Build: 30cfdba | October 25 – November 1, 2026
Following the groundbreaking arrival of the OmniDAW API and native Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, development on Omni shifted into overdrive on the sonic processing side of the DAW. Over the past seven days, more than thirty intensive commits have delivered the largest audio effects and sound design expansion in the project's history.
From mastering-grade dynamic processors and spectral freeze chambers to AI neural amp modeling, an all-new Vocoder, zero-latency pitch correction, and a complete rebuild of the Iris image-to-sound synthesizer, Build 30cfdba elevates Omni into a premier mixing, vocal production, and experimental sound design powerhouse.
Here is the complete tour of what has landed!
🎛️ Mastering & Dynamics: M/S Limiter, Dynamic EQ & Studio Clipper
1. Limiter Rebuilt: Mid/Side Detectors & LUFS Target Matching
- Independent Mid/Side Detection: Peak and true-peak detectors operate in Mid/Side space with a mathematically guaranteed ceiling on Left/Right channels, preserving punch in the phantom center while controlling stereo width transients.
- BS.1770 Input/Output Metering: Built-in integrated, short-term, and momentary LUFS meters provide complete visibility into your loudness trajectory.
- Target & LEARN Mode: Dial in your target loudness (e.g. -14 LUFS for streaming or -9 LUFS for club systems), click LEARN, and Omni automatically calibrates the input gain stage to hit the target without accidental over-compression.
- Gain Match Preview: Audition compressed versus bypassed signals at matched perceived loudness to make honest, un-hyped mastering decisions.
2. Dynamic EQ (6 Dynamic Bands)
- Precise Frequency-Dependent Compression & Expansion: 6 analog-modeled parametric bands featuring dynamic threshold, ratio, attack, release, and range controls.
- Per-Band External Sidechain: Duck bass frequencies only when the kick hits, or carve room for lead vocals against muddy mid-range guitars with dedicated external key detection per band.
3. Mastering Clipper
- Triple Topology: Switch between pristine Hard clipping, musical Soft saturation, and warm Analog transformer saturation curves.
- 1× to 8× Linear-Phase Oversampling: Completely eliminates aliasing in high-gain clipping stages without phase smearing.
- Sample-Accurate Delta Mode: Listen in isolation to the exact harmonic peaks being sheared off the master bus.
4. Precision De-Esser
- High-Pass & Band-Pass Detection: Targets sibilance with zero latency, featuring absolute and relative threshold modes.
- Split & Wideband Attenuation: Choose between surgical dynamic shelf/bell cuts or broad-spectrum gain reduction, complete with a dedicated Listen audition filter.
🎤 Vocal & Harmonic Studio: Vocoder, Pitch Correction & Harmonizer
1. SIMD Vocoder (8 to 40 Filter Bands)
- High-Order SIMD Filter Bank: 4th-order bandpass filters running vectorized on SIMD
f32x4architecture with automatic gain make-up and zero processing latency. - Flexible Carrier Routing: Drive the vocoder with any external sidechain track or utilize the built-in carrier synthesizer featuring Saw, Square, Supersaw, and Noise waveforms with automatic pitch tracking via the YIN detector.
- Formant Shifting & Sibilance Preservation: Shift vocal gender/formants, blend an unvoiced noise generator for crystal-clear consonants, or engage spectral Freeze to turn spoken words into infinite harmonic pads. 18 factory presets.
2. Real-Time Pitch Correction & Auto-Tune
- Instantaneous YIN Pitch Detection: Tracks vocal pitch with sub-cent precision and zero latency.
- Intelligent Musical Snapping: Snaps notes to project key, scale, or custom note masks with hysteresis to eliminate flutter between adjacent semitones.
- Retune Speed & Humanize: Glide from transparent natural pitch correction to iconic instantaneous hard-tune effects. Includes vibrato controls, pitch transpose (±24 semitones), and formant preservation. 18 factory presets.
3. 4-Voice Pitch Shifter & Harmonizer
- Phase-Locked Vocoder Engine: Driven by the Laroche-Dolson STFT algorithm for artifact-free pitch transposition.
- 4 Autonomous Harmony Voices: Generate rich vocal stacks, 3rds, 5ths, octaves, or scale-quantized harmonies tracked directly from monophonic source audio.
- Cepstral Formant Lifter: Keep natural vocal vocal-tract acoustics intact or offset formants independently per voice. Features per-voice Detune, Gain, Pan, and Glide with a live harmony roll display. 18 presets.
🌌 Spectral & Granular Processing: Spectral FX & Denoiser
1. Spectral FX (STFT 1K / 2K / 4K)
- Real-Time Frequency-Domain Manipulation: Choose between 1024, 2048, or 4096-point FFT resolutions with sample-accurate delay compensation (PDC).
- Spectral Gate: Isolate loud harmonic peaks (
ABOVE) or carve away background textures (BELOW) with continuous spectral tilt. - Spectral Blur & Constant-Q Smear: Diffuse transients into ethereal ambient clouds with time blurs ranging from 30 milliseconds to 8 seconds.
- Spectral Freeze: Lock incoming audio into an infinite, evolving drone featuring Fade and Drift controls. Visualized through a 30-band 1/3-octave spectrum and running spectrogram. 18 presets.
2. Neural AI & Spectral Denoiser
- Dual-Engine Noise Reduction: Switch between a low-latency neural model (operating through halfband + Kaiser sinc resampling) and an adaptive spectral fingerprint subtraction engine.
- LEARN Background Noise: Record a brief room noise profile and subtract hiss, hum, and AC rumble transparently. Includes Voice Gate, Mix, and a
LISTENdelta mode.
🎸 Analog Tone & Character: NAM, Tape & Modulation
1. Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) & Zero-Latency IR Cabinet
- Built-in NAM Guitar & Bass Amp Head: Direct, native hosting of community Neural Amp Modeler models with zero setup.
- Integrated Impulse Response Convolver: Load your favorite speaker cabinet IRs with zero-latency partitioned convolution and smooth preset crossfading.
- Auto-Level Normalization: Automatically levels guitar presets using integrated loudness analysis, eliminating ear-splitting volume jumps between clean and high-gain amps.
2. Analog Tape Machine Simulation
- 4 Calibrated Tape Speeds: 30 ips (ultra-fidelity), 15 ips (studio standard), 7.5 ips, and 3.75 ips (lo-fi cassette).
- 2× Oversampled Jiles-Atherton Hysteresis: Realistic magnetic saturation with pre-emphasis, bias, head bump resonance, high-frequency roll-off, wow & flutter, tape hiss, and random magnetic dropouts. 18 presets.
3. PolyBLEP Bitcrusher & Degrader
- Anti-Aliased Downsampling: Fractional sample rate reduction with intentional polyBLEP jitter control.
- Quantization Modes: Continuous bit depth across Linear, µ-law companding, and floating-point arithmetic with soft-clip, wrap, and wavefold overflow modes.
4. Single-Sideband Frequency Shifter & Ring Modulator
- Hilbert Transform Frequency Shifting: Independent frequency shifting via true single-sideband (SSB) modulation.
- Through-Zero LFO & Spiral Feedback: Classic ring modulation, through-zero frequency sweeps, and regenerative spiral feedback with anti-blowup safety limiters.
5. Chorus / Dimension / Flanger (3-in-1 Ensemble)
- Three Dedicated Engines: Switch between rich multi-voice ensemble Chorus, legendary Roland Dimension D-style cross-delay out-of-phase spatial expansion (buttons I–IV), and through-zero Flanger (down to 0.1 ms with barberpole sweeps).
6. Tremolo & Harmonic Auto-Pan
- Equal-Power Spatial Sweeps: Standard and harmonic tremolo (splitting high and low bands), 6 LFO shapes, tempo synchronization, and opto-coupler ballistics.
🗃️ Modular Multi-Processing: The FX Rack
The new FX Rack transforms any insert slot into a multi-chain parallel modular powerhouse:
- 6 Parallel Branches: Route audio through up to six independent device chains simultaneously.
- 4 Split Topologies:
- Parallel: Parallel dry/wet and layered processing.
- Band (Crossover): Split incoming audio into distinct frequency bands.
- L / R: Separate left and right channel chains.
- Mid / Side (M/S): Process mono center signals and stereo wide information through entirely different effects.
- Automatic Internal Latency Alignment: All internal branches are phase-aligned down to the single sample, preventing comb-filtering.
- 8 Macro Knobs: Freely map and scale multiple parameters across nested plugins to unified macro controls.
🎨 Iris 2: Image-to-Sound Synthesizer Overhaul
Omni's signature image-to-sound synthesizer has been rebuilt from scratch:
- Quadrature SIMD Oscillator Bank: Re-engineered around
f32x8SIMD rotators, computing harmonic partials every 32 samples with linear gain ramping. - Dynamic Power Normalization: Prevents bright images from overloading the engine.
- Non-Destructive Live Image Baking: Adjust Brightness, Gamma, Floor, and Color Mapping in real-time without re-baking image buffers.
- Per-Voice Integrated Scan Heads: Scan lines follow straight, angled, skewed, or spiral paths across the canvas.
- Harmonic Mapping & Color Modes: Choose between linear, harmonic, or stretched frequency ladders, with Chroma and Luma color routing.
🔌 External MIDI FX & Multitimbral Multi-Out Routing
- External Plugins in MIDI FX Chains: External VST3, CLAP, VST2, and LV2 plugins can now be inserted directly into the MIDI FX chain of any track to process notes or generate MIDI.
- One-Click Multi-Out Track Creation: Instrument tracks hosting multi-output plugins (such as drum samplers, Kontakt, or multitimbral synthesizers) now feature a dedicated Multi-Out panel, allowing you to generate and route discrete sub-tracks for all plugin audio outputs in a single click.
🛑 Natural Stop Tails & Panic Reset
- Natural Decay on Stop: Stopping playback in the transport bar no longer mutes the master bus abruptly. Delay taps, reverb tails, and synthesizer release envelopes decay naturally.
- Panic Flush on Second Stop: Pressing Stop a second time initiates an instantaneous engine Panic command, sending note-offs and completely flushing all internal and third-party plugin audio buffers.
⚡ ASIO Synchronization & Audio Engine Reliability
- Native Hardware Setup: Access native ASIO driver control panels (including ASIO4ALL) directly from Omni Settings, with instant buffer size synchronization.
- In-Engine Sample Preview: The file browser's audio audition player now routes through the primary audio engine, allowing sample previews to play through active ASIO drivers without hardware contention.
- Linux ALSA Stability: Hardened ALSA error handling eliminates audio thread lockouts on PipeWire and Linux audio servers.
Build 30cfdba brings an unprecedented arsenal of studio tools into Omni. Update your installation today and experience the new FX suite in your sessions! 🚀