Laura

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latest update changelog (16.06.2026), Mycelium, a field that couples your voices, and per-note MPE:

Mycelium: a shared field the voices feed and read together. It's the first part of Laura where the notes in a chord affect each other. Play a tight chord and the voices grow into one another and the sound drifts around itself; play it wide and they stay apart. How you voice the chord is the control, and four new sources (Value, two gradients, and Flow) carry the field into the rest of the synth.

Five factory presets built around Mycelium, so you can hear it without building a patch first: a slow drone whose voices drift apart under a held chord, a pad whose field pulses in time with the track, an expressive lead where leaning on one note feeds its bloom into the others, a generative texture, and a set of keys that leave a trail the next notes land in.

MPE, per note. Any MPE controller works, a Seaboard, a LinnStrument, a Push, anything that puts each note on its own channel. Every note carries its own pitch bend, pressure, and slide, and each lands on the right voice. Bend one note of a chord and the others hold. An MPE switch lives in the gear menu and on the VOICE panel, it remembers itself across presets, and if your controller announces its own setup Laura follows it. It's per note on polyphonic patches, which is how you'll play MPE; the mono modes and the sequencer's own notes use the main wheel instead.

Three new modulation sources you can use on any keyboard: Pressure (aftertouch), Mod Wheel, and Timbre (CC 74). Route them like you'd route an LFO.

A live picture of the Mycelium field with a marker on each playing voice, so you can see where every note is reading. A Depth knob rides the whole field's influence at once, and a CALM button clears it when a long chord has filled it up.

Two pitch bend ranges kept apart for MPE: a wide per-note range for finger slides, up to 48 semitones now, and a small master range for the main wheel.

A round of fixes underneath. The new sources reach every modulation target now, not just some. A filter mode that could drop to silence in a rare case is fixed. Your existing patches sound exactly as they did.
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Laura runs four oscillator engines under a single signal path: a full wavetable engine with a built-in editor (formula box, brushes, per-frame operators, up to 256 frames), classic analog-style oscillators (saw, square, triangle, sine, pulse), two-operator FM, and a set of fractal kernels (Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Tricorn, Multibrot, Newton). The fractal kernels are the headline. Their complex-plane coordinate is exposed as a parameter, so modulating it navigates a parameterized space of harmonic content rather than scrubbing between pre-baked frames. Park on a coordinate, attach an LFO to it, and you get slow timbral drift that is hard to reproduce by other means.

Around the oscillators sits a modulation matrix with six envelopes, four LFOs with editable shapes, and a macro layer that combines sources before they reach a destination. Every modulator slot can flip into a multi-segment user-drawn curve via the built-in MSEG editor, with per-segment tension, loop and sustain markers at any float position, tempo-synced rates from 1/32 to four bars, and a gallery of shape templates.

Filter+ is the signature filter section. It hosts Synapse, a 4-pole signature low-pass with always-on warmth, drive-mode-shaped resonance, and a built-in Sing wave-folder that turns the resonance peak into a harmonic, almost vocal bloom. It also offers the usual SVF-based types, ten pre-filter drive characters (Tube, Tape, Diode, Fold, Soft, Hard, Aurora, Mirage, Halo, Tanh), a series high-pass, a live response curve, and conditional dimming on controls that have no effect at the current settings.

The sequencer is its own instrument. Eight features that go past what the usual step sequencers do: per-step modulation lanes, conditional triggers, feel presets, fractal node generation, brush editing, shape-as-canvas drawing, a tension macro, and per-node lane targets. You can sketch a melodic idea, then morph it across a performance without ever touching a piano roll.

New compressor with Bloom, Drift, Pump, Spectral and Harmonics modes. Bloom and Drift are Laura-specific characters you won't find on other compressors. Use them as a finisher on the master bus or as a sound-design tool inside the FX rack.

The 16-slot FX rack covers chorus, delay, distortion, phaser, flanger, reverb (algorithmic and convolution with your own IRs), EQ, and a granular cloud, plus the new compressor above. When inspiration runs late, the DICE button rolls a curated patch and gets you back to playing.

Licensing is offline, with no telemetry and no cloud server. A 30-minute-per-session demo runs on any machine without an account.

Features:

• Four oscillator engines: wavetable, FM, classic analog, fractal.
• New preset manager.
• Signed and notarised + installer files for easy installing.
• 3 sequencer modes so you can make the most of this.
• Six fractal kernels: Mandelbrot, Julia, Burning Ship, Tricorn, Multibrot, Newton.
• Built-in wavetable editor with brushes, formula box, and up to 256 frames.
• Modulation matrix: six envelopes, four LFOs, macro layer.
• MSEG editor on every modulator slot, tempo-synced, with loop and sustain markers.
• Filter+ section with Synapse signature filter and Sing wave-folder.
• Ten pre-filter drive characters.
• 16-slot FX rack including convolution reverb with user IR support.
• DICE buttons for randomization.
• AU and VST3, macOS and Windows, all included.
• Offline activation, no telemetry, no cloud.
• Lifetime license, free lifetime updates.
• 30-minute-per-session free demo.

System Requirements:

• macOS (Intel or Apple Silicon) or Windows 10+.
• AU or VST3 host.

~60 MB disk space.

NEW: Standalone app is now shipped as well, you can use it without a DAW to play around. Hope you have fun and thank you so much for supporting a solo developer <3 All the money made from this go directly into improving it further and making Laura even better! Please do not hesitate to send feedback or leave a review, thank you! Latest update adds auto-updated and some UI polish (since 09.06.2026)