Sjoerd van Kreel updates Firefly Synth to v1.7.3 - Automation bugfix

28th April 2024

Sjoerd van Kreel has updated the free Firefly Synth to 1.7.3. It is a major fix - automation data had stopped working on Bitwig and FL Studio.

The changelog includes:

Swapped envelope sustain and smoothing in the GUI.
Bugfix: Shrunk FX title size to fit on mac.
Bugfix: Do not store plugin settings directly under Linux user home folder.
Bugfix: internal block splitting did not respect sample accurate automation.
Bugfix: automation changes were reported back to the host, which caused automation to stop working entirely in Bitwig and FL Studio.
Updated dependencies to latest (JUCE, VST3, CLAP).
Bugfix: the windows .zip archives are now actually .zip archives, not zipped .tar files.
Breaking change: reduced max oversampling to 4x to cut down on memory usage.
Breaking change: reduced max voice count from 128 to 64 (more memory cut down). Global unison voices also come out of the 64 available.
Split up internal processing into multiple fixed size buffers to not have memory usage dependent on the host buffer size. This costs a bit of CPU, hopefully not too bad.