A new version of Tunefish 4 has been released with lots of juicy new features. One of the most releaving for many should be the fact that presets are no longer delivered as a batch of extra files that need installing. The factory presets are now baked into the AU/VST. Changes to any preset are however stored in files as usual. Here's the complete list of changes:

• Upgrade to JUCE 5.3.0
• VST3 Plugin now included
• Factory patches now stored inside Plugin. No separate programs folder is needed anymore.
• changes in programs are now saved in user directory
• fixed a pitch bending issue
• added meters
• added keyboard
• added patch loader and factory writer
• several small fixes
• new patches made by Anders Lund Olsen

A new Tunefish v4 release is done and many thanks go to Cognitone for some nice extensions to Tunefish they created. Also check out their fork Sprike on Github which has yet more modifications to vanilla Tunefish. Ah yes, that also means Tunefish4 has gone open source in the meantime so check out the code and help improve the synth.

Changes:

• Patches are continued to be loaded, if one of the files is missing
• Comboboxes are now switching correctly when selecting a new entry
• LFO sync fixed.
• Unneeded areas in the synth become disabled so less confusing what is currently relevant.
• Many small issues fixed in the codebase

A new Tunefish v3 release is done and now it is finally cross platform just as v4 already is. The UI was rewritten to match the style of v4. Several bugs were also fixed.

Changes:

• Synth is now cross platform and has a new UI.
• Saving an instrument caused the preset file to grow larger and larger due to appending instead of rewriting the contents.
• Restore instrument button did not work.
• Instrument count is now 1000.
• ADSR1 will not cut the note if ADSR2 is still going.
• Fixed Reverb width.

A patchrelease for Tunefish 4 was just finished. It fixes a series of bugs listed below. Thank you to everybody who helped testing. As a side note I should mention I am looking for people to help design the factory soundset for TF4, since this is still very small so far.

Changes:

• When using no ADSR, instruments were cut immediatelly resulting in plopping. This is fixed.
• ADSR zero decay will no longer cause volume go up and cause things like reverb crashes or host going to mute.
• Saving an instrument caused the preset file to grow larger and larger due to appending instead of rewriting the contents.
• Restore instrument button did not work.
• Instrument count is now 1000.
• ADSR1 will not cut the note if ADSR2 is still going.
• Fixed Reverb width.

Thanks to many bugreports from people I could now finalize the Windows and Mac versions of Tunefish4. I can only assume it is stable by now since I do not get anymore mails ;) If you find more problems, don't hesitate to let me know. In the meantime here's now also the Linux version which is so far only tested by me on Ubuntu 13.10 where I also built it. Let me know if it works and especially test it on other distributions or Ubuntu versions if you can. Thanks for trying out Tunefish and I hope you will have fun using it!

Changes:

• Fixed crash in Mac version caused by validation
• Fixed updating of instrument dropdown when instrument changes in host
• Fixed Mac version so it runs on older processors
• Added new presets (courtesy of J.Ruegg)

The new version of Tunefish is finally out as beta for Windows and Mac as VST and Audio Unit. Please try it out and report errors and problems if you find them. Otherwise I hope you'll have much fun using it.

UPDATE: The Mac download was just updated because of some changes/fixes in the build process.

A big thank you goes to the One Synth Challenge organizers who in November held one of their monthly competitions with Tunefish v3. With the help of the many contributors to this competition, I could fix many bugs and add many community-created patches to the factory soundbank. I hope you will have fun playing around with that synth and stay tuned for the Tunefish v4 beta which will start in January.

The previously unreleased version 2 was now released to the public. Additionally to that, I am currently working on the new TF4 and some last fixes to TF3 to make it final at last.

The release candidate for TF3.1 was just released. There are quite a number of changes:

• Fixed bug in spline oscillator when using spline mode and 3 waypoints.
• Implemented Spline control.
• Implemented auto-offset for spline oscillator. manual offset parameter removed. it's no longer possible to create an un-balanced signal.
• vastly improved unisono hit on CPU.
• Got rid of many drop down boxes in favor of buttons.
• Got rid of old knobs in favor of new ring scale buttons with value display.
• Implemented manage dialog for easy managing of instruments.
• Added pulse and noise waveforms to LFO

Since it was requested, I brought back the colored buttons and I also rearranged the UI to fit completely on smaller screens.

A new beta version was released today. It fixes a crash bug in the unisono code and adds a new UI style that looks a bit more fancy now.

Today the new site was launched to release Tunefish v3 to the public.