A version-by-version record of what was added, changed, and fixed—with links to the guides that explain it. Use the guide for the current workflow and this history to understand what changed.
Dawnamite 2.2 fixes a memory leak with external plug-ins, cuts engine work during playback, and fixes timing, MIDI, editing and project issues.
Fixed
The Mac app no longer keeps the audio it receives from an external AU, VST3 or CLAP plug-in. In 2.1, each loaded plug-in added about the sample rate × 8 bytes every second, even when idle: about 1.3 GB per hour at 44.1 kHz by our estimate from the code. One user saw 19.6 GB with a single instrument. In a test of 100,000 plug-in replies, memory grew 106 MB before and 0 MB now. Guide →
A zero, negative, infinite or extremely large tempo, for example from a damaged project, no longer freezes the audio engine. Valid tempo curves play exactly as before. A broken time signature, such as a top number of 0, no longer silences playback. The metronome, bar timing, grids and plug-in tempo sync use a safe value; the project keeps what it saved. Quantize, snapping and step input follow time-signature changes. Guide →
Connecting another MIDI device no longer re-arms the selected track, which cut held notes and stopped Capture MIDI. Very short key taps sound. Panic releases held keys on every track. Turning off or removing an Arpeggio, Chord or Step Sequencer no longer leaves a note stuck. Guide →
Notes already sounding at the start point play for their remaining length on Play, jump, resume and loop. Chance and ratchet notes are not resumed this way. MIDI Learn mappings behave correctly after deletion and Undo. Guide →
Range edits and Insert Bars give each new piece its own notes or automation, so editing one piece no longer changes another. A moved comp region takes its take folder with it. Step input records keys pressed together as one chord and keeps notes inside the clip. Guide →
Autosave keeps saving the arrangement, MIDI and automation during audio takes, mixed takes and automation passes. Out-of-range values in a damaged project, preset or paste, such as a +200 dB fader, are repaired when loaded. A failed automation-view change or return-track rename no longer leaves an unfinished edit. Guide →
DAWproject exchange keeps note-clip offsets, Dawnamite device settings and samples, and note clips for every instrument. Older projects with an instrument track that has no instrument now open. Guide →
Newly added devices get these fixes; devices already in a saved project keep their earlier sound. Limiter: with Lookahead off and its classic settings, output stays at or below 0 dBFS. The earlier version could overshoot by up to about 23 dB. Bus Compressor, Guitar Amp and Guitar Pedal: a partial Mix no longer causes a comb-filter sound. Guide →
Newly added devices also get these fixes: Stutter stops capturing when playback stops. Spectral Freeze waits for sound instead of freezing silence. Tape Echo's reverb tail decays while the reverb is off. Step Sequencer follows the song's time signature. Arpeggio notes no longer end a held key or clip note. Guide →
In all projects, sidechain keys inside racks, instrument racks and stack cells, or taken from an effect output, now line up with the main signal. When a key arrives later than the main signal, the main signal waits for it. Guide →
Changed
In a test, reading a 4 MB saved plug-in state took 7.7 s before and now takes about 0.05 s. A project opens at most three external plug-ins at a time. A VST3 or CLAP plug-in saved at another path opens from where this Mac's plug-in scan found it. Guide →
Project bundles are written without compression and read one file at a time. They can reach 1.5 GiB, and export checks the size before writing. Older bundles still open. Guide →
Knob, fader and on/off changes no longer make the engine rebuild its routing or request memory while rendering. In a 13-track test project, the median extra engine time per changed block fell from about 0.055 ms to about 0.005 ms. The render thread starts as soon as the audio device has room, instead of checking every 0.1 ms, and steady playback requests no memory there. Guide →
Tempo-curve edits no longer make the engine step through the song from the beginning. Chamber Reverb and Simple Reverb clear near-silent tail values; audible output is unchanged. If the render thread stops responding, Stop and Quit give up after about 2 seconds instead of waiting forever. These changes reduce work inside the engine; they do not change how latency is calculated or displayed. Guide →
Custom shortcuts are stored as changes, so later factory updates still reach you. Guide →
Current limits
Latency figures remain estimates. A new project's master Limiter adds about 5.5 ms at 48 kHz to live playing (estimated from the code; direct monitoring skips it). Play, knob changes and live notes can still wait while samples or SoundFonts load. Guide →
In the Mac app, CPU Load still shows 0% and Memory N/A. The engine's fixed 128 MiB audio allocation remains. Guide →
Export no longer stops for a missing plug-in: missing effects pass audio unprocessed and missing instruments are silent, without a notice yet. Guide →
Plug-ins still have a 30-second limit to open. A plug-in that stops responding leaves its slot silent for about 2 seconds, and a crash during playback can shift the mix timing. Guide →
Undoing range edits on clips with thousands of notes or automation points can take longer than before. Bundles near 1.5 GiB have not been tested in the app. Guide →
The editor can still stall on some broken tempo values from a damaged project. Guide →
Dawnamite 2.1 reduces scheduled native plug-in transport delay, keeps Mix latency consistent across the studio, and improves note editing, resource release and export reliability.
Changed
At 48 kHz, admitted small-buffer native profiles reserve 10.67, 16.00 or 21.33 ms of scheduled plug-in transport delay, instead of 58.67 ms. Actual output buffering and callback requirements select the profile; device and plug-in processing delay are additional. Browser transport is unchanged. Guide →
Preferences and the bottom bar show the same Mix latency and update together. Input, output and engine processing are separate; Applied or Custom settings describes whether the actual buffer and policies match the saved performance mode. Guide →
Large note selections avoid repeated clip scans. Detect Parts runs away from the UI, supports cancellation and discards stale results; its musical classification rules are unchanged. Guide →
Fixed
Free Up Space and manual library deletion recheck saved versions, autosaves, Trash, templates, presets, open projects and Undo/Redo history. Removing a clip keeps its source audio. Previews, pending loads and inactive SoundFonts release resources when no longer needed. Guide →
Part mute and solo preserve individual note mute and Chance settings. Copying only some parts preserves the source notes' state. Vertical Clip scrolling stays vertical, while horizontal and thumb-wheel input pans in time. Guide →
Export respects source boundaries and fixed-tail lengths. Stems use a common output window and stable project snapshot. Export preparation is cancellable. Guide →
Bounce in Place isolates selected lanes, preserves automation and applies multiple results in one Undo step. Cancelling before application keeps the original edit intact. Guide →
Update checks have time limits, and a cancelled attempt cannot interfere with a newer attempt. Guide →
Current limits
Displayed latency is an estimate, not a physical MIDI or interface measurement. Output recovery stops an active recording or count-in without automatic resumption. Guide →
Resource-release fixes do not reduce the fixed 128 MiB audio allocation. Large exports still require full audio buffers. Automatic tails have a 30-second cap; use a longer fixed tail for long or sparse echoes. No mastering workspace or assistant is added. Guide →
Dawnamite 2.0 finds the melody, harmony and bass in real songs more reliably, and lets you mute or solo each part in the note editor to check it by ear and move notes into the part you can hear.
Added
Each part has a coloured square next to Parts in the note editor. Click it to mute or unmute that part, or Option-click to hear only that part. Muted notes look like notes muted with 0. Guide →
While a part is muted, double-click a note, or select notes and press Enter, to move them into the part you can hear and unmute them. Guide →
Changed
Detect Parts picks the melody as the top line phrase by phrase and the bass as the lowest line below the chords. Long chord tops stay harmony, and stray low notes no longer become bass. Guide →
Pressing Detect Parts again starts over and replaces every mark, including ones you made by hand; Command+Z brings them back. Muted parts stay muted. Guide →
Dawnamite 1.9 marks the melody, harmony and bass notes in a MIDI clip and can move or copy each part onto its own track. Imported audio now keeps its original, smaller file, and Free Up Space removes imported audio no project uses.
Added
Detect Parts (button or D) in the clip editor marks the selected notes, or the whole clip, as melody, harmony or bass, and keeps notes you marked by hand. Right-click to Mark as Melody, Harmony or Bass, or Clear Mark. Parts show in maroon, gold and blue, with unmarked notes in gray. Guide →
Separate Parts to Tracks and Copy Parts to Tracks put each marked part on a new track named after the instrument and part, grouped below the source. Separate moves the notes; Copy keeps them. The whole action is one undo step. Guide →
Select Part > Melody, Harmony or Bass selects only that part's notes. Guide →
Free Up Space in My Projects finds imported audio that no project, trashed project, autosave, template or preset uses, shows its size, and permanently deletes it only after you agree. Recordings and bundled sounds are never offered. Guide →
Changed
Imported audio keeps its original file instead of a much larger 32-bit copy. Dawnamite versions before 1.9 can't read samples stored this way. Guide →
Fixed
Swiping back to Dawnamite from another Space no longer shows a dark window for a moment. Guide →
Dawnamite 1.8 lets you cut, copy and paste notes while the song plays, move selected notes to a new track, select notes by pitch range from the piano keys, and resize note rows. The clip editor also gets one-key shortcuts.
Added
Right-click selected notes and choose Cut to New Track or Copy to New Track. A new instrument track appears directly below, outside any group, with the notes at the same times. Cut removes them from the original clip. Guide →
Hold Shift and click or drag on the piano keys to select every note in that pitch range, for example D3 down to C1. Hold Command as well to add to the selection. Guide →
Hold Control and scroll, or pinch, to make note rows taller or shorter. Guide →
One-key shortcuts in the clip editor: = Fit, F Fold, S Scale, Q Quantize, V Velocity, E Envelopes and W Step Recording. Toolbar tooltips show each key. In the arrangement, Q quantizes the selected audio clips. Guide →
Changed
Note rows grow to fill the editor's height, up to a comfortable maximum, so a folded clip no longer leaves empty space below. Guide →
Step Recording moved from S to W, and Quantize Notes from Command+U to Q. Guide →
Fixed
Cut, copy and paste work in the clip editor while the song plays, and appear in the right-click menu. Copied notes can also be pasted onto a MIDI track in the arrangement. Guide →
Dawnamite 1.7 makes a plain drag in the note editor select notes, adds Paste in Place for moving notes between clips, and lists MIDI files and favourites in linked folders. It also fixes MIDI import and track deletion.
Changed
In the note editor, dragging on empty space draws a selection box and double-clicking adds a note. Hold Shift to draw notes. Command-click or Command-drag adds notes to the selection or takes them out. Guide →
The installer window shows only Dawnamite and the Applications folder, with larger icons. Guide →
Added
Paste in Place (Shift+Command+V, also in the right-click menu) pastes cut or copied notes at the same time in another clip, so you can split low and high notes into separate clips and keep their timing. Guide →
Linked folders list MIDI files (.mid and .midi); drag one onto the arrangement to import it. Guide →
Star linked folders and files. Starred folders appear under Places, and both appear in Favorites. Guide →
Fixed
Importing a MIDI file onto empty space makes one instrument with one track holding the notes, not an extra empty track. Guide →
Deleting an instrument's second or later track removes only that track. The first track still deletes the whole instrument. Guide →
When a drive is unplugged, its linked folders show Folder not found straight away. Files already dropped into a project were copied into it and keep playing. Guide →
From 1.6, Dawnamite downloads and installs its own updates, so there is no second copy to clean up. Fit in the note editor now zooms to the notes the clip actually plays.
Added
When a newer version is out, Download now fetches it inside Dawnamite, checks that it is signed by IA Compa and notarized by Apple, and replaces the installed app when you choose Restart Now or the next time you quit. The old copy goes to the Trash. Updating from 1.5 to 1.6 still needs one download from the website. Guide →
Fixed
After you shorten a MIDI clip by dragging its end, Fit zooms to the notes the clip still plays instead of every note ever recorded in it. The notes past the end are kept, so dragging the end back out brings them back. Guide →
The note editor scrolls only a little past the end of a clip that plays once, so notes hidden past a shortened clip's end stay out of view. Guide →
Dawnamite 1.5 tells you when a newer version is out, and the clip editor fits a split MIDI clip to the notes that are left.
Added
Dawnamite checks for a newer version shortly after it opens and once a day. It offers Download, Later or Skip This Version, and waits while playback, recording or another window is open. Turn the check off or use Check Now in Settings → Updates. Guide →
Changed
The clip editor's zoom command is now called Zoom to clip and fits the clip as it plays. Guide →
Fixed
After you split a MIDI clip and delete one side, the clip editor shows only the notes that are left instead of the old clip's full length. Audio and automation clips keep their full source, so their edges can still be dragged back out. Guide →
Import a single MIDI file into the arrangement, keep linked-library imports with the intended project, and choose clear Bounce settings and ranges.
Changed
File → Export → Bounce opens grouped File, Range, Quality, Level and Tail controls with framed selectors and visible keyboard focus. Guide →
Choose Whole project through End, All content (longest track) through the latest region end on any track, Loop area even with loop playback off, or the span of Selected regions. Sound tails remain separate. Guide →
Fixed
A single .mid or .midi file dropped on the arrangement goes through the MIDI importer. Occupied lanes are preserved, and the complete import can be undone. Import MIDI files one at a time and audio files separately. Guide →
Linked-library rows keep an active drag when analysis or search refreshes the list. Pending linked-file preparation stops if its project changes or closes. Guide →
Dawnamite 1.3.0 adds Save Copy, Revert to Last Save and Close Project, protects newer recovery work, and corrects MIDI capture, pattern probability and region-edge editing. The macOS download opens a disk image with a drag-to-Applications installation window.
Added
Open the macOS disk image, drag Dawnamite to Applications, wait for the copy, then eject the disk image and open the installed app. Guide →
File → Save Copy saves a separate copy while keeping your current project open. Revert to Last Save and Close Project respect unsaved changes and cancellation. Guide →
Settings → Plug-ins → Installed Plug-ins → Scan for Plug-ins shows installed locations, scan status and compatibility-check results. Install downloaded vendor packages before scanning. Guide →
Fixed
An older save finishing late no longer clears a newer recovery copy or treats your later edits as saved. Guide →
Gain and fade gestures at a join target the region under the pointer instead of its neighbour's nearby handle. Guide →
Fold refreshes the visible pitch rows when you change clips or edit notes, including used pitches outside the selected scale. Guide →
Long MPE curves with many expression points draw the visible part without reducing or changing the saved expression data. Guide →
The audio Clip editor removes inactive Warp and Transients lanes. Changing Warp / Pitch mode, Undo or Redo restores the lanes that the mode uses. Guide →
Undo restores a deleted live plug-in instrument and its saved state before reconnecting it to audio, without triggering the restored-instrument project-change error. Guide →
When an audio output cannot reopen, later edits no longer trap the studio in a retry loop. A successful Restart Engine clears the earlier project-change error; a new failure remains visible. Guide →
With Stop playback on audio overload enabled, sustained playback dropouts now warn while MIDI-only recording continues; audio or mixed recording still stops. Guide →
Muting a pattern row keeps each step's Chance value through reopening, saving, duplication and Undo. Unmuting restores the stored probability. Guide →
Retriggering an active MIDI pitch ends the earlier recorded note at the new press. Capture MIDI retains overlapping same-pitch presses, including separate controllers and MIDI channels. Guide →
Shortcut imports reject unsupported keys and conflicting assignments. A failed shortcut save leaves the active keys unchanged and shows an error. Guide →
The spectrum and spectrogram use a calibrated averaged-channel amplitude scale. Display tilt is marked separately, and the oscilloscope time span follows the active sample rate. Guide →
The footer's Overall latency follows the active third-party plug-ins on armed tracks, including bypassed plug-ins whose delay is still compensated. Guide →
Dawnamite 1.2.0 makes splitting, deleting and undoing in large MIDI clips much faster, adds a Quantize button and a Fit button to the piano roll, adds Move Left for regions, lets the instrument panel's pads record into an armed track, and keeps Capture MIDI to the last 10 minutes of playing.
Added
The piano roll has a Quantize button, and Cmd+U snaps notes to the grid chosen in the snap menu. Guide →
The piano roll's Fit button zooms so every note in the clip is visible. Guide →
Move Left (Cmd+Shift+,) moves the selected regions back against the previous region on their track, or to the start. Guide →
While recording, the pads and keys in an instrument's panel record into the track when it is armed. Guide →
Changed
Capture MIDI keeps the last 10 minutes of what you played. Guide →
MIDI clips in the arrangement draw their notes to fill the clip height, using the range of notes the clip plays. Guide →
In the piano roll's Clip panel, Start, End, Duplicate and the loop settings sit in a folded Position & Loop section at the bottom. Guide →
Fixed
Splitting, deleting, duplicating, undoing and redoing in large MIDI clips is much faster; undo on a 20,000-note clip drops from about 2.3 seconds to 0.7. Guide →
Pressing an instrument's pads while recording on an unarmed track shows one message asking you to arm it, instead of a "Load a sound" message on every press. Guide →
Dawnamite 1.1.0 makes MIDI Keyboard chords and patterns sound the moment you press a key, smooths changes from one chord key to the next, gives the header's zoom and view buttons the same outlined bar as the transport, and turns TAP into a square button.
Changed
The zoom controls and the view buttons sit in outlined bars the same height as the transport bar. Guide →
The Step Sequencer button is gone from the header. Add a Step Sequencer track to program drum patterns. Guide →
The TAP button beside the tempo is a small square with TAP written across it. Guide →
Fixed
MIDI Keyboard chords and patterns sound as soon as you press a key, instead of up to about half a second later. Guide →
Moving from one chord key to another, or letting go of the newer key, changes the chord at once without dropped or doubled notes. Guide →
Live notes from the MIDI Keyboard reach the audio engine together instead of one at a time. Guide →
Editing pads in the Step Sequencer no longer stops the studio with a "device.target" error. Guide →
Dawnamite 1.0.0 gathers the transport into one rounded bar, turns return tracks into send tracks you can hide, and gives the meters clearer colours with clip and peak hold. The Piano button moves to the bottom bar and the header is slimmer.
Added
Show send tracks and Show master track preferences hide those tracks in the arrangement only; the mixer keeps them. Guide →
Meters hold a clip and the latest peak for one second. Guide →
Changed
Stop / Go to Beginning, Play, Record, Capture MIDI, Follow and Loop sit together in one rounded transport bar. Record fills red while recording and Play turns green while playing, on every theme. Guide →
Return tracks are now called send tracks (Send A, Send B and so on). Guide →
Meters are green, turn yellow from -6 dB and red from 0 dB. Guide →
A track's input reads In 1 or St 1-2, and its FX and input buttons follow the theme. Guide →
The arrangement tools menu is a compact list. Guide →
The Piano view button is in the bottom bar, and the header is slimmer. Guide →
Build .81 offers to move a downloaded copy into your Applications folder, adds low-latency input monitoring, lands hosted plug-in automation on the exact sample and gives Choose a Project a new layout. It also fixes impulse swaps in Convolution Reverb and parameter changes after a stopped seek.
Added
When you open a downloaded copy from outside Applications, Dawnamite asks to move itself into your Applications folder and reopens from there. Choose Do Not Move to keep it where it is, or tick Do not ask again. Guide →
Low-latency monitoring lets a track you monitor through its effects skip other tracks' plug-in delay, so you hear yourself sooner while recordings still land in time. Low Latency Recording turns it on, the other performance modes turn it off, and exports keep full delay compensation. Guide →
Changed
Choose a Project has a sidebar for New Project, My Projects and My Templates, large Start From tiles and a Details row that says what Create will make. Details remembers whether you left it open. Guide →
Automation for hosted AU, VST3 and CLAP plug-ins now reaches the plug-in at the sample the lane puts it on, instead of at the start of each audio block. Guide →
Fixed
Swapping the impulse file in Convolution Reverb ducks briefly and lets existing tails keep sounding. Guide →
Moving the playhead while stopped re-applies automated parameter values. Guide →
A hosted plug-in that fails to process a block now plays dry instead of restarting the plug-in host. Guide →
Build .80 adds Check for Updates to the Dawnamite menu, places each dropped audio file on its own track, picks automation parameters by clicking a control and shows each track's input on its header. It also fixes fades on sliced clips and keeps the Plugins tab open.
Added
Check for Updates… sits in the Dawnamite menu and the bottom bar's right-click menu. It compares your build with the latest public release and opens the Dawnamite page when a newer one is available. Nothing is checked unless you choose it, and nothing installs inside the app. Guide →
The automation picker has Select by Clicking a Control: the track's automatable controls light up, and clicking one creates or reveals its lane without changing its value. Escape or Cancel ends the mode. Guide →
Each track header has an input button next to FX that shows the input channel (1, 2 or 1-2) or MIDI, and opens the input menu in one click. Guide →
Changed
Dropping several audio files makes one track per file, named after the file, in one undo step. While you drag, an outline shows where each file will land. Guide →
Dropped audio appears as soon as it is read; transient markers follow in the same undo step. A three-minute file now imports in about 1.4 seconds instead of 3.8. Guide →
Moving clips leaves automation where it is by default. Guide →
Fixed
Sliced clip edges keep their declick when a neighbouring slice is moved, deleted or muted, and writing a fade length restarts that edge as a fresh fade. Guide →
Selecting or double-clicking a clip no longer replaces an open Plugins or Info tab with the clip editor. Guide →
Delete or Backspace with a track-header control focused no longer deletes the track, and automation lanes stay open while you edit them. Guide →
Download Dawnamite free for Apple Silicon Macs, with matching source and checksums. Arrange audio and MIDI, explore instruments and effects, and choose from ten workspace themes. Windows is coming soon.
Make music
Arrange audio and MIDI tracks, edit notes and audio clips, and work with instruments, effects and pattern clips in one workspace. Guide →
Play 45 laptop keys with the Stack, Two hands and Melody layouts. Resize the MIDI Keyboard from 70% to 140% to fit your workspace. Guide →
Use audio-clip timing, fades, gain and Warp / Pitch controls, including gain changes for a selected passage. Guide →
Sounds and appearance
Start with 37 original factory synth presets and the included piano bank. Browse the Library for instruments, effects and free external resources. Guide →
Choose from ten workspace themes and keep the same arrangement, editors and controls as the palette changes. Guide →
Download and source
The macOS download is free for Apple Silicon. The product page provides the installer, matching source and SHA256 checksums together. Guide →
Component licences, source rights and credits accompany the app and its matching source. Guide →
The maintained guide now follows Mac development build 20261012.77, including the current keyboard layouts, Step Sequencer pattern clips and audio-clip controls. This entry records development behavior; no public installer or release date is announced.
Added since the previous documented build
Harmony Pads offers 45 playable keys with Stack, Two hands and Melody layouts, fixed registers and alternate notes or chords with Option. Guide →
Step Sequencer tracks store patterns as MIDI clips. The pattern window includes row editing, per-step graphs and Song/Pattern playback, with controls that depend on the target. Guide →
The factory synthesis bank now contains 37 original sounds: 31 for Dawnamite Synth, four for CZ-style Synth and two for 303-style Synth. Guide →
Changed
Build .77 adds proportional MIDI Keyboard resizing from 70% to 140%, a remembered preference, a 100% reset and keyboard controls for its corner grip. Guide →
The Library sidebar organizes sounds, instrument tools, effects, MIDI effects and installed plug-ins. Piano and Mixer use their own workspaces; Info and Analysis open from the bottom bar. Guide →
Audio Clip groups timing, gain and Warp / Pitch controls, with Fit audio, a source-time gain line and gain changes for a selected arrangement passage. Guide →
Current limits
These pages describe implemented controls. Listening, long recording sessions, audio-hardware qualification and third-party plug-in compatibility require separate evidence. Guide →
The development app's What's new link still opens the previous published .25 notes. The website guide and this permanent .77 entry do not change that app link. Guide →
The sampled-pack catalogue, installation and public distribution remain a separate development workflow with source credits and release gates. Guide →
Explore 25 original synth presets, manage installed sampled-sound storage and read shared sound credits. This documents the current Mac development build; sampled-pack downloads are still in development.
Added
25 factory synth presets cover leads, pads, plucks, basses and keys, with original Dawnamite sound design. Guide →
Settings → Sounds lists installed sampled sounds, their sizes, credits and status. Review selected files before removing them to free storage. Guide →
Sound Credits in Help & Documentation shares generated provenance data with the website and local bundle notices. Guide →
Changed
Info follows the hovered or focused control and can be moved in its floating window, with contextual explanations, shortcuts and guide links. Guide →
The existing Piano guides, scale highlights, compact mixer nameplates and consistent header controls remain part of this build. Guide →
Current limits
Removal protects sounds still loaded by a project and shared sample files. Reinstalling currently requires the original files; automatic downloads and reinstall controls are not available. Guide →
New sampled categories, the starter installer and free pack catalogue are not released. Their sound-quality, performance and distribution checks remain open. Guide →
Scale rows and roots stand out across themes. Piano gains pitch and beat guides, mixer nameplates become compact, and tools and MIDI capture respond clearly.
Changed
Highlight Scale distinguishes scale pitches, roots and other notes in Notes and Steps, with theme-aware colors and clearer Fold/Scale button states. Guide →
Piano shows faint pitch separators and adaptive bar/beat lines that follow time-signature changes. Guide →
Mixer icons sit beside compact track names. Short mixers allow vertical scrolling instead of cutting off controls and nameplates. Guide →
Fixed
The tool selector opens from Piano and Mixer; choosing a tool returns to Arrangement with the choice active. Guide →
Capture MIDI skips empty armed tracks when another armed track has notes. The button explains how to capture when empty and returns to Arrangement after creating the clip. Guide →
Fixed a native startup crash when restoring an effect before its audio input was connected. Unconnected inputs now stay silent until their channel buffers are available. Guide →
Grid, transport, metronome and workspace buttons share the zoom controls’ height, borders and theme colors. Follow uses a centered vector arrow.
Changed
The Grid selector matches the zoom controls in height and appearance while keeping enough width for Smart, Bar and note divisions. Guide →
Metronome, Follow, transport and workspace buttons use the same neutral and pressed-state styling as zoom. Play and Record retain their recognizable status colors. Guide →
Follow’s arrow is centered independently of font metrics. Grid snapping behavior and the metronome’s settings remain the same. Guide →
Header and tool-menu contrast is corrected across themes. Mixer channels have clearer borders, a subtle raised surface and a track-colored name and icon area.
Fixed
Zoom buttons and active header views use solid active fills with contrasting icons. Neutral controls remain readable on Logic's light toolbar and the other built-in themes. Guide →
The arrangement-tool menu uses panel text colors instead of toolbar text, including its selected, hovered and explanatory text. Guide →
Changed
Mixer channels have distinct borders, subtle depth and a clearer selected state. Their main controls stay neutral. Guide →
Each mixer channel's bottom name and icon area follows its track color, including Master. Palette changes update the strip immediately and support Undo. Guide →
Piano moves to the header with compact overlay settings. MIDI editors expose the full pitch range and share scale filters and focused note muting.
Changed
Piano opens as a full workspace from the header beside MIDI Keyboard. Its button mirrors with the other view controls when track headers move to the right. Guide →
Piano settings start closed in a compact overlay. Time Scale, Note Width and Transpose support vertical dragging and typed values. Guide →
Notes and Steps share Fold and Scale filters. Steps offers all pitches across octaves without Add Row or per-row mute and solo buttons. Guide →
Press 0 to mute selected notes in Notes, or the selected pitch row in Steps. Arrangement track mute stays separate from editor focus. Guide →
The note inspector uses labeled rows, clearer loop timing labels and collapsible advanced sections. Guide →
Fixed
The Piano keyboard fits on first opening; the settings no longer push it out of the panel. Guide →
Falling-note labels stay small and inside their blocks on Retina displays. Guide →
The MIDI clip keyboard uses distinct black and white keys with readable scale highlights and vertical scrolling. Guide →
Imported audio keeps its original timing by default. MIDI editing, synth graphs, key labels, and theme colors receive focused fixes.
Added
Soundstream: a dark studio theme with phosphor accents, cream readouts, navy device headers and muted track colors. Guide →
Fixed
Unstretched audio retains its full duration after project-tempo changes, with both stereo channels preserved. Guide →
An explicit BPM label in an audio filename takes precedence over an estimated tempo. Tempo-following imports use Stretch. Guide →
Waveform zoom now enlarges quiet details in loud imported files as well as recordings. Guide →
The key label fits independently of whether the BPM has two or three digits. Guide →
MIDI clips follow the song scale, including highlighted keys; explicit clip overrides remain independent until Song is selected again. Guide →
Synth envelope, LFO and filter graphs respond to their relevant controls. Velocity-device magnet controls also refresh the graph. Guide →
Logic, PURPL, Avid and Fruity colors follow the supplied references across the toolbar, mixer and button states. The Mac title bar follows the selected palette. Guide →
Changed
New audio imports default to original-speed playback. Existing clips keep their chosen processing mode. Guide →
One click in empty piano-roll space adds a note. Drag to choose its length; Shift-drag selects notes and Escape cancels drawing. Guide →
The Velocity lane starts closed and can be opened from the MIDI editor toolbar. Guide →
A new illustrated guide, simpler key selection, and MIDI regions you can draw directly with Pointer. This is a development-build record, not a public installer announcement.
Added
An illustrated user guide with workflow chapters, stock-device controls, and permanent version pages. Guide →
Contextual links from Info, the Help menu, and device manuals to the full website guides. Guide →
Pointer drag creates a region in empty MIDI-track space, with a live preview and boundaries that respect neighboring regions. Guide →
Changed
Root note and scale share one panel. Apply commits both choices together; Cancel leaves the project unchanged. Guide →
Piano now lives in the bottom detail panel alongside Clip, Plugins and Notes. Guide →
Legacy Shift+number workspace pages, Shader Toy, and the separate tap-tempo page have been removed from workspace navigation. Guide →
The app footer links directly to the notes for this build. Guide →
Fixed
Grid hover help explains Smart, Bar, Off, fixed divisions, and triplets. Guide →
Drawing cancels cleanly with Escape and keeps existing MIDI regions available for ordinary selection and movement. Guide →
This history begins with build 20260920.19. Earlier development work is described in the guide; it is not presented as a series of public releases. Development builds are not public installers.