Product Updates

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New Features

• Keyboard-driven sample picker: browse and search your sample library without leaving the keyboard. While picking, Gridshift previews the selected sample in place of the track’s existing clips — so you can hear exactly how a swap would sound before committing. Favorites and a dedicated browse mode make it quick to return to the folders you use most.
• Realtime time-stretch: the same time-stretch engine as before now runs in realtime. Tempo, pitch, and formant changes on Complex-mode clips become audible within a few milliseconds instead of waiting for a re-render.
• Transient detection now works on long samples: the detector works through lengthy samples in the background in chunks, so you’re no longer capped on length. The inspector stays responsive while it runs.

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Fixes

• Offline bounce now applies insert FX and sidechain routing just like realtime playback — your exports sound the way the song does.
• Step insert at full length: dropping a slice into a step now places it at the slice’s full length, the way it was always meant to.
• Short clip waveforms show up reliably even when several tiny clips finish loading at slightly different times.
• Signal history recovers silently if its internal buffer ends up in a bad state, instead of taking the app down.
• Command palette keyboard handling is cleaner and more predictable across system layouts.
• Backspace and Delete now do the right thing based on which pane has focus — sidebar, timeline, or effect strip.
• Plugin windows no longer leak arrow-key presses back into the DAW, so editing parameters in a plugin won’t accidentally switch tracks.
• Inspector slice highlight fades out on its own when playback ends — no more lingering highlight.
• Focus mode lets you zoom the timeline with option + left/right again.

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Under the Hood

• Deeper diagnostics for main-thread stalls: layout-related pauses are now classified on their own, with longer backtraces so we can pinpoint the source of jank more quickly.

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New Features

• Folder favorites: hover over any folder in the browser and click the star to pin it. A new Favorites section at the top of the browser keeps your go-to folders one click away.
• Smarter track drop zones: when dragging a track below a group, Gridshift now looks at where your cursor is horizontally to figure out whether you want to drop inside the group or out at the root — no more guessing.

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Faster Startup

• Gridshift now reaches a responsive window even quicker. Audio devices and MIDI gear warm up in the background while you get to work.

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Fixes

• Loop playback stays clean when you toggle loops or make other changes while playing — no more stuck or stale notes.
• Plugin meters on the effect strip show per-plugin output again.
• Marquee selection no longer gets stuck after deleting a track above it.
• Selections clean up properly after clips overlap and resolve, so nothing lingers as selected when it shouldn’t be.
• Browser folders remember what you had expanded when switching between sidebar tabs.
• Update checks happen quietly in the background shortly after launch, so fixes reach you sooner without getting in the way.

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Under the Hood

• Extra safety nets to prevent unusual values from reaching timeline and transport controls.
• More tests protecting sidebar layout from silent regressions.

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Faster and Smoother

• Quicker startup: Gridshift opens to a usable window noticeably faster — audio devices and other slow checks happen in the background after the app is already on screen.
• Silky timeline: scrolling, playhead, meters, and the signal history view now run independently of the rest of the app. The timeline stays smooth even when the rest of the UI is busy.
• Faster saving and bouncing: autosave and exporting no longer make the app feel sluggish while plugins write their state.
• Less stutter while idle: lots of small main-thread hitches are gone — especially with many tracks or plugins loaded.

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Fixes

• Loop toggle while playing no longer leaves stuck notes or scrambled loop contents.
• Focus mode is much cleaner: views update properly when entering and leaving, sidebar rows no longer stay stuck open, vertical scroll behaves correctly, and switching projects always stops playback first.
• Signal history no longer crashes when a plugin chain changes underneath it.
• Sidebar and timeline now stay in sync — fixes a cluster of issues with row heights, expand/collapse, and scroll behavior.

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Under the Hood

• Updates are now checked once an hour instead of once a day, so fixes reach you sooner.
• A new internal testing system runs every night and throws millions of random inputs at Gridshift to catch rare edge cases before you ever see them.

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New Features

• Musical typing layouts: Pick between Scale, Piano, or Drums when playing notes from your computer keyboard — whichever matches how you think.
• Collapsible Sample section: The Sample section in the Inspector now folds away, so the inspector stays tidy when you don’t need it.

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Fixes

• No more stuck notes on Serum when editing MIDI while the loop is running.
• Endless rotary knobs on MIDI controllers no longer jump wildly between min and max.
• Signal history meter stays active after you switch the clipper off — before, the meter would go silent.
• Track colors now update everywhere instantly when you change them in the Inspector (or toggle “use group color”).
• Cleaner project switching — no more resource leak when closing or swapping projects.
• Five rare edge-case bugs caught and fixed, thanks to a new automated testing pass that throws millions of random inputs at Gridshift.

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Performance

• Smoother inspector meters — the signal-history visualization now runs at audio rate with full ProMotion refresh.
• Lower CPU on the limiter during playback.
• Quieter main thread — fewer little hitches while the app is idle, especially with lots of tracks or plugins loaded.

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New Features

• MIDI Controller Bindings: Bind any MIDI controller (CC or note) directly to any action in Gridshift via the command palette.
• Monitor Profiles with Custom Routing: Every monitor profile can now target its own hardware outputs — perfect for setups running headphones and monitors in parallel.

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Timing & Sync

• Plugins with PDC (Soothe2, ShaperBox, and friends) now stay rock-solid on the grid — no more “slightly off” feeling on tempo-synced plugins.
• Sidechain routing is now restored correctly when reopening a project. Previously the sidechain was silently unhooked after reload.
• Sidechain timing is now correct even when plugins ahead of the sidechain target introduce latency.
• Beat-sync on group plugins with PDC is now rock solid.
• Instrument tracks are now properly PDC-compensated.

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Audio Stability

• No more crash when changing the sidechain lookahead during playback.
• Plugin reordering: stale latency compensation is now cleared immediately instead of lingering.
• Normalize now hits true 0 dBFS regardless of project sample rate.

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Performance

• Projects open noticeably faster — engine configuration no longer runs on the main thread.
• The render engine now uses macOS Audio Workgroups for more stable timing under heavy load.
• Significantly lower CPU in timeline rendering, the command palette, and TimeStretch dragging.
• All track and clip lookups moved from O(n) to O(1) — much smoother on large projects.

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UI

• Waveforms now show true amplitude — loud clips look louder than quiet ones.
• Timeline now redraws correctly after reordering tracks.

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MIDI Looping

• MIDI notes are now scheduled on the audio thread instead of DisplayLink, fixing timing drift and jitter during loop playback.
• Beat 1 is no longer missing or cut off when looping MIDI regions.
• No more phantom notes when the cursor is outside the loop range.
• Fixed stuck notes when using a MIDI keyboard or deleting tracks during playback.

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Audio

• Clip normalization now uses the engine sample rate for peak detection, so normalize reaches true 0 dBFS regardless of project sample rate.

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Hotfix

• Fixes a crash in v0.8.1 when adding an effect to a project that uses an out-of-process instrument plugin (Kontakt, Omnisphere, and other sandboxed AUs). The slow-lane scheduler no longer races plugin host callbacks against the render thread.

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What’s New

• Editable BPM fields with a Target BPM that links to project tempo
• Piano Roll defaults to Stamp mode — hold Cmd to switch to marquee selection
• Scale Lock auto-disables on drum instruments
• One-click to expand plugins in the effect strip and inspector
• One-click to open browser folders
• New hard-clipping modes (Edge & Erosion)

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Performance

• Smoother timeline scrolling and fewer hitches during playback
• Track Inspector visualizations no longer stall the UI
• More stable playback with large out-of-process instruments (Kontakt, Omnisphere, etc.)

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Fixes

• Apple Silicon: audio engine now runs with full real-time priority again
• Double-clicking .gsp files reliably opens the project
• Loop playback: MIDI notes retrigger cleanly at the loop end, playhead stays exact
• Piano Roll: clicks near the very bottom are no longer swallowed
• Track Inspector no longer shows a black box; peaks on time-stretched clips are correct
• Timeline refreshes when collapsing/expanding groups
• Focus mode no longer drifts while scrolling
• Instrument track auto-renames when picked from the command palette
• Splitting a clip no longer auto-selects the right half
• Clicking the lower half of a clip moves the cursor to the correct track
• Hardware MIDI drives slice playback on sample tracks
• Cmd-click no longer stamps samples across mismatched sources

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Sidebar & Timeline Now Fully Synchronized

• Unified track hierarchy — sidebar and timeline share the same row layout, heights, and grouping
• Synchronized scrolling and selection between sidebar and timeline
• Track groups feel native — collapsing a group in the sidebar collapses it in the timeline (and vice versa), with consistent visuals across both
• Track group ellipsis menu and inline rename directly from the group header
• Sidebar follows system icon size preference (Small / Medium / Large)
• Shift+Arrow multi-select in the track sidebar
• Drag & drop plugin reordering in the sidebar with cross-category moves
• Centered focus mode that locks sidebar and timeline scroll together

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New Features

• iOS Companion Mini Player — Apple Music-style browser for projects with context menu, delete action, and play-latest-version
• Fn+Up/Down shifts Musical Typing octave instead of jumping tracks
• Split clip interaction zones — upper half moves the clip, lower half sets the cursor
• Subtle expand/collapse and state animations throughout the sidebar and inspector

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Performance

• Cached automation playback targets and plugin parameter handles
• Precomputed MIDI playback event timing for lower live overhead
• Suppressed redundant host-driven AU parameter observer callbacks
• Streamed capture buffers to disk to reduce memory pressure during long recordings
• Fewer timeline draw stalls during save and interaction
• Faster save snapshot scheduling

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Fixes

• Group hierarchy visuals and track duplication edge cases
• First audio track is now selected on project open instead of the Tracks group
• Effects can now be drag-dropped onto the master/bus plugin strip
• Timeline waveforms appear reliably after opening a project
• Grid lines and insertion preview align with grouped timeline rows
• Marquee clears when collapsing a group hides the cursor’s track
• Inspector padding consistent between group and non-group tracks
• BPM and transport now reach MIDI FX and instrument arpeggiators
• Grid snapper no longer uses a stale viewport after zoom
• Delete key routed through the focus area to prevent accidental clip deletion
• LUFS overlay repositioned to bottom-left of the meter area
• Ghost cursor line width matches the playhead
• Preset save no longer blocks the main thread; rename field stays open
• Crash fixes: weak captures in unawaited Tasks, unowned refs in audio render blocks

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New Features

• MIDI Effects Chain — Add MIDI effects to instruments via the new ellipsis menu. Effects are routed before the instrument for real-time processing
• Scale Lock & Chromatic Keyboard — Lock your MIDI input to a scale and use the new chromatic keyboard layout for faster note entry
• Collapsible Instrument Section — Collapse the instrument section to save space, with a new “Restrict to Key” toggle
• Auto-Scroll During Recording — The timeline automatically follows the playhead while recording
• Step Entry Improvements — Use Backspace to delete the previous step, plus better waveform feedback during slice step recording
• Micro-Animations — Subtle animations throughout the UI for a more polished feel
• Random Project Artwork — New projects get a unique gradient artwork automatically

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Performance

• Faster waveform rendering with smarter caching and fewer redundant redraws
• Lower audio engine overhead — reduced memory allocations on the audio thread
• Smoother meter and slider updates with consolidated timers
• Faster solo/mute toggling and project loading

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Fixes

• Browser preview no longer plays after starting a drag
• Count-in now works independently from the metronome setting
• Automation curves move correctly with clips during drag
• Transient markers update properly when changing zoom scale
• Inspector immediately shows slice info after dropping a file
• Fixed phantom Caps Lock activation on certain keyboards
• Fixed pan mode not being copied when duplicating tracks

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New Features

• iCloud Download Progress — See real-time progress when opening iCloud projects
• Project Status — Track your project’s progress with the new status carousel
• Rainbow Track Colors — Color all your tracks instantly with a single command
• Dim Non-Soloed Tracks — Soloed tracks stand out visually with dimmed surroundings
• Live Task Sync — Tasks update in real-time across all your devices

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Performance

• Smoother timeline scrolling and waveform rendering
• Reduced audio engine overhead for lower latency
• Faster project loading and file operations
• Snappier UI across the board

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Fixes

• Playhead no longer jumps to loop start when cursor is outside the loop region
• Fixed a crash when loading certain projects
• Group track meters now display correctly after grouping
• Cleaner track colors and grid lines in light mode
• Fixed occasional save corruption with multiple windows open
• Preset browser loads more reliably

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New Features

• Effect Presets with iCloud Sync — Save and recall your favorite effect chains, synced across all your devices
• Repitch Mode — Classic sampler-style pitch shifting when stretching clips
• iOS Companion — Check your project structure, tracks, and tasks from your iPhone or iPad
• Loop Toggle — Cmd-L to quickly toggle your loop region on and off
• New Selection Style — Cleaner, more readable clip and marquee selection with a fresh lines-and-fill look
• Unified Colors — Playhead, loop, cursor, and marquee now use a consistent accent color throughout
• Built-In Feedback — Send feedback and crash reports directly from within Gridshift

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Performance

• Project saves and file operations no longer cause brief freezes
• Waveform rendering is faster with smarter caching
• Solo/mute toggling is near-instant on large sessions
• Smoother drag interactions across the mixer and timeline

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Fixes

• Fixed a deadlock that could occur when saving project versions
• Bounced tracks now export audio correctly
• Plugin settings (dry/wet, bypass) persist properly on save
• Caps Lock recording indicator syncs correctly with your keyboard LED
• Dropping samples creates clips with the correct length
• Piano roll edits are now fully undoable
• Ruler numbers no longer jitter at certain zoom levels
• Track colors apply correctly to plugin sliders
• Various stability improvements for iOS companion and iCloud projects

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Timeline

• Drag Selections — Select a region and drag it to move clips around, with automatic splitting at the edges
• Reverse Reverb — Apply a reverse reverb tail to any clip for cinematic transitions and risers

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Performance

• Buttery Smooth — 120fps is back on ProMotion displays with plenty of headroom to spare
• No More Stutters — Fixed several sources of brief freezes when switching tracks, moving the mouse, or during playback
• Lighter on CPU — Smarter caching and faster audio processing keep things snappy even with large sessions

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Fixes

• Plugins no longer show “DAW suspended processing” when idle
• Loop region resets properly when starting a new project
• Track heights stay consistent when reopening projects
• Moving multiple clips keeps MIDI notes in the right place
• Transient snap stays out of the way at low zoom levels
• Signal history no longer randomly stops updating
• Automation curves look sharp on Retina displays
• Fixed a memory leak from leftover debug settings

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Inspector

• Unified Inspector — Instrument and sample details now live in one clean panel instead of two separate sections
• Waveform Preview — The inspector shows a waveform that matches your clip’s appearance, with better colors in light mode
• Instant Loading — Waveform preview loads immediately when you open a project — no need to click around first

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Timeline

• Retina Sharpness — All timeline graphics are now pixel-perfect on Retina displays
• Cleaner Grid — Grid lines and selection cursors are tighter and more precise
• Stable Playhead — The playhead no longer drifts when scrolling while stopped
• Compact Mode — New tracks match your compact mode height setting right away

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Reliability

• MIDI Note Fix — Keyboard MIDI notes no longer get stuck when switching octaves quickly
• Browser Fix — Sidebar folders that appeared empty now expand and show their contents
• Clipper on Groups — The ceiling limiter now works correctly on group tracks, the master bus, and the listen bus
• Sidechain Saving — Sidechain routing is now saved with your project
• File Drop — Dropping audio files always creates a clean 1:1 track-to-file mapping
• Plugin Compatibility — Fixed “DAW suspended processing” warnings in hosted plugins when stopped

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Fixes

• Hover info bar background no longer cuts off long text
• Ghost clips can’t be created on sample tracks without audio
• Clip shadows don’t accumulate on very short clips anymore
• Waveform textures appear instantly after loading a project
• Sidebar icons use adaptive colors in light mode
• Right-clicking in focus mode no longer accidentally deletes clips

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Recording

• Metronome — Built-in click with adjustable count-in. Hear the tempo before recording starts
• Automation Recording — Record parameter changes in real time by moving knobs and sliders during playback
• Step Recording — Enter notes one at a time at your own pace. Toggle with Esc while in record mode
• Caps Lock Record Toggle — Tap Caps Lock to arm recording. The LED lights up when active

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Mixing

• Clipper / Limiter Ceiling — Drag the ceiling line in the signal history to set the output limit
• Groove System — Apply swing and groove templates per track or globally. Bypass quantization for individual tracks
• Bounce Selection — Render selected clips to a new track (Cmd+Option+B)
• Duplicate Replace — Replace the original clip with a bounced copy (Cmd+Shift+D)

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Interface

• Redesigned Sidebar — Cleaner look inspired by iOS and Catalyst, with consistent icon weights
• Collapsible Mix Section — Collapse the mixer in the track inspector to save space
• Keyboard Navigation — Navigate the piano roll with arrow keys. Hold Fn for large jumps. Cursor follows keyboard notes
• Focus Shortcuts — Cmd+0 for timeline, Cmd+6 for effect strip, Cmd+` to cycle focus

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Fixes

• Spacebar now works for play/stop while Caps Lock record mode is active
• Playhead no longer stays red after disabling record mode
• Cursor and playhead appear at beat 1.1 on startup
• Signal history ceiling line no longer flickers on hover
• Cursor lands on the correct position when creating a new track
• Piano roll scrolls to the cursor when pressing keyboard notes

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Zero Latency Mode

• Zero Latency Mode — Play instruments without delay while recording, even with heavy plugin chains
• MIDI Capture — Forgot to hit record? Press Shift+C to recall the notes you just played

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Waveform Rendering

• New waveform engine — Smoother zooming and sharper waveforms at every zoom level
• Cleaner 3-band display — Removed visual artifacts at the start of waveform regions

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Bulk Import

• Large session support — Import 60+ audio files at once with faster loading
• Cancel imports — Stop a bulk import in progress without losing your session

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New Features

• Default project template — Save your current project as the default, or reset to factory settings
• Reorder tracks — Move tracks up and down with ⌘⌥↑/↓
• Smarter Trim Silence — Now removes silence gaps within a clip, not just at the edges
• Auto-scroll to selection — The timeline and sidebar follow your selected track
• Loop region highlight — Loop boundaries are now visible as a subtle tint behind clips

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Performance

• Faster waveform rendering with reduced GPU workload
• Smoother playback when loading large projects
• Lower CPU usage during metering

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Fixes

• Fixed accidental slice creation on Cmd+click
• Fixed unnecessary audio engine rebuilds when previewing slices
• Fixed plugin windows not resizing properly
• Fixed transport time display getting cut off
• Fixed waveform colors not matching between zoom levels
• Fixed cancelling imports leaving behind empty tracks

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Automation

• Automation pattern presets — Apply ramp, triangle, stairs, and other shapes from the focus mode floating bar
• Curve type menu — Right-click automation nodes to change curve type
• Hold-line extension — Automation clips extend a hold line past the last node
• Resize and stretch — MIDI and automation clips now support resize and stretch

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Command Palette

• Inline input commands — Raycast-style inline input for BPM, volume, and other numeric values
• Drill-down commands — Change Key, Scale, Sample Rate, Buffer Size, Audio Device, Clip Mode, and Groove Style
• Mixer commands — Control faders and sliders directly from the command palette

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Mixer & Inspector

• Redesigned Mix section with signal history, dB scale, and overlay metering values
• Native NSSlider faders for Liquid Glass compatibility
• Pan mode selection (Balance / Stereo Pan)
• Mono Below mode selector (Mono / Mono L / Mono R)
• Per-track stereo metering in the inspector

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Recording

• Tracker-style slice recording — Record directly into slices on sample tracks
• Fixed loop recording overdub duplicates, missing live preview, and slice audibility

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More

• Multi-file drop — Drop multiple files on the timeline to create multiple tracks at once
• Inline track rename — Double-click track name in sidebar
• Appearance settings — Per-mode window material density
• Latency-compensated playhead — Playhead now matches audible audio output
• Shortcut locking — Arrow-key interaction patterns locked to prevent conflicts
• Parallel track rendering — Real-time thread pool for multi-track rendering

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Fixes

• Fixed command palette losing focus when opening
• Fixed playhead freeze with empty seamless loop player
• Fixed recovery save blocking the main thread
• Fixed multi-clip spacing when moving clips to the left
• Fixed sidechain lookahead wrapping at loop boundaries
• Fixed sample-accurate waveform not respecting slice boundaries during timestretch
• Fixed plugin UI windows not closing when switching projects
• Fixed legacy screenshot cache causing main thread stalls
• Fixed audio crackle from hybrid preview phasing during recording

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New Features

• Drop files between tracks — Drag audio or MIDI files near track boundaries to insert a new track between existing ones
• Audio-to-MIDI progress sheet — Visual feedback during conversion instead of running silently in the background
• Browser auto-refresh — Sample browser detects new files in watched folders automatically

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Fixes

• Fixed marquee selection disappearing when toggling loop (caused unwanted scroll jump)
• Fixed sidechain activation causing audio crackle during playback
• Fixed accumulated audio offset across stop/start cycles
• Fixed oscilloscope signal offset when toggling sidechain
• Sidechain impulse now activates immediately when switching modes during playback

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Kern is now Gridshift

• New app name: Gridshift
• New project file format: .gsp (Gridshift Project)
• New website: gridshift.studio

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New Audio Engine

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Smarter Keyboard Shortcuts

• Cmd+D now duplicates whatever you’re focused on — tracks in the sidebar, clips on the timeline, or plugins in the effect strip
• Opt+N normalizes track volume
• Keyboard focus automatically follows your mouse between Sidebar, Timeline, and Effect Strip

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Improvements

• Redesigned transport buttons
• Info Bar toggle in the View menu
• Sidechain triggering is now perfectly timed
• Time-stretched clips play correctly in loop mode

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Fixes

• Adding or removing plugins no longer causes a brief audio dropout
• Fixed a crash when switching time stretch modes during playback
• Fixed instrument tracks not playing back correctly in some cases
• Fixed metering (signal history, peak, LUFS) not updating in the inspector
• Fixed master bus effects not receiving audio

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Timeline Redesign

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Mixer Overhaul

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New Features

• Limiter and Lookahead Limiter modes for track output clipping
• Cmd+right-click to slice a clip at any position
• Auto-merge overlapping MIDI clips when extending
• “Normalize Track Volume” command
• “Scan for New Plugins” command
• Contextual info bar in the inspector
• Command subtitle in Command Palette footer
• Octave number watermarks in the piano roll
• Note name labels on ghost note previews
• Visual mute state with consistent transparency
• Localization support

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Fixes

• Fixed stuck MIDI notes when resizing or cutting clips during loop playback
• Fixed MIDI notes ringing past clip boundaries
• Fixed clip flicker when dropping files onto the timeline
• Fixed fade display on long clips
• Fixed fade preview interfering between clips
• Fixed inconsistent track height in focus mode
• Fixed piano roll octave numbering
• Fixed groove slider jitter during loop playback
• Fixed lag when changing BPM
• Fixed unmuted tracks not playing in loop mode until restart
• Fixed swing-aware clip selection and groove timing display
• Fixed keyboard interaction with dialogs
• Fixed Settings window closable with Escape key
• Replaced hardcoded German dialog strings with English
• Various performance and rendering optimizations

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Automation Curves

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Snap and Selection

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More

• Visual clip trimming with overlap resolution
• Generic parameter UI for plugins without custom view
• Improved BPM detection with filename hints and transient-based estimation
• Time stretch support for streaming playback

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Fixes

• Eliminated automation playback stutter with direct engine writes and binary search
• Smooth slider display during automation playback
• Preserved multi-note selection when dragging in piano roll
• Fixed focus mode background bleeding to non-focused clips
• Browser preview stops when drag session begins
• Fixed complex mode waveform display and mode-switch detection
• Fixed waveform reset when disabling time stretch mode

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Performance

• Eliminated Observation overhead from automation hot path
• Fixed groove amount slider stutter with in-place GPU buffer patching
• Fixed vertical zoom slowdown in slice time stretch mode
• Virtualized parameter list with row recycling and momentum scrolling

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Neural Network Transient Detection

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App Audio Capture

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More

• Trim Silence command for selected clips
• Colored waveform curves using clip color instead of flat gray
• Window subtitle showing BPM, key/scale, and version
• Skip automatic transient detection for samples longer than 30 seconds

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Fixes

• Seamless plugin insertion with no audible gap
• Auto-recover audio engine when audio device changes
• Fixed waveform drift for non-standard sample rates
• Fixed ruler scrolling off-screen when entering focus mode
• Fixed waveform not updating when scrolling into uncached regions
• Improved command palette and plugin insertion performance
• Faster sample loading by moving it off the main thread

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Sidechain UI

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Welcome Experience

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Visual Refinements

• Appearance-dependent plugin opacity adapting to light and dark mode
• Inspector instrument hover overlay replacing sidebar expand
• Subtle brightness highlight for clip selection replacing white borders
• Reduced light mode transparency with thicker background material
• Renamed Groove section to Grid and reordered inspector layout

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Fixes

• Fixed LUFS measurement ~3dB too low due to wrong stereo normalization and missing K-weighting
• Fixed crash when resizing clip shorter than grid division
• Fixed MIDI notes not moving with clip during keyboard shortcut move
• Fixed ruler numbers not updating during zoom and cramped for long projects
• Eliminated waveform wiggle with two-ring display architecture
• Fixed sidebar and inspector snapping to default widths
• Fixed window resizing with proper panel compression
• Hidden effect strip for automation tracks
• Improved signal history scrolling and metering performance
• Fixed critical performance bottlenecks with new guardrails

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Crash Recovery

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Track Inspector Visualizations

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Per-Plugin ALC

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More

• MIDI files shown in sidebar file browser
• Refined plugin strip visuals (opacity, padding, empty state)

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Fixes

• Fixed offline bounce for instrument tracks with AU warm-up and trim
• Fixed transport bar clicks blocked when plugin strip visible
• Eliminated scroll jitter with O(1) ring buffer and Retina rendering
• Uniform MIDI note color on timeline, velocity shading reserved for focus mode
• Eliminated MIDI drag ghost lag by moving parsing off main thread
• Fixed crash when creating new project

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Plugin Strip Meters

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Visual Refinements

• Liquid Glass effect on plugin strip cards
• Plugin strip sidebar with ALC toggle, Mix control, and level meter

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Fixes

• Fixed plugin UI knobs not updating during automation playback
• Fixed meter colors not adapting to dark/light mode changes
• Matched left sidebar width to right sidebar

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Per-Track Groove

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Sample Rate Control

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Plugin Strip Improvements

• Drag effects from browser directly to the plugin strip
• Drag-to-reorder plugin strip cards (homescreen-style)
• Keyboard navigation with Tab, Enter, and Delete
• Insert effects between existing plugins with animated insertion line
• Click to toggle full-view plugin windows, close with ESC

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More

• Key/scale and tempo/groove settings moved from transport bar to project sidebar
• Automation grid increased from 8 to 32 rows for finer vertical resolution

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Fixes

• Fixed clip offset not honored in all playback modes after clip split
• Fixed piano roll ghost notes snapping to wrong grid with per-track groove
• Fixed keyboard MIDI events not routed through full-view plugin windows
• Fixed Mix sliders too narrow in inspector

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Plugin Strip

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Mixer Automation

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Waveform Improvements

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More Features

• Apply fade in/out to all selected clips simultaneously
• Zoom to fit clip when entering focus mode
• Contextual grid opacity — subtle at rest, full during interactions
• Piano roll ghost note preview now shows grid
• Instant out-of-process plugin restore via offscreen parking
• Plugin strip panel caching for instant track switching
• Hardware MIDI input with automatic device connection
• Track type selection menu on sidebar plus button

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Fixes

• Resolved dark/light mode crashes and ghost plugin windows
• Fixed Shift+click clip multi-selection accumulation
• Fixed MIDI note grid alignment in arrangement clips
• Fixed note name labels during keyboard zoom in piano roll
• Fixed right-click deleting clips in piano roll mode
• Eliminated waveform flicker on drop and blocking cursor during drag
• Eliminated data races in PlayheadCoordinator, SeamlessLoopPlayer, and StreamingTrackPlayer

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Per-Track Plugin Windows

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Automatic Loudness Compensation (ALC)

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Seamless Clip Move Playback

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Drop Ghost Previews

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MCP Server Redesign

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More Features

• Bar selection expand/shrink (⌘⇧. / ⌘⇧,)
• Vertical zoom modes (Compact/Normal/Focus) without requiring clip selection
• Tempo-independent MIDI clips via durationBeats
• Command palette pre-warmed for instant open
• Swift 6 language mode migration with full strict concurrency

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Fixes

• Stem splitter sample rate, memory, and waveform performance
• Zero-length loop selection handling
• Stale hover states in sidebar during trackpad momentum scrolling
• Ghost note not clearing when CMD key released
• Option key now bypasses grid snap when dragging MIDI notes
• Streaming players stop correctly when activating loop during playback

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Quantize Selection

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Audio Diagnostics

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Shortcut Improvements

• Section key (§) shortcuts remapped to mnemonic Option keys (e.g. ⌥E for effects chain) for better international keyboard support
• Select All in Track (⌘A scoped to active track)
• Documentation link added to Help menu

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Fixes

• Clip gain applied correctly to seamless loop buffer
• Removed duplicate Zoom to Fit shortcut
• Sandbox file access cleaned up with default folder support
• Improved impulse pre-activation alignment for sidechain timing

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Claude Desktop Integration

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MIDI Clip Stamping

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Per-Clip Velocity

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Slice Navigation

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Sidechain Timing

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Performance

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Fixes

• Plugin windows stay in front when switching between apps
• Transport shortcuts work while a plugin window is focused
• Cmd-click stamp on sample tracks uses full sample duration
• Clip duplication produces audio on playback
• Clip colors update immediately when group color changes
• File-dropped tracks no longer inherit group membership
• Transient markers follow clips during drag in focus mode
• Instrument plugins restore correctly when loading projects
• Instrument tracks included in offline bounce