Sjoerd van Kreel has updated the free Firefly Synth to v1.6.1 for Windows, Linux, and now macOS. Since its release in January, Firefly synth has been updated several times:
April 2, 2024 - v1.6.1:
- Add Intel Mac support.
March 31, 2024 - v1.6.0:
- Add Mac support. Apple silicon only.
March 28, 2024 - v1.5.1:
- Add new preset (big pad 3 with global unison).
March 27, 2024 - v1.5.0:
- Add global unison support. Heavy on the CPU, benefits from CLAP threadpool.
March 24, 2024 - v1.4.1:
- Add some color schemes.
- Add version info to GUI.
- Add system DPI awareness.
- Increase undo history size.
- Organize presets in folders.
- Copy/paste patch from system clipboard.
March 18, 2024 - v1.4.0:
- Add some soft clippers.
March 15, 2024 - v1.3.1:
- Add some themes (just basic color schemes).
March 14, 2024 - v1.3.0:
- Add theming support.
- Add 4 themes: current, current flat, infernal, infernal flat (re-introduced everyone's favourite creepy images.).
- Added a new preset.
March 10, 2024 - v1.2.4:
- Swap out native message boxes for JUCE alert windows so they react to content scaling.
March 10, 2024 - v1.2.3:
- Bugfix: undo menu did not react to content scaling.
March 9, 2024 - v1.2.2:
- Change max UI scale factor from 200% to 800%.
March 8, 2024 - v1.2.1:
- Add big pad 2 preset.
- Scale back default UI width to 1280.
- Bugfix: osc graph scales to 100% * gain.
- Bugfix: default global SVF keyboard tracking to 0.
- UI scaling from 50% to 200% (was 100 to unlimited).
March 6, 2024 - v1.2.0:
- Lots of small UI fixes / clean-up.
- Rename saw waveshaper to off.
- Add 2 extra master CV aux parameters.
- Fixed a bug in the triangle waveshaper.
- Drop square waveshaper (bug, it shouldn't have been there).
- Comb filter gets additional mode select (feedback/feedforward/both).
- Split out combined comboboxes to separate controls:
- NOTE. This is a breaking change for automation on those parameters.
- LFO mode + sync.
- Delay mode + sync.
- LFO shape + skew controls.
- FX Type + distortion mode.
- Envelope type + slope mode.
- Distortion shaper + skew controls.
- Rearranged LFO/distortion shape options
- NOTE. This is a breaking change for automation on this parameter.
February 25, 2024 - v1.11:
- Add some more presets and fix some existing ones.
February 25, 2024 - v1.1:
- Allow envelopes as target in CV-to-CV matrix. Envelopes can be modulated by master in section or global LFOs.
February 19, 2024 - v1.09:
- Add fx-only plugin version.
February 14, 2024 - v1.08:
- Bugfix: reset voice manager state upon plugin (de) activate.
- Bugfix: do not assume CLAP host can do threadpool.
- Bugfix: do not assume CLAP host can do ostream with unlimited size.
- Bugfix: do not report stale value from CLAP GUI to host, sync with audio first.
February 12, 2024 - v1.07:
- Add another preset (matching to infernal synth's acid line).
February 12, 2024 - v1.06:
- Add monophonic mode.
- Add another preset to go with it.
February 10, 2024 - v1.05:
- Add some presets.
- Add an extra oscillator.
- LFO x/y become continuous parameters.
- Bugfix: Basic oscillator with no waveforms must not be processed.
- Add CV-to-CV routing matrices (modulate LFO by another LFO or envelope).
February 8, 2024 - v1.04:
- Add scale and offset for CV matrices.
February 3, 2024 - v1.03:
- Add manual / overview document.
February 2, 2024 - v1.02:
- Add detailed parameter reference.
January 31, 2024 - v1.01:
- Add per-oscillator gain control.
- Make the UI a bit wider to prevent GUI clipping.
- Bugfix: do not limit whitenoise oscillator to nyquist.
- Bugfix: envelope whould incorrectly show as tempo-synced.
