Release notes
Small, real steps. Each entry below has its own page if you want the full story.
Another round of under-the-hood fixes. Stacking a lot of notes no longer risks a faint click when Laura reassigns a voice, a held pitch bend stays put through a legato line, and the effects hold steady whatever your sample rate and buffer size.
A small round of fixes straight from player feedback. Preset switches fade now instead of cutting, the low end stays clean when you pile up rich chords down low, and Laura holds more notes at once so big sustained chords ring out.
Laura already came with four themes. Now there's a fifth you colour yourself: pick four accents and the whole interface recolours to match as you choose them. Around it, a pass over the interface that tidies the menus, the FX rack, the preset browser, and a dozen small things.
Two new things. Murmuration is a multitap delay built on a flock of starlings: each echo is a bird, a note with an attack scatters the flock, and it wheels back into a swarm. And the sequencer gets an arpeggiator mode, where the keys you hold turn into a tempo-synced pattern, with a generative Drift order that wanders through the chord on its own.
Two big things. Mycelium is a living field that sits behind the synth: every note feeds it, every note reads it, and because one note's chemistry spreads into where another note is reading, the voices in a chord start to colour each other with nothing routed between them. And Laura now reads MPE controllers per note, so pitch, pressure, and slide each belong to the note you played them on, on any polyphonic patch.
Two things this round, and neither one touches how Laura sounds. Laura updates itself in one click now, straight from the banner, instead of sending you to the browser for a zip. The interface also got a round of small fixes: live values on the knobs while you drag, more tooltips, clearer hints, and a reduce-motion switch.
The biggest modulation update since launch. Four LFOs instead of two, a third envelope, and a sixteen-slot mod matrix you can fill by dragging a source straight onto any knob, with every routing colour matched to its source. Plus a key-gated sequencer, a faster preset browser with favourites, and a new preset pack system that opens with Substation, a free techno pack of 27 club-ready patches.
The v1.1.4 macOS build would not open on Intel Macs, or on any Mac that was not running the very newest macOS. If Laura 1.1.4 failed to launch as a plugin or as the standalone app, this is why, and 1.1.5 fixes it. v1.1.5 ships a universal macOS build that runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon, back to macOS High Sierra. Windows was not affected.
The biggest release since v1.1.0. Two new sequencer modes (Galaxy and Constellation) with bouncing-ball physics, wormhole portals, and per-ball mod routing. A signed and notarized .pkg installer plus a Standalone app. A click-free voice path on cold notes, mono retrigger, and legato. Pluginval at strictness 10 across the full sample-rate and block-size matrix. All 271 factory presets normalised to -18 LUFS-I.
QA caught a Windows-only race in v1.1.1 that froze the fractal and classic oscillator waveforms when knobs moved. Diagnosed overnight and patched the next day before it reached users in the wild. v1.1.2 is rolling out via the in-app update check.
Three features that had been work in progress for months all land in v1.1.0. A proper character compressor with Bloom, Drift, Pump, and Spectral sections. A sequencer redesign with per-step mod lanes, conditional triggers, fractal nodes, and per-node target overrides. And a full-bleed preset browser with search, tags, and categories.
Two long standing audio issues fixed. Fresh plugin instances no longer distort with the default oscillator mix, and consecutive notes on mono patches like Sub Anchor no longer click on every retrigger.
The fractal sampling point can now follow a path through the complex plane instead of sitting on a fixed centre. Line, Ellipse, Lissajous, or a freehand drawn path. The timbre evolves on its own, no modulator routing required.
Fast FM into fractal or classic carriers now band-limits properly, the FM depth lerps across audio blocks instead of stepping, and the macOS installer writes to /Library so every user account on the Mac sees Laura.
Every modulator slot in Laura can now flip to a multi segment user drawn curve. Per segment tension, step nodes, loop and sustain markers, tempo sync, and a dedicated Mod Shape editor card.
A round of fixes across the Filter+ section. The Soft drive knob actually responds now, the loud drive modes stay loud as you push them, and every filter type swap fades in cleanly instead of clicking.
A new signature filter type called Synapse, a Sing knob that makes the resonance bloom into a vocal harmonic ring, and a richer Filter+ panel with a live response curve.
Laura's main filter section grows teeth: six pre-filter drive characters, a series highpass, and three new modulators wired straight to the cutoff.
New app icon, refreshed hero screenshots, and a handful of small UI corrections that add up to a calmer plugin window.
A no-license demo is now downloadable straight from the site, and the license revocation feed is signed end-to-end including refunds.