TWEAK: old type of FT Remote is properly blocked for FW update
- FIX: recolor function set to 0 degrees (default) was pink instead of red color
- FIX: mouse cursor got lost when opening a system dialog after clicking into the Image Library search bar
What's new/fixed in version 4.1 dev14 (released 16.1.2025):
- NEW: search bar in Image Library with dynamic results
- NEW: subfolders with images are shown inside Image Library and can be traversed
- NEW: firmware package 20250113 included as the new default
- TWEAK: improvements & polishing of the FW update assistant
- FIX: upload of the same show to other memory slots 1-4 on FT2 devices failed
What's new/fixed in version 4.1 dev12 (released 21.12.2024):
- NEW: completely redesigned FW update assistant with new fast & robust update method
- TWEAK: FT Remote battery level is now shown in Devices menu
- TWEAK: Group/Broadcast pairing type selector removed from Devices menu (Broadcast is the default)
- FIX: visual artifacts (black lines) on Windows high-DPI displays
What's new/fixed in version 4.0.2 (released 10.10.2024):
- NEW: added support for Lumi Wand 65/70/75cm
- NEW: added support for longer Lumi Staffs 110/120cm
- NEW: firmware package 20241009 included as the new default
- TWEAK: "First LED distance" limit increased to 300cm
- TWEAK: custom RPM value in preview window is highlighted in white color and can be reset
- FIX: FPS limit value was not saved correctly for FT2 custom tracks
What's new/fixed in version 4.0.1 (released 16.7.2024):
- FIX: when opening music in an empty project, the music couldn't be played (cursor was stuck at 0:00)
What's new/fixed in version 4.0 (released 10.7.2024):
- NEW: support for Lumi Cube (added to New track menu)
- NEW: improved Image Warp function: aspect ratio toggle & edit cursors, zoom buttons, automatic rounding of Circle repeats, RPM value can be edited for each image
- NEW: images in the open project can be saved to a local folder via right click menu -> Save image...
- NEW: FT firmware package 20240701 included as the new default
- TWEAK: added command examples to the OSC console window
- TWEAK: auto detection of Visual Poi V4/V5 FT chip during FW update
- FIX: LtComposer displayed old version number in some dialogs
- FIX: Visual Wand V5 used incorrect default Scale
What's new/fixed in version 4.0 dev16 (released 4.5.2024):
- NEW: image (un)warping option for Visual Poi - correct circular distortion & new creative possibilities
- NEW: FT firmware package 20240424 included as the new default
- NEW: images in the open project can now be saved via right click menu -> Save image...
What's new/fixed in version 4.0 dev13 (released 17.3.2024):
- NEW: full support for upcoming Visual Poi V5
- NEW: FT firmware package 20240226 included as a new (voluntary) default
- NEW: OSC syntax examples (Help) added to the OSC Console
- TWEAK: default Cyr Wheel FT2 rotation speed lowered to RPM = 60
- TWEAK: default "Scale 1" value for "FT2 custom" track changed to 2000 us
- TWEAK: added more info about devices to the Devices menu
- FIX: firmware update failed with FT2 and Visual Poi devices on MAC OS since dev12
- FIX: Remote PRO's "Upload Audio" button was missing since dev12
- FIX: shows with more than 1024 images weren't properly uploaded to FT2 devices (also needs firmware 20240226+)
What's new/fixed in version 4.0 dev12 (released 26.2.2024):
- NEW: redesigned audio management - now with selectable audio output device, volume slider & mute!
- NEW: full memory is now properly detected and reported when uploading to Visual Poi, FT and FT2 devices
- NEW: support for Cyr Wheel 170cm variant
- TWEAK: increased crossfade max resolution limit to 15000 pixels
- FIX: Visual Wand V4 default Scale = 600us was ignored during upload (images displayed a bit shrunk)
- FIX: in some situations it was possible to use more than 600 LEDs in FT2 device configurator
What's new/fixed in version 4.0 dev11 (released 31.1.2024):
- NEW: FPS limit can be set also on each individual image (Edit Pane -> FPS Settings)
- NEW: FPS icon to indicate images on track that use FPS setting
- NEW: crossfade effect can be initiated by click & drag on image corner or with Shift key on vertical edge
- NEW: FT firmware package 20240129 included as a new (voluntary) default
- NEW: password protected configuration of FT2 Lighttoys props
- TWEAK: new warning message, when using higher than recommended brightness in FT2 device configurator
- TWEAK: improved labels & descriptions in Upload window
- TWEAK: Lumi Staff vertical mirroring of images can be turned on/off (click on any image in the Library -> Edit pane settings)
- FIX: crossfade effect wasn't updated, when neighbor element was erased
- FIX: cyr wheel dynamic preview showed images oriented "upside down" when paused
What's new/fixed in version 4.0 dev6 (released 17.11.2023):
- NEW: Crossfade element in "Colors" tab for (cross)fading effects between neighbor images
- NEW: WS2812 LED strip with GBR color order supported in FT2 device configurator
- NEW: FT firmware package 20230723 included as a new (voluntary) default
- TWEAK: Lumi staff preview with default scale 1300us
- TWEAK: improved cyr wheel visualization
What's new/fixed in version 4.0 dev3 (released 20.9.2023)
- NEW: cyr wheel, wand and staff dynamic preview
- NEW: added cyr wheel & lumi staff variants to New track menu
- NEW: single track cyr wheel programming, with auto slicing into 5 separate FT2 chips in Upload menu
- TWEAK: FT2 device configurator starts counting LEDs from #1 instead of #0
- TWEAK: prevention of concurrent project load & save events (should prevent corrupted projects)
- TWEAK: added "Demo shows & patterns" link to Help menu
What's new / fixed in version 3.9.3 (released 7.7.2023):
- NEW: FT firmware package 20230703 included as a new (voluntary) default
- FIX: Unicode characters in image & music files no longer crash LtComposer
- FIX: crash when clicking on color wheel of a solid element within a newly opened project
- FIX: empty elements (black textures) on tracks when opening large projects
What's new / fixed in version 3.9 (released 25.5.2023):
- NEW: favorite (custom) colors can be saved under the color wheel
- NEW: FT firmware package 20230523 included as a new default
- TWEAK: updated Lighttoys icon on MAC
- FIX: selection of COLOR -> BLACKOUT -> STANDBY flashed color momentarily on the FT device
What's new / fixed in version 3.9 dev15 (released 16.5.2023):
- NEW: .ltp project files are associated with LtComposer on MAC (double-click .ltp files to open)
- NEW: Live control window remembers its state between sessions
- TWEAK: default image library is repopulated with all default images during each launch
What's new / fixed in version 3.9 dev13 (released 14.4.2023):
- NEW: virtual "FT Remote" for testing colors, modes & live playback (under menu Tools -> Live Control)
- NEW: audio files decoding using FFmpeg library (no more issues with large audio files on MAC)
- NEW: 2x faster audio opening
- NEW: LtComposer distributed on Windows through a proper installer (setup file)
- NEW: .ltp project files are associated with LtComposer on Windows (simply double-click .ltp files to open)
- TWEAK: 'flip' option added for the Static view of LED Club FT2
What's new / fixed in version 3.9 dev9.1 (released 15.2.2023):
- NEW: completely rewritten & optimized project loading routine (up to 25x faster loading, up to 50x less memory footprint)
- NEW: animated progress bar during project loading
- TWEAK: latest uploaded MP3 file to FT Remote PRO stays selected in the Upload Audio window
What's new / fixed in version 3.9 dev8 (released 30.1.2023):
- NEW: total number of elements displayed in the status bar
- NEW: improved project import dialog (with checkboxes for audio, markers, views)
- TWEAK: improved display of information in the FT2 device configurator
- FIX: imported project was always fully loaded first in the background and couldn't be cancelled
- FIX: automatic reduction of brightness was broken in the FT2 device configurator
What's new / fixed in version 3.9 dev6.1 (released 4.1.2023):
- FIX: wireless show uploading didn't work on MAC with older type of FT remotes
What's new / fixed in version 3.9 dev6 (released 30.12.2022):
- NEW: dynamic & static realistic preview of LED Club FT2
- NEW: Broadcast pairing type selected as the new default
- NEW: firmware package 2022121 included
- TWEAK: possibility to switch off units in Devices menu
- TWEAK: improved "Active" filter in Devices/Upload menu (no erratic jumping of rows)
- TWEAK: much faster response of Ping, Blackout & Standby commands with large paired groups
- FIX: quickly closing Devices menu + pressing 'Run show' could be delayed with large paired groups
What's new / fixed in version 3.8 final (released 26.10.2022):
- NEW: support for FT remote controller with new nRF52820 chip inside
- NEW: shows 1-4 can be started even with empty project
What's new / fixed in version 3.8 dev3 (released 12.10.2022):
- NEW: signal strength indicator in Devices menu
- NEW: filter to show only "active" (in range) units in Devices / Upload menu
- NEW: 10 automatic autosave instances with rotation
- NEW: menu File -> Open Autosave
- NEW: when saving a recovered autosaved project, "Save As..." dialog is prompted
- TWEAK: less erratic display of broadcast paired units in Devices menu
- TWEAK: FPS limit range extended to 20-300
What's new / fixed in version 3.7 final (released 8.9.2022):
- NEW: LED Buugeng FT2 track support + dynamic/static realistic preview
- NEW: FT firmware package 220803 included (update not enforced)
- TWEAK: default Scale 1 for FT2 devices changed to 3000us
- TWEAK: lower FPS limit extended to 25
- TWEAK: improved horizontal resolution of pictures (bilinear filtering)
- FIX: recolor function was turning white areas into black in some pictures
- FIX: OSC command brightness was wrongly interpreted
- FIX: Static view properly supports grouped tracks
- FIX: Track > Merge with empty selection crashed LtComposer
What's new / fixed in version 3.6 final (released 6.7.2022):
- NEW: auto-check for new versions of LtComposer on the web
- NEW: FT Remote PRO support (including music file upload, firmware update)
- NEW: keyboard shortcut "I"/"O" to quickly set show start/end points
- NEW: possibility to display & rename Visual Poi V4 custom name over USB connection (requires firmware 220629+)
- NEW: firmware package 220629 included by default
- TWEAK: smoother updating of FT remote controllers (no need to press 1 + 4 + ON/OFF anymore)
- TWEAK: FT remote is pinged every 60 seconds, so it doesn't turn off
- TWEAK: reorganized FT2 custom track menu
- TWEAK: adjustable FPS limit (50-200 FPS)
- TWEAK: FPS limit enabled by default for FT2 custom tracks
- TWEAK: FT remote automatically turns on, once plugged in and detected by LtComposer (requires firmware 220629+)
What's new / fixed in version 3.6 dev10 (released 5.3.2022):
- NEW: 'Dynamic' circular preview now fully supports grouped tracks
- NEW: supported OSC commands: blackout, standby, brightness
- TWEAK: right-click menu 'select same' now works on FT elements
- FIX: FT2 chip configuration was not loaded correctly on MAC
- FIX: deleted track elements were still uploaded (didn't trigger new composing)
What's new / fixed in version 3.6 dev9 (released 9.2.2022):
- NEW: support for OSC protocol (listen mode)
- NEW: first supported OSC commands: show start, stop, ping
- NEW: 'Standby' button for FT remotes in the Devices menu
- NEW: firmware package 220111 included by default
- TWEAK: New 'Advanced' menu added to the top of the screen
- TWEAK: improved formatting of the FT2 configuration window
- FIX: 'Repeat V' value was ignored during composition & show upload
- FIX: Group/Broadcast drop-down selector sometimes showed incorrect state
- FIX: crash on Intel MAC with projects containing images 1 pixel wide
- FIX: crash of a strange project with *.psd image inside
What's new / fixed in version 3.6 dev6 (released 9.1.2022):
- NEW: "D" key shortcut to access the Devices menu
- TWEAK: added informative message "for faster uploads, use USB connection" when uploading shows to FT2 devices over radio
- TWEAK: improved status messages in FT2 configuration window
- FIX: any opened project didn't show the user defined track names and the names were lost when the project was saved
- FIX: first element placed into a new project track displayed wrong negative 'Repeats' value
- FIX: when old type of .vpp project was opened and saved, the project structure was messed
- FIX: grouped track delimited by the right pink triangle couldn't be uploaded
- FIX: uploading grouped track could lead to crash
- FIX: show with 'Sequence repeat' selected and launched over USB cable didn't repeat for FT2 devices
- FIX: pressing "Erase all" button didn't update the list of shows for wirelessly connected devices
What's new / fixed in version 3.6 dev5 (released 17.12.2021):
- NEW: WS2812 LED strip with inverted red & green colors supported in FT2 device configurator
- TWEAK: improved addition/removal of subtracks in the track edit pane
- FIX: wireless show uploading to FT devices on MAC got stuck sometimes
- FIX: after 'Undo' operation, all elements with the 'Lock number of repeats' option had wrong 'Repeats' value
- FIX: opened projects from LtComposer 3.5 with A/B tracks were missing elements on the "B" subtrack
- FIX: stretched elements over multiple tracks had poor resolution when uploaded to the device
- FIX: FT2 LED Club / FT2 custom tracks had incorrect image scaling after uploading to the device
What's new / fixed in version 3.6 dev2 (released 25.11.2021):
- NEW: support for grouped tracks (with subtracks), select multiple track headers with Shift key, then use menu: Track -> Merge / Split
- NEW: support for LED Club FT2 A/B (dual track) programming
- NEW: macOS universal binary (Intel 64bit + ARM) support
- NEW: macOS minimum supported version increased to 10.13 High Sierra
- NEW: *.ltp project files can be associated on Windows with LtComposer (right click on the file -> Open with...)
- TWEAK: FT2 chip max resolution limit increased to 600 pixels
- FIX: stretching elements over multiple tracks (with Shift key) led to poor resolution in the track thumbnails
What's new / fixed in version 3.5 final (released 10.9.2021):
- NEW: group/broadcast pairing selector in Devices menu
- NEW: 100 PPS (pixels/sec) limit for each track (dramatically faster upload speeds, great for static devices without any loss of quality)
- NEW: Visual Pois V4 can now be LIVE previewed - requires firmware 210909+
- NEW: Visual Pois V4 can be started with 6 levels of brightness - requires firmware 210909+
- NEW: Visual Pois V4 can be started and previewed over USB - requires firmware 210909+
- TWEAK: FT2 custom track clean-up + tooltips
- TWEAK: firmware update of Visual Poi V4 was improved
- FIX: battery voltage & device temperature were not shown in broadcast mode - requires firmware 210909+
- FIX: "Turn off Devices", "Blackout" and "Ping" buttons were not working in broadcast mode
What's new / fixed in version 3.5 dev8 (released 19.8.2021):
- NEW: FT2 chip support & configurator window
- NEW: LED Juggling Club FT2 support
- NEW: "A" (automatic) Realtime checkbox option, uses Realtime rendering only for locked elements or when the track is zoomed in
- NEW: memory occupation bar graph now displayed also for FT devices (in the Upload dialog)
- NEW: wireless show upload to FT2 devices (using FT remote) - requires firmware 210817+
- NEW: support for "broadcast" pairing mode (unlimited number of paired props) - requires firmware 210817+
- EXPERIMENTAL: MAX PPS (pixels per second) limit for "FT2 custom" track (good for static devices, decreases upload time & memory footprint dramatically)
- TWEAK: auto-ping of devices in Devices menu (by clicking on them)
- TWEAK: more realistic preview for Visual Hoops
- TWEAK: more robust communication over serial USB
- TWEAK: robust and 2-4x faster show upload to FT1 devices
- FIX: Sequence repeat checkbox was not working
- FIX: special character in the track name crashed LtComposer
- FIX: projects with FLASH elements on tracks not fitting into the main window were not showing correct texture
- FIX: crash on MAC OS (latest versions) during start
What's new / fixed in version 3.4.1 (released 21.5.2021):
- NEW: added support for Visual Hoop sizes 20" and 28"
- TWEAK: when importing a project, "Views" from that project are no longer imported
- FIX: image elements were disappearing from tracks when using the "Views" functionality (during project save)
- FIX: duplicated tracks were added to the "All Tracks" view only, not to the active view where the duplicate was created
What's new / fixed in version 3.4 final (released 18.4.2021):
- NEW: graphical splash screen when the app starts
- NEW: the default picture library was updated and extended (for fresh software installations)
- NEW: firmware update package 20210416 included
- NEW: info message when the project was created in a newer version of LtComposer
- TWEAK: "Run show" button is automatically switched to the bank number that was last uploaded
- TWEAK: history of 10 latest application logs is now stored
- FIX: using "Spacing" sometimes led to broken textures in elements on track
- FIX: FT remote in update mode was not detected on M1 Macs
- FIX: when duplicating elements using Ctrl key, snapping to the original elements was not working
- FIX: incorrect detection of FT2 device total pixel count
- FIX: FT2 device name limited (only 12 characters instead of 32) when renaming over USB connection
- FIX: funky display of element textures that were off-screen when the project loaded
- FIX: quickly typing the name of a new Filtered View led to skipped letters or crash
What's new / fixed in version 3.4 dev18 (released 18.2.2021):
- NEW: elements can be now vertically stretched over multiple tracks (Shift + mouse drag of the horizontal edge)
- NEW: placing elements from library now allows duplication (mouse drag) or stretching (shift + mouse drag) over multiple tracks. Stretching also locks Repeats = 1
- NEW: keyboard shortcut "Shift + X" to swap edited color of Gradient and Flash element
- NEW: all firmware update files are now distributed in a single package file (called 'lfw'), the package can be updated via simple drag & drop
- TWEAK: visual enhancement of Edit Pane sliders
- TWEAK: improved firmware update wizard, with instruction texts & images
- TWEAK: view menu improvements
- TWEAK: mouse cursor tooltip redesign - now it stays in place and disappears after the cursor leaves the target area
- TWEAK: default period of the Flash element changed to 100ms
- TWEAK: updated F1 help menu
- FIX: keyboard shortcuts for filtering did not work on international keyboards
- FIX: "M" shortcut did not work with French keyboard layout
- FIX: long status messages overlayed View selector
- FIX: Edit view did not respect track sorting
- FIX: moving elements with keyboard did not respect lock sizing
- FIX: missing history step for vertical duplication
- FIX: "Replace selected" command did not update the image data for upload
- FIX: first picture added to the track in a new project didn't show the visualization preview
- FIX: LtComposer was crashing when FT remote was disconnected in update mode
What's new / fixed in version 3.4 dev14 (released 10.1.2021):
- NEW: upload progess bar on FT2 device LEDs
- NEW: graphical representation of occupied memory added to the Upload dialog for FT2 devices
- NEW: added brightness level selector to the Toolbar for FT2 devices
- NEW: enhanced import dialog to select which tracks to import
- NEW: filtered views added to the status bar for creating custom track views on larger projects
- NEW: added shortcuts "1,2,3..." to switch between created views
- NEW: Transformations menu -> Vertical Spacing sliders (to stretch/squeeze top & bottom area of an image)
- NEW: Adjustments menu -> optional Recolor slider (to force image into one shade of color, use the Hue shift slider to tune the effect)
- NEW: firmware of all connected props is checked for being out of date
- TWEAK: more realistic rendering of low resolution and high Scale values in Preview window
- TWEAK: increased pixel resolution for FT2 Hoop devices
- TWEAK: FT2 hoop renamed to Visual Hoop
- TWEAK: renamed context menu "Select similar" to "Select same"
- TWEAK: updated the wording of the "Erase all" button message for FT2 devices
- TWEAK: the order of image width & height was swapped in Edit Pane
- TWEAK: F1 help was updated
- FIX: adding a new track and element on time 0:00:00, then adding a second track and clicking on its header swapped track position in the track list
- FIX: pressing "C" key with cursor at zero time was selecting all images on all tracks
- FIX: shortcuts "Cmd + A" and "M" were not working on french AZERTY keyboard layout
- FIX: opening a new music file on MAC was stuck at "Buffering..."
- FIX: Lighttoys devices were not detected on M1 MacBooks
What's new / fixed in version 3.4 dev10 (released 2.12.2020):
- NEW: track element -> right click -> "Select same images", Image library picture -> right click -> "Replace selected" to easily swap all occurrences of an image in the project
- NEW: backslash shortcut "\" to toggle between play/pause of the Dynamic preview
- NEW: dynamic preview temporarily freezes when Scale or Spacing sliders are being moved
- NEW: added image pixel dimensions (width x heigth) to Edit Pane
- NEW: possibility to fine tune Scale and Spacing values in Edit Pane with Up/Down arrow (hold "Shift" for larger steps)
- NEW: additional user parameters added to the "FT2 custom" track for a more flexible use
- TWEAK: change Scale slider info to pixels/sec, move original microS info to hover tooltip
- TWEAK: Hoop tracks have RepeatV=3 set by default
- FIX: crash on (auto)save when elements used "Keep original resolution"
- FIX: "Cmd + M" shortcut pressed twice didn't add a marker on MAC (now behaves the same as simple "M" shortcut, which is the oficial one)
- FIX: crash on CTRL+X -> drag any element -> CTRL+V
- FIX: missing tooltip on long truncated image names in Edit Pane
- FIX: text cursor inside any text box could be moved outside the active zone with the left arrow
- FIX: using left / right arrow keys to move across the track was not scrolling the view to the selected element
What's new / fixed in version 3.4 dev7 (released 28.10.2020):
- NEW: double-click on the horizontal edge duplicates the selected element(s) vertically
- NEW: resizing multiple elements with the "Shift" key scales all elements in the selection proportionally
- TWEAK: improved behavior when resizing multiple elements (without Shift)
- FIX: pressing key "L" or "Ctrl+1,2,3,4" then Undo/Redo last step broke Scaling of the image
What's new / fixed in version 3.4 dev6 (released 7.10.2020):
- NEW: vertical / diagonal duplication of elements by dragging the horizontal edge
- NEW: resizing of elements by dragging their vertical edge now works for all elements in the selection
- NEW: double-click on the element's vertical edge expands the element(s) to fill the adjacent gap(s)
- NEW: Copy, Cut & Paste for elements on the tracklist (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V)
- NEW: Cut (razor) tool - splits selected elements, activated with the "C" shortcut
- NEW: firmware update of the FT remote, FT device and Visual Poi supported
- NEW: Mini Hoop FT2 18" added to the device list
- TWEAK: better snapping indication of elements (pink vertical line)
- TWEAK: area selection of elements with Ctrl / Shift key improved
- TWEAK: allow edge-of-screen scrolling for area selection, start/end points, time cursor and markers
- TWEAK: when importing a project, all imported elements are automatically selected
- FIX: text size was broken when LtComposer was used on an external monitor (with different DPI setting)
- FIX: inputting 0 into the "Repeats" box was crashing the app during the composition step
- FIX: when more than 20 FT units were paired to the FT remote, it wasn't possible to upload the show to the 21. unit and higher
- FIX: On some Windows PCs the detection of the FT remote status lagged for ~15 seconds
- FIX: When changing the "Period" slider of the Rainbow element, "Repeats" field was not updating
- FIX: Selecting Default Library was not being saved into app history
What's new / fixed in version 3.4 dev1 (released 28.8.2020):
- NEW: dynamic mode preview is now synchronized with the timeline
- FIX: window resizing (toolbar, track list) was slow and lagging
What's new / fixed in version 3.3 final (released 16.7.2020):
- TWEAK: updated keyboard shortcuts in F1 help dialog
- FIX: cycling between Preview modes with "p" shortcut was broken
- FIX: vertical scrolling was broken in F1 help dialog
- FIX: RPM label showed "RPM2" for LED hoops
What's new / fixed in version 3.3 dev14 (released 11.7.2020):
- NEW: new projects are started without any default track on the timeline, a textual hint is displayed instead
- NEW: unified visualization modes and their activation buttons (with play/pause toggle)
- NEW: "ESC" key cancels the selection of elements
- NEW: "K" key shortcut for toggling the "Keep original resolution" option
- NEW: support for binary upload method to FT2 devices (~ 40% speed increase)
- TWEAK: prevent uploading of empty tracks
- TWEAK: "Realtime display" state is now saved to system app settings
- TWEAK: improved behavior of element snapping
- TWEAK: erasing of FT show banks is now done sequentially and banks are loaded correctly
- TWEAK: autosave is not used for empty projects
- FIX: broken rendering (visual artifacts) on old AMD graphic cards
- FIX: resizing of elements close to zero time was not possible, it was triggering Edit pane action instead
- FIX: incorrectly set default value for hoop visualization RPM
- FIX: dragging of elements right after their selection placed them on an incorrect position
- FIX: preview of dragged elements with LockSizing on showed incorrect number of repeats
- FIX: after dragging image from library and back outside of the visible area, the next dragging from the library was glitching
- FIX: "Blackout" button in Devices menu had a ~10 second delayed response
- FIX: newly added track was not selected
What's new / fixed in version 3.3 dev10 (released 4.6.2020):
- NEW: enhanced appearance of the main menu, with shortcut tips and multi-level menus
- NEW: Open Recent Projects / Libraries in the main menu
- NEW: menus and dialogs can now be operated from the keyboard
- NEW: right-click menu support
- NEW: improved structure of the left Edit Pane
- NEW: "Keep original size" button in the Edit Pane, which enables 1:1 mapping of pixels from the source image to the device (good for tiny pixel art images)
- NEW: when "Lock sizing" or "Keep original size" are activated, it is indicated with an icon over the element thumbnail
- NEW: selection of the device type is done now directly on each track (by right-clicking on the track handle, or in the Edit Pane)
- NEW: link to Visualpoi.ZONE and "About LtComposer" in Help menu
- NEW: small images (40 pixels or less) are now resampled using Nearest Neighbor algorithm to retain crisp look
- NEW: images can be deleted directly from the image library by right-clicking them
- TWEAK: visual improvement to the Run show button (coloring of banks)
- TWEAK: removed restrictions for opening image library, empty folders and images of any size are now allowed
- TWEAK: Repeat V. and Mirror V. interaction is now switched, i.e. mirroring is done around the central axis
- FIX: disconnected FT remote crashed LtComposer3
- FIX: images with transparency displayed incorrectly
- FIX: Enter key on numerical keypad wasn't working on Mac
- FIX: incorrect positioning on HiDPI displays when starting the app
What's new / fixed in version 3.3 dev4 (released 21.4.2020):
- NEW: support for HiDPI (retina) displays
- NEW: static and animated hoop preview
- NEW: experimental upload to FT2 devices (custom FT2 track)
- TWEAK: improvements to the FT1 service dialog
- TWEAK: "Repeat V" keeps aspect ratio (when lock sizing is not checked)
- TWEAK: Roboto regular as the default font on both OSes
- TWEAK: Setting "Number of Repeats" with keyboard shortcut Ctrl/Cmd + 1,2,3,4 turns lock sizing on
- FIX: resizing workspace windows is no longer laggy
What's new / fixed in version 3.3 dev2 (released 8.3.2020):
- NEW: service dialog for managing all connected devices: enables pairing, checking shows, battery levels and more (found under the "Device" menu)
- NEW: graphic rendering pipeline completely rewritten to ensure stable framerate even for large projects (make Composer fast again!)
- NEW: "Lock sizing" option ensures that the number of repeats stays the same while resizing elements
- NEW: keyboard shorcuts "Ctrl + 1/2/3/4" for setting number of repeats 1x 2x 3x 4x, "L" shortcut for toggling Lock sizing (Yuta request)
- NEW: "Help" menu, currently with a list of available keyboard shortcuts
- NEW: "Ctrl + A" now selects all elements (previously only elements on selected tracks)
- NEW: image library tab "FT" renamed to "Colors"
- NEW: changed order of the timeline time controls on the toolbar
- NEW: all time inputs now accept time with millisecond precision
- FIX: dragged elements are now displayed properly in Realtime mode
What's new / fixed in version 3.2 final (released 7.12.2019):
- NEW: FT devices which are not in range are displayed as "N/A" in the upload dialog
- NEW: Refresh rate for FT device status update changed to 2 sec
- FIX: select next element did not respect main selected but only time cursor
- FIX: Mouse events leaked from timeline toolbar to the preview window
- FIX: Zoom in/out with alt + mousewheel moved the scrollbar
- FIX: Scaling narrow graphics such that the width is calculated to be 0px generated invalid vpp code. Limit set to 1px
- FIX: App crashed after CTRL + UP/DOWN when no element selected
- FIX: Keyboard shortcut 1,2,3,4 for uploading was mot working
- FIX: Shift select in upload dialog ignored automatically selected devices (new connections)
What's new / fixed in version 3.2 dev8 (released 17.11.2019):
- NEW: Updated keyboard shortcuts
- NEW: adding other slave devices in to the upload queue, queue respect more remotes
- FIX: expanding the submenu in the edit box propagated the event further down. It was accidentally setting the hue when expandind the Adjustments submenu
- FIX: opening project file from the menu was not updating the start time and project name
- FIX: V3 long show name (composer could not load bank list)
- FIX: shift area select from empty space crashed the app
- FIX: crash when exiting the app with a connected FT device
What's new / fixed in version 3.2 dev7 (released 7.11.2019):
- NEW: edit box now has collapsible submenus
- NEW: clicking on elements doesn't move the time cursor
- NEW: shift selection now possible by clicking on empty space on tracks (diagonal edges of imaginary boundary rectangle)
- NEW: while dragging elements vertically Shift key now freezes horizontal movement
- FIX: uploading to FT devices was slow and unreliable
- FIX: autoscroll while dragging tracks on Mac caused track duplication
- FIX: option to run show on devices did not respect offset start time
- FIX: various problems with import of project files by drag & drop
What's new / fixed in version 3.2 dev6 (released 14.10.2019):
- NEW: FT library element Pulse
- NEW: Alt + Up/Down shortcut for zooming, Alt + Left/Right shortcut for moving cursor precisely
- NEW: switch between edited track names with Tab key
- NEW: vertically repeat image (under Transformations menu)
- NEW: automatically select the last connected device in Upload dialog
- NEW: show FT firmware in timestamp format
- NEW: clicking on markers sets the time cursor position
- NEW: autosave now remembers project file path
- FIX: editing first color of FT gradient element set the second color instead
- FIX: selecting elements caused autosave
- FIX: elements which were moved with keyboard were snapping to hidden markers
- FIX: key modifiers (Shift, Alt, Home, End) cleared selection in text boxes
- FIX: maximum slider value was always stuck at 100
- FIX: Cmd key modifier was mapped to Control on Mac
- FIX: overlapping keyboard shortcuts R
- FIX: markers were drawing over the horizontal scrollbar
- FIX: text cursor did not move after entering first space
- FIX: rename visualisation speed setting from BPM to RPM
- FIX: music can now be played from time 0:00:00 (before pink triangle)
- FIX: app crashed after dismissing the Import image dialog on Mac
What's new / fixed in version 3.2 dev5 (released 17.09.2019):
- NEW: redesigned progress bars during upload
- NEW: music filename shown when hovering mouse over the music track
- NEW: "P" keyboard shortcut to change the type of visualisation in preview window and "R" to run show on devices
- NEW: undo/redo scrolls the view to the selected element
- NEW: more efficient way how to work on timeline with keyboard:
- simple arrow keys: jumps selection from element to element, cursor set on the left edge
- Ctrl + arrow keys: moves (shuffles) the element(s) left or right
- Ctrl + Shift + arrow keys: resizes the element(s) to the left or right
- FIX: visualization did not update after color swapping in gradient FT block
- FIX: no. of repeats did not update after FT element resize
What's new / fixed in version 3.2 dev4 (not publicly released):
- NEW: possibility to rename tracks and devices in the upload dialog
- NEW: Visual Poi "format memory" option added to the upload dialog
- NEW: memory utilization bar graph in the upload dialog for Visual Poi V4 with a recent firmware (v0.36+)
- NEW: special run button on the toolbar to start a show on all paired devices on the FT remote together with music
- NEW: arrow keys now move across elements on timeline and set cursor accordingly
- NEW: after opening a saved project, the view scrolls to the last track
- FIX: correct alphanumeric ordering of images in library on MAC
What's new / fixed in version 3.2 dev3 (released 25.7.2019):
- NEW: flipping & mirroring of any image + adjustment options (color, saturation, contrast, etc.)
- NEW: completely rewritten device communication, possibility to upload multiple Visual Pois at once
- NEW: redesigned upload dialog
- NEW: visual identification of attached devices
- NEW: no need for special driver for Visual Poi on Windows 10+
- NEW: possibility to upload and erase LSF shows on FT devices
- NEW: speed (BPM) of the circular preview can be changed
- NEW: ability to open the default image library from the Media menu
- NEW: cursor position is not changed on click while music is playing
- NEW: possibility to edit the names of FT devices
- FIX: app crashed on start when no sound output was available
- FIX: the app crashed on MAC when saving the project
- FIX: autosave was slowing down the app
- FIX: various problems with lock sizing and scaling for VPOI3
- FIX: FT DOTS element generated incorrect LSF code
- FIX: impossible to scroll down in FT DOTS edit box
- FIX: corrupted memory of the Visual Poi crashed the app
- FIX: color history (undo/redo) was not saved when changed from text input
What's new / fixed in version 3.2 dev2 (released 29.5.2019):
- NEW: smooth zooming onto the mouse cursor current location (big improvement for touch-pad users)
- NEW: FT library elements: rainbow and dots!
- NEW: scale value boundary limits increased to 0.01-10000
- NEW: song buffering can be now stopped with the "ESC" key
- NEW: changing duration of multiple selected elements keeps touching elements together
- NEW: vertical time cursor follows mouse clicks in the whole track list area
- NEW: increased the resolution of the timeline scale
- FIX: long images uploaded to Visual Poi played at wrong speed
- FIX: the app crashed after opening the second music file or project with music track
What's new / fixed in version 3.2 dev1 (released 5.5.2019):
- NEW: 2D area select with Shift key: select multiple elements across several tracks
- NEW: time duration input field now affects all elements in selection
- NEW: dragging of elements vertically over tracks was improved, with better visual effect
- NEW: project auto save after 5 steps or 2 minutes (whichever occurs earlier)
- NEW: project auto restore when the app crashed or the project was not saved
- NEW: confirm dialog when starting new project (Ctrl+N)
- FIX: FT elements on VisualPoi V3 tracks were playing randomly incorrectly after each project save
- FIX: vertical preview was sometimes drawing over itself (being thicker)
What's new / fixed in version 3.1 final:
What's new / fixed in version 3.1 dev7:
- FIX: the end of visual poi image could blink in vertical preview
- FIX: the mouse cursor could disappear on MAC
What's new / fixed in version 3.1 dev6:
- NEW: window and cursor scrolling improvements
- FIX: Edit Pane resize jerky behavior introduced by dev5 (Parkinson's disease)
- FIX: timeline scrolled to the left when dragging element from library (introduced by dev5)
What's new / fixed in version 3.1 dev5:
- NEW: STOP button now auto-scrolls the view to the beginning of the show
- NEW: auto-scroll of the timeline when resizing and moving elements, reordering tracks
- NEW: elements outside of the show boundaries are now having a dark overlay
- NEW: images are loaded in a separate thread (makes UI responsive when opening large libraries)
- NEW: add Visual Wand to the Device menu (behaves the same as Visual Poi V4 MAXI)
- NEW: "H" keyboard shortcut: hide/show markers
- NEW: "V" keyboard shortcut: expand/collapse the Track View
- NEW: updated F1 shortcut help
- FIX: "Number of repeats" set to a whole number could sometimes blink an extra pixel line
- FIX: shortcuts for Undo/Redo (CMD+Z/CMD+Y) didn't respect the keyboard layout on MAC
- FIX: prevent multiple uploads to VPOI when the upload button is clicked several times
- FIX: click on Erase button was possible even when not displayed
- FIX: Track numbering counted AB track as two tracks
- FIX: pictures larger than 6553 x 80 or 16384 x 200 pixels were displayed as black
- FIX: message "Uploading...DONE" was sometimes showing before uploading
- FIX: music path was not remembered if loaded from the timeline button
- FIX: shaking timebox numbers during playback
- FIX: gradient elements didn't display correctly in vertical preview
- FIX: use true colors for vertical preview
- FIX: "Spacing" parameter used for Number of repeats < 1 caused delayed Visual Poi shows
- FIX: "Sequence repeat" setting now also works for FT shows (LSF code)
What's new / fixed in version 3.1 dev4:
- NEW: FT Flash library element
- NEW: magic corners
- easily create FT elements by dragging the top corner of an existing block (use SHIFT key for alternative action)
- NEW: shortcut "X" to toggle the active color (Gradient and Flash elements only)
- FIX: image library stayed scrolled down on folder change
- FIX: it was not possible to change the duration of elements on B tracks from the keyboard
- FIX: problem with duplication of AB elements
What's new / fixed in version 3.1 dev3:
- NEW: option to import a whole folder with pictures into current Image library (from Media menu)
- NEW: drag & drop a folder -> opens it as a current image library
- NEW: separate open, import, save project paths
- NEW: better app logging
- FIX: improved compatibility with non-ASCII characters in the file names and paths
- FIX: on MAC OS tracks were disappearing when hitting the top of the track list
- FIX: on MAC OS it was not possible to scroll the timeline
- FIX: unification of open dialogs on MAC OS
- FIX: music waveform was not showing after loading the music second time
- FIX: start the app with a correct display size for small screens
- FIX: redraw checkboxes on value change
- FIX: prevent rewriting the music path in temp file on project opening
What's new / fixed in version 3.1 dev2:
- NEW: unified text font for both Mac and Win
- NEW: recently used color history for FT blocks (next to the color picker)
- NEW: keyboard shortcut list (press F1 key to show)
- NEW: more precise inner calculations of parameters
- NEW: status of the application is now stored (tracks collapsed/expanded, library window, type of visualisation, ...)
- NEW: last used paths for common file/folder actions are now stored (Project, Image Library, Music)
- NEW: possibility to drag & drop project/image/music files into LtComposer
- NEW: all selected tracks can be exported as *.LSF files at once (file name is taken from the track name)
- FIX: blank space between images could cause timing error when exported to Visual Poi
- FIX: time cursor couldn't be placed over very small elements
- FIX: snapping was not working correctly for some combinations of elements and markers
- FIX: when opening music, other file types than MP3 and WAV could be selected and crashed the app
What's new/fixed in version 3.0 final:
- NEW: multi-track editor with custom track names
- NEW: track markers (shortcut "M")
- NEW: FT programing with *.LSF export
- NEW: solid and gradient FT block
- NEW: colorpicker for FT
- NEW: AB track support (with convert to AB and split commands)
- NEW: new precise music waveform
- NEW: advanced multi-visualizer with multiple modes of view
- NEW: realtime preview of tracks
- NEW: scale values now support 0.1-100
- NEW: editable number of repeats
- NEW: new standard of project files *.ltp (includes all media, can be opened with ZIP archiver)
- NEW: import of LtComposer 2.0 projects (*.vpp files) supported
- NEW: remembers last used image library
- NEW: redesigned upload dialog
- NEW: useful shortcuts for power users
- NEW: executable is portable
- NEW: fast & light (low processor demands)
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