v0.15 Forge & Weave
28 Jul 2026The biggest sound-design release yet: new instruments, generative sequencing, recursive and pre-echo effects, transparent-to-robotic vocal tuning, a deeper pluck voice, honest names across the factory bank, and an export that preserves your master by default.
New instruments & sounds
- Forge Body — a struck-body instrument. A physically-modeled voice: strike a free bar, steel plate, bell, membrane drum, woodblock or steelpan and hear real geometry ring and decay. Struck metal, wood and skin — modeled, not sampled.
- Sample Kit — a true multisample instrument. A new track type: lay samples across zones, each with its own key range, velocity layer, tuning and choke group. Velocity layers crossfade, zones repitch per note, and open/closed pairs choke like a real kit. Build one in a click — chromatic auto-map, or send Audio Lab slices straight to the zones.
- Pluck, deeper. Four new character dials — a wooden body resonance, real pick noise, a rounder excitation blend, and independent brightness and decay — take the string voice from harp to nylon. Existing presets sound exactly as before until you reach for them.
- Cinematic sounds. New factory presets for scoring the drop: Cinematic Boom, Threat Drone, Cinematic Low Drone, Tonal Descent, the Air Whoosh / Reverse Whoosh pass-bys, and Cinematic BRAAAM, a big blooming brass impact. Noise hits can now play a whole riser or whoosh from a single trigger.
New effects & features
- Weave — generative sequencing. On any melodic track, each note sprouts a branching tree of new notes — transposing and fading with depth, all played by the track's own voice. An arp that grows, not cycles — and it weaves the same way on every loop and every export.
- Fractal Echo. A new send alongside delay and reverb: one echo spawns generations of self-similar taps, each darker, wider and quieter than the last — up to 64 taps of recursive echo from a single dial, shaped with ratio, tone, spread and decay.
- Future Shadow. Pre-echo ghosts for vocal and audio tracks — the track plays what's about to happen, so a hit swells in before it lands. The drop hears you coming. Modes: Echo, Reverse, and Vocal Ghost, a whispered lead-in.
- Hard-tune vocals. A new stage in the vocal chain: pitch correction that snaps to your key and scale, from a transparent nudge to full instant-robotic — with an expression-preserve dial that keeps the voice's vibrato and scoops.
- Envelope character + a second envelope. Per-stage curve dials — attack, decay and release, soft to snappy — on every envelope voice, plus a second envelope on FM Synth, FM Keys, Chord and Granular you can point at pitch or timbre for evolving patches.
- Shepard riser drop. A new drop mode: an endless-rising riser that seems to climb for the whole drop without ever running out of range — the classic Shepard illusion no ordinary riser can fake.
Workflow
- An export that preserves your master. A plain export no longer quietly raises your level. A new Ceiling picker offers Preserve master (the new default — the file is exactly what you rendered), Peak-normalize, and Loudness target, and the status line reports the exported file's true peak and loudness.
- One-click auto-slice. One button in the Audio Lab finds the hits, takes the loudest, and lays them onto sampler zones — the whole slice-to-kit chain in a single press.
- Parameter locks on every parameter. Step locks now take effect on every control in the app — pluck tone, the hard-tune dials, envelope curves, the sends and more.
Improvements
- Honest names across the bank. The pluck voice is a bright string / harp machine, so its presets say so: Nylon → Nylon Pluck, Steel Harp → Bright Harp, Palm Mute → Muted Stab, Power Stab → Grit Stab, Industrial Chug → Dark Grind, Driven Sustain → Driven String. Every renamed preset is the exact same sound. Koto is retired, and the vocal "Room" reverb is now Vocal Plate.
- Cleaner tone and honest metering. The mechanical organ key-click is gone, the string pick-click is softened, and Master Lab's loudness and true-peak meters are now conforming, externally-validated instruments with full-song spectrum and stereo analysis.
- Refined vocal effects. Beat Repeat splits into Chance, Depth and Division; Shimmer is a true reverb send that no longer thins the dry vocal; and the vocoder, vowel filter and transient shaper are smoother.
- Sound polish. Dozens of factory presets were re-voiced against hardware references — a controlled 808 snare, an evolving FM swell pad, cleaner acid and hoover — and new songs start with better-calibrated levels.