Tribe XR | DJ Academy News

0.09.6 Release Notes:

* Added album art import on track load (shows in browser and on CDJ3000 jog wheels)
* Added OpenKey format and wheel, toggleable in the track browser
* Added secondary sort box (pops up after selecting primary sort category)

* Changed Vive "reset control" input from down pad on both controllers to left pad on the left controller and right pad on the right. This fixes an input conflict that could make scrolling through the track list reset a control grabbed by the other hand.
* Added Hand Offset toggle in Settings > Equipment to optionally use previous hand position (tracked from the controller root instead of matching your real hand). Useful for Vive users who find the controllers frequently clash when trying to use both hands in close proximity.

* Fixed Beatport track downloads occasionally failing on first load
* Fixed Beatport playlists only showing first 100 tracks (now supports any size)
* Increased brightness and blink speed of DJM-900NXS2 button lights for better visibility
* Fixed popping audio when scratching with master tempo enabled

0.09.5 Release Notes:

New Features:
* In partnership with Pioneer DJ we've created official VR replicas of the latest industry standard equipment: the CDJ 3000 and DJM-900NXS2.
The Tribe classic equipment remains the default but you can unlock the new Pioneer gear for free in the Content menu.
- See notes from at the bottom for a full list of new features available on the Pioneer equipment.

* The following have also added to the Tribe classic equipment

Tribe CDJ:
- Tempo Range (+- 6/10/16/WIDE)
- Top/Side jog wheel interaction for scratching/jogging respectively while in vinyl mode. Decks also now default to vinyl mode.
- Time Mode button for toggling between time remaining/time played (button is left of the screen above the quantize button)
- New Sync/Master behavior: If two tracks are tempo-synced, but the beats are misaligned, the sync button will start flashing, indicating the tracks are BPM synced but not beat synced. To realign the beats of the track, turn sync off and then back on again. If you pause or set the position of the master player via search, needle search, or jogwheel, then it will lose it’s Master status, and it will be automatically switched to another playing beat synced deck if there is one.

Tribe Mixer:
- Color and Beat FX are now applied post-fader, meaning sustaining effects such as Echo, Ping Pong, and Reverb will ring out after lowering the volume fader
Sustaining Beat FX will decay naturally rather than immediately when toggling Beat FX off.
- Level knob now balances the mix between the dry and the FX signals, rather than adding the FX signal to the dry signal. Leads to more consistent volume for Effects like Echo and Reverb.
- At the leftmost position, the signal is 100% dry
- At the rightmost position, the signal is 100% FX and 0% dry
- Crush and Dub Echo Color FX are updated and improved

* Added Auto Grab mode (off by default, enable in Settings > Equipment)
When auto grab is enabled you no longer have to be hovering a control the moment you press the trigger.
Instead the first control you overlap while holding trigger will be grabbed, making it much harder to "miss" an interaction.
Also makes it easy to nudge controls slightly with low sensitivity mode on


Fixes/Changes:

* Reduced interaction sphere size by 20% for more precision
* Increased knobs max turn amount slightly to better match texture
* Double clicking the session timer in the menu bar now resets it to 0
* Control labels pop up and disappear twice as fast
* Memory cues are now imported from Rekordbox collection xmls
* Added SoundCloud Liked Tracks and Liked Playlists alongside your personal playlists (requires SoundCloud Go+)
* Fixed SoundCloud to show up to 200 playlists (previously only showed the latest 10)
* Fixed SoundCloud/Beatport cached search result folders appearing alongside playlists instead of inside "Search Results" folder
* Fixed issue where pressing play while a streaming track was downloading from SoundCloud/Beatport would make it fail to open when the download finished
* Fixed issue where failing to load a track file at any point would cause Tribe process to remain idle on shutdown

* Fixed crash on start intermittently experienced by some users
* Fixed hand positions to more accurately match your real hands
* Fixed LIV not updating chroma key settings until restart


Pioneer CDJ-3000
New Features
* Key Sync
- Adjusts the key of the sync track to a compatible key of the Master track.
- The screen now also shows the current key of the track
* Auto Loop Buttons
- Dedicated 4 beat and 8 beat loop buttons.
* Beat Jump
- Jump around track forwards or backwards, by the specified number of beats
- Can be set to ½, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64 beats by touching the screen display
* Tempo Range Adjust
- Can be set to ±6, ±10, ±16, and WIDE.
* Tempo Reset
- When activated, resets tempo to original tempo and locks tempo changes
* Jogwheel
- There are now 2 grab points on the jog wheel, top and side.
- Grabbing the side always operates the jog wheel in jog mode, whether the jog mode is set to Vinyl or CDJ mode.
- Grabbing the top operates the jog wheel in vinyl mode if the deck mode is set to vinyl
* Jogwheel Display
- Now shows information about the Deck Sync State, Slip Mode, and Jog Mode
* Memory Cues
- Can now set up to 8 memory cues, which function as static markers in a track
- Can set a memory cue with the memory button, delete with the delete button, and cycle through them with the cue/loop call buttons
* Time mode button
- Switch between current time and time remaining on the display by pressing the time mode button
* New Sync/Master behavior
- If two tracks are tempo-synced, but the beats are misaligned, the sync button will start flashing, indicating the tracks are BPM synced but not beat synced.
- To realign the beats of the track, turn sync off and then back on again.
* Slip Reverse
- Can now activate slip reverse with the direction slider, which activates slip and then reverse the track


Pioneer DJM-900NXS2
New Features
* Beat FX:
- New Delay, Ping Pong, Reverb, Filter, Phaser, Pitch and Slip Roll Beat Effects
- New FX Frequency buttons allow you to apply effects individually to low, mid and high frequency bands
- New FX Crossfader channels allow you to apply FX to all channels routed through crossfaders A or B
* New Beat FX Display and XPad
- Xpad allows you to quickly change the beat interval effects. You can also enable effects directly using the Xpad without pressing the toggle button
* New Beat FX Tap button allows you to manually set the tempo for the Beat FX
- Can switch between auto mode and tap mode with the auto/tap button
* New Beat FX release behavior.
- Beat FX are now applied post-fader, meaning sustaining effects such as Echo, Ping Pong, and Reverb will ring out after lowering the volume fader
- Sustaining Beat FX will decay naturally rather than immediately when toggling Beat FX off.

* Color FX
* New Space and Sweep color effects
- Space applies a reverberation effect and Sweep applies a gate and bandpass filter effect.
* New Color FX Parameter lets you control an additional parameter for each color FX
- Space: Controls the size/intensity of the reverb
- Dub Echo: Controls the feedback of the echo
- Sweep: Controls the center frequency of the bandpass filter
- Noise: Controls the volume of the noise
- Crush: Controls the intensity of the crush effect
- Filter: Controls the resonance of the filter

Version 0.09.4 Release Notes:

* Added SoundCloud integration. Requires a SoundCloud Go+ subscription for full access, but allows limited free access to 4 playlists with a rotating selection of tracks.
* Added track sorting by title, artist, bpm, and key
* Added Visuals menu that lets you load local gifs/videos or NDI to the backwall and and provides centralized camera controls. Drop gif/mp4 files in Documents/TribeXR/Media/ to see them in the list. (Removed camera/chroma tabs from Twitch window)
* Added "Save Gifs" setting to Twitch that loads you save chat gifs for later reuse (in the Gifs/Downloads/ folder in the Visuals menu)
* Added Discord presence
* Added importing of Beatport tracks from Rekordbox collection xmls
* Increased VJ Controller base size for easier interaction

Fixes:
* Switch from pad scrolling to thumbstick scrolling on Index/WMR Controllers
* Fixed thumbstick list scrolling on Oculus Touch controllers using SteamVR
* Fixed some VJ Controller states that weren't initializing to match Resolume properly
* Fixed Deck Breakdown info icons not being properly placed for scaled decks
* Fixed track sync loading bar not appearing for client tracks after first sync.
* Fixed backdrop always appearing as a green screen in LIV

Version 0.09.3 Change Notes:

* Added new interactive intro lessons with DJ Hapa (more advanced lessons to come!)
* Added Resolume VJ Controller DLC (available for purchase soon). This controller integrates with Resolume for pro level control over your visuals in Tribe. Click here for more info.
* Lighting improvements
* Fixed Index controller grip input handling
* FIxed LIV support


Notes for previous releases:

Version 0.09.2 Change Notes:

* Added switchable environments, a free empty environment ("The Void"), and a new Desert environment DLC by Thomas Mouraille.
* Added 3 free community skins from Miss Sandvich and BadDawGe.
* Updated our audio backend with improvements and a fix to the master tempo crash.
* Added new content library UI to make it simple to access your skins and environments and other future content all in one place.
* Lighting updates to properly support new desert environments, also affects the original lounge environment. Should be better lighting and reflections. Still Some tweaking to be done to get it balanced but should be a big Improvement.
* Performance improvements

* Chroma Key FX: Tribe now has a chroma key feature built into the app. It lets you replace the back wall or the entire environment with a green screen so you can composite your own images or video content.
* Built-in Gif Support: Added built in gif support so FFMPEG is no longer required to play gifs on the backwall. We're pretty sure they pop up faster now too.
* Updates to Beatport SDK: Backend updates to Beatport sdk
* Fixed framerates for high refresh rate devices


Version 0.09.1 Change Notes:

* Added Beatport Link integration. After logging into to Beatport through the music browser you'll automatically see all your Beatport playlists and be able to stream tracks on the decks. You can also search the complete Beatport Link streaming catalog through the search bar, which will display local files alongside Beartport results (with the option to filter out either). Beatport tracks from search results or your Beatport playlists can also be added to your Tribe playlists for quick access later on. Beatport tracks are supported in multiplayer but other players must also be logged in with a Beatport account to hear them. Currently only supported on Windows.
* Fixed track metadata not being added to the search index when using mass analysis (had to scroll to the track in the browser before it would be searchable by title/artist/bpm/etc).
* Fixed analyzed bpm/key not being searchable until restarting Tribe after analysis.
* Always add filenames to search index along with track title. This makes it possible to search tracks whose title has special characters but the filename doesn't (e.g. track title is in Japanese but filename is plain English).
* Misc improvements/fixes to music browser and search user experience.

This update brings the changes from both 0.08.9 and 0.09.0 to Steam.

Version 0.09.0 Change Notes:

* Moved the music browser into the main menu and overhauled menu look and feel.
* Added track search that lets you filter your library by name, bpm, and key (must have been previously analyzed).
* Added a clock and session length timer to the main menu home bar (click to toggle 12/24 hr display).
* Added a help button to the friends list. If you have questions or if you need help, you can click a button and contact us directly. We’ll get you sorted.
* Moved Twitch chat to a persistent sidebar so that you can keep an eye on your stream while you're browsing through your music.
* Added camera controls to streaming menu w/ a camera preview. Also added a preview to the selfie cam.
* Added ability to toggle chat commands off (e.g. to prevent viewers from adding gifs or changing camera angles).
* Added 2 free Dash Radio skins
* Misc fixes and improvements to audio backend

Version 0.08.9 Change Notes:

* Added stacked waveform view for easy manual beat syncing (toggleable in settings menu)
* Made Pitch Fader movement 4x slower in low sensitivity mode for fine tuning tempo
* Fixed jump to cue after jogging from the cue position not always ocurring
* Fixed jog pitch bending not applying after jog wheel is released
* Fixed bug when scratching w/ multiple grabs while paused in jog mode
* Fixed not being able to pause while jogging
* Fixed cue position sometimes not initializing properly
* Fixed rare crashes when using track browser or other menus
* Removed blue amplitude lines froms waveforms due to bad aliasing
* Fixed spectator camera turning off when restarting session
* Performance optimizations

MULTIPLAYER FIXES:

* Made channel cues and virtual headphones local only so you do not hear other players' cueing activity
* Made hot cues only save for future sessions if local player stored them (though all players still have that cue overwritten in the multiplayer session)
* Made all players use their own preferred table height

* Overhauled network playback timing to be reliable and consistent for both players even with master/sync disabled and high latency
* Made network track syncing faster and more efficient
* Fixed cue position and previewing potentially being inconsistent between client and server
* Fixed loops applying inconsistently or being completely broken for clients
* Fixed sliders and knobs jumping around while being moved under poor network conditions
* Fixed controls sometimes getting stuck to client hands after release or emitting long vibrations
* Fixed playback position jumping back and forth while searching as client
* More accurately replicates control interactions from clients to the host
* All players now use the host's beatgrid for consistent beat sync behavior
* Fixed waveforms sometimes displaying the wrong beatgrid
* Fixed reloading the same track resetting playback or cancelling existing track sync
* Fixed avatars not always appearing
* Fixed avatars sometimes exploding under poor network conditions
* Hid other player's avatars when overlapping with your head (unless spectator camera is turn on)
* Fixed skins sometimes not applying on join for clients
* Fixed track browser blocking menu interactions when first joining a room
* Fixed issue where rejoining a room would often hang and timeout
* Misc network efficiency improvements