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Sjoerd van Kreel updates Firefly Synth to v1.6.1 with Mac support

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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.
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