Alpha 5

Prob very slight performance upgrade. But mostly quality of life updates. We now have playback controls like pausing and skipping, as well as the ability to change the playback speed because why not.

• Playback controls
• Better Keyboard and Note design
• Improved status ui to have proper scaling with the note count
• The ability to change the size of the note buffer
• Some other changes I forgot at this point

Alpha 4

Not much has really been added in this release, but the performance improvements are enough for one

• Replaced instance rendering notes with a geometry shader
• Added a open file dialog when double clicking on the exe
• Made MIDI loading more robust

Alpha 3

• Time
• NPS counter
• Note Counter
• Cleans up the formatting of the stats
• Note speed is now saved
• Note colors are darkened a bit to add contrast
• Bar Color now fixed, no longer does it bug out when setting r,g or b to max value
• Bar now darker on bottom to give contrast
• Removes limit on how many notes can be rendered, enjoy killing your pc more
• Increased performance
• Added Discord Rich Presence support

Alpha 2

• Fix vsync, for some reason it didn't enable
• Note allocation: better handling of crashes, at the cost of more ram usage
• Note Overlap Hiding: Has some performance benefits but may have issues, is able to be toggled
• Better note style
• Darker spacers for the keys on the keyboard, looks better
  And some other performance tweaks

Alpha 1

This is the first public alpha build of Chikara. Expect many changes from this point forward