PatchWork

Brand new GUI design, with improved usability and touchscreen support.
Now supports retina displays on Mac (text using high resolution).
Favorite plug-ins and their settings can be saved to be quickly reloaded later from a menu.
Unused channels for each hosted plug-in can now be muted (instead of default pass-thru).
Load/save native VST, VST3 or AU preset files.
Presets and parameters menus are now split in sub menus instead of a single list.
Additional user VST path to locate VST plug-ins is now available.
Missing VST & VST3 plug-ins are now automatically relocated.
Lock GUI state and in/out gains to prevent changes when loading presets.
Output gain is now always active, even when using a single PRE column.
Exclusive solo mode for parallel chains.
Show or hide all plug-ins editors with single click.
Hide plug-ins slots to minimize the plug-in.
Standalone application: drag and drop preset files on the application to load preset instantly on startup (and create shortcuts to launch app with a specific preset).
Now compatible with most recent Audio Units (Waves for example).
Changed demo limitations: up to 5 instances allowed, bypass time changed to half a second, and bypass parameter is not affected anymore.
Fully compatible with previous versions of the plug-in.
Dropped support for Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.6 and earlier.

Last loaded preset can now be saved directly from the presets menu without having to select the file.
VST: fixed latency compensation reporting in Cubase (no need to re-enable the plug-in to update the latency anymore).
AAX & RTAS: fixed feedback loop that could occur in bypass mode when the plug-in was inserted before another one.

New features:

The effect version now supports external side chain input.
The synth version now includes multiple output busses (up to 16 output channels).
The standalone application now offers up to 16 audio I/O.
Sub plug-ins audio i/o routing: connect the inputs and outputs of each plug-in to any channel.
Latency is now compensated for individual channels when a plug-in is processing only a subset of all available channels.

Fixes:

Fixed side chain input always fed with silence for some Audio Unit plug-ins.
Fixed issue with standalone application: displayed i/o were not reset properly when changing i/o configuration.
Fixed a crash with some VST plug-ins that use long preset names.
Fixed demo version popup window freezing Pro Tools in some situations.

GUI-less plug-ins support: a generic user interface is now provided for VST or AU plug-ins that do not include a graphical editor.
Presets can now be selected using MIDI Program change and bank select messages (can be activated with the presets menu/MIDI Program Change item).
Fixed issue with some Audio Unit instruments that did not produce any sound (IK Multimedia, Kontakt...)
Added log scale support for Audio Unit parameters.

New alternative light theme skin (light color scheme and lower contrast).
Factory and user skins can now be selected directly from the plug-in menu.
Added 192 kHz samplerate support to the standalone application.
Mac: fixed MFX Audio Unit that was not processing MIDI events properly.

New Features:

Now available as a standalone application.

Fixes and compatibility improvements:

Improved presets and session load/save performance (up to 4 times faster in some situations).
Fixed issue with Izotope Audio Units that were configured as mono effects on stereo tracks.
Fixed crashes during auto save with Kontakt 5 in Pro Tools 11.

New Features:

The Audio Unit can now be loaded as a MIDI FX in Logic Pro X.
MIDI FX Audio Units can now be loaded into the plug-in.
Missing VST plug-ins can now be relocated if not found.
The plug-in now saves missing plug-ins' state so that they can be restored later.

Fixes and compatibility improvements:

Fixed issue on Mac when loading sessions created on Windows using VST plug-ins in sub-directories.
Fixing compatibility issues with several plug-ins that used to crash when unloaded (Image Line, MeldaProduction, Catanya...).
VST Plug-in name is now displayed when loaded from a missing VST shell bundle (instead of just the name of the bundle).
(Mac) Fixed randrom crashes when using keyboard shortcuts in the host application to switch between plug-ins or tracks.
(Mac) Fixed parameters not available for mapping when Audio Unit bridged with SoundRadix's 32Lives.
(Mac) Fixed parameters mapped with wrong range for some Audio Units (u-he, AAS...).
(Mac) Fixed parameter changes sent from host not visible in the user interface for some Audio Units (u-he...).

New Features:

Selectable parallel processing chains summing mode: sum or average.
Solo button for parallel chains.
MIDI Channel filtering for each plug-in input.

Fixes and compatibility improvements:

Fixed undo/redo incompatibilities with some plug-ins.
(Mac) Fixed crash introduced in 1.3 when trying to load missing VST plug-ins.
(Mac) Fixed wrong plug-in instantiated in some cases when selected from a VST shell package.
(Mac) Fixed crash after closing the editor of an Audio Unit plug-in loaded with SoundRadix's 32Lives.

New Features:

Audio Unit hosting support: Audio Units can now be loaded into the plug-in on Mac.
Plug-ins can now be cut from a slot for cut/paste operations.
Plug-ins can now be pasted into a slot with their params map.

Improvements:

User interface loading or resizing is now up to 50% faster.
Reduced the size of windows installers.
Minor layout changes.

Fixes and compatibility improvements:

Fixed undo/redo incompatibilities with some plug-ins.
(Mac) Fixed random crashes when unloading some plug-ins on Mac (Waves plug-ins for example).
(Win/AAX) Fixed shortcut to user manual in start menu.
(AAX) Fixed inaccurate transport information reported to sub plug-ins when stopping playback in Pro Tools.

New Features:

MIDI Routing: custom MIDI routes can be created to connect plug-ins together and with the host application to send and receive MIDI.
Plug-in instance Renaming: it is now possible to give a name to each instance of a plug-in.
Mono to stereo processing: the plug-in can now be used as a mono to stereo plug-in and process mono tracks with stereo effects in hosts that support it.

Improvements:

Improved performance of undo tracking when loading presets for plug-ins with many parameters.
The "Parameters Map" menu item is now checked when a parameter is mapped.
Improved performance when changing the size of the plug-in user interface.

Fixes and compatibility improvements:

Fixed keyboard stealing issue in many host applications when sub plug-ins editors are opened (except 32-bit applications on Mac).
Fixed compatibility issue with Pro Tools 9 on Mac (random crashes).
Fixing crashes with some plug-ins requesting information while being opened.