Changelog

Fixed

• Logic Pro and Audio Unit validation. The four preset-style controls are now declared as Audio Unit meta parameters, so hosts can validate them and restore the linked parameter changes they make.
• The last memory allocations were removed from the real-time audio path, including the harmony scratch buffers and filter coefficients that were being built during playback. Allocating on the audio thread is the class of bug that eventually takes the whole host down with it.
• When a host hands over a block smaller than the maximum it advertised, only the active part of the preallocated buffers is processed.
• Added guards for oversized blocks, a short fade on start and reset, containment for non-finite output, and an always-on ceiling at full scale.

Changed

• The output limiter is now on by default for new instances.
• Every bundle in the installer is individually signed, notarised and stapled, which is what lets Logic load the Audio Unit without complaint.

// macOS only for now. The Windows build stays on 1.0.5 until the same fixes are compiled and signed there.

New

• First release. A celestial serenity synth with a relaxation player built in. Press play and it performs calm, evolving music on its own, or leave it alone and play the warm pads yourself.
• Fourteen relaxation pieces, each mapped to its own preset, so the player moves through genuinely different sounds rather than one patch on repeat.
• A damping stage that calms whatever preset is playing underneath without flattening the differences between them.
• Lite is free. Pro unlocks the full instrument.

New

• First release. A signal damage engine with six media that each fail the way the real machine fails: tape, cassette, vinyl, VHS, radio and digital. Vinyl crackles over dark surface noise with a 33 rpm wow. Digital just has a dead silent floor that crunches.
• DENIAL, a recovery stage that listens for what the damage took away and pushes it back in, so the sound stays broken but refuses to die.
• Lite is free forever. No licence key, no email wall, no time limit. Pro adds the full set of media and the deeper recovery range.

Fixed

• Smoother knobs. Turning GUILT, SPIRAL and the other emotional macros no longer clicks. The values glide per sample now, so the moves feel clean and automate nicely.

New

• First release. One knob, DOSE, stacks detuned, panned, time-smeared copies of your sound into an instant wall (up to four layers in Lite, eight in Pro).
• Pro adds FREEZE (hold the wall as an infinite drone), DRIVE (saturation) and DRIFT (slow per-layer motion so the wall breathes).
• Two skins, a living Lab reactor and a clean Studio desk, driving one engine. Eleven factory presets and a 7-day Pro trial in every install.

Fixed

• Input and output meters now read true. The lit scale lines up with the printed dB marks, so 0 dB sits where its label says.
• Smoother CHAOS. The random dropouts no longer click on the way down, so you keep the glitch and stutter without the pops.

Changed

• Licence keys are now verified by real RSA signature checking inside the plugin rather than a placeholder check. Existing licences keep working.

Changed

• Refreshed the hand-illustrated interface in both light and dark themes.
• Removed the redundant A>B (copy A to B) control. A single, clear A/B toggle is now the one way to compare your two states.
• Reworked the factory presets with new, more usable tones (Velvet Tremor, Backwards Prayer, Tape Grief) and a new default, Ghost Behind Each Note.

Fixed

• Value readouts now sit cleanly over the artwork, with no boxed background behind the numbers.
• Knob alignment corrected across both light and dark themes.

Fixed

• Dark theme: the molten lava ring around the Guilt knob no longer clips to a hard rectangle, and the nameplate no longer covers the "Emotional Degradation Engine" line.

Added

• Audio Unit (AU) format. Synthimatic now loads in GarageBand and Logic, alongside VST3 and Standalone.

Changed

• New look and app icon.

Fixed

• The tape hiss that used to play constantly, even over silence, is now gated to your signal, so it only appears when audio is actually going through the plugin.

Added

• Audio Unit (AU) format, so it loads in GarageBand and Logic.

Changed

• New horror-funk banner artwork (light and dark) and app icon.

Fixed

• Licence activation. The plugin's embedded public key was a placeholder rather than the real signing key from the server, which would have caused licence verification to fail when paid customers tried to activate. v1.0.4 embeds the real key so activation works as intended.

Changed

• Plugin version metadata bumped from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4. No DSP or UI changes; existing licences and presets remain compatible.

// If you have v1.0.3 installed, drop the new VST3 / AU over the old one and rescan. Your existing licence key keeps working.

Fixed

• Stability under audio-device hot-swap. Talk Moonshine! could crash the host (Ableton Live and similar) if the audio interface was unplugged or the buffer size changed mid-session. The audio engine has been reworked to pre-allocate all internal scratch buffers up front, so the real-time processing path no longer touches the system allocator. Smoother CPU, no more device-switch surprises.

Changed

• Plugin version metadata bumped from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3. Same features, same sound, much more polite to your DAW.

// If you are on v1.0.2, just drop the new VST3 / AU over the old one and rescan. Your existing licence key keeps working.

macOS

• Signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarised by Apple. The macOS build now opens cleanly with no Gatekeeper "unidentified developer" warning, no right-click-to-open workaround needed.

Changed

• Plugin version metadata bumped from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2. No DSP or feature changes, the audio code is identical to 1.0.1; this is the properly signed + notarised macOS build.

Fixed

• User presets now load correctly. Selecting a saved preset from the USER section of the dropdown previously loaded the last factory preset (017 Stardust Shimmer) instead of the user preset, which looked like "all my values just reset". Knobs and Moonspace nodes now restore to exactly the state that was saved.
• Preset field is no longer empty after Save. The just-saved preset name is now selected in the dropdown immediately after Save.
• User preset listing is now sorted alphabetically (case-insensitive), so the same preset always lands at the same combo position across sessions.

Changed

• Plugin version metadata bumped from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 (visible in the DAW plugin manager).

Added

• DSP chain: Filter > Harmony > Dual Voice > Delay > Space (Schroeder reverb + shimmer) > EQ > Dynamics > Master.
• Moonspace: 7 draggable 3D spheres (DRY, VOICE A, VOICE B, DUAL, DELAY, SHIMMER, CORE) mapped to spatial parameters.
• 17 factory presets in 3 tiers (Daily / Character / Atmospheric).
• Dark and light themes, switchable from the top bar.
• Standalone (.exe / .app) and VST3 on Windows and macOS; AU on macOS additionally.
• License activation with offline .lic fallback (Activate Licence menu item).

Known limitations

• Windows build is unsigned. SmartScreen may show a one-time warning on first install; click "More info" > "Run anyway".
• macOS build is ad-hoc signed only; full Developer ID notarisation pending Apple approval.