Updates

Update log

1. v1.324 Jul 2026Latest

   Faster, cleaner and deeper. Big sampler and effects upgrades, new modulation, and two new expansions.

   ⚡ Faster and cleaner

   • Opens 11.6 times faster. LEADR is ready almost the moment you load it.
   • Pops and cracks exterminated. Clean playback with no clicks.

   🎛 Sampler upgrades

   • Zoom editor: right-click a sample to open a close-up editor.
   • Crossfade trim: cleaner, smoother loops.
   • Samples can now be looped, reversed and pitched on their own.
   • Pitch knobs for the sampler and synth, so you can tune each source.
   • Three new resample modes.

   🎚 New and improved effects

   • LOFI: Crush has grown into a full bit-reduction effect.
   • Three new filter types.
   • New reverb with fresh reverb types.
   • New delay with fresh delay types.
   • Trance gate added.

   🎹 Modulation, chords and scales

   • Mod button: modulate almost anything with a drawable mod shape.
   • Voice leading for smoother chord changes.
   • Harmonic minor scale added.

   🗂 Presets and workflow

   • Choose a default preset in the big preset manager.
   • The Craft button is now MIDI CC assignable.
   • Lyric Book added.

   📦 New expansions

   • BASS by my friend Mon: 22 new bass presets.
   • Beauty & Pain by me: a brand new expansion.
2. v1.27 Jul 2026

   The biggest LEADR update yet. New sound engines, a full preset library, expansions, and Logic support.

   🎛 New sound sources

   • Instruments: physically modelled guitar, strings, voice, choir and flute. A third source next to the sampler and oscillator.
   • Instrument Stage: set those instruments up as a mini band in a room. Speakers set the width, the carpet sets the damping, lamps and a projector set the mood.
   • Textures: layer ambient beds (rain, birds, room tone, chimes) under your sound.

   🎹 Playing & performance

   • Chord Lock: turn single notes into full chords. Scale, fixed and custom voicings, with strum. Sends the chord to your DAW as MIDI.
   • New arpeggiator: the WATERFALL engine plus a drawable custom arp. Gate, swing, dynamics, grouping, 2-hand, latch, stab, and DICE for fresh patterns. Live visualiser, note flash and saveable arp presets.
   • OSC octave key: shift just the oscillator up or down an octave.

   🗂 New preset browser & library

   • A full-window browser with three panes: presets, expansions and one-shots.
   • Tags, ratings, search, and sortable, resizable columns.
   • Anatomy card: see a preset's one-shots, oscillator and texture at a glance, with waveform previews.
   • Manage: rename, move, delete and organise banks. Find Missing repoints broken sample paths.
   • Smart Library: unused one-shots go dormant. Click any one-shot to preview it.

   📦 Expansions

   • Install and export expansion packs (.leadrbank) with cover art.
   • Organica: the first free expansion, now bundled in.

   🎚 Effects & shaping

   • Interactive ADSR: drag and bend the envelope.
   • Master EQ, auto-wah, band-split FX (send delay, reverb or distortion to low or high bands), ping-pong loop, tempo-synced delay, per-source FX and filter routing, and an FX Mix macro.
   • The Forge: make a new preset by blending two. Plus History, and Craft Link to sync settings between instances.
   • Oscilloscope and spectrum, macro joystick, velocity layering and drag-out MIDI.

   👤 The USER folder

   • Studio Time (session stats, streaks, goals), Lyric Book, Producer Guide and The Vault.
   • Built-in update check and one-click bug report.

   💻 Platform

   • Now ships as VST3 and AU, so LEADR runs in Logic Pro and GarageBand.
   • Universal binary (Apple Silicon and Intel), macOS 10.15+.
   • Windows (VST3).
   • Signed and notarised installer.

   🛠 Fixes & polish

   • Fixed a rare click on fast note retriggers.
   • Fixed an FL Studio hang or crash when saving or closing a project.
   • Deleting a preset now asks first.
   • Many stability, performance and UI fixes.
3. v1.0First release
   • LEADR is live: a lead-focused sampler and synth with a three-mode chord lock, the WATERFALL arpeggiator, a full FX rack, 200+ presets and 500+ one-shots.