Band, assistant and guided missions update.
• Band: a band on the master channel writes full takes in your song's key and tempo, can follow what you play (JAM) and sends takes to the arrangement.
• Assistant: write chords, parts and variations, or Make a song into new or existing channels. Tap an empty lane to pick bars and set the LENGTH. The optional on-device ASK assistant answers questions and edits your song; it asks before downloading and shows progress.
• On-device AI tools: Separate Stems, Clean Up Voice, Remove Reverb, Detect Tempo and Tap to drums. Drums get Make a variation.
• Guide: new missions (Start from a song, Make your own, Just explore) and first-run tips. Highlight rings never hide behind windows, tap outside to close a card, and cards ignore taps while you are playing.
• Sound presets now save the instrument, macros and channel effects, with a SOUNDS / PRESETS tab.
• Arrangement: automation lane on every channel; double-tap channel headers to select several and move, duplicate or delete them together; drag clips between channels; pinch vertically to resize channels.
• Piano roll: edits keep every MIDI detail (channels, release velocity, pedal, pitch bend, pressure); the zoom strip lines up with the grid.
• Library: drop a sample on empty space to create a new audio channel; Places can be dragged too.
• Performance: faster launch with less memory, no freezes while exporting, piano sounds load in the background.
• Audio Units: all 35 Dawcade instruments (with their sampled pianos, strings, brass, drums and guitar, plus Modular Synth) and all 37 audio effects now open in other AUv3 hosts; effects report their latency to the host.
• Fixes: changing or clearing an instrument can be undone; removing a card closes its screen; a call during recording stops cleanly and keeps the take; audio recovers after interruptions or a wired device disconnect; Amp and Spectral controls respond where you touch; Sampler samples are no longer lost after an app update.
• Acoustic Piano: fast passages and pedalled chords play cleanly — no more cut-off notes or clicks.
• Drum pads: SWAP → Browse device opens the file picker again.

iPhone Duo and automation update.
• iPhone Duo: the play dock now follows the hinge — half-folded (laptop) posture keeps the chain on the upper half and the dock on the lower half.
• Export: finished renders, stems and MIDI files now open the system Save/Share sheet (Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop, Mail).
• Automation: mixer faders move with volume automation during playback; tempo automation glides between points instead of stepping.
• Metronome: long-press the metronome button to set the click level.
• Preset library: presets show their tags and can be filtered by tag.
• Fixes: dragging an automation point near a clip edge no longer trims the clip; audio could stop after an internal signal — fixed; faster, smoother app start; clearer feedback after Groove and clip tempo edits.

Maintenance update.
• Internal code cleanup: no new features and no changes to how the app works, your projects, sounds and settings are untouched.
• Housekeeping in the shipped package: files the app never opens are no longer bundled.

Choir Pad, Anything Kit and a smarter Suggest.
• Choir Pad: a new sung-voice instrument with Aah, Ooh and Mmm voice sets and an animated singing ensemble in a new plum finish.
• Anything Kit: a new drum MIDI FX — teach it any sound through the microphone (a knock, a clap, your voice) and play your drum channel with it.
• Suggest rebuilt: eight chord ideas by character, More for fresh ideas, + Chord, and suggestions that follow the chords on your other channels. Its new control panel sets genre, direction, follow tracks or your own walk, hold, octave, voicing, inversion, chord length and where Write puts the progression — chord track, MIDI clip or both. Suggest presets save your setup.
• Sampled instruments added with + (Acoustic Piano, Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Bass, Choir Pad) now play right away.
• MultiZone: Browse Folder maps a whole folder of samples to zones, and World sounds no longer appear in MultiZone preset lists.
• New jazz-fusion demo song with numbered scenes and clips in their channel colours.
• Arrangement: clips move in select mode, audio stays in place when trimming or moving, MIDI edge preview no longer stretches notes, paste is reliable, and double-tapping empty space leaves select mode.
• Recording and editing: tap the take button to open the take lanes, a clearer audio editor toolbar, and long-press to drag samples from the sample drawer.
• Session Player: the XY seed cloud is back.
• Tutorial: every step can be passed with Next, and the control it points to always comes into view.
• Play surface strip: same dark finish as the top bar, with your channel colour behind the channel name and instrument; the play mode button is square. Loop shows faded white when off.
• Loading another project from Settings closes Settings.
• Drum Kit, the samplers and the 3D effects open on a ready screen.
• Fixed a crash when scanning for Bluetooth MIDI devices on Mac.
• Fixed audio stalls that could silence the app when playing many notes on Bass Engine and other sampled instruments with Preserve Pitch and a long release.
• Audio engine hardening: invalid values are now refused instead of being able to silence a track or stall audio until restart.
• The floating play surface comes to the front when you touch it, even over plugin windows — its handle and top strip work there too.
• Scrolling: session channels scroll sideways in the dock and the main view, and the arrangement scrolls from track headers, faders and the timeline.
• Long-press menus open where you pressed — clips, notes, automation points and session columns.
• Settings: tap anywhere on Audio Output to choose where sound goes.
• All interface and error messages are now in English, including Audio Unit messages and the chord compass.
• Recovered projects keep their names, effect windows open more smoothly, and stability fixes.

Big studio update.
• New effects: Looper, Time Stretch, Crossfeed, Auto Bass, Clean, Motion, Perform, Rack, Retro, Tune (follows the song key), Utility, Excite and Tame.
• New drum engines: Circuit Drums, Pulse Drums and Sculpt Drums — Sculpt can play your own samples.
• Redesigned effect cabinets for delays, dynamics, EQ, reverb, chorus, phaser, flanger, grain delay and distortion.
• Audio editing: take folders for comping, pitch editing with a fine mode, Quantize Audio on a selection, Smart Tempo and Audio to MIDI.
• MIDI learn, loudness meter and master limiter.
• Step sequencer for MIDI tracks without an instrument.
• Smoother detail screens on iPad, knobs no longer jump after an interrupted drag, and plugin windows close reliably.
• Stability fixes from crash reports.