Plugin Updates

NEW

Keep the notes you like, reroll the rest

Click any note on the pattern display to keep it. Press SPIT and everything else rolls again while that note stays exactly where it is, at the same pitch and the same length. Click it a second time to hand it back to the roll. Kept notes are drawn in white, and a counter in the corner of the display clears them all at once. They save with your project.

Drag octave

A new MIDI tab in Settings sets the octave a dragged clip lands at in your DAW, separate from the OCTAVE control that sets what you hear. It starts at C5. SPIT’s preview is a bass sample and sits low, while the synth you are sending the clip to usually wants it higher, so clips no longer need transposing by hand after every drag. Set it to the same octave as OCTAVE and the two agree again.

Mute

A speaker in the seed card silences the preview without stopping it, so you can compare SPIT against your own patch without the loop jumping back to the top every time you switch. It is deliberately never saved with your project. SPIT always opens audible.

FIXED

• Dragging a clip out of SPIT and releasing it over SPIT’s own window no longer loads that clip back in as a dropped file. It used to switch the panel into FROM MIDI mode with STYLE off and DENSITY greyed out without anyone asking for it. Reported in Cubase 15 on an M1 Mac.

NEW

LOCK FX

A separate, free effects plugin built from LOCK's own FX chain (Distortion, Delay, Reverb, Erosion, Chorus, Phaser). Load it on any track or bus, no bass sound required. Your existing LOCK license activates it too, nothing extra to buy or enter. Available now on Windows and macOS.

Tooltips

Hover almost any control and a short explanation shows up after a moment. Turn them off under Settings > Display if you'd rather not see them.

Sound browser scrollbar

A scrollbar in the sound browser, for when there are more sounds than fit in the list. The mouse wheel still works too.

FIXED

• A legato note played right as a fast retrigger was fading out could get skipped, so an older note played instead of the one you'd actually just pressed.
• The macOS installer now installs LOCK FX alongside LOCK, matching what the Windows installer already did.
• A handful of smaller stability fixes under the hood: project loading, license checking, and a couple of effect edge cases.

NEW

TUNE

Pitch the loaded kick up or down a full octave from the front panel. It snaps to whole semitones so you can land on a note without fighting it, and holding Shift gives you cents for matching a bassline that sits slightly off. Double-click returns it to the kick’s own pitch. Tuning works like a sampler rather than a pitch shifter, so a kick tuned down gets longer and one tuned up gets shorter. The key readout follows along, so it always shows the note you are hearing, not the note in the file.

IMPROVED

• The kick browser’s scrollbar can be dragged now. Grab it, or click anywhere on it to jump straight to that part of the list. It is also wider and easier to hit.
• The waveform circle is slightly smaller to make room for TUNE, so the kick list shows eleven rows instead of twelve. Nothing else moved.

FIXED

• KIX no longer plays a kick on its own. Dropping in a new instance, or deactivating and reactivating it, fired the loaded sample at full volume with nothing asking for it. If you gain-stage quietly, that arrived loud.
• Loading a longer kick over a shorter one could set it playing by itself too. Same cause, also fixed.
• The first kick after loading the plugin now hits at full strength. It was being faded in over a few milliseconds, which quietly took the edge off the attack.
• The OUTPUT and TUNE sliders now sit exactly where they say they do. The handle could sit a couple of pixels off the value it was reporting.