Highlights
- Preset switches fade instead of cut. Changing patches used to clip the sound off with a small dip in level. Now the old patch eases out and the new one eases in, so switching while a chord is still ringing stays smooth.
- A cleaner low end. Rich chords played down low, and pads that stack a sub, were building up energy too low to actually hear. It wasted headroom and could push small speakers to strain on big low chords. Laura now clears that sub rumble you can't hear anyway and leaves the bass you play alone.
- Smoother low notes on busy chords. When you change chords down low and Laura reassigns its voices, the lowest notes could leave a faint step. Those handovers are smoothed now, and more so the lower you play.
- More notes at once. Polyphony goes from 16 to 24 voices, so big sustained chords and long release tails stop cutting each other off.
- Nothing about the sound design or your saved work changes. Your patches, packs, and license carry over exactly as they were.
Details
This one comes straight from player feedback. Someone playing pads down low, rich chords with an octave in the left hand and a triad in the right, heard the low end turn grainy and noticed patches cutting rather than fading when he switched them. So this round is a handful of fixes aimed right at that.
Preset switching fades now. The old sound eases down and the new one comes up, instead of the quick cut and drop in volume it did before, so auditioning patches over a ringing chord is smooth. Alongside it the low end got a cleanup. A rich chord played down low, especially on a pad with a sub sitting an octave below, builds up a lot of energy beneath the range you can actually hear. You never hear that part, but it eats headroom and can push small speakers to strain on big low chords. Laura now clears the rumble you can't hear and leaves the bass you play untouched.
The last two are about playing hard. When you move between rich chords down low, Laura hands its voices over from the notes you let go to the ones you press, and the very lowest notes could leave a faint step as it does. That is smoothed now. And Laura holds more notes at once, up from 16 to 24, so a big sustained chord with long release tails no longer trims its own notes to make room. None of this changes how a patch sounds or how your saved work loads.