You can download directly from www.kvraudio.com/kvr-studio-manager or if you launch KSM it'll offer the download automatically.
Release Notes
Version 0.4.0.0 (Public Beta)
- Initial AAX Support (please scan and sync so we can asses the quality of the scan data).
- Custom Scan Timeout for failed plugins:
- After scanning, any plugin that timed out will be listed in the error list as "File scan timed out".
- Right-click on it and choose "Scan with a longer timeout (n s) next time" (n will be a value double the previous timeout).
- Next time you scan it will try for longer before giving up. Repeat until successful.
- Note: Waves Waveshells should already be set to 120 seconds by default.
- Note: some plugins will always timeout (e.g. unactivated demo / expired iLok plugins). These can now be permanently excluded (see below).
- Exclude timed-out or duplicate plugins from future scans:
- Right-click on a plugin in the the Scan Report error list and choose the exclude option. It will not be scanned in future scans but will continue to be shown in the error list but marked as excluded rather than as a failure. You can right-click to re-include it.
- Scan a single plugin (i.e. without a full rescan).
- Last Modified and Files Size columns added to plugin list.
- Numerous plugin-, version- and brand-detection improvements.
- Numerous duplicate-plugin false-positives fixed.
- Better support for plugins where the developer name cannot be detected accurately (e.g. when they are empty or erroneously reported as things like "Company Name", "My Company", "Vendor", etc.).
- Miscellaneous other tweaks.
- Some CLAP plugins do not report a version number (DISTRHO-based?).
- Duplicate Plugin Report: May display some false positives.
- Fixed "Unknown error communicating with KVR server" when syncing if multiple formats were selected in the Formats menu.
- Kontakt Library Support (Kontakt Player *.nicnt)
- Added a “Don’t ask again” option to the “Leaving KVR website” dialog. The option can be reset in the Settings dialog.
- CLAP File Search Paths added to Settings for those that use a non-standard CLAP plugin folder.
- CLAP plugins now correctly identified as Instrument or Effect.
- Fixed: If a CLAP plugin did not report a version number it was not removed from the plugin list if it was removed from the folder. It is now removed as expected.
- Fixed issue with Unicode characters in filenames causing plugin to fail to scan.
- Improved reporting of timeouts in scan report.
- GUI Tweaks:
- Statuses now switch on single click (Shift + Click to select multiple).
- Hidden & Excluded selectors moved to a dedicated menu.
- Formats menu and Hidden & Excluded menus repositioned.
- Formats menu remembers selected formats.
- Squashed text eradicated.
- Miscellaneous other tweaks.
- Network timeout increased - this should enable users with a very large number of plugins or slower connections to sync successfully.
- Substantially reduced size of network / data response when syncing.
- Improved handling of network errors.
- Miscellaneous fixes and optimisations.
- Fixed potential crash when clearing the plugin list on macOS.
- Fixed potential crash when running plugin scanners.
- Fixed white background on transparent developer logos.
- VST3 categories are now displayed correctly (KSM will clear your plugin list and force a full rescan upon first use of 0.2.1.0).
- If a file fails to scan you can now right click on the plugin in the scan error report and choose "Show Log" to see what the problem is (although it may be opaque...).
- The Scan Error Log can be saved as text file.
- Miscellaneous fixes and internal changes to support upcoming 0.3.0.0.
- Rearchitected VST3 scanner:
- Parallel scanning.
- 10 second process timeout by default. Timeout can be changed in Options > Settings
- Automatic retry for failed plugins (will retry once).
- Should now find some plugins it didn't find before.
- Fixed: Plugins that hang or crash KSM now scan correctly or fail gracefully.
- Fixed: Updated plugins not detected on scan.
- Fixed: Folders and Plug-ins with same name misidentified as duplicates.
- Fixed: Saved password not updated if password changed (Mac).
- Miscellaneous internal changes.
- 0.1.9.3: CLAP scanner now detects DISTRHO, Fabfilter, u-he and more.
- Rearchitected CLAP scanner (now out of process; many fixes; shouldn't crash KSM).
- Rearchitected AU scanner (Should now find plugins it didn't find before; more accurate version reporting).
- Improved background loading / downloading of brand images. This should fix UI hangs / freezes particularly with large plugin lists.
- Added Status Info hover tooltip for "Unsupported" plugins to provide more information about the reason they are unsupported (if specified).
- Miscellaneous internal changes.
- HTTP logging is now off by default to save space (enable from Options > Settings > Log HTTP requests).
- Why? Each time KSM is synced with KVR it logs the entire request and response which can result in KSM's log file increasing in size unnecessarily, particularly if the user has many plugins installed. Making it optional means it can be enabled for troubleshooting but be left off by default.
- Improved CLAP scanner (fixes reported crashing issues).
- Improved error message displayed if the KVR server returns a response that can't be interpreted by KSM.
- Scan errors are (partially) logged to the application log.
- Miscellaneous internal changes.
- User access issues resolved (password verification and firewall block issues).
