NEW TUTORIAL & TALKBOX LOOPBACK

big update just dropped!!!! two big things and a lot of small fixes and updates:

new tutorial

all players will now encounter a tutorial when you open the updated demo build. shouldn’t take longer than a few minutes to finish. this will evolve over time, so give it a spin and share your thoughts in discord or steam discussions.

talkbox loopback

talkbox can now sample other makers or the full song. toggle on the “Loopback” switch on talkbox sound page, and you can then cycle through your options. consider turning off autotune for best results. or don’t that’s the beauty of free will.

as always please wishlist SONGBOY if you haven’t already. every single one helps! we hope you’ve been enjoying the demo so far <3

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full patch notes:

music and audio

• major new talkbox resampling / loopback feature — you can now sample individual makers from talkbox

• new sample instruments for keeb and boom

• more breaker and tap assets for trap and banger styles

• sounds reorganized into new standardized categories across all makers

• new default sound categories created and sorted across makers

• menu sound added with variation pass

controls and input

• improved keyboard and mouse support for the entire game

• new input icons for keyboard input info ui

visuals and graphics

• entirely new piano roll system built in shader looks way cooler and runs smooth on steam deck

• new top bar phrase progress indicator with light gray and scene color tint

• new chord text animations using 2d sdf fonts for glows and a wavey animation that bounces and flashes on tempo

• saved songs now display their art in the ui rotating like a cd on hover

• environment selection ui redone at larger scale with arrows and gradients

• new 3d fractal level with normals and maths plus smoother and symmetrical tunnel variants

• shadows turned back on for medium and steam deck quality settings

• quality tiers updated — performance and mac get no shadows medium and steam deck get shadows high and epic get lumen gi and shadows

• top menu ui textures updated with smoother pixels and alphas all made power of two

• higher resolution top bar ui elements

• new materials on the radio model refined for realism and elegance using substance painter textures

• new shader on the radio face to get rid of the flat orange area

• kaleidoscope level lighting restored

• fixed kaleidoscope level going pitch black on mac

• fixed missing piano roll reroll animation on mac

• vertical list no longer pokes out of the frame

radio

• new radio UI

• radio level model getting full retopo uvs bakes and final materials

• radio notification animation fixed

• new disk instance added with downloaded art tool data

• fixed radio loop sync bug where just play the loop playback queued at a timeline reset played at the wrong time

• radio menus pre-load for better experience

art tool

• erase all now removes all stickers too with full undo support

• brush preview better aligned with the painting area

• 4 new sticker pages — songspace retroquest emojimode and thicknessstickers

• new widget media player with bink codec supports transparent video play pause seek and multiple blending options

• main menu logo animation

• wishlist video animations added

tutorial and learn

• brand new tutorial system

performance and technical

• fixed a crash from rapidly switching songs

• fixed a crash from copy and paste

• fixed a crash some songs had on quartz clock reset

• fixed maker character eyes disappearing near the edge of the screen

• achievement system added under the hood ui to come

• experimental discord integration that posts to discord when a