Shift 2.2.3, Diatonic Harmonizer and Delay Effect, Released

Shift 2.2.3 for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux is now available. Download the updated version here.

Shift is a diatonic granular pitch shifting delay. Shift combines an intuitive and beautiful user interface, with a great sounding granular synthesis engine. Shift's flexibility allows a palette of timbres ranging from basic echo effects, through intelligent harmonies, to exotic evolving ambient soundscapes.

This minor update contains the following fixes and features:

• Fixed incredibly rare crash which may occur when first opening the plug-in on certain 32-bit VST Windows hosts. 
• Massively improved speed and responsiveness of all UI controls. 
• Improved CPU usage when tweaking parameters from a hardware controller. 
• Standalone versions now support multiple simultaneous hardware controllers. 
• For the Windows VST plug-in, when using a relative path for the presets folder, the path is now relative to the DLL, not the host. 

Admittedly a minor update, but certainly worth a download for anyone who has fallen foul to the, now fixed, start-up crash bug.

Manifold and Resound Audio Units crashing in Ableton Live 8.1.1 on Mac OS X

A particularily nasty bug can be found with the current public version of Ableton Live: Ableton Live will crash when adding either a Manifold or Resound Audio Unit to a track. The latest Live beta sees a fix for issue, but for those users who are loath to upgrade we recommend either using the corresponding VST plugin of Manifold or Resound, or performing the steps outlined here as a workaround.

For more information, consult the Ableton Forum post here.