April 10, 2026 - 3.0.8 Update
- Fixed: Inconsistencies with MIDI color values in the MIDI panel.
- Fixed: Issues with 14-bit MIDI.
- Fixed: 30% improvement in animation rendering performance.
- Fixed: Some widgets from older templates were not rendering correctly.
- Fixed: Issues with inverted icons.
- Fixed: Inconsistencies with rotated items.
April 4, 2026 - 3.0.7 Update
- Fixed: Page buttons failing beyond page selection.
- Fixed: Icon buttons not rendering properly, especially when importing older templates.
- Fixed: Global transparency value saved incorrectly.
April 2, 2026 - 3.0.6 Update
- Fixed: Emulator won’t remember the screen it was last used on.
- Fixed: Garbage folders created by v3.0.5 are now cleaned automatically, and the bug has been fixed.
April 1, 2026 - 3.0.5 Update
Improvements
- Performance: Depending on the system configuration, Emulator increases rendering performance by 5% to 25%. Systems with decent graphics cards can reach the upper end of that range (25%).
- Fixed: MIDI panel does not show proper MIDI properties.
March 31, 2026 - 3.0.4 Update
- Fixed: Encoder styles, now persist when saving and reopening templates.
- Fixed: Slider CrossF mode now persists when saving and reopening templates.
- Fixed: HybridVuMeter settings (NeedleCount, DualVuMeter, PeakHold, HideNeedle, etc.) now persist correctly.
- Fixed: ToggleButton hotkey settings (HotkeyEnabled, MidiMode) now persist correctly.
- Fixed: Video widget settings (AutoConnect, ShowInfoOverlay, Quality) now persist correctly for NDI, Spout and OMT widgets
- Fixed: VirtualKeyboard now sends keystrokes to the target application (via page handle).
- Fixed: "Adv. UI/Pages" panel now hides when clicking "Save As" or "Load & Reset"
- Fixed MIDI properties not updating in the Events panel when switching between widgets.
- Fixed Encoder section (Mode, Sensitivity, Touch Signaling) showing for all widget types instead of only encoders.
- Fixed "MIDI On" checkbox appearing enabled on old templates when MIDI was actually not working.
- Fixed "Hotkeys On" checkbox appearing enabled on old templates when hotkeys were not configured.
Improvements
Windows Overlay Protection: New section in Config with 4 independent controls to prevent Windows UI from overlapping your performance surface:
- Disable Taskbar
- Disable Start Menu
- Disable Quick Settings (Windows 11)
- Disable Notifications
Per-template animations: Load Animation type and duration are now saved with each template instead of being a global setting. Old templates default to no animation.
Reorganized Config panel: Sections are now ordered more logically.
Removed duplicate Fill checkbox from MIDI panel (already available in Properties).
March 23, 2026 - Emulator 3.0.3 Update (version 3.0.2 is an internal update never released)
- Fetaure: fFeature: Full skinning functionality is now available.
- Improvement: Emulator will not require elevated permissions to run. Elevation is only needed once to set up the touch preferences from the configuration panel.
- Fixed: Editor interaction state not properly restored. Added safety checks to ensure the canvas always accepts input when switching between edit and performance modes, preventing widgets from getting permanently stuck in an unresponsive state.
- Fixed: Animations could block all input if interrupted, If an animation was interrupted or failed mid-playback, it could leave the canvas in a state where no widgets.
- Fixed: Stale editor behavior persisting after closing editor. Cleared internal editing state when entering performance mode to prevent leftover editor behavior from interfering with widget interaction.
- Fixed: Loading some templates from the editor caused a permanent black screen with "please wait..." that froze the interface.
- Fixed: After this error, closing and reopening the editor left the entire UI unresponsive, no touch, editing, or widget creation worked.
- Fixed: The file that remembers the last loaded template was moved to a location accessible without administrator privileges.
- Fixed: Template loading no longer fails if saving that preference is unsuccessful.
March 11, 2026 - Emulator 3.0.1 Update
- Improvement: Added visible shortcut list.
- Fixed: Hurricane animation not preserving widget rotation after completion.
- Fixed: Hurricane animation destroying rotation of all widgets when interrupted.
- Fixed: Hurricane animation rotation values losing precision over long durations.
- Fixed: UI freeze at the end of Hurricane animation.
- Fixed: rare crash when animation completes while editor is closed.
- Fixed: all animations permanently stopping if an error occurred during startup.
- Fixed: Hurricane animation center point being inconsistent between runs.
- Fixed: "Adv. UI/Pages" panel staying visible when clicking Load, Save, or Save As.
- Fixed: "Auto Rst" checkbox incorrectly showing for Toggle Buttons (only applies to Dials).
- Fixed: Removed info overlay label from External UI widget.
- Fixed: Templates now scale correctly to any screen resolution.
- Fixed: Clicking a .emu or .chameleon file in the Load & Reset panel no longer causes the file list to disappear. Load buttons now appear correctly after selecting a template.
-Fixed: The editor no longer stays on screen blocking the view while a template is loading. It now hides during load and reappears only when needed (Load & Edit) or stays hidden (Load & Touch).
-Fixed: The update notification system now correctly compares version numbers, preventing missed update alerts.
-Deleting selected objects in the editor page is not possible, as the selected object(s) lose focus when pressing Delete.
February 6 - 2026
- Emulator 3.0 public release.
