The effect section is finally here with four high quality digital effects, along with a new VCF engine, the Mirror Twins. Check out detailed release notes below and grab the firmware for:
Linux
- You might need to run the updater as sudo depending on serial port permissions
Mac
- The firmware updater will ask for permissions to access files on a removable volume, you should accept or the update will fail
- During the update, there’s going to be an eject warning that you can safely ignore
- Updating might fail intermittently because of a Mac OS driver issue, trying again should help
Windows
- After you connect the Redshift 6 to a Windows computer with USB for the first time, you might need to reboot before the firmware updater works
New Features
- Added engine selection interface
- Press Engine on any page with engines (currently FX & VCF)
- Or hold the Engine button and press the button for a page with engines
- New VCF engine: Mirror Twins
- New FX engine: Chorus+
- New FX engine: Stage Reverb
- New FX engine: Vintage Chorus
- New FX engine: X-Delay
- Add Glide Mode to Perform page
Improvements
- Added 14 new presets
- Reorder existing presets and added effects to most of them
- Double-tapping now toggles parts / FX / Arp on and off
- Hold one or more part buttons and press Arp/Seq to toggle it on/off for those parts
- Unify look of top/bottom panes and add visual dividers between elements
- Double-tap detection is now slightly less sensitive
- More stable BPM display
- Rename Choose to Select on all pages
- Only illuminate arrow buttons when they actually do something
- Mod matrix destinations now default to Off
- Make it easier to tell if ARP/SEQ & FX are enabled or not
- If MIDI clock is received over both USB and DIN, ignore the DIN clock
- Show env amount on VCF Env page
- Step Pitch & OSC 2 Tune by fifths & octaves when holding down the pot
- Adjust BPM faster when holding down the pot
- UI now runs faster overall
Fixes
- Potential crash when arpeggiator was stealing notes
- Illuminate MIDI button when Shift is held
- Double-tapping a mod source now changes the mod lock instead of adding a via lock
- Reload did not work when starting from init preset
- Fix a timing issue that caused exaggerated pops on large pitch changes
- Don’t reset MPE pitch bend on note off
- Shift button no longer blinks while held
- Unused NRPN’s would get routed to the closest used NRPN
- Ignore global parameter NRPNs except on perform channel, instead of crashing
- Don’t crash when selecting Delete when there are no user presets
- Pots now start working quicker after bootup
- Get rid of spurious weird line on Preset page
- Voice mode couldn’t be set to Reserved in some instances
- Fix several edge cases with preset reloading
- Crash when scrolling to the end of the preset list
- Minor visual fixes & tweaks