What's New

A drum synth joins the sampler: 21 analog-modeled voices in the style of the two most famous drum machines ever made.

• NewDrum Synth — any pad can now play one of 21 analog-modeled classic drum voices instead of a sample: twelve 808-style (kick, snare, clap, toms, congas, rimshot, claves, cowbell, maracas, hats, cymbal) and nine 909-style (kick, snare, toms, rimshot, clap, hats, crash, ride). Right-click a pad to place one.
• NewEach drum voice gets a dedicated editor with its model's authentic hardware controls — Tune, Decay, Tone, Snappy, Attack, Accent — plus a Vintage/Clean character switch for the 12-bit grit.
• NewFactory TR-808 Kit and TR-909 Kit presets: 16 pads each, tuned tom rows, and open/closed hats pre-wired to choke each other like the hardware.
• NewStarter grooves — loading a factory drum kit drops four classic beats (House, Boom Bap, Electro, Miami Bass) into empty pattern slots, mapped to the kit. Non-destructive: empty slots only, added once, your patterns are never touched.
• NewThe 909-style hats, crash, and ride reproduce the original architecture — 6-bit sample playback through an analog-style VCA, with closed and open hats sharing one source — from material DMC60 generates itself.
• ImprovedVelocity drives hardware-style accent on drum synth voices: harder hits get more saturation, click, and pitch-sweep depth, not just more level.

A ground-up DSP overhaul of the effect suite — every effect reviewed, retuned, and rebuilt where it counted.

• NewThe plate reverb is now a true plate — a classic Dattorro-style tank with a denser, smoother tail. Same controls and presets, much better sound.
• NewThe limiter is now a true lookahead limiter that catches peaks before they land, and the compressor gained a linked soft-knee response for smoother, stereo-stable gain reduction.
• NewThe chop window has a redesigned console-style layout that puts the waveform, slice controls, and transport in one focused view.
• ImprovedEvery effect parameter now glides instead of stepping — sweeping a knob mid-performance no longer zippers or clicks, and knob tapers were retuned so the musical range of each control sits where your hand expects it.
• ImprovedTrack EQ adjustments are click-free: dragging a band or toggling it on and off glides smoothly, even during playback.
• ImprovedChorus, flanger, and phaser got a fidelity pass — a wider, more even stereo image and cleaner modulation from higher-quality interpolation.
• FixedA round of effect DSP bugs from a deep review: gain staging and wet/dry behavior on send buses is now correct, so effects hit the master at the level you set.
• FixedSliced samples: waveform drawing, project reload, and replacing a slice's source audio no longer misbehave.

The keygroup synth becomes a performance instrument: pitch bend, sustain pedal, and a one-knob mod-wheel filter control.

• NewPitch bend now works on keygroup patches out of the box — the wheel bends the whole voice (oscillators and sample layer together), with a per-patch bend range saved alongside the sound. Mod-matrix pitch-bend routings stack on top for deeper patching.
• NewSustain pedal (CC64) support: held keygroup notes — and any gate-mode pads — keep ringing while the pedal is down and release together when you lift it, just like a piano.
• NewA WHEEL control on the keygroup FILTER card maps your mod wheel straight to filter cutoff — set a depth (positive opens, negative closes) and play, no mod-matrix setup required.
• NewPlaying notes from the QWERTY keyboard now flashes the matching row in the sequencer editor, and the editor's bank menu switches the live pad bank — what you see is what your keys trigger, in both directions.
• ImprovedVolume faders in Mix mode now show a soft glow in each channel's color, matching the other fader modes without washing out the strip.
• ImprovedSend rows redesigned: the level bar runs the full channel width with the value on its own line above, so a send at 100 no longer hides its number.
• FixedMIDI input checkboxes in Audio/MIDI Settings no longer untick themselves, and the devices you check now stay selected across restarts.

Wider keygroup oscillator range, a full-screen chop window, and a mixer polish fix.

• NewKeygroup oscillators now tune across ±5 octaves (up from ±2) — reach sub-bass drops at the bottom and the 12-bit engine's aliased shimmer at the top, stacking with the patch octave and detune as before.
• ImprovedThe sample chop window — including Live Chop — now fills the whole plugin view, giving the waveform the full width for placing slice points.
• FixedThe MASTER label in the mixer now sits on the same line as the track labels.

Catches downbeat hits played at the end of the record count-in, and pad banks follow your notes when switching tracks.

• NewHits played on the 1 while the record count-in is still finishing are now captured onto the downbeat instead of being lost — drummers who lead the beat keep the first note of the take.
• ImprovedSwitching tracks now focuses the pad bank where that track's notes actually live — including when switching from the track tabs or mixer strips — instead of staying on the previous track's bank.
• ImprovedThe panic button moved next to Overdub in the transport, with a calmer idle look that only shows its red warning styling on hover.

Fixes a recording bug where an armed record button silently stopped recording after a transport stop.

• FixedStopping playback while record was armed left the record button lit but silently disabled recording — the next play ran without capturing notes until record was toggled off and on again. An armed record button now records on every play, on the same track or after switching tracks.

Reorder patterns by dragging, pick projects from a redesigned open dialog with live previews, and a refreshed hardware-style look across the whole interface.

• NewDrag and drop patterns in the pattern list to reorder them. Everything that points at a pattern follows the move — the current selection, a queued pattern switch, and every song step — so reordering never rewires your song.
• NewThe Open Project dialog is now a two-pane browser: search your recent projects on the left, and preview the selected project's tempo, pattern count, sample count, size, and kits on the right before opening it.
• NewA Next Bar cue option switches patterns at the next bar line instead of waiting out the rest of a long pattern.
• ImprovedA modernized hardware-style look across the drum pads, sample editor, keygroup synth panel, mixer strips, fader banks, send knobs, sidebar, and transport bar.
• ImprovedThe transport bar now scales smoothly with window width — controls keep their labels where there's room, and track and program names stay readable at every size.
• ImprovedSend bars in the fader bank extend across the full channel width, and the amp envelope editor was reworked with a curve display.
• FixedSlices committed as references from Live Chop now show the source waveform behind their markers in the sample editor window, instead of an empty display.
• FixedThe recent-projects list showed zero patterns for projects saved by recent versions.

Sample straight from your input with a real count-in, shape every pad with a new high-pass, and set mute groups a whole bank at a time.

• NewEvery pad now has its own high-pass filter on a new HPass fader lane, alongside the existing filter (now labelled LPass). Roll off low end per pad without touching the program-wide filters.
• NewRecord Input (formerly Sample from Input) now counts you in for up to 4 bars before the first clip, so you can play in time from the first take instead of racing the transport. Clips land exactly on the bar at any buffer size.
• NewWhile auto-clipping, the target pad shows a record ring that fills as the bar goes by — you can see the next clip's downbeat coming, and the ring rolls to the next pad the moment a clip lands.
• NewAuto-clipped takes are placed in their own mute group automatically, so a new take chokes its own earlier clips instead of cutting off an unrelated part.
• NewMute group chips now sit in the sample editor's title bar, and Cmd+A (Ctrl+A) selects every loaded pad in the bank — set a mute group across a whole kit in one click instead of shift-clicking sixteen pads.
• FixedSequenced notes played quieter than live pad hits at the same fader setting, because the track fader was being applied twice to the sequencer. At a fader of 50% your pattern played 12 dB down while live hits were only 6 dB down.
• FixedAuto-clips no longer click at their edges, and chop auditions now play through the track's fader and effects instead of going straight to the master — chopped material no longer sounds louder while auditioning than it does once committed.
• FixedYour input source selection now survives a restart (inputs above channel 8 were being discarded on save), and the input meter no longer stutters on bass-heavy signals.
• ImprovedDMC60 tells you when an update is available when you launch it, with a link to these notes, instead of waiting for you to check Help > Check for Updates. It only mentions each version once.

Windows remembers: license activation, recent projects, and favorites now survive quitting the app.

• FixedThe Windows app no longer forgets your license activation when you quit — a settings-file conflict was silently erasing it at shutdown, so DMC60 asked for your key on every launch. Activate once and you're done.
• FixedRecent projects, favorite folders, and other preferences set during a session now survive quitting on Windows — the same conflict was rolling them back.
• ImprovedAudio device and MIDI settings on Windows now persist reliably between sessions.

Windows feels native: real title bar with Snap Layouts, no runtime downloads, and license registration that sticks.

• NewThe Windows app has a real native title bar — double-click it to maximize, hover the maximize button for Windows 11 Snap Layouts, and the menu bar sits beneath it like every other Windows app.
• FixedDMC60 now runs on fresh Windows machines out of the box — no more "MSVCP140.dll was not found" error asking you to install Microsoft runtimes. This also fixes the VST3 silently failing DAW plugin scans on such machines.
• FixedYour license registration now sticks when the installer launches DMC60 right after an update — previously that launch ran with installer permissions and couldn't see (or keep) your registration.

Windows parity: the full menu bar and automatic update checks arrive on Windows.

• NewThe Windows app now has the full File / Edit / View / Help menu bar it was missing — same menus and shortcuts as the Mac version, drawn by the window the way Windows apps normally do.
• NewWindows checks for updates just like the Mac version — automatically on launch (respecting the preference) and via Help > Check for Updates. Updates download to your Downloads folder, are integrity-verified, and the installer is revealed in Explorer.

Optional cloud sync, per-track loop lengths, and a per-pad Normalize button — your work follows you between machines, and any track can run its own shorter cycle inside the pattern.

• NewCloud sync (optional) — keep your projects and programs in sync across every machine with an authorized copy or active trial. Click Sync Now in Options > Preferences; 5 GB of storage is included with your license. Covers the default Documents/DMC60 folders plus any Favorite Locations, uploads only what changed, and keeps both versions when a file changed on two machines.
• NewA Delete Cloud Data button removes everything DMC60 stores for you server-side — it keeps working even after a trial expires.
• NewPer-track loop lengths — set any track to loop on 1, 2, 3... bars inside a longer pattern (e.g. a 1-bar hat loop under an 8-bar arrangement) with the new Len button in the pattern editor. Recording folds into the loop, and 16 Levels locks and swing follow every repeat.
• NewNormalize button in the pad editor — one click raises a sample to a -0.3 dB peak (headroom for the 12-bit engine), keeping your start/end and loop points exactly where you set them.
• NewDouble-click any pad parameter fader to snap it back to its default — unity mix, open filter, centered pitch/pan, zero attack/decay/drive.
• ImprovedThe pattern editor remembers zoom, scroll position, and Fold per track, so fitting a short loop no longer disturbs the view of your other tracks.
• ImprovedLINN and SP12 swing now land exactly on their labeled amounts at the subtler settings (54–58%).
• ImprovedThe RAM meter updates once a second instead of flickering, and reads in gigabytes past 999 MB.
• FixedCommitting a chop onto a program that already had samples did nothing when you clicked Overwrite — and Cancel could overwrite instead. Both buttons now do what they say.
• FixedLaptop keys tap chop points in Live Chop immediately — no need to switch QWERTY pad mode on first.
• FixedLoading DMC60 in a DAW no longer shows a permanent “Unsaved” badge — saving your Live set (or any host session) now counts as saved, and DMC60 tells the host when you have unsaved edits so the DAW's own save prompt covers them.
• FixedThe master volume knob no longer resets to 75% when a DAW session reloads — opening the plugin window used to overwrite the restored setting.

Keyboard shortcuts for the pattern list: copy, paste, and clear patterns without touching the mouse.

• NewCopy and paste patterns with Cmd+C / Cmd+V (Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V on Windows) — same clipboard as the pattern list's right-click menu, addressing the selected pattern.
• NewThe Delete key clears the selected pattern in the pattern list.
• ImprovedClearing a pattern — via the Delete key or right-click Clear — can now be undone with Cmd+Z/Ctr+Z.

Hands-on control from your MIDI keyboard: Arturia KeyLab mkII fader integration, plus keygroup synth user presets.

• NewArturia KeyLab mkII integration: the 8 channel faders control the pad fader bank in every mode (Mix, Pitch, Decay, Attack, Pan, Filter, Drive), and the master fader controls master volume. A ready-made DMC60 template for Arturia's MIDI Control Center is included in the docs.
• NewA KeyLab button toggles the fader row between pads 1-8 and 9-16, with the button LED showing which half is active.
• NewSoft fader takeover: after switching fader banks or modes, a fader engages only once it crosses the current value — no parameter jumps.
• NewKeygroup synth: save and load your own user presets.
• ImprovedKeygroup synth preset menu is more compact, and factory preset envelopes have been tamed.

Pattern editor note dragging and a standalone stability fix.

• NewNotes in the pattern editor can now be moved by dragging them to a new step or track.
• ImprovedNew banner-style splash screen.
• FixedFixed a possible crash in the standalone app when using audio interfaces with more than two channels.
• ImprovedThe Create Programs page's Cancel button now closes the panel when no generation is running.

Pattern-editor defaults you control, a redesigned Create Programs page, and a more readable mixer.

• NewEditor page in Options — choose how every pattern editor opens: fold to pads with notes, fit the whole pattern to view, follow the playhead, and optionally show pads from all banks that contain sounds.
• ImprovedCreate Programs page redesigned — selectable mode cards, a live summary of folders, samples, and programs before you build, and a Cancel button while generating.
• ImprovedMixer pan knobs are now true bipolar controls — the arc lights from the centre detent toward L or R, and double-click snaps back to centre.
• ImprovedThe mixer's HC and LC filter cells shade the region being cut, show the cutoff frequency as the main readout, and read Off when bypassed.

MPC program import arrives, alongside a Live Chop overview strip and more flexible FX sends.

• NewImport Akai MPC programs (.xpm) — pads, layers, and slice offsets convert straight into a DMC60 program, with shared samples de-duplicated into slice references.
• NewLive Chop overview strip — always see the whole sample while the detail view is zoomed, and click or drag to scrub.
• NewFX sends can now display as knobs or sliders, with 4 sends per channel.
• ImprovedSample editor sections are now collapsible accordions with a full-height open state; the keygroup synth panel adds a collapse/expand-all button.
• ImprovedThe 14-day free trial now starts when you first activate your key, not when the key was issued.
• ImprovedThe performance meter now shows CPU and RAM usage.

Factory content now ships inside the installer on both platforms, alongside a host-compatibility fix and a cleaner app icon.

• NewFactory drum kits are bundled with the macOS and Windows installers, so you have playable content the moment you launch.
• ImprovedApp icon now uses a pure-black background for a cleaner look in the dock and taskbar.
• FixedThe master insert chain now renders clamped to stereo, preventing channel-count mismatches in some hosts.

The first general release. DMC60 leaves beta with live sampling inputs and a polished, stable core.

• NewSampling inputs — record incoming audio straight into the sampler and chop it to pads.
• NewChop recording captures your slices directly onto the grid as you go.
• ImprovedSwitching patterns now preserves the currently selected track.
• ImprovedThe in-app updater now tracks the releases channel for general builds.

Tempo warp lands, alongside launch-stability and packaging fixes.

• NewTempo warp for samples — lock loops and one-shots to the project tempo.
• ImprovedPolished the Options and transport UI.
• FixedFixed a launch hang on startup.
• FixedFixed sample-editor scroll clipping caused by the warp row.
• FixedFixed in-place installer upgrades — bundles are now pinned so a relocation no longer breaks updates.

• ImprovedBuild-and-publish tooling now resolves tag-triggered CI artifacts, making releases more reliable.

A new preset browser rail and a smoother sample editor.

• NewBrowser rail — search, audition, and drag presets straight onto a pad.
• ImprovedPresets from the browser load into the currently selected track.
• ImprovedSample editor moves to a scrollable flow layout and hides the loop row when Loop is off.
• ImprovedDistribution moved to the cdn.dordsp.com content network for faster downloads.

The first public beta. A big release bringing Live Chop, the keygroup synth's sampler layer, per-pad sends, wave-editor filters, and cross-platform (macOS & Windows) builds.

• NewLive Chop — pad-owned slices with non-destructive commit and a zoomable waveform. Retap a set pad to play its slice, follow captures while zoomed, and switch banks inside the panel.
• NewKeygroup synth gains a sample source for chromatic sample playback and a dedicated sample layer in the voice.
• NewPer-pad sends with their own UI controls, plus per-pad polyphony.
• NewWave editor adds program-wide pitch and program-wide high/low-pass filters (SSM2044 Moog-style ladder).
• NewHost-transport sync toggle to follow your DAW's play/stop and position.
• ImprovedRedesigned transport info display, and illuminated wave editor and faders styled toward the hardware mockup.
• ImprovedNew keygroups default to mono for tighter, more predictable voicing.
• ImprovedThe project file path now persists in the plugin state.
• FixedFixed a launch hang by scanning recent projects off the message thread.