﻿Tonestatic - Changelog
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Alpine, Grains, Artifact, Modulation, Delay, Reverb, Steps and Steps Free share one version
and one installer. Newest first; also at https://tonestatic.com/changelog


0.13.0 - 5 November 2026
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Steps Free, a free edition of Steps, and a new look for Steps with a Gate
lane up top.

- New: [Steps Free] Steps Free: a free step sequencer and pattern generator
  that plays your synth over MIDI. Draw a line or roll one in the Acid or
  Arp style, keep it in key, and move two of your synth’s parameters with
  the CC lanes. Type your email the first time it opens and it is unlocked
  for good - no trial, no key. It comes in the Tonestatic installer.

- New: [Steps] The Chance lane can be a Gate: each step simply on or off,
  drawn as numbered diamonds. Click the lane’s name to switch between Gate
  and Chance - switching never changes what plays. A note the Gate silences
  is drawn as an outline.

- Improved: [Steps] A new default lane order: Gate, Notes, Octave, Velocity
  and Length. Ratchet starts hidden unless a pattern uses it, and Settings >
  Lanes brings it back. The factory presets open this way.

- Improved: [Steps] A cleaner face: flat lanes on a dark band, and Warm
  sunset as the default colours. Settings > Theme has four more palettes -
  Periwinkle, Cherry and sand, Baltic and Golden hour - for twelve in all.

- Improved: [Steps] Chance bars carry their step numbers, as the Gate’s
  diamonds do, and with the controls folded away a small Run button stays in
  the header.


0.12.3 - 31 October 2026
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Steps is lighter on your host while it plays, and its lane drags stay on the
lane you started on.

- Improved: [Steps] Lower CPU use with the window open while a pattern
  plays: the playhead now moves without redrawing the whole face on every
  step, and the plugin only updates the window when something has actually
  changed.

- Improved: [Steps] Drawing across a lane keeps working when the pointer
  leaves the grid, and stays on the lane you started on - values and steps
  are held to that lane’s edges. The lane’s readout follows the drag as you
  draw.

- New: [Steps] Beat markers every four steps make long patterns easier to
  read.


0.12.2 - 30 October 2026
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Some bug fixes.

- Fixed: Some bug fixes.


0.12.1 - 29 October 2026
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The Mac plugins open on every macOS from 11 Big Sur on, as promised - not
only on macOS 26. The trial panel shows once a day, and Live on Windows says
how to get a sharp window.

- Fixed: On macOS 11 to 15, Logic, Live and other hosts refused to open the
  Audio Unit and VST3 plugins, saying only that they could not be opened:
  the Mac builds since 0.10.0 had been made for macOS 26 alone. They now run
  on macOS 11 Big Sur and later, on Apple Silicon and Intel.

- Improved: During the trial, the trial panel opens over the plugin once a
  day instead of every time its window opens. The tag in the corner still
  opens it whenever you want it.

- New: In Ableton Live on Windows with display scaling above 100 %, Live’s
  Auto-Scale Plugin Window option stretches the plugin window, which blurs
  the text and can leave the window and its contents different sizes. When
  that is happening, the plugin now explains how to switch the option off.
  It shows at most once a day, and never again once you tick “Don’t show
  this again”.


0.12.0 - 28 October 2026
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Steps learns a CC lane’s number from your synth, and drags smoothly in Live
while it plays.

- New: [Steps] MIDI Learn for the CC lanes (Settings > MIDI): press Learn
  and move a knob on your hardware synth or controller, and the lane takes
  its CC number.

- Fixed: [Steps] Dragging a lane’s end, or drawing steps, no longer stalls
  in Ableton Live while the transport is running.

- Improved: [Steps] A tidier face: the MIDI export sits beside the logo,
  Rate and the play direction share one section, and the factory bank is a
  tighter set of Acid, Arp, Bass and Techno patterns.


0.11.0 - 28 October 2026
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Introducing Steps, a MIDI step sequencer. Also a quicker way to pick an
engine, a steadier tape stereo image, and faces that open faster.

- New: [Steps] Tonestatic Steps, a MIDI step sequencer that plays your
  synth. Draw steps in a scale, roll a pattern in a style with the dice for
  a place to start, mutate part of it, chain up to eight patterns, and move
  two synth parameters per step on the CC lanes. A pattern drags out to a
  MIDI track. VST3 and Audio Unit (a MIDI FX in Logic Pro).

- New: [Alpine, Artifact, Modulation, Delay, Reverb] Click an engine’s name
  to pick it from a menu, each with its own icon, instead of stepping
  through them with the arrows. The arrows still work.

- Improved: [Alpine, Modulation] Tape’s Stereo knob now widens the image
  without it drifting from side to side.

- Improved: Plugin windows open faster, and on Windows a window opened after
  the first no longer starts its browser from scratch.

- Fixed: [Alpine, Delay, Grains] Changing the delay’s routing while repeats
  are sounding no longer clicks.

- Improved: Where the trial asks for your email address, a link now shows
  how we use it.


0.10.0 - 21 October 2026
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The first release.

- New: Alpine, Grains, Artifact, Modulation, Delay and Reverb, as VST®3 and
  AU on macOS 11 or later and VST3 on Windows 10 or later (64-bit).

- New: A 14-day trial of every plugin, started from any of them with your
  email address. A licence key unlocks it for good.

