Texture changelog

• v1.0.0-beta.15windowsSeptember 11, 2026

  Every layer can now have its own envelope, so one layer can fade away while another keeps ringing. Three buttons that used to do nothing without telling you now say so.

  Added

  • •A separate envelope for each layer. Open PREFERENCES and set ENVELOPE to PER LAYER. Each layer then has its own Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release, and the ENVELOPE panel follows whichever layer you have selected. The releases are independent: give layer 1 a short release and layer 3 a long one, and layer 1 stops while layer 3 carries on ringing. Turning this on does not change how your existing patches sound -- all three layers start from the same settings your single envelope already had.
  • •A choice about what happens when every voice is busy. PREFERENCES now has VOICES: STEAL takes the oldest sounding note for the new one, which is what Texture has always done, and HOLD lets the sounding notes finish and ignores the new one instead. Worth knowing before you switch to HOLD: a note is held for as long as its slowest layer takes to fade, and Release goes up to twelve seconds, so with long releases you can run out of voices and find the keyboard stops responding until notes finish. Turn VOICES up on the GRAIN page if that happens.

  Fixed

  • •CROP TO LOOP goes grey when pressing it would do nothing. It used to stay lit and quietly change nothing, which is what made it feel broken. Two situations caused it: once you have cropped, the loop is the whole sample, so cropping again has nothing left to do; and when the loop is being found automatically it often covers almost the entire file, which makes a crop technically real but invisible. Switch the loop to MANUAL and drag it in to crop to a region you choose.
  • •CROP TO LOOP shows you the result again. Pressing it now leaves trim mode so the waveform immediately redraws as just the part you kept.
  • •SOLO is greyed out on a layer with no sample in it. Soloing an empty layer meant "play only this layer", and since there was nothing in it the instrument fell completely silent -- with no indication of why. MUTE on an empty layer is still available, because it genuinely does nothing either way.
• v1.0.0-beta.14windowsSeptember 10, 2026

  Trimming a sample no longer moves the waveform under your hands, and the handles now follow REVERSE.

  Fixed

  • •The waveform jumped every time you trimmed. While you were trimming, Texture showed you only the part of the sample that was kept, but the handles were still measured against the whole file. The two agreed only before the first trim, so the first drag looked right and every drag after it moved the waveform and kept the wrong audio. While TRIM is on you now see the whole sample, trimmed part and all, and the handles stay where you drop them. Switch TRIM off and the waveform shows just the kept part again.
  • •REVERSE left the trim handles bounding different audio. The waveform flipped and the handles stayed put. They now flip with it, so they keep bounding the same sound. The same fault meant RESET TRIM, undo and automation moved the trim without moving the handles; all of those follow now.
  • •Loading a new sample onto a trimmed layer kept the old trim. A fresh load now resets it.
  • •Cropping to a very short loop snapped the sample back to the whole file. A trim shorter than about 50 ms was silently refused, so the waveform jumped back to the full sample while the trim itself stayed set, and pressing CROP TO LOOP again made it worse. Trims now stop at 50 ms instead: the sample you see is always the sample that plays, and it can never bounce back to the whole file.

  Changed

  • •CROP TO LOOP makes the crop the loop. It used to crop and then let the auto loop finder pick a new, smaller loop inside your crop, so the loop moved every time you pressed it. The layer now switches to LOOP MANUAL when you crop; click the LOOP chip to hand control back to the finder.
  • •The built-in guide and the manual describe both changes, and the FAQ has two new rows.
• v1.0.0-beta.13windowsSeptember 4, 2026

  You can now trim a sample inside Texture, and there is an FAQ built into the plugin.

  Added

  • •Trim handles. Load a sample, click TRIM on the row under the waveform, and two handles appear across it. Drag them to bound the part you want to keep — everything outside them dims to show what would go. Nothing is destroyed: the audio you loaded is kept underneath, so you can always drag back out. If the layer is reversed, the handles follow what you *see* rather than the order the file is stored in.
  • •RESET TRIM, which puts a trimmed sample back to its full length. It only appears when there is a trim to undo, so it also answers "is this layer trimmed?" at a glance.
  • •An FAQ in the built-in guide. The last entry on the guide's left-hand rail. It answers the questions that do not belong to any one screen — why a factory preset can sound empty, what to do when a sample plays at the wrong pitch, why the keyboard says C3 where other software says C4, why a fade at the start of a sample does nothing, and how to report a problem in a way that can actually be diagnosed. Most of it came from beta testers reporting as bugs things that were working exactly as designed, which is a fair sign it needed writing down.

  Fixed

  • •CROP TO LOOP cropped the wrong end of a reversed sample. If a layer had REVERSE switched on, cropping kept the mirror image of what you had selected — the opposite end of the sound. This has been wrong since the button shipped and is now correct.

  Changed

  • •Every button and chip is the same shape. A number of them were subtly oval rather than rounded rectangles; they now match each other and the rest of the interface.
  • •The SOURCE page has been tidied. The waveform is slightly shorter so the buttons beneath it are no longer pressed against its bottom edge, that row is centred in its own space, and the MONO and REVERSE buttons are smaller and properly aligned with the volume knob above them. The layer buttons down the left have more breathing room, using space that was sitting unused on the right.
  • •Per-layer fine tuning moved to sit beside the trim controls, rather than below MONO and REVERSE.

  Also

  • •The user manual has been updated throughout, every screenshot in it has been retaken, and it now covers trimming and the new FAQ.
• v1.0.0-beta.12windowsSeptember 3, 2026

  Nothing in the plugin has changed. This build sounds and behaves exactly like beta.11. If you are already running that, there is nothing here you need.

  It exists so we could verify two changes to how releases reach you:

  • •Every installer is now scanned for malware before it is published, and the result is reported on the download page. Previous builds displayed a scan link that pointed at a report which had never actually been produced — it looked like a scan had passed when none had run. That is corrected, and this is the first Texture build that has genuinely been scanned.
  • •Beta builds are now labelled as pre-releases. Until now a beta appeared as the current release, which made it easy to install a test build while believing it was the finished one.
• v1.0.0-beta.11windowsSeptember 3, 2026

  A beta tester sent a twelve-point report. This release is that report, answered.

  Fixed

  • •The loud burst of noise when changing presets is gone. Switching patches while the filter's drive was engaged could produce a sudden, painfully loud crack — and the quieter the material you were playing, the louder it was. That was a single wrong number deep in the filter's drive stage, and it is corrected. If you have been avoiding preset changes mid-performance, you no longer need to.
  • •The two root note readouts no longer disagree. Texture had two controls both labelled ROOT NOTE, one for playback and one for the built-in generator, with no way to tell them apart. The generator's is now called RENDER ROOT. The value behind it also used to quietly reset itself every time you changed tabs, which is why it never seemed to stay where you put it.
  • •The keyboard and the readout under it agreed on different note names — the keyboard said C4 where the readout said C3. They now both say C3, matching Ableton Live's numbering.
  • •A loop point could stick at its old value. Dragging one loop handle updated it correctly; the handle you had *just* moved was occasionally the one that did not take. This was present in every previous beta.
  • •Section headings and the keyboard are readable. The panel titles were dimmer than the labels inside them, and the white keys were nearly invisible against the background. Both were measured against accessibility contrast standards and corrected.
  • •The standalone application is now signed, the same as the plugin and the installer. Windows will stop warning you about an unknown publisher when you launch it.

  Added

  • •You can now load just the samples from a preset, or just its settings. Three choices where there was one: load everything, load only the settings and keep your samples, or load only the samples and keep your own patch. That last one is new — it lets you play someone else's source material through the sound you have already built.
  • •Solo and mute on each layer. Click to hear one layer on its own, or drop one out, without touching its level.
  • •Fine tune on each layer, up to a semitone either way, for detuning layers against each other.
  • •Character on each layer. The per-grain filter is now set per layer instead of shared, so one layer can be dark and another bright in the same patch.
  • •Trim on each layer, and a CROP TO LOOP button. Set the start and end of the material you want from a sample, and crop straight down to the loop Texture found. Nothing is destroyed — the original audio stays intact underneath, so you can always widen it back out.
  • •Each layer's root offset can now be modulated separately. Previously one modulation reached whichever layer happened to be selected on screen, which meant it did not do what it looked like it was doing.
  • •The PDF manual is installed with the plugin. It was being kept up to date and shipped to nobody.

  Changed

  • •The filter's DRIVE control no longer gets louder as you turn it up. It was adding as much as 11 dB of level on top of the distortion, which made it hard to judge and easy to overload what came after it. Drive now changes the character without changing the volume. ⚠ This makes 29 of the factory presets quieter than they were — the ones using drive. If one of them sounded right to you before, you may want to bring its output level up.
• v1.0.0-beta.10windowsAugust 29, 2026

  Texture can now tell you what note your sample is.

  Added

  • •Root note detection. Load a sample with a clear pitch and Texture measures it, showing the note, its frequency and how far off the note centre it sits, right under the keyboard. One click uses it as the root — so playing a C gives you a C, without you having to work the number out first.
  • •It suggests, it never changes anything on its own. On a clean instrument recording the reading is reliable. Plenty of material has no single pitch to find, though — wind and water have none at all, and bells, metal and chords have several competing ones with no right answer among them. Texture stays quiet when it cannot tell, and shows you what it based its answer on when it can, so you can judge a confident reading from a shaky one.
  • •The manual has a new section on what the root note actually means and how Key Follow relates to it, including the octave-numbering trap: Texture calls middle C C3, the same as Ableton Live, where some other software calls that same note C4.

  Fixed

  • •Switching off the last active band in the FILTER block silenced the plugin. One click from the default settings, with the FILTER power light still on and nothing explaining it. Turning bands off now simply passes the sound through, which is what the Series routing already did.
  • •REVERSE, MONO and the manual loop toggle did nothing unless the plugin window was open. They could not be automated from your DAW, and they did nothing at all during offline processing. They work everywhere now, and on every layer rather than only the one on screen.

  Changed

  • •The FILTER type list is shorter. Notch, Peak, Lo Shelf and Hi Shelf are gone — the OUTPUT page's EQ does that job with more bands and a curve you can drag — and Allpass has gone with them. Presets saved on any of those still load, still sound the same, and still show the type they were saved on.
  • •Four factory presets were rebuilt onto the remaining filter types. Two are renamed, because their old names named a filter they no longer use: *Notch Sweeper* is now Ladder Sweeper, and *Phaser Field* is now Drift Field.
  • •The factory library shows off more of the instrument. A run of presets now use the output EQ, the compressor, stereo width and the audio-reactive modulation sources — all of which were sitting there unused by any preset.
• v1.0.0-beta.9windowsAugust 27, 2026

  A small, focused release. One beta tester wrote in about modulation, all three of their points were right, and this is those answers.

  Added

  • •Knobs now show you what modulation is doing to them. A modulated knob reads 200 → 691 Hz: the value you dialled in on the left, and what modulation is making of it right now on the right, in colour. Previously the ring around the knob moved but the number never did, so there was no way to read what range a pedal or an LFO was actually producing — which is what the tester wrote in about. Knobs that are not being modulated look exactly as they always have, and so do knobs whose modulation is too small to change the reading.

  Changed

  • •The knob rings are calmer and easier to read. The glow around a knob's value arc used to grow as you turned it up, until a knob near the top was more haze than line — exactly where you most want to see precisely where you are. The glow is quieter now and steady, and the arc gets its colour *deeper* as the value climbs instead. The teal modulation ring also sits clear of the value arc rather than right against it, so at a glance you can tell what you set from what modulation is doing.

  Fixed

  • •An expression pedal now sweeps the whole range of whatever you assign it to. When you added a modulation source from a knob's right-click menu, it started at half strength — so a pedal on a knob turned fully down would travel to the middle and stop, no matter how far you pushed it. New assignments now start at full strength for anything that only moves one way: a pedal, the mod wheel, velocity, breath, an envelope, a gate. Anything that swings both ways — an LFO — still starts at half, so it moves either side of where you left the knob instead of slamming into both ends. Routings you have already made are untouched.
  • •Three more controls can be modulated. TRANSPOSE on the OUTPUT page, and the delay's TIME L and TIME R when tempo-sync is switched on. The delay times were always modulatable with sync off; with sync on, the knob changes to a note division and that version had been left out.

  Also in this release

  Groundwork for factory samples, which is the next thing coming: presets can now carry the name of a sound that ships with Texture rather than a copy of it, so a future library can include audio without the download growing by the size of it 128 times over. Nothing changes for you yet — there is no factory audio in this build — and presets you save yourself still carry their own audio exactly as before, so they keep working no matter what happens to the ones we ship.

  If you are testing

  Right-click a knob and choose *Add modulation source*, then assign your pedal. Turn the knob fully down first if you want the pedal to cover everything from silence to full — you should now be able to watch the second number sweep the whole way as you move it. The MOD page's routing list is where you change how far any modulation reaches, and negative amounts flip its direction.

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• v1.0.0-beta.8windowsAugust 23, 2026

  The biggest beta yet. We went through Texture end to end — every screen, every control, and the whole audio engine — looking for things that were wrong rather than waiting to be told. Some of what turned up had been wrong since the first beta.

  Added

  • •A VOICE panel, on the GRAIN page. Glide, pitch-bend range, voice count, mono mode, and unison with detune and stereo spread. These are the controls any synth is expected to have, and Texture had been playing them internally all along with no way for you to reach them. Mono plus glide gives you a proper sliding lead; unison gives pads real width.
  • •A strike-position control on the Resonator, which changes how hollow or full its tone is, and a per-layer transpose at the bottom of the SOURCE page, so you can stack the same sample an octave apart without touching the other two layers.

  Fixed

  • •The CHARACTER filter's display did not follow its own knobs. Turning Cutoff or Resonance moved the dial and the number, but the response curve above them sat frozen — so the filter looked broken even though it was working perfectly. Four of its six controls were affected, which is why it seemed to work sometimes.
  • •Switched-off panels now look switched off. Anything with a power button fades its controls when it is bypassed. Previously a bypassed section looked completely live, so you could turn a knob, watch it respond, hear nothing, and reasonably conclude the knob was broken. This affected nine panels — including the filter's second and third bands, which start switched off.
  • •Bounced audio now matches what you hear. If a patch used modulation on glide, pitch-bend range or unison, the exported file quietly ignored it.
  • •Every factory preset has been rebuilt. The old set was built before several features existed and referenced settings that had since been removed. The new set uses the current engine throughout — including unison, glide and the newer envelopes.
  • •Two rare crashes fixed: one that needed unusual timing between loading a sample and playing it, and one that could only happen in an unusual channel configuration.

  Performance

  • •An instance sitting idle now costs almost nothing. Texture kept its full effects chain running on silence, so every instance on a quiet track was charging you roughly full price for nothing. That is about a third of what it was.
  • •The interface was redrawing itself thirty times a second whether or not anything had changed — on some screens that alone was over half a processor core, spent painting identical pixels. Screens now redraw when something actually moves. You should notice this most on a busy session with the editor open.
  • •The reverb, the grain engine and the EQ all got cheaper without sounding different.

  Documentation

  • •The manual has been rewritten for the current five-page layout, with all new screenshots. The old one still described a seven-page version of Texture that no longer exists, and its performance section described behaviour we changed several releases ago.
• v1.0.0-beta.7windowsAugust 20, 2026

  Housekeeping from reading a beta tester's diagnostic log closely. Nothing here changes how Texture sounds.

  Fixed

  • •Texture's own diagnostic log no longer raises the alarm over problems that already passed. If your machine hiccuped once — a driver or another program briefly holding up the audio thread — Texture would keep printing a full "real-time stall detected" report every 30 seconds for the rest of the session, long after the hiccup was over, and would never say the problem had stopped. One 97-minute session produced 195 of those reports, and a half-megabyte log, over two brief events. It now reports when something actually changes and then stays quiet, which also makes the log that gets attached to a bug report far easier for us to read.
  • •Worth saying plainly, since those reports look alarming: in that session Texture met every single audio deadline across more than a million blocks, using about 4% of the time available to it. The stalls were the machine, not the plugin — the reports were right about that and simply said it far too many times.
  • •A clearer message when live recording captures nothing. If you record from the input inside a DAW and Texture receives silence, it used to tell you to check the app's audio settings — advice that only makes sense in the standalone version. It now points you at the INPUT... button, which lets Texture talk to your audio interface directly instead of relying on the host to route audio into an instrument's input.
• v1.0.0-beta.6windowsAugust 19, 2026

  Fixes from beta feedback. Thank you to everyone sending reports in — keep them coming.

  Fixed

  • •Modulation you assigned by right-clicking a knob now arrives fully live on the MOD page. Before, the routing was created and it did modulate — but its row on the Routing list looked greyed out, its depth slider would not respond to the mouse, and its layer target was locked, so you could not aim the modulation at a single layer or change how much of it you wanted. The only way to wake the row up was to pick something else in both dropdowns and then pick your original choice again. That is fixed: the row is live the moment the routing exists.
  • •The same fault affected presets. Any preset with a modulation aimed at a grain control loaded with that row locked in the same way if you had the plugin's window open at the time. Those rows now load live too. (Reported by Nairoth.)

  Changed

  • •The layer TARGET now tells you why it is greyed out, instead of just being greyed out. Some destinations genuinely have no per-layer stage — Level is applied once to all three layers already mixed together, and the amp envelope is one envelope per note rather than one per layer — so aiming them at a single layer could never have done anything. Hover the greyed target and it now says so, and for Level it points you at Layer 1 / 2 / 3 Gain, which is the per-layer volume you were probably after.
  • •Level moved out of the "Granular" group in the destination list. It sat next to Grain Size, Density and Position — which *are* per-layer — which made it look like a layer target should work on it. It now lives in a new Amp group alongside the envelope's Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release, which are voice-wide for the same reason. Nothing about your saved patches changes: existing modulation routings still point exactly where they did. (Both from Nairoth.)
• v1.0.0-beta.5windowsAugust 18, 2026

  The interface has been rebuilt. Texture had seven pages; it now has five — SOURCE, GRAIN, FX, MOD and OUTPUT — with everything grouped where you would look for it rather than where it happened to be added. Render moved into a button in the header. If you have been using the betas, this is the biggest visible change so far, and a lot of small things that were quietly wrong are now right.

  New

  • •Four envelopes instead of two, to match the four LFOs. The two new ones work exactly like the originals and can be routed anywhere in the modulation matrix.
  • •Accent and tie on the rhythmic gate. Two rows of switches under the sixteen step bars. Accent makes a step punch above the others; tie holds a step through from the one before it instead of re-triggering, which is what gives a pattern a sense of phrasing rather than sixteen equal chops. Drag across a row to set several at once. An ACCENT knob sets how strong an accented step is. Tie only does something when DECAY is turned up — with DECAY at zero there is nothing for a tie to hold on to.
  • •Some pages traded places so related things sit together: Character and Envelope are on SOURCE now, and Wavetable and Glisson are on GRAIN with the rest of the grain controls.

  Fixed

  • •The Delay page showed two overlapping sets of labels, so every name and number was doubled and unreadable.
  • •The Delay tap display was squashed into a thin band at the top of its window instead of filling it.
  • •The Gate page was badly broken. Its rate selector was drawn off the bottom of the window and so never appeared at all, and the step grid sat outside its own panel.
  • •The Filter page ran off the bottom of the window, cutting off the band controls — and its whole top row, including the drive and mix controls, had been hidden behind the signal chain above it.
  • •Dragging a point on the filter response curve was offset from where you clicked.
  • •The Grain page's lower panels touched the very bottom edge of the window with no margin.
  • •Bug reports with a screenshot attached always failed, saying the report server could not be reached. Your connection was never the problem: the server was taking too long to answer and the plugin gave up waiting. Both ends are fixed, and reports now send more or less instantly. If sending ever does fail again, the message will tell you what actually went wrong.

  Improved

  • •The selected effect is now marked with an orange border, so it is obvious which one you are editing.
  • •The Render buttons are easier to see and read, and flash green when you press them so you know the render started.
  • •The reverb's type selector moved up beside the panel's title, where it is easier to find.
  • •Spacing, alignment and margins were audited on every page.

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• v1.0.0-beta.4windowsAugust 8, 2026

  A stability release. A full review of the code found 18 real problems that the existing tests had all been passing through, and this fixes them. If you are testing Texture, this is the build to be on.

  Fixed — crashes

  • •Crashes on certain project or buffer settings. Some hosts describe their buffer size in a way Texture handled badly, which could corrupt memory and bring the plugin — or the host — down. Guarded twice over now.
  • •**Crashes in your DAW *after* closing a project containing Texture.** Texture was leaving something behind when it unloaded, so an unrelated problem later in the same session could crash the host and point the blame at nothing in particular. It was also displacing your DAW's own crash reporting for the rest of the session.
  • •A crash when changing sample rate with a live input device open.
  • •A crash when pressing SAVE AS during a render.
  • •A crash when submitting a bug report and closing the plugin immediately.

  Fixed — working with your DAW

  • •Bounces and freezes no longer cut off the tail. Texture was telling hosts its sound ended the instant the last note did, so every offline bounce, freeze and render-in-place was truncated — on an instrument whose reverb can decay for up to thirty seconds. It now reports a real tail length that follows the patch.
  • •Loading Texture no longer touches your audio hardware. Every time the plugin loaded — including during a routine plugin scan — it enumerated all your audio devices and reopened the last input you used. Nothing goes near a driver now until you actually open the input picker.

  Improved — speed

  • •Opening the plugin window no longer rescans your whole preset library, and browsing presets no longer loads each preset's audio just to show its name.
  • •The unsaved-changes indicator no longer does a large amount of work several times a second.

  Fixed — smaller things

  • •A click at the start of a note that could follow certain edits.
  • •A failed export on the RENDER page now tells you it failed, instead of appearing to do nothing.
  • •Beta builds now identify themselves properly in crash and bug reports — every beta previously reported itself as "1.0.0", which made reports hard to place.
  • •One effect could get progressively slower if its band count was modulated beyond its range.

  Known limitation

  While your DAW is playing back automation, automated parameter moves are recorded as undo steps — so Undo may step back through an automated value instead of your own last edit.

• v1.0.0-beta.3windowsAugust 5, 2026

  Changed — CarbonDSP

  • •Texture is now published by CarbonDSP. The plugin, the installer, the manual and the product page all carry the new name; the product page is carbondsp.com/plugins/texture.
  • •Bug reports go to the new relay. In-plugin reports now post to relay.carbondsp.com and reach info@carbondsp.com. Reports sent from beta.1 and beta.2 still route through the old relay, which stays online until those testers upgrade — but upgrading is the reliable path.
  • •The Standalone now installs to `Program Files\CarbonDSP\Texture`. Upgrading from beta.2 moves it out of the old vendor-named folder rather than silently reinstalling into it, and clears the stale registry entry that folder left behind. Your VST3 location is untouched and still yours to choose.
  • •> VST3 identity note for existing projects. The vendor change also changes the plugin's VST3 > component ID. The previous ID is declared as a compatible class, so a project saved with beta.1 or > beta.2 still finds Texture and recalls its state. If you hit a project that does not, that is worth > reporting — it is the one part of this release that cannot be fully proven outside a real DAW.

  Fixed

  • •Shimmer reverb could ring forever instead of decaying. Its pitch-shifted feedback loop was bounded but not contracting, so at high Size — reachable from the factory "Riser - Octave Climb" preset, whose SPACE macro pushes Size to maximum — the tail regenerated indefinitely instead of dying away, growing an octave per pass. Whether it happened depended on your sample rate and buffer size: 44.1 kHz at 128 samples, an ordinary setting, was affected. The loop is now strictly contractive once the input goes quiet, with no change to how the effect sounds while playing.
  • •Factory presets were three times larger than necessary. Every preset carried three copies of its parameter data. The library is 7.4 MB → 2.4 MB with identical sound, verified by measuring an old and a rebuilt preset through the engine and getting the same numbers. Preset author metadata now reads CarbonDSP.

  Internal

  • •New presetisolate mode in the signal-path harness re-renders one preset's tail with each effect block disabled in turn, which is what attributed the Shimmer fault to the reverb in a single run.
  • •The Shimmer regression test sweeps sample rate and buffer size, not just parameters — the defect was invisible at the previous fixed 48 kHz / 64 and only appeared at 44.1 kHz / 128.
  • •The output compressor's reachability check no longer depends on how loud the test fixture is; it was failing on a signal that peaked 0.8 dB below the default threshold, where doing nothing is correct.
• v1.0.0-beta.2windowsJuly 31, 2026

  Fixed — Installer

  • •The installer now shows the Texture icon on its own title bar and wizard pages (previously the generic Inno Setup default) via a real multi-resolution .ico.
  • •You can now choose custom install locations for the VST3 and the Standalone app independently — both default to the same sensible locations as before (the shared system VST3 folder; Program Files for Standalone), but either can be redirected from the installer wizard.
  • •The Standalone application is now actually included in the installer. It was built by every prior release already, but never packaged — the installer only ever shipped the VST3.

  Added — Factory presets

  • •The 128-preset factory library genuinely loads now, not just ships as files. Bundled into the installer (both the VST3 and the Standalone install) and discovered automatically at startup, it appears under a new Factory source in the preset browser, alongside your own User presets, with an All view showing both together.
  • •Factory presets are read-only — attempting to overwrite or delete one prompts you to "Save As" your own editable copy instead. Exporting your library as a bank no longer bundles a duplicate copy of the factory presets into it.

  Changed

  • •presets/README.md's installation instructions updated — factory presets no longer need to be manually copied into your Documents folder.
• v1.0.0-beta.1windowsJuly 30, 2026

  A granular soundscape workstation: load a sample (or capture one live), and play a drifting granular cloud keytracked across the keyboard — grown into a full 7-page instrument with professional-grade modulation, effects, and preset tooling. This is a beta release for a small group of testers — feedback from this round shapes the road to a full 1.0.

  Added — Core engine

  • •Granular playback engine with automatic seamless-loop detection, blending multiple candidate loop regions per sample rather than committing to one.
  • •Up to 3 independently-layered samples per patch, each with its own keyrange, loop bounds, volume/mono/reverse controls, and mod-targetability.
  • •Live-input capture: press-to-record up to ~30 seconds directly from the plugin's input bus into any layer — indistinguishable from a file-loaded sample to the engine.
  • •Per-grain randomization (pitch/gain jitter, 4 window shapes, reverse-grain probability), a drone/pad-friendly keytrack-amount control, and a freeze mode.
  • •Extreme upward pitch-shifting reads from a band-limited mip pyramid instead of aliasing; genuinely stereo sources read true left/right content, not a panned mono derivative.
  • •Four quality tiers — Performance, Eco, Balanced, Full — trading CPU load against grain density, so Texture scales from a modest laptop up to a large multi-instance session.

  Added — 7-page UI (MAIN · SYNTH · EFFECTS · FILTERS · MOD · OUTPUT · RENDER)

  • •Persistent header (preset browser, page tabs, master meter) over one shared parameter state — no page switch ever resets anything, and every page is fully automatable and preset-recallable.
  • •MAIN: the Grain Field hero, granular controls, and a drag-and-drop signal-chain router (reorder Filter/Gate/Delay/Reverb/EQ freely, click to bypass, double-click to open).
  • •SYNTH: three sub-tabs — Generators (one-shot recipes for building or reshaping a layer's source material from scratch), Grain Character (per-grain filter shaping, including Diode and Moog ladder models), and Texture FX (see Effects below).
  • •On-knob modulation visualization sitewide — see at a glance what's modulating what, live.
  • •Native vector UI ("Dark Glass / Neon Depth"), embedded typefaces (not system-font-dependent).

  Added — Effects

  • •3-band parallel/series multimode filter bank with character types and per-band output trim.
  • •Rhythmic 16-step gate with a full step-editor.
  • •Tempo-syncable delay; reverb including a real pitch-shifted Shimmer mode.
  • •8-band parametric output EQ (bell/shelf/HP/LP/notch per band) with draggable nodes, plus an output compressor with gain-reduction metering, stereo width, and master gain.
  • •Texture FX — a fixed-order six-module chain after the reorderable rack, each independently enabled: String Resonator (rings the granular cloud through tuned strings — Wood/Glass/ Metal/Nylon materials, keytrackable via the mod matrix, every gain bounded by construction), Slice Sequencer (a tempo-synced beat-repeat that chops the timeline into 1/4–1/32 slices and repeats, reverses, half-speeds or drops them, with a bar-locked pattern by default), Glitch Processor, Upward Compressor (lifts quiet detail rather than taming loud), Spectral Pan, and Masking Reducer.

  Added — Modulation

  • •34 modulation sources → 188 destinations across 16 routing slots, each with bipolar depth and a per-slot response curve. Sources: 4 tempo-syncable LFOs across 9 shapes, 2 envelopes, 8 renameable macros, the rhythmic gate, 5 generative (chaos / Euclidean / locked-random / ratchet / probability), 4 audio-reactive (threshold gate / transient / sidechain follower / pitch follower), and 10 performance sources (velocity, mod wheel, aftertouch, key follow, pitch bend, expression, breath, sustain pedal, note gate, per-note random).
  • •Destinations cover every continuous parameter that shapes the sound, including the full Texture FX chain, the per-grain Grain Character filter, the master EQ's per-band frequency and Q, the TextureVerb-only controls, all 16 rhythmic-gate step levels, and the per-layer sample trims.
  • •The matrix can modulate itself — LFO rates, envelope ADSR, macro values, and every generative / audio-reactive source's own parameters are destinations, so an envelope can open a macro that opens eight things, or an LFO can accelerate another LFO.
  • •Right-click to wire, in both directions. Right-click any knob → "Add modulation source" (a grouped picker of all 34, with a "Remove modulation" list of whatever already drives it). Right-click any modulation source on the MOD page → "Assign to" (a grouped picker of all 185). Both find or create the routing slot for you; the destination picker ghosts anything whose owning block is currently bypassed.
  • •Per-slot layer targeting — any modulation slot can address one specific sample layer instead of always affecting all layers identically.

  Added — RENDER page

  • •Offline-bounces the whole live patch — not one note in isolation, the entire performance — to a tempo-synced, loop-ready file, in a single-note or multi-note batch pass.
  • •Exports WAV or AIFF with embedded loop points and WAV ACID metadata, so the result drops straight into a sampler or DAW already loop-ready. Bit depth, sample rate, and mono/stereo are all chosen at render time.

  Added — Presets & reliability

  • •128-preset factory library, 14 in each of the nine musical categories plus 2 Init templates. Every rhythmic preset carries a real 16-step gate pattern and tempo-locked movement (the generator renders each one and fails the build if a gated preset does not actually chop by at least 12 dB). Pitch modulation is deliberately rare — 8 of 128 — and always quantised to exact intervals, so it transposes correctly across the whole keyboard rather than sounding like a sweep. The rhythmic and FX categories also drive the Slice Sequencer at a subdivision deliberately different from the gate's, so the two rhythms interlock rather than doubling each other.
  • •Categorised, tagged preset library (.txpreset) and bundle export/import (.txbank), with Quick Save / Save As / Clear, Create Init, and Set As Template.
  • •Crash and session logging (a symbolized report on any crash, plus a rolling session log) with a one-click "Show logs" button, for fast turnaround on any bug report.
  • •In-app bug reporting, direct from the plugin.

  Added — Documentation

  • •In-plugin user guide. A book button in the header opens a guide to the screen you are on, with every section and control explained; a rail switches to any other screen's guide without losing your place.
  • •Standalone tempo. A BPM field in the header of the standalone app. There is no host to ask for a tempo when running as an app, so every tempo-synced feature — delay and gate sync, the synced LFOs, the generative sources, the Slice Sequencer, and the RENDER page's bar length — previously ran at a fixed 120 BPM. Not saved into presets, so loading one never changes your tempo; ignored entirely in a DAW, where the host's tempo wins.
  • •User manual. A full PDF manual covering every page.

  Fixed

  • •A silent DC offset could latch in the Shimmer reverb and pin the output meter at maximum indefinitely. Its pitch-shifted feedback loop had no DC blocker, and the loop's DC gain could exceed unity, so any rectified asymmetry from the granular cloud ran away and stuck there — audible as nothing at all, but leaving the meter at full scale and a large DC offset on the output that survived note-off and would have poisoned anything downstream in a DAW. It affected 17 of the 128 factory presets. The delay's feedback path had the same defect at over-unity feedback settings. Both fixed; the delay's intended over-unity self-oscillation is unchanged.

  Notes

  • •Windows only at this release (VST3 + Standalone); no AU or macOS build yet.
  • •pluginval --strictness-level 10 clean.
  • •This is a beta — access is limited to approved testers via CarbonDSP; it is not a public release yet. In-app bug reports and the "Show logs" button both reach the team directly.