Psycle gets a new file format with this update. It is a modular riff-based format, with individual chunk versioning, etc. It is now easy for us to seamlessly update the file format in the future and maintain backwards compatibility. It does not save unused data, and uses an optimized lz-77 based compressor for pattern data and a fast lossless bitpacking method for compressing waveform data. This file format is also better designed for stability, missing machines will not crash psycle, and newer versioned or unknown chunks are skipped on load. Files with chunks in almost any order can be read problem free. What you get is a smaller, more efficient and stable file.
We have also removed all of the internal machines (except the sampler and the dummy) and replaced them with bohan's equivalent external machines. This solves several issues (automation especially), and bohan has also made improvements to many of the machines.
We've also increased the maximum number of tracks to 64.
We have been extremely careful in making sure that your old songs will still load. Psycle is able to load any song that could be loaded in 1.72. Internal machines are automatically remapped to bohan's new external machine equivalent and their values scaled accordingly. Pattern data is also parsed and updated automatically.
Psycle also gets a new cache.map format with this update. You may need to delete your older cache.map file. The new format tracks files that are not plugins and also allows you to select plugins (in the new machine dialog) that you would like to be notified when they are being created. Mostly it lets psycle start up much quicker, and makes it harder for vsts to take out psycle if they crash while being detected.
Psycle also gets many other new fixes, features and optimizations this update, for more info have a look at whatsnew.txt.
