Changelog
Updates.
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Current · VINAIstereo
VINAIstereo 1.0.2
18 August 2026
VINAIstereo is rebuilt around the one widening move that matters, and around instruments you can trust while you use it.
- One reference algorithm: a delayed copy with the left side flipped, summed against the dry. Mono-safe by construction, and measured: the wet cancels below −137 dBFS in the mono fold-down
- Three controls: DRY, WET and TIME (0.1–100 ms), with writable value boxes and fixed-step mouse wheel
- New lab-grade vectorscope: a dwell-intensity beam on a full-scale diamond graticule, a live data header, and a gap fence so the display never resurrects stale audio after the transport stops
- AUTO SCALE visual gain, engaged by default: quasi-peak reference, 2 dB steps with hysteresis, frozen in silence. Measured figure breathing between beats: 0.0%. It scales the picture, never the audio; one click switches to a fixed +6 dBFS scale
- MID / SIDE peak meters and a 41-segment correlation column read the actual post-bypass output, so the meters and your ears always agree
- Sessions saved with 1.0.1 do not carry over their knob positions: the parameter set changed with the new engine. Re-dial DRY, WET and TIME once and re-save
Feature release
Version 1.1.3
17 July 2026
VINAIcore is rebuilt around one idea: nothing between you and the sound. Zero latency, a hard 0 dBFS ceiling, and a fully reactive engine.
- VINAIcore now runs at zero latency: the lookahead and the clip oversampler are gone, and the plugin reports 0 samples in every mode. Hosts simply stop compensating; sessions need no re-alignment
- The engine is reactive: the gain no longer anticipates transients, so attacks keep more of their bite. That extra edge is the new character
- CLIP is now a hard ceiling at 0 dBFS. Everything under full scale passes bit-exact (the old soft ceiling started shaping at −0.5 dBFS), so hot material reads louder and more open. Intersample peaks can still exceed 0: it is not a true-peak limiter
- ROUND keeps its soft knee for already-hot material, now running at native rate
- The per-band DC blockers move from 7 Hz to 5 Hz, easing their phase touch on the audible low end
Feature release
Version 1.1.2
16 July 2026
VINAIanalog gets its first feature release: a named five-tier Intensity, a new MODE switch with two voicings, a phosphor waveform display and full-range focus dials.
- VINAIanalog Intensity is now five named tiers: LOW, MID, HIGH, EXTREME and UNREAL. The default is MID and sounds exactly as before
- The old numeric steps are retired. Sessions and automation written against them will not land on the same density, so re-check anything you had automated on Intensity
- New MODE switch, sitting left of BYPASS: two voicings of the engine. A is the default and the sound of every earlier version, B gathers the color tight around RANGE LOW
- The IN / OUT display is rebuilt as a phosphor instrument: an afterglow trail on the OUT trace, a fine graticule with zero axis and amplitude ticks, scanlines and IN / OUT legend chips
- RANGE LOW and RANGE HIGH now both travel linearly across the full 1 Hz–22 kHz span, with the high edge simply staying at least 50 Hz clear of the low edge. The old 500 Hz wall between them is gone, so re-check any automation on either dial
- Reported latency now tops out at 64 samples at UNREAL, PDC-compensated as always
Feature release
Version 1.1.1
16 July 2026
A low-end double: VINAImono's phase display becomes a dual-lane instrument, and VINAIultrabass redefines BOOST around a hard +12 dB ceiling.
- VINAImono's phase display goes dual-lane: a blue lane for the input correlation, a lava lane for the output, and a molten fill between them showing the energy NEXT GEN recovers
- VINAImono automation lanes now read like the interface: NEXT GEN instead of a bare index, FULL instead of a raw frequency
- VINAImono hardening from the July suite audit: metering is immune to NaN latch-ups on near-anti-phase material, extreme finite input is quarantined at the door, and right-click no longer toggles BYPASS
- VINAIultrabass BOOST and WIDTH are now fully independent: WIDTH shapes the bell, BOOST sets the gain, and neither moves the other
- BOOST travel now runs from 0 to exactly +12 dB, with the default at +4 dB
- The analyzer is rescaled to the new ceiling with labels every 3 dB, so the bell uses the full display height
- The peak readout gets a fixed home in the display header (Hz · note · dB) instead of following the bell around
- The divider between the analyzer and the Saturation Core is gone; the display reads as one instrument
- Sessions saved with 1.1.0 keep their knob positions; because the travel is rescaled, a saved BOOST can read up to 1.2 dB lower than before. Re-check bass levels on older projects
- The internal test battery now verifies the bell gain on processed audio at every setting, not only on the math that draws it
Feature release
Version 1.1.0
5 July 2026
A focused release on the ceiling and the low end: VINAIclip gets a redesigned interface and a deep DSP audit; VINAIultrabass ships its drive and display refinements.
- VINAIclip gets a redesigned interface: a larger transfer panel with live signal dot, GR waterfall history, instant GR ladder and engraved threshold / scale annotations
- VINAIclip refines its algorithm lineup to three: Hard · Warm · Tube. Bright has been retired; existing sessions that used it load Tube automatically
- VINAIclip's LUFS metering is now fully BS.1770-4 compliant. Bass-heavy material can read up to ~1.4 LU lower than 1.0.1. The new reading is the correct one
- VINAIclip oscilloscope adds flicker-free window anchoring, zero-crossing trigger at short windows, 0 dB overflow rails, IN / OUT / 0dB view toggles and a window up to 5 s
- VINAIclip also tightens automation and preset recall (gesture-safe IN/OUT linking), adds an anti-aliased metering reference and is hardened against extreme float input
- VINAIclip users who automated the OVERSAMPLE selector should re-check that lane after updating (the internal value map changed)
- VINAIultrabass 1.1.0 puts DRIVE and BOOST readouts in dB, adds a drive-volume display and brings 17 stability and consistency fixes from the suite audit
Maintenance
Version 1.0.1
28 June 2026
A stability and consistency pass across all eight instruments, following a full internal audit. No new features, just a tighter, quieter, more dependable suite.
- Click-free bypass. Every plugin now crossfades in and out of bypass with no pop or zipper noise
- Sample-rate consistency: saturation, crossover and metering coefficients track the host rate identically at 44.1 kHz through 192 kHz
- Audit fixes resolve a set of edge-case state and parameter issues surfaced by the suite-wide review
- Extreme-input resilience is hardened against denormals, NaNs and sustained over-level material
- State round-trip: preset and session recall verified bit-for-bit across hosts
- Windows build parity. Windows VST3 builds now match the macOS VST3 / AU output sample-for-sample
Initial release
Version 1.0.0
June 2026
The first public release of the VINAI suite. Eight precision instruments built on one machined design language, VST3 and AU, macOS and Windows.
01
XDS
Four-band parallel multiband distortion with Tube, Tape, Diode, Fold and LDX per band, plus a real-time analyzer.
02
CLIP
Final clipper: three algorithms, a native 0 dBFS ceiling, up to 16× oversampling.
03
CORE
One-knob maximizer that draws three-band saturation, dynamics and safety clipping from a single control.
04
ANALOG
analog, the dimensional phase character of vintage analog signal paths. Glue and depth, no EQ.
05
BASS
ultrabass pairs an intelligent tonal enhancer with an odd-harmonic saturation engine for note-snapped low-end weight.
06
STEREO
Stereo widener: the reference algorithm, mono-safe by construction, with a lab-grade vectorscope, AUTO visual gain and MID/SIDE metering.
07
MONO
Dual-band mono recovery rebuilds energy lost to phase conflict. Solid mono, zero latency.
08
SCOPE
Oscilloscope, a bit-transparent waveform analyzer with phosphor persistence and overflow detection.
That's the whole history so far. Updates are free for life, whether you own one instrument or the full Suite for €.