Hey yall!

The Discord provided some great suggestions, so I got to work. Don't forget to join by pressing the (Join Discord) button in game if you wanna share your requests for the game.

Added

- 17 new electronic drum kits - 8-Bit NES, 8-Bit Game Boy, 8-Bit Arcade, 808 Classic, 909 House, Trap, Lo-Fi Hip Hop, Techno, Synthwave 80s, Boom Bap, Electro, EDM Festival, Drum & Bass, Phonk, UK Garage, Industrial and Disco Funk

- 3 new acoustic kits - Swirly Brush Kit, Unruly Drums and Body Percussion

- 17 Chiptune instruments - pulse waves, triangle bass and lead, Game Boy wave bass, major/minor/octave arpeggios, echo lead, bell, pluck, brass and organ

- 9 new sampled instruments - Erhu, Solo Cello, Double Bass (Arco), Medieval Lyre, Banjo, Hungarian Zither, Tagelharpa Pluck, Growlybass and Squidpipes

- Plugin Builder - build your own effect from up to 10 of 20 blocks (filter, drive, phaser, reverb, stutter, tape wobble and more), with an LFO, up to 8 macro knobs, and your own name, colour and icon

- My Plugins - save custom plugins and add them from Add plugin; they travel with projects, co-op sessions and shared songs

- Visual EQ - drag points on a live frequency graph with a spectrum behind it, scroll for width, double-click to reset; inline or in a big window

- EQ points - double-click to add a band, right-click to remove one

- EQ bands - low cut, low shelf, two mids, high shelf and high cut

- EQ presets - 10 built-in presets, plus save and delete your own

- Per-pad EQ - EQ a single drum pad, such as the kick, without touching the rest of the kit

- Master EQ - visual EQ on the master in the Mixer

- Master plugins - add built-in and custom plugins to the master bus

- Auto Create Beat - writes a full drum part that fits your tempo, bass line and kit, with phrases and fills; Try again rolls a new one

- Row dice - reroll a single sound on the beat grid

- Pick sounds for Auto Create - Ctrl+click sound names to build a beat from only those sounds

- Beat grid row mute and clear buttons

- Auto Create parts - the piano roll writes chords, bass, lead or arp parts in key and on grid; Add part makes a new track with a fitting sound

- New section - adds a clip after the current one, fills it with Auto Create and loops it

- Key button - write a section in a related key (relative, 4th/5th, modes)

- Drop onto existing tracks - drop a kit, instrument, MIDI file or sound on a track's lane or header to use it there, keeping your notes and beats

- Arrangement scrollbar - draggable horizontal scrollbar under the tracks

- MIDI right-click menu - Preview on / Add to the selected track

Shout out to everyone who submitted suggestions for the app! (S&Box Reddit and S&Box Reviews)

Please remember when reviewing the app that the "Shows Promise" button counts negatively and hinders discoverability.

If you feel bad about the game please tell me why so we can change it, but it seems like many people genuinely love what I've made and click that damn button without knowing it hurts.

Distortion types - Choose Warm, Hard, Fuzz or Fold, with new Tone and Mix knobs

Track echo - Every track has its own echo with Echo amount, tempo-synced Time (1/32 to 1/2, dotted and triplet), Repeats and Ping-Pong

Automation tab - Make volume, pan, filters, EQ, drive, crush, chorus, echo and reverb/delay sends change over the song

Draw automation - Click to add points, drag to move them, right-click to delete, Clear to start over

Write mode - Turn on Write and move a knob while the song plays to record it

Credits - Every song and every sound you make now records who made it and when, taken from your Steam account

Co-creators - Anyone who edits a song, on their own or in a live session, is added as a co-creator next to the original creator

Friend-only sharing - Share files and codes open only for the friends you pick

Share permissions - Choose Listen only or Can edit for each share

Credits in exports - WAV, MP3, FLAC and MIDI exports include the song title, everyone credited and the date

Resizable editor panel - drag the top edge of the bottom panel up or down; double-click resets it

Resizable piano keyboard - drag the keyboard's top edge to make the keys bigger or smaller; double-click resets it

Type exact values - click the number under any knob, or the BPM, octave or velocity, to type a value (Enter applies, Esc cancels)

Trim silence at start - right-click option that cuts the empty space before a clip's first note or sound

Drop sounds on any editor - the keyboard, piano roll, beat grid, drum pads, audio waveform and Sound & Effects all accept sounds, instruments, kits and riffs

Preview buttons - Hear a note, Hear pad and Hear clip play the sound through the track's effects, in Sound & Effects and the Audio Clip tab

Hear tweaks - replays the sound automatically each time you turn a knob, so you hear every change

Effect Looks - one-click starting points for a track's effects: Clean, Warm, Bright, Punchy, Dark, Lo-fi, Radio, Dreamy, Big room, Pumping

Save button on the keyboard strip and beat grid - keep the kit or instrument you're playing as your own

Right-click the empty space below the tracks to add a track

Import your own sounds - drop WAV, MP3 or OGG files in the import folder and press Import; they're volume-matched and appear in the My Sounds tab

My Sounds tab - recordings, imported sounds, sounds you made and sounds received from friends in one place

New CC0 sounds - percussion, snares, toms, cymbals and FX

17 drum & percussion loops - rock, funk, boom bap, trap, house, breakbeat, Latin, cajon, cinematic and more, all tempo-synced

17 new instruments - Osiris Grand Piano, Scary Piano, Vibraphone, Xylophone, Tubular Bells, Balafon, 4 basses, 4 guitars, Alto Sax, Bone Flute

Virtuosity Studio Kit - a new 16-pad acoustic drum kit

14 snare drums and bone-flute percussion from Karoryfer

Make your own kits - Save kit keeps all 16 pads with their volume, pitch, pan, decay, choke and reverse, plus the track's effects; find them under Drum kits > My Kits

Make your own instruments - Save instrument keeps a synth or sampled instrument together with its effects, listed under Instruments > My Instruments

Make your own sounds - Save as new sound renders a clip, drum pad or instrument note exactly as you hear it, effects included, into My Sounds

Rename or delete your own items - right-click anything you made or imported in the browser

Import your own MIDI files - put .mid files in the import folder or use the new Import MIDI button; they appear under MIDI > My MIDI

Build a song from a MIDI file - double-click a multi-part file to get one track per part, lined up at the file's tempo, with the closest instrument for each part

Drum patterns from MIDI - drop a MIDI drum part on a drum track and its kick, snare, hats, toms and cymbals land on the right pads

Controller mode - a toggle on the keyboard strip for MIDI keyboards like the Akai MPK Mini via a key-mapper app: Z..I play two octaves, 1 4 8 9 0 A F K play the drum pads, arrow keys change octave and velocity

Click to audition - instruments play a note, kits play through their pads, riffs play with your selected track's sound; previews stop when you move away or click something else

Drag feedback - while dragging, the target lights up green when it fits or red with the reason, and a hint next to the cursor says what will happen

Replace prompt - dropping an instrument or kit on an existing track asks before replacing its sound

Share files - save a song plus every custom sound it uses into one .sbshare file to send to friends

Share codes - copy a song as a text code a friend can paste in to open it

Custom sounds in live sessions - your recordings, imported sounds and sounds you made are sent to friends automatically

Host and Join buttons - play with Steam friends without making a party first

Session chat - see-through chat window with an unread badge, toggled from the top bar

Emotes - pick an emoji from any right-click menu and it floats up on everyone's screen

Shared playback - play, stop and seek happen for everyone in the session

See each other's mouse - other players' pointers show faintly with their picture and fade when still; toggle next to the player pictures

Steam avatars for everyone in the session, plus join, leave and new-host messages

Co-op walkthrough - first-time guide where every player clicks Next together, ending with "I'm Ready To Rock!"

Single-player tour - 13-step guide to everything on screen that opens on launch until you tick "Don't show this again"; replay it from Help > Take the tour

Help screen lists all the new controls