Changelog

New

• Three control sizes on dashboards. Make what matters big and side controls small. Each page has room for up to 32 controls.
• Groups. Controls in the same group sit together in a labelled box. Narrow groups sit side by side.
• Step sequencers (for example “Step 1–16”) appear as bars you can paint across. Gate steps snap.
• XY pads for parameter pairs such as “Filter 1 X/Y”.

Improved

• Wi-Fi setup follows Apple’s steps: Audio MIDI Setup → Network → session “Network MIDI 2.0”. The help says which macOS version you need: 26.4 or later.
• Dashboard files from earlier versions keep working.

New

• Preset browser. The plugin’s factory presets and your own .aupreset files, with search and filters (factory, saved with KnobShift, folders). Tap to load.
• Previous/next arrows in the header step through presets.
• Save sound … saves the current sound as a readable .aupreset file in a KnobShift folder next to the plugin’s other presets.

New

• Log file for bug reports. The KnobShift Companion writes what happens – start, bridge connections, loaded plugins, focus, USB – to a text file in your Downloads folder. “Show log” in the menu opens it.
• New crash reports from Logic, Ableton Live and the Audio Unit host are added as a short summary, together with the last bridge entries.

New

• Your own parameter names. Rename any parameter in Customize. Names apply per plugin and in every DAW, and travel with exported dashboards.

Improved

• Plugin subcategories (such as “FX → Reverb” or “Oscillators → Osc 1”) become one panel with a switcher instead of many separate panels.
• The bridge window takes the size of the plugin. Resizable plugins scale with it.
• Section pages scroll instead of stacking panels.

Fixed

• Logic no longer crashes when you remove the KnobShift Bridge from a track while its window is open.
• No more empty area when the selected section doesn’t exist in the next plugin.

New

• Serum 2 “Standard” dashboard with four pages: performance, oscillators, filter and envelopes, play and arp. Reset your own changes to it any time.
• LFO table. Ten identical LFOs appear as one table (rows = LFOs, columns = controls) instead of ten panels.
• Waveform display for oscillators. Drag it to change position and level.

Improved

• The bridge passes up to 2048 parameters (was 512) and skips placeholder entries that only map a MIDI CC. Serum 2 now shows all 541 real parameters, including every FX slot.
• Modules with many controls are split into sections (main, unison, warp, playback, pitch) instead of “+N more”.
• All parameters has filters by section, “Changed”, “Favorites” and “Free slots”, and search understands several words.
• Dashboards also match by plugin name, so the same dashboard works with the AU in Logic and the VST3 in Ableton Live.

Improved

• Modules have an on/off switch in their header; off modules are dimmed.
• Tuning (octave, semitone, fine) is one control. Mod matrix and routing appear as tables, showing only used slots.
• Dashboard import reads files strictly as data, with size and count limits; invalid files are rejected.
• Dashboards survive plugin updates: if a parameter ID changes, KnobShift finds it by name; missing parameters keep their place.

Fixed

• Logic’s Audio Unit host no longer crashes after you switch plugins in the bridge several times.

New

• Fixed sections – oscillators, filter, envelopes, LFOs, modulation, effects, arp, global – instead of one page per plugin group. Modules sit side by side, like Serum’s OSC A, B and C.
• Performance page with eight large faders: the plugin’s macros if it has them, otherwise its most important parameters.
• Curves you can drag for envelopes (attack, hold, decay/sustain, release) and filters (cutoff and resonance).
• Dashboards: your own selection of controls per synth, optionally only for one DAW. Share them via AirDrop, Files or Messages.
• Customize: choose how each control looks, fill the start page, hide parameters. Saved per plugin.
• DAW detection: the bridge tells the iPad whether it runs in Logic Pro or Ableton Live.
• Connection help for USB, Wi-Fi and the demo, with step-by-step troubleshooting.
• Nine languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Fixed

• The Companion and the iPad app no longer crash when an external MIDI 2.0 device sends data.

New

• Installer for the Mac with the KnobShift Companion (starts automatically), the KnobShift Bridge plugins (AU and VST3, instrument and effect), the Ableton Live remote script and an uninstall script.
• Automatic iPad detection: the Companion recognises iPads as soon as they ask over MIDI-CI – over USB, or through a Network MIDI 2.0 session from macOS 26.4. Other MIDI devices are left alone.

Improved

• The bridge gets its plugin list directly from macOS instead of test-loading every Audio Unit, and loads plugins in the background.

Fixed

• Logic never freezes waiting for the Companion: messages go through a queue on their own thread. Tested with a frozen Companion, Logic’s main thread waited at most 7 ms.