Surge Synth Team updates Surge to Surge XT 1.0

The Surge Synth Team has updated Surge (formerly by Vember Audio) to Surge XT 1.0.

Surge XT contains a massive number of new features and infrastructural improvements. Highlights include:

• The entire synth has been ported to the JUCE framework, making for far more reliable plugins and behavior, as well as providing us loads of dev tools.

• The entire UI is now accessible to screen readers and other accessible tools for near-complete accessible navigation and editing.

• The power of the modulation section has been expanded, introducing vector modulators and a new Formula modulator.

• Additionally, modulation section has been expanded with a modulation list, which lets you navigate and modify all modulation routings in one view.

• The FX section has been expanded, allowing twice as many FX per patch and adding new FX including Spring Reverb and several new Airwindows.

• The waveshapers has been expanded, going from 5 types to 43.

• Filters have been expanded with a new filter model, Tri-Pole.

• Patch search and favorites have been added to the Patch Browser.

• Loads of new microtuning features, including an extensive tuning editor and analyzer.

• Innumerable bugs have been fixed and added many UI features were added, including more use of drag and drop, windows which can tear out, and keyboard shortcuts.

• A lot of new patches showcasing new features.

Surge XT is available at: surge-synthesizer.github.io

You can read the changelog at: surge-synthesizer.github.io/changelog

Surge is free and open source software, released under GPL3 license.