DYSEKT Changelog

Improved

• Drag MIDI from the Slice sequencer includes each step's pitch, reverse and stems, which DYSEKT plays back from the clip.
• Drag MIDI from the Drum sequencer includes each step's pitch.
• Drag MIDI rolls CHANCE as playback does. With CHANCE in use, the clip runs four times through the pattern.
• With SWAP on, the browser's load key names the pad or zone it replaces.

Fixed

• Ableton Live slowing down during playback, and hanging on quit, while the DYSEKT window was open.
• Closing a project during stem separation waited for the separation to finish.
• A stray separator after the file details in the browser when a file has no tempo or key.

Improved

• Long folder names in the browser are shortened to fit, in the list and in the path above it.

Fixed

• Clicking a selector arrow quickly, such as GRID in the sequencer, could make it keep stepping on its own.

New

• Pad and zone menu. Right-click a Drum pad or Keys zone to cut, copy, paste or delete it. The clipboard works across Drum and Keys mode.
• Send to from Drum and Keys. A pad or zone can be sent to Slice mode for slicing, to a new Keys zone, or to the first empty Drum pad.
• FREEZE point on the waveform. The main waveform marks the freeze point and the held part, with a handle below it to move the point.
• Moving the FREEZE point while a note is held updates the held sound in real time.
• Right-clicking a file or folder in the browser shows it in Finder or Explorer.

Improved

• More natural FREEZE. Held tones stay steady while breath, hiss and room keep moving, for a smoother, less metallic sustain.
• The browser closes after loading to a Drum pad or Keys zone.
• LOAD SAMPLE in the top bar loads several files in Drum and Keys mode, replacing the separate LOAD SAMPLES key.
• The CHORD selector in Keys mode sits beside the zone keys.

Improved

• Tempo detection. A tempo is assigned only when the audio has a clear pulse, straight, swung or in triplets. Stabs, hits and pads have no tempo and play at their own speed and pitch with SYNC enabled.
• Typing 0 in BPM removes a sample's tempo. The setting is saved with the project.
• Pitched FREEZE notes (STRETCH and CRISP) use pre-rendered audio, reducing CPU use while held.
• Changes to transient SENSITIVITY re-slice immediately on long samples.
• The browser closes after loading a sample in Slice mode.
• The browser closes after loading a preset, program, SoundFont preset or ReCycle loop.
• After loading several files to Drum mode, the pad after the last filled pad is selected.

Fixed

• Stabs and one-shots detected with a false tempo played out of key with REPITCH and SYNC enabled.
• Songs with a syncopated bassline could be detected at 4/3 of their tempo.
• Loops could be detected at 2/3 of their tempo.
• FREEZE widened the stereo image of narrow sounds.
• CPU spikes while holding a pitched FREEZE note.

Improved

• FREEZE playhead. While a frozen note is held, the playhead stops at the freeze point and pulses.
• FREEZE CPU use. Held frozen notes with SYNC enabled use approximately one third of the previous CPU.
• Slides in exported melodies. Melodies dragged to the DAW include slides as CC84 (portamento control). Slides glide on playback in DYSEKT and in synths that support CC84 or legato glide.
• Zoomed waveform rendering is consistent at all zoom levels.
• Reduced DAW load when editing slices.

Fixed

• Playhead stutter during playback of a zoomed slice.
• ONE SHOT slices with FREEZE now hold the frozen part only while the key is down.
• Overlapping notes in melodies exported with swing. Only slides overlap.
• Interface delays while stems load from disk.

New

• Per-row swing. Each drum sequencer row has its own SWING.
• Per-row direction. Each drum sequencer row plays forwards, backwards, ping-pong or random. Backwards playback keeps step 1 on the downbeat.
• Library settings. Settings › LIBRARY sets the folder rescan interval (4 hours, daily, weekly or manual), shows the number of indexed files and provides a REINDEX key.

Improved

• Effects run as a DAW insert on each slice, pad or zone, greatly reducing CPU use with chords and dense patterns.
• EQ point changes during playback are smoothed.
• Faster browser opening, including when the sample drive is asleep.
• Flat keys and chords display ♭ (B♭m9).
• Arpeggiator controls share one height and alignment.
• Arpeggiator ON and LATCH are in the panel header.
• Empty sequencers display a placeholder grid in all themes.
• One-shots without a detected tempo play at their own speed and pitch with SYNC enabled until a BPM is entered.

Fixed

• Clicks when switching previews in the browser.
• Pads with saturation, EQ, drive, filter, chorus or modulation effects cut off at the end of the note.
• The waveform zoom key in Keys mode disappeared during playback of a zoomed waveform.

New

• FREEZE. In the LOOP panel, FREEZE sustains a sound for as long as the note is held. Playback runs to the freeze point and continues as a steady tone from that moment, with each note of a chord keeping its pitch. The envelope shapes the held sound. The freeze point is set by dragging.
• Loop start and end are available as DAW automation parameters.
• Loop start and end are available as macro targets.

Improved

• The browser reopens at its previous location when the plug-in window is reopened.
• Browser previews stop when the plug-in window closes.
• Faster browser opening.
• Disconnected drives show OFFLINE instead of their last scan.
• Mixer faders and pans follow DAW automation.
• The version number is shown in the status line.
• Clearer warnings and update notice in the Old School theme.

New

• Short mixer. MIX opens under the waveform with pan, mute, solo, a fader and meter for every channel, and a key for its effects.
• Tall mixer. The expand key at the end of the tabs opens the full mixer with effect chains and outputs.
• Double-clicking an empty drum pad loads a sample into it.

Improved

• Faster kit, keygroup and SoundFont loading. Samples load in parallel and key detection runs afterwards. A 19-zone MPC keygroup loads in under 0.25 s (previously about 3 s); a 128-zone SoundFont piano in 0.1 s (previously over 3 s).
• Faster project reopening.
• Faster loading when several files are dropped at once.
• Large kits on slow drives show LOADING with a count.
• Smoother gradients, with no banding on dark screens and panels.
• The Old School theme is warmer and slightly darker, with lighter keys and pads.
• Browser: IN TEMPO is renamed SYNC.
• Browser: wider SWAP key.
• Slimmer fader caps.

New

• MELODY style. A melody generator style for any genre, from basslines up. FEEL sets the rhythm: 132 one-bar grooves across eleven feels, including Sparse, Heavy, Long, Broken, Driving and Acid. MOVE sets the note movement: ROOT, JUMP, WALK or SLIDE. Any feel combines with any move, giving 228,096 four-bar rhythms in every key across 28 scales.
• MELODIC is renamed LYRICAL and is a FEEL of the MELODY style.
• WALK writes stepwise lines with chromatic approach notes, slightly behind the beat.
• Whole-sequence view. ALL shows a full slice sequence variation on one line. A bar number zooms back in.
• Chord part. Chords recorded on the CHORDS tab, or a picked progression, loop in time with the track.
• FOLLOW CHORDS (in the melody's SCALE list) writes the melody or bass to the chord part as notes, so DRAG MIDI exports exactly what plays.
• FOLLOW CHORDS takes each note from the chord at its position in the timeline.
• Captured chord parts keep their timing to 1/16, including passing chords.
• CHORDS VOL sets the level of the chord part under the melody.
• With FOLLOW CHORDS enabled, ROOT becomes OCTAVE.
• PICK on the CHORDS tab selects which chords of a progression the melody follows, in the chosen order.
• The piano roll names the chords each phrase follows.
• LYRICAL places strong beats on the 3rd, 7th or 9th of the chord, keeps passing notes in key and slides into some notes.
• BASS TONE: a built-in bass voice for auditioning a line on any preset. Chords stay on the loaded sound.
• Slides: Option-click a note (Alt-click on Windows) to glide into it. BASS adds some automatically.
• ON THE 1 starts every bar on the root, in any style.
• ROLL renews BOTH, RHYTHM or NOTES. Right-clicking ROLL selects one phrase or all four.
• Piano roll: double-click adds or removes notes.
• Piano roll zoom by scroll, pinch or drag, with an overview strip of the whole phrase.
• Browser: MPC and Maschine programs preview with their included demo.
• Browser: other presets preview a major scale or their pads through their own samples.
• Browser: SWAP plays the selected file on the current pad or zone, with its settings, before loading.
• Cthulhu presets (.fxp) open as chord progressions, from the browser or by drag and drop.
• Keys: right-click ROOT, then click a keyboard key, to set the zone root.
• Undo includes melody edits made during playback.

Improved

• Reorganised melody tab.
• ROOT arrows move the whole line by an octave.
• Controls with arrows also open a list, including EQ band type, MIX outputs, and Auto Filter and Auto Pan rates.
• Patterns, variations, phrases and bars are copied by dragging one onto another, with a marker showing the item being moved. Right-click copy is removed.
• VEL starts at 0% on new melodies.

Changed

• The melody no longer follows chords live. FOLLOW CHORDS replaces the CHORDS switch.

Fixed

• BROWSE froze after a large drive was added.
• Quitting or closing the plug-in window hung after a large drive was added.
• Folders on large drives showed NO FILES or remained on SCANNING.

New

• Pads can be selected without playing them: Option-click (Alt-click on Windows), or enable SELECT beside the bank letters. MIDI notes still play.

Improved

• Pitched stretched samples use far less CPU. Each set pitch has its own pre-rendered version, with SYNC on or off, instead of real-time stretching per note. LFO pitch, glide, pitch bend and notes away from the root in Keys mode still use real-time stretching.

Fixed

• A saved drum or slice sequence set to ON was silent after a project loaded, until switched off and on.

Improved

• The stems progress bar advances continuously during long Best runs and upgrades.

Fixed

• Changing a sample's BPM during stem separation could leave it on analysing.

Fixed

• Opening an effect from the MIX tab and then changing it could copy the previously selected pad's effects onto that pad.

New

• Drum sequencer (Drum mode, SEQUENCE tab). Eight patterns, lengths from one beat to several bars, grids from 1/4 to 1/64 triplets, and MPC-style swing. Each row can have its own length and grid. Lanes set velocity, chance, ratchet, nudge and pitch per step. Plays with the DAW, or standalone with PLAY.
• Slice sequencer (Slice mode, SEQUENCE tab). Starts with the loop as sliced. ROLL creates a new variation from the loop's slices, with DRIFT and moves (reverse, ratchet, pitch, stems, rests). Eight variations, CHAIN to play them in order, EVOLVE for a new mutation every few bars, and per-step locking.
• Melody (Keys mode, MELODY tab). Generates melodies from a root and one of 28 scales, in four phrases with a phrasing order. STYLE selects RANDOM or MELODIC lines. With CHORDS on, held chords move the melody's beat notes onto chord tones during playback. Notes are editable on the piano roll, lockable, and can EVOLVE.
• MIX tab. A channel strip for every pad, slice or zone: fader with meter, pan, mute, solo, output and effect chain, plus the master.
• 8-band EQ with a live analyser of the signal before and after. Bands are edited on the graph, with scroll for Q, and the EQ opens full size over the deck. Every band's frequency, gain and Q is available for automation and macros. Projects saved before 1.2 keep their previous EQ sound (shown as CLASSIC) until it is changed.
• Browser. BROWSE in the top bar opens sample folders inside DYSEKT, with stars, recent files, BPM, key and length, and a waveform preview that can play in time with the track. Files load to a pad, the slice sample or a new zone, by drag and drop or multiple selection. Progression folders are in the browser.
• DRAG MIDI on every sequencer: the pattern, the variation or chain, or the melody.
• Old School theme: cream panels, coloured pads and a blue screen.
• Graphite theme: dark metal with neon.
• FX chooser: categories on the left and effects as tiles with a curve for each. Typing searches; Return adds.

Improved

• The open-sample dialog opens DYSEKT presets.
• Settings are reorganised into Appearance, Samples and Stems, one line per setting, with explanations in hover help.
• Progression folders moved from Settings to the browser.
• Lower CPU use in Slice mode with SYNC and STRETCH enabled: the stretched sample is rendered in the background and played from the render.
• Progression keys start on C1.
• Sequencer lengths display in bars and grids as note values (1/16, 1/8T).

Fixed

• Clicks when voices were stolen. The oldest note now fades out over a few milliseconds.
• A click at the loop point on some looped samples.
• Clicks on repeated notes in Keys mode. The previous note now fades over one cycle of its pitch.

New

• Full zone view (Keys mode). A key in the zone list header expands the list over the waveform and sound deck. The selected zone's controls and the keyboard remain. Esc or the same key returns.
• Compact zone rows. Half-height rows showing the zone name and its velocity or key range.
• As played (arpeggiator). Arpeggiates chords in the order played.
• Up and down arrow keys step through zones; Home and End select the first and last.

Improved

• Scrolling in lists, panels and the waveform matches the scroll distance.
• Mouse wheels move a fixed amount per notch.
• Smooth scrolling with precision touchpads on Windows.
• The zone list fades at its edge and shows the number of zones below; clicking the count scrolls to the next.
• KEY shows the pitch of single-cycle looped SoundFont samples.
• KEY uses DYSEKT's note naming (middle C is C3).
• Settings › About has a Documentation key.

Fixed

• Clicks when releasing looped sounds whose loop ends at the sample end, as in many SoundFonts. The loop now continues through the release, and a sample that runs out fades instead of cutting.
• Arpeggiator ACCENT played every step at the lower level. Steps on the beat now play at full velocity.
• SoundFont preset arrows and list stopped working after a read failure until another sample was loaded.
• SoundFont preset arrows did not skip presets that cannot load.

Improved

• The Keys zone waveform has a time ruler showing the loop range.
• LOW KEY, HIGH KEY, ROOT, VELOCITY, PORTAMENTO and BEND RANGE are in their own panel below the waveform.
• The open zone list shows three zones in full, leaving more room for the waveform.
• The DRAG MIDI hover help states that a click saves the capture as a file.

Fixed

• SoundFont presets with more than 128 zones lost their loudest velocity layers, silencing hard-played notes or upper keys. Zones that play the same sample are now merged, and similar velocity layers are combined when needed.

New

• Chord progressions. 704 progressions in 30 genres. PROGRESSION in Keys mode places each chord on its own key, lit and numbered on the keyboard. The list supports search, genre filters, a STARRED list, arrow stepping and transposition.
• CHORDS tab (Keys mode): strum (up, down or alternating), timing humanize, velocity spread and velocity humanize.
• MIDI capture. REC records played notes, including strum, humanize and arpeggios, for dragging to a DAW track or saving as a file.
• Arpeggiator (Keys mode, ARP tab). Plays scale chords (triads or 7ths) from a key and one of 12 scales, or a progression's chords. Six patterns, rates from 1/1 to 1/64 with triplets, 1 to 4 octaves, note length, swing from 50% to 75%, velocity modes and latch. Locks to the DAW grid during playback.
• CHORD selector in the Keys toolbar: OFF, MEMORY, PROGRESSION or ARP.
• MPC drum programs (.xpm) open in Drum mode with pad positions, volume, pan, tuning, mute groups, trims and trigger mode.
• MPC keygroup programs (.xpm) open in Keys mode with key ranges, roots, velocity layers and loops.
• Maschine groups (.mxgrp) open on pads A01 to A16.
• Maschine sounds (.mxsnd) with several samples open as Keys instruments with their root notes.
• ReCycle loops (.rx2, .rex, .rcy) open in Slice mode with their slices.
• Progression folders. Settings › LIBRARY adds folders of Ripchord (.rpc), MPC (.progression) and Scaler (.xml) progressions, each as its own category.
• Progression packs. Dropped .dysekt-chords packs install automatically.
• PRESET › LOAD PRESET opens MPC programs, Maschine groups and sounds, and SoundFonts, starting in the last used folder.
• Value entry. Double-clicking a knob's value or the pitch screen allows typing an exact value.
• Marker snapping. Shift while dragging a slice marker snaps to the nearest transient; Shift-Option (Shift-Alt on Windows) snaps to the beat grid.
• FOLLOW keeps the zoomed waveform on the playing slice.

Improved

• With Apply to set to All, controls indicate differing values: outlined options and switches, MIXED in fields and value ranges on knobs.
• With Apply to set to All, dragging a knob sets every slice to the same value; Option (Alt) moves all values while keeping their differences.
• A notice shows how many slices an edit changed.
• Tape Stop follows changes made while it is stopping.
• Noise gate level meter.
• Limiter GAIN control.
• The keyboard lights notes played from MIDI controllers and the DAW.
• Spreading zones around their root keys sorts the zone list in keyboard order.

Fixed

• Clicks on chord changes. A retriggered note now fades out over a few milliseconds, in mono and poly.
• Characters such as … and accented letters showed as boxes in some DAWs.

New

• Slice to MIDI. The MIDI button in the Slice toolbar creates a MIDI clip of the slices at their positions in the loop, at the sample's tempo. Dragging it to a DAW track and playing it through DYSEKT reproduces the original loop. Clicking the button saves a .mid file.

Improved

• The plug-in window never opens larger than the current screen. The saved size is restored when space allows.
• Settings › About has a Plugin Changelog button.
• Logs is renamed Debug Logs.

Fixed

• On macOS, the display could stop updating after a frame could not be shown, for example while the window was partly off-screen.

Fixed

• On macOS, folders with a dot in their name (such as drums_vol.1) could not be opened in the sample file browser.

New

• Missing-sample finder. Missing files are searched for in the folders where the project's other samples were found. Samples that cannot be found show Sample not found, and Load becomes Locate. A located file restores its slices and settings, and other missing samples are searched for near it.

Fixed

• Projects saved while samples were unavailable lost those samples' slices and pad settings. They are now kept until the files are found.
• Offline bounces of stemmed slices from long samples could briefly include the full mix.
• Stuck notes on stop. DYSEKT responds to MIDI all notes off and all sound off.
• On Windows, samples with accented or non-Latin file names could fail to load or reopen.

Improved

• Re-slicing with Transient, Beat, Region or Random keeps stem choices. Each new slice takes the stems of the part of the sample it covers.

Fixed

• In Cubase (macOS and Windows), notes stopped a few milliseconds after starting.

New

• SoundFont (SF2) and SFZ instruments in Keys mode. Key and velocity ranges, root notes, tuning, volume, pan, loops and the volume envelope are imported. Stereo samples become one zone, and exclusive groups become choke groups. Opening one from Slice or Drum mode switches to Keys mode.
• SoundFont preset list. Presets are listed by number and name, with type-to-search, arrow keys and Return. The ‹ › arrows in the zone list header step through presets, and the preset name reopens the list.
• SYNC per slice, pad and zone. SYNC follows Apply to. Older projects open with their previous setting on every slice. New SoundFont and SFZ zones start with SYNC off.
• Cyclic grain size. GRAIN sets Cyclic grain length from 10 to 200 ms.
• Foldable zone list (Keys mode). The chevron in the zone list header folds it into a strip with a map of all zones, tripling the waveform height. Clicking the strip selects a zone; repeated clicks step through overlapping zones. Double-clicking unfolds it. Replaces the waveform expand button.

Improved

• With a chord played on one zone, the playhead follows the longest-lasting note.
• The chord memory readout shows note names (C D# G A#).
• The Keys mode Low Key field is aligned with the waveform.
• The file name in the top bar opens the file browser on double-click only.

Projects saved in 1.0.8 or later require DYSEKT 1.0.8 or later.

Improved

• DYSEKT checks for updates when its window is first opened in a DAW session. No check runs during plug-in scans or offline.

Fixed

• With three or four LFO destinations enabled, the destination label overlapped the shape buttons. The label now shortens to fit.

Fixed

• Adding a marker selected the preceding slice instead of the new one.

New

• Zone reordering. Keys zones are reordered by dragging their names. The order is saved with the project.
• Spread Zones modes. Equal splits the keyboard evenly in list order with each root centred; Around Root Keys keeps each zone on its root and splits halfway between roots. Each zone keeps its own root.
• Vertical waveform zoom in Slice and Drum modes, ×1 to ×16. Display only, stored per mode. Click to step up, right-click to reset.

Fixed

• Held pads flickered when the mouse passed over other controls.

Improved

• Play To End works in Gate and Toggle as well as One Shot.

Improved

• Shorter hover help.
• The status bar help line no longer overlaps the version number or update notice. Long lines are trimmed.

Improved

• Host automation. 48 automation parameters: 1–16 continuous, 17–32 stepped and 33–48 switches. Assigning a control to an automation pad routes it to a free parameter of the matching type.
• Assigned parameters are named after their pad, for example A01 NOTE REPEAT (S1).
• Stepped parameters show their values in the DAW (such as +7 st or 1/16T).
• Moving an automated control moves its DAW parameter.
• Controls show the value currently applied by automation.
• Macros assigned to Semitone move in whole semitones.
• Support log in Settings › About › Logs, recording DYSEKT version, DAW, system and audio settings. No file names or audio are recorded.
• Smoother animation on Windows.

Fixed

• Assigning a stepped control to automation could shift its value.
• The zoomed waveform did not follow the playing slice.

Tempo Sync, Polyphony and Mono mode are no longer DAW automation parameters.

First release

• Slicer, drum sampler and multisampled instrument in one plug-in.
• Up to 128 slices by transient, beat, region, random or manual markers, each with its own sound, pitch and time, envelope, LFO and effects.
• Stem separation (drums, bass, music and vocals), with a stem selection per slice.
• 16 effect types per slice or on the master.
• 8 macros with MIDI learn.
• Note repeat with swing.
• Chord memory in Keys mode.
• VST3 and AU for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), VST3 for Windows. 14-day trial.