The Maintenance Update including Apple Silicon M1 support affects a big subset of Plugin Alliance products and brings many bug fixes and improvements.

Simply use the Installation Manager to download and (re-)install the products to update and benefit from the improvements.

Support changes

  • Added native Apple Silicon M1 compatibility for VST3, VST2 and AU (except AAX)
  • Added macOS Monterey support
  • Discontinued support for macOS 10.9 and 10.10
  • Added Windows 11 support
  • Added Windows 10 21H1 support
  • Discontinued support for Windows 7

General fixes and improvements

  • Metering behavior is now as expected in block sizes of 2048 samples and higher

Brands / products that have been updated
General bugfixes and improvements in all products of the following brands (product-specific fixes are described separately)

  • ACME Audio
  • A/DA
  • Amek
  • Ampeg
  • Black Box Analog Design
  • Brainworx Audio (except for bx_crispytuner / bx_crispyscale)
    • bx_limiter True Peak
      • When loading a preset on Windows, all controls are set correctly now
      • GUI is now scalable
    • bx_masterdesk
      • Improved metering behavior
    • bx_oberhausen
      • Time signature and synchronized LFO speed issues are fixed
      • MIDI CC file now gets stored with the .XML suffix and can be loaded on Windows 10
      • Removed from being available in the Audio Suite plugin list in Pro Tools
      • Last legato note does not get triggered by mistake anymore
      • Delay lines do not create issues when switching presets anymore
    • bx_panEQ
      • Potential crashes in Logic or other macOS hosts are fixed
  • Chandler Limited
  • Dangerous Music
  • Diezel Amps
  • elysia (except for Phil's Cascade)
  • ENGL
  • Friedman
  • Fuchs
  • Gallien Krueger
  • Knif Audio
    • Knifonium
      • Time signature and synchronized LFO speed issues are fixed
      • Removed from being available in the Audio Suite plugin list in Pro Tools
      • Delay lines do not create issues when switching presets anymore
      • MIDI CC file now gets stored with the .XML suffix and can be loaded on Windows 10
    • Soma

      • Fixed pop sounds when switching Q factor especially in AAX DSP

  • Mäag Audio
  • Millennia
  • Noveltech Audio
  • Pro Audio DSP
    • DSM V3
      • Audio doesn't get distorted anymore after rendering or changing the buffer size
  • Purple Audio
  • Shadow Hills Industries
  • SPL (except for Hawkeye)
  • Vertigo Sound