Release notes

New: the riff engine

Erupting spike tips are quantised onto a swung 16th-note grid and recorded into a riff that loops. The physics decides the rhythm and the energy; your chord decides the pitches.

• The riff loops. Choose a 1, 2 or 4 bar loop, and set vary from a locked hypnotic riff to a line the fluid never stops rewriting.
• Hold a chord, get the groove. The riff arpeggiates the notes you hold over a 1 to 3 octave range, and follows your chord changes: same rhythm, new pitches. A bass anchor holds each downbeat.
• Play it like a synth. The keyboard now sounds the super saw directly, scale-snapped, with real sustain and sustain-pedal support, balanced against the groove by the new Keys control. Latch keeps everything rolling after you let go.
• New presets, led by Ferrofluid Dub. Nine reworked factory presets. Ferrofluid Dub, the slow swung echo-soaked one, is the new default patch.

Improvements

• Universal binary. One installer now covers Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
• Tighter timing and truer tempo sync. Notes land exactly on the grid, swing is proper MPC-style shuffle, and the echo is a true dotted eighth of the beat.
• A wider, darker super saw. A stereo ensemble widener, filter key-tracking, and a tone control with real authority from dark and plucky to wide open.

Fixes

• The footer controls no longer overlap the logo.
• The riff no longer freezes at high vary settings.

New: the Prog/Combi browser

“Browse banks” has grown into the Prog/Combi browser, one window for finding, auditioning, and switching every sound on your instrument.

• Browse your Combinations. Every combination bank on the Kronos (INT-A to INT-G and USER-A to USER-G) is now browsable by name, right next to your programs. Click a combination and the Kronos switches straight to it, with the editor putting the instrument into Combi mode for you. It is the fastest way to change patches at a rehearsal or on stage.
• Filter by category, just like the hardware. A row of category buttons (Keyboard, Organ, Strings, LeadSplits, BPM Sync, and the rest) shows every matching sound across all banks at once, with a second row of sub-categories (A.Piano, Real E.Piano, and so on) when you want to go finer. If you have renamed categories on your Kronos, the editor shows your names; it reads them from the instrument.
• See Programs and Combinations together. The new “Both” view puts programs and combinations in a single list, so one click on a category shows everything you own in that style, each row tagged Prog or Combi.
• A cleaner layout. Banks now sit in a compact rail on the left (just the letters, grouped Internal / User / GM), leaving the categories front and centre where you will use them most.
• The GM banks have their own button. The read-only General MIDI banks do not carry category data, so they get a dedicated GM filter button instead.
• The editor follows your hardware. Turn the dial on the Kronos in Program or Combi mode and the browser highlights the sound you land on.
• Import all banks covers everything. One click reads every program and combination name from the instrument, and the button now pulses while the import is running so you can see it working.
• Double-click to change and go. One click switches the Kronos to a sound and keeps the browser open for auditioning; a quick double-click switches and closes the browser in one motion.

Improvements

• Combinations join your Recent list. A combination you select appears in your recents like a program does, so you can jump back to it later; the editor re-enters Combi mode on the Kronos automatically. (Combinations are not editable in this version; the editor shows them by name, view-only.)
• Favorites for combinations. Star a combination in the browser or the Recent list and the Favorite flag is written back to the instrument, the same safe way program favorites are saved.
• Get from Kronos understands Combi mode. Pressing it while your Kronos is on a combination now pulls that combination, not a leftover program.
• Tidy your Recent list. Hover any recent row and a small ✕ appears to remove it from the list; the sound itself is untouched.
• Safer favorite stars in the Recent list. A recent's star now only works on the entry you have selected, so a stray click cannot write a Favorite to a patch you were not looking at.

Fixes

• Small visual polish across the browser and the footer.