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
Sound & Effects and Mixer adapt to panel size - knobs and strips shrink to fit a short panel and grow to fill a tall one
Beat Grid scrolls instead of squashing pad rows when the panel is short
Muted tracks are greyed out - this also applies to tracks silenced by another track's solo
MIDI riffs and chords start on their first note - empty lead-in bars are removed when added
MIDI loops come out at clean lengths of 1, 2, 4 or 8 bars
MIDI riffs dropped on an instrument track leave out their drum part instead of playing drum hits as wrong notes
The session carries on when the host leaves - another player takes over
Leaving asks Save & leave, Leave without saving or Stay
Joining a session saves your own song to your projects first
Live sessions use less CPU - the song is only checked for changes after an edit, not 5 times a second
Store listing now shows Studio Box as 1-4 player co-op
Tour and walkthrough cards sit right next to the feature they explain, with an arrow pointing at it
The mouse wheel over a knob scrolls the panel unless you rest on the knob first
Tracks added during a session no longer disappear
Joining a session no longer mixes your old tracks into the host's song
A sound you play across the keys is now sent to friends in a session and included in share files
Browser no longer overlaps its own icons when the editor panel is made tall
Long sound names no longer run into the length or BPM label in the browser
Mixer track names showed as "..." - they now display properly
Status bar velocity now matches the velocity box
Fixed a crash (IndexOutOfRangeException) in the delay effect
A missing sound file no longer floods the console with hundreds of warnings; the preview stops right away instead
Developer console commands no longer work in the published game, so other players can't rename your tracks or change your tempo
Fixed a leftover UI reference after leaving play mode
Removed an unused duplicate scene (mp.scene)
MIDI keyboards can't connect directly - s&box has no MIDI device support, so controller mode needs a key-mapper app (e.g. MidiKey2Key)
Controller mode plays every note at the on-screen velocity, and the controller's knobs and joystick don't do anything
MIDI import has only been tested with simple test files - files exported from other programs may split their parts differently
Join only lists sessions hosted by your Steam friends
Live sessions have only been tested on one PC so far, not between two players on different machines
Your saved kits and instruments stay on your PC - friends hear them in a session, but they aren't added to their own My Kits or My Instruments.