Tone2 Audio updates RayBlaster to v2.6

Tone2 Audio has updates their Impulse-Modeling-Synthesizer RayBlaster to v2.6, a major update, which is available for free.

It includes a big GUI, many new features, higher sound-quality, many enhancements and some fixes.

RayBlaster 2.6 is downward-compatible with all previous versions. All existing song projects and patches can be loaded without any further steps necessary. They will benefit from the enhanced sound-quality.

New features:

• A big interface is available beside of the normal scale now.
• It is possible to select from 4 GUI sizes in 'Setup'.
• The texts shown in the patch-browser on Mac support Hi-DPI drawing.
• The plugin detects the best GUI-size automatically.
• Added Digital-Signatures for the installers on PC.
• Added Notarisation for the installers on Mac.
• Support for Code-Signing on the Mac, since new hosts may require it to be able to run plugins.
• Compatibility with MacOS Catalina.
• Completely new AudioUnit interface.

Enhancements:

• More harmonic overall sound.
• Enhanced sound of 'Chorus' and 'Ensemble'. They sound smoother and less detuned.
• Enhanced sound of 'Delay', 'Delay Band', 'PingPong', 'Multitap', 'Delay Diffuse' and 'Delay Dual'. The echo sounds less detuned.
• Higher precision audio-rendering.
• Workaround for a well-known bug in Apple's AU-manager: It is not longer necessary to reboot the Mac to detect the plugin.
• Some texts on newer OS X-versions were looking ugly.
• More contrast for the user-interface.
• Removed the ugly reflections of the borders from the GUI.
• PC-version is loading faster.
• Better compatibility with Windows 10.
• Activation-dialogue in also available in German.

New features and enhancements (standalone-version for PC):

• Added a recorder that can export your jam-session to a WAV-file.
• The BPM-rate can be changed.
• Added a soft-clipping-algorithm with low harmonic distortion.
• The current patch can be saved on exit and is reloaded automatically on start.
• MME-driver support.
• Midi-through support with output-routing.
• Added MIDI-velocity-curves with multipoint-splines.
• Optional MIDI-transposition with up to +-48 semitones.
• Optional MIDI-channel-filtering.
• The current BPM-rate, CPU-load and volume is shown on the top-panel.
• Tooltips are shown on the top-panel.
• Lower latency for the sound-card drivers.
• More responsive GUI with 120 Hz refresh-rate for smooth knob movements.

Fixes:

• The check-mark for the patch selector was missing in some hosts after closing and opening the GUI.
• Fixed some GUI glitches in the browser which could appear if very long names are used.
• Fixed the Y-coordinates of the texts on Mac.
• Fixed a rarely appearing crash on the Mac that could happen when the plugin was deleted while a tooltip was shown.
• Fixed a rarely appearing problem when envelope-parameters were not updated correctly.
• Fixed an unlikely crash on the Mac which happened if the plugin was closed immediately after opening the browser.
• Fixed a bug in the fast-sine-approximation on PC.
• Fixed a bug with list-selectors on Mac 64-bit.
• Updated some deprecated links.

Changes:

• 32-bit on Mac is not longer supported. If you still use it, install RayBlaster 2.5 instead.
• MacOS 10.7 is the minimum requirement now. If you use 10.6 or 10.5, install RayBlaster 2.5 instead.

For more info about RayBlaster visit: tone2.com/rayblaster2

Download-link (update and free demo-version): tone2.com/download