Version History
The following section lists all additions, changes and fixes of each software version through time.
1.8.8 - 19. November 2023
NEWEST
Additions:
- Display the current value when setting a sequence step.
- Improved slow preset loading in Ableton with VST3 caused by many parameter changes, especially with connected MIDI hardware controllers.
- Adjusted note trigger timing, for loop cases, that resulted in note drop/hang in some DAWs.
- Text Editors in Edit Window wrongly lost their highlight when using mouse clicks.
- Adjusted HiDPI UI scaling for some DAWs.
- Restored compatibility for some Windows 7 SDK versions.
- Changed mouse cursor hide behavior for AU in Logic & GarageBand.
- Avoid crash during activation in ARM64 host caused by message window.
- Updated general compatibility for VST3, DAWs and OSs.
1.8.7 - 23. December 2022
Additions:
- Quick import for oscillator content drag and drop.
- Oscillator source browser now opens the page of the selected content.
- Hold command or control key during quick import to choose multi-sample method.
- Warning message on drag and drop import if no user library exists.
- Initial UI scaling on non auto-scale was doubled in some DAWs.
- Use scaled assets and texture filtering to reduce magnification artifacts if the OS uses additional dpi scaling.
- Edit Preset Info in 1.8.6. was not working correctly in multiple instances.
- Various VST3 compatibility updates.
- More performant voicing display waveform drawing with GPU renderer.
- Redraw functions are now triggered by monitor vblank.
1.8.6 - 20. November 2022
Additions:
- VST3 Support.
- Preset Browser: Right arrow key loads the currently selected preset.
- Routing: Insert/Remove Routing Entries.
- OpenGL Capability Test, to get information about the used graphics driver, in case of problems with GPU Renderer mode.
- Removed framerate options. This is now adaptive.
- Lastly saved or loaded preset locations are now memorized seperately.
- Moved the macro +Route drag icon to the right of the knob to avoid overlap.
- Changed preset information and MIDI import dialogs to internally managed dialogs.
- Preset browser information is only shown when hovering over entries and holding ctrl or command key.
- Tooltips setting was not saved.
- Presets with # character in their name couldn't be marked as favorite.
- Reduced OpenGL surface slowdown in DAWs that couldn't handle multiple open accelerated UI instances at the same time.
- Improved Glitch time jump declick.
- Adjusted sample accuracy of Glitch sequences for high PPQ values.
- Improved smoothing for Multiband Saturator gain modulatiom.
- Routing selection behavior on load, resize and reopen.
- Don't grab keyboard focus on layer button label click.
- Various DAW compatibility additions.
- Dynamic colour tint for editor windows and source browser theme.
- HDR bloom effect added. Normal and Fancy mode.
1.8.5 - 15. December 2020
Additions:
- New effect: Chorus X.
- New effect: Vintagizer.
- New insert: Sample and Hold.
- Preset search: Sort by type, name, bank or date.
- Filter presets by type tags, keywords, bank or author.
- Copy, Paste, Duplicate, Rename and Browse functionality for preset entries in the browser.
- Drag and Drop preset entries to other banks.
- Preset favorites: Can be marked by a star and are now browsable in the favorite view.
- Preset collections: Reference presets in multiple favorite lists.
- Layer Loading: Drag and Drop preset entries onto layer buttons to load the first layer.
- New Options: Set the default output level to 0, -3, -6, -9 or -12 dBFS.
- Compability for MacOS 11 (Big Sur) and Apple Silicon (ARM64) platform.
- Increased bitcrusher fx rate reduction accuracy at high frequencies.
- Currently selected bank and preset row is now restored if the plugin instance is reloaded or duplicated.
- Deleting user library samples will now move the files to the trash bin.
- Removed preset browser "One-Click" loading option. This can be done now by using the middle mouse button, or shift key + left click, or command key + left click.
- Changing the bank/preset sort order will now retain the selected row.
- Hanging note events in some DAWs that unusually triggered on/off when stopping or using a visual keyboard.
- Hanging notes due to small loops in arpeggiator MIDIs that had adjacent notes at the end of the loop.
- Avoid out of bounds index access when resynthesizing samples with very low root note resampling ratios.
- Changed the oscillator source browser colour scheme to a dark theme.
- Added hover states for preset and content lists.
- 54 Chorus X Presets.
- 45 Vintagizer Presets.
- 29 Rapid FX Presets.
- 9 Feature Presets.
1.8.0 - 23. July 2020
Additions:- Granular Synthesis.
- Value indicator in the top information display now shows the value of the lastly changed parameter.
- Dropdown parameters (e.g Filter Type) now support the mouse wheel input to quickly scroll through values.
- Force Loop options is now available when importing singe samples without a loop.
- Massively reduced wavetable load times!!!
- Multi-Sample loading improved. Decoder is now multi-threaded.
- Voicing display waveform sample rate is now synced up to the currently played note.
- Master Compressor now displays the gain reduction curves if active.
- Added Constant and Constant x 0.1 to context menu modulations sources.
- If a sample is shown in the oscillator display, the phase position is now settable by clicking into it.
- Increased maximum number of preset author characters from 16 to 24.
- Phase Bend Mid A table calculation was out of range at 180 degrees.
- Very short duplicated note on/off events within a buffer got stuck at the end of pattern loops.
- Allow internal stereo processing if plugin is inserted on mono channel configurations.
- Show "bypassed" warning instead of license check button.
- Blurry context menu icons are now sharper at scales above 100%.
- Avoid visible waveform glitches in voicing and multi-band display.
- If monophon, legato, always glide off and voice is in release state, don't glide the note pitch.
- The initial aftertouch value of new arpeggiator notes is now correctly redirected from the previous note.
- Free sound package "Granular Elements".
- 155 Multi-Samples.
- 59 Sounds Presets.
1.7.0 - 29. October 2019
Additions:- New oscillator insert effect: Sync Bend A & B.
- New oscillator insert effect: Organic Drift.
- New filter: Lowpass-Pro 12dB and 24dB.
- New filter: Xtreme Lowpass II.
- New insert: Attack Booster.
- New insert: Lowpass Highpass 12dB. Serial & Parallel.
- New Reverb models: Nuclear, Solar, Nova and Space.
- New Talker FX formant modes "Mate", "Babe" and "Daft".
- Modulations targets now show an icon in the top left corner when routed.
- Routing amount is now directly settable from the corresponding target knob.
- Solo layers. Right-click the layer button LED to toggle solo states. Holding Command-key (CTRL) to un-solo all.
- BPM synced rates in modulators and other modules are now routable as target.
- Oscillator context menu now contains a reset function.
- New Option: One-Click loading of sound presets within the preset browser.
- Quickly change dropdown parameters with Command-key (CTRL) plus Left- or Right-click to select the previous or next parameter value.
- Increased modulation value interpolation accuracy.
- Increased sub-buffer midi offset accuracy.
- Smoother UI parameter change interpolation.
- Voice stealing now has an immediate effect on active voices according to the voice limit.
- Improved voice stealing heuristic, so oldest voices are robbed first.
- Arpeggiator timing is now modulatable.
- If a routing entry gets in focus, the position is now always in a visible area.
- Reordered context menu entries in the routing target selection.
- Additional DC Filter on Glitch declick values greater than 50%.
- Increased layer name character maximum to 10.
- Very high MIDI mode arpeggiator loops used an invalid note index.
- MIDI note events are now cleared when switching from a preset with MIDI data to one without.
- MB Saturator. Corrected per band ring modulator phases.
- Moving the sequence loop point now avoids unpredictable jumps.
- When changing BPM synced rates in modulators the index now continues at the correct position.
- Sequences now begin at the start of each step when using a mode with random phase.
- Arpeggiator phase in UI now shows a more precise shuffle timing.
- Arpeggiator MIDI note off events at the end of the sequence, on rare occasions, were not triggered correctly.
- Improved monophonic voice mode. Phases and envelopes now continue smoothly when retriggering a note.
- Improved fade out of robbed voice release state when the voice limit is reached.
- After reloading, Ensemble FX damping was only updated when changing the knob value.
- Time based effect interpolations are now correctly initialized on preset/state change.
- Added new "Modern" theme as default.
- Replaced and unified all fonts.
- Moved master compressor display up and band control knobs down.
- Changed layout of master modifiers.
- Added beat markers to trancegate display.
- Arpeggiator note tooltip shows note key value and velocity percent.
- Increased frame count of knobs and wheels.
- Polaris and Crimson theme don't use pattern backgrounds anymore.
- Replaced "Gold" theme with "Titanium".
- Removed "Paradise" and "Retro" theme.
- Various layout adjustments of knob and label positions.
- Various small pixel enhancement and rounded corners.
- Various color adjustments in different color themes.
- Style Data version changed to 1.7.
- 93 Rapid FX Presets.
- 18 Rapid FX Templates.
- 24 Feature Presets.
- 14 Sound Presets.
- 75 Sequences.
- 38 Reverb Presets.
- 17 Dual Delay Presets.
- 17 Saturator Presets.
- 13 Delay Presets.
- 7 Trancegate Presets.
1.6.1 - 7. December 2018
Fixes:- The UI is now correctly scaled when using the OpenGL Renderer on High DPI displays on certain Mac versions.
1.6.0 - 6. December 2018
Additions:- New oscillator insert effect: Phase Modulation from Oscillator.
- New oscillator insert effect: Ring Modulation from Oscillator.
- New oscillator insert effect: Phase Modulation Feedback.
- New effect: Multiband Saturator.
- New effect: Glitch.
- New effect: Tonal Delay.
- New effect: Tapestop.
- Reverb size mode: "Pipe". Even shorter than "Room".
- Changed the 1/12 & 1/16 sequencer grid to variable steps.
- The label text of FX-AMOUNT & FX-FACTOR is now dependent on the selected insert effect.
- Modulator & effect presets starting with the same word are now grouped into a sub menu.
- Previous and next browsing for sound presets now jumps relative to the lastly selected preset.
- Style Data version changed to 1.6.
- Disable non-valid insert effect knobs when switching to multi-sample sources.
- Aftertouch on LFO/Sequence speed was ignored for global voices. Thanks G.P. !
- Preset type string "Solo" was not displayed after clicking apply.
- Modulation preview of oscillator fx-factor was sometimes hidden.
- Selected presets now stay highlighted when plugin UI is reopened or resized.
- Send FX Volume Slider was sometimes dependent on the previous channel value.
- 134 Arpeggiator patterns.
- 86 Sequences.
- 76 Saturator presets.
- 11 Tapestop presets.
- 21 Tonal Delay presets.
1.5.1 - 25. September 2018
Additions:- Copy & Paste filter settings.
- Copy & Paste for effect slots.
- Allow GUI resize down to 50%.
- Oscillator insert effect amount now uses an uni- bipolar knob, depending on the selected type.
- Copy & Paste of modulator/effect presets now resets parameters not contained to their default value.
- Removed clicks in Random Glide LFO on active Mono|Arp when switching a random values.
- Module slots in the effects can be set be to empty again.
- At 210% and above, the pre-rendered display images are now correctly resampled.
- GUI size is now correctly restored some hosts (e.g. Apple Logic).
- Added missing tooltips for insert effect Mirror A, B, C.
- Corrected various tooltips.
1.5.0 - 20. September 2018
Additions:- Resizeable GUI.
- GUI 'Themes' are now switchable via options menu.
- Draggable GUI resizer in the bottom right corner.
- Graphics rendering via OpenGL (CPU is still available via options).
- Pitch and modulation wheels on master page.
- Stereo balance for mixer and send channels.
- Individual oscillators can now enable skip of filter and insert.
- Key ranges are now move- and resizeable via mouse wheel.
- Quick Modifier for Pitch, Mix-Voice, Mix-Delay and Mix-Reverb on master page.
- Sidechain position marker and preview.
- Holding shift when setting sequence steps now locks the selected shape.
- New types Formant A & B for filter module.
- New oscillator insert effects : Asymmetric Clip.
- New oscillator insert effects : Sync Add & Formant Shift.
- New oscillator insert effects : Bend Side/Mid/Double/Mirror.
- New oscillator insert effects : Overlap 2x/3x.
- Layer context menu can now reset all macros.
- Modulator context menu now contains a reset function.
- Oscillator display now previews wavetable insert effects in realtime.
- Oscillator display now shows random range, position, phase and loop marker.
- LFO and Sequences can now use retrigger modes 'First Note' and 'First Input'.
- Velocity meter plus note value in headline.
- Previous and next buttons for modulator and effect presets.
- Added various copy & paste context menus for textfields.
- Application options menu is now available by clicking the RAPID logo.
- Mix modules uses gain parameter from insert plus balance per voice.
- Mix module can reorder the processing of filter and insert.
- Reduced key range minimum to one. Double click to reset to a default range.
- Adding a modulation via drag and drop now uses a default routing amount greater than zero.
- When loading another preset the current layer now stays selected.
- If the voicing count is set to 1, mono legato now uses a monophonic mode and retriggers envelopes.
- Voicing wavescope is turned off if scale is set to zero.
- Popup Menu for BPM Sync times (normal, triplet, dotted ) now uses three columns.
- Envelope position marker now also previews delay time phase.
- LFO waveform now displays the actual output value as marker with circle head.
- LFO waveform now uses a different fill method when in bipolar mode.
- LFO waveform now displays the actual random values for hold and glide mode.
- Sequences now display a time phase marker at rates below 8Hz.
- Preset browser now shows ellipses if the text is too long to display.
- Increased arpeggiator octaves control mouse drag sensibility.
- Reduced phase artifacts in oscillator insert under certain conditions.
- Sample playback preview is now displayed relative to pitch.
- Invalid or zero loop ranges now correctly play oneshots instead of silent loops.
- Increased comb filter accuracy at high frequencies.
- Copy & Paste in context menu for most parameters.
- Midi Learn is now available for almost all external parameters.
- Multi-Sample preview is only rendered when displayed, decreasing preset loading times.
- Pre-Render of multi-sample previews is now multi-threaded.
- Reduced unnecessary re-draws of running arpeggiator patterns.
- Reduced re-draw performance of wavescope buffers.
- Removed modulator preview value runtime alloctations.
- Removed legato voice nodes runtime allocations.
- Speedup voice buffer mixing process.
1.1.0 - 26. August 2017
Additions:- New source browser design.
- Support for user content libraries.
- Wavetable import (incl. resampling to table root frequency).
- Sample import (incl. loop points, at any input samplerate).
- Sample Resynthesis. Converts the spectral content of an input sample into a multi-sample.
- Drag & Drop sound files onto oscillator displays to quickly import new content.
- Auto map multiple input samples to the whole keyboard range.
- Import formats (RIFF WAV, AIFF).
- Sortable and renamable source browser categories and entries.
- Separate Wavetable & Multi-Sample tabs.
- Remove modulation option in context menu now shows all routings of a control.
- Tooltips typos.
- Default VST program name, needed for some VST hosts/wrappers.
- Increased loop wrap accuracy.
- Left and right channel was swapped during resampling.
- Sample playback preview now shows the actual waveform when oscillator keytrack is turned off.
- Reduced Wavetable load times.
- Reduced Multi-Sampler load times.
- Faster drawing for source browser entries.
- Removed some runtime allocations.
- Reduced preset parser load times.
- Multisample pre-render Quality option. There was no real improvement on high setting.
1.0.4 - 15. March 2017
Additions:- Sustain Pedal Hold.
- Aftertouch & Channel Pressure.
- Midi CC Learn/Unlearn.
- VST/AU Parameter recording.
- Named MIDI CC.
- Master mixer faders now also use a context menu.
- Preset info box now disappears after a few seconds.
- Poly note now retriggers sustained note.
- Rare note off miss in arpeggiator patterns.
1.0.3 - 17. December 2016
Additions:- Support for Audio Unit and VST on MacOS X.
1.0.2 - 12. November 2016
Additions:- Copy & Paste oscillator settings.
- Some hosts ignored MIDI notes on samplerates greater than 44kHz.
1.0.1 - 26. October 2016
Additions:- Enable/Disable tooltip messages.
- String errors.
- Tooltip errors.
- Rare layer change crash.
- Content browser cover image leak.
1.0.0 - 2. October 2016
- Official Public Release