Nota 0.41.0 — a big sound update
Drum kits grow up, four new effects arrive and the instruments are redesigned. Almost every effect now shows on live graphs what it does to your sound.
🥁 Drums — the headline
• Nota Rhythm and the Drum Rack share one library of 25+ kits, so a note plays the same sound in either one
• Every pad has its own effects: saturation on the kick, a short plate on the snare, a room on the clap, ping-pong delay on the hats
• Eight ready-made macros per kit: Tune, Decay, Hats, Drive, Room, Echo, 808/Sub
• Rhythm: an effect chain on every voice, a new editor, a Glue compressor on the whole kit, quiet steps, fills, banks A–D
• 29 kits (was 6), from classic drum machines to glitch and ambient
• Factory kicks, snares and claps are reworked: deeper, tighter kicks, and snares with real wires and crack
✨ Four new effects
• Chorus — Classic, Ensemble (the string-machine shimmer) and Vibrato · 34 presets
• Phaser — 2 to 12 stages, tempo sync · 35 presets
• Flanger — from jet whoosh to metallic ring · 31 presets
• Lens — spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope and spectrogram in one device, with no effect on the sound and no added latency
🎹 Redesigned instruments
• Sampler — Sample / Pitch / Env / Filter tabs, Glide and Mono legato, Trim silence, root note detected from the file name · 30 presets
• Pendulum — watch the balls swing and see why each note plays · 28 presets
• Physical — Mono mode, a mix between its two resonators, the real partials on the graph · 32 presets
🎛 Effects that show what they do
Every effect now has live graphs and around 30 presets. The highlights:
• Auto Shift — a full vocal tuner: keeps the voice's character, detects the key and can follow a MIDI part
• Level — an automatic loudness leveler with LUFS targets (streaming, podcast, EBU R128) and a true-peak limiter
• EQ-8 — slopes up to 48 dB/oct, Mid/Side and L/R per band, auto gain
• EQ-3 — a DJ isolator with band kills that now leaves the sound untouched at flat settings
• Dynamic EQ-8 — each band has its own sidechain key
• Compressor & Ceiling — look-ahead with delay compensation, true peak, LUFS metering and a loudness target
• Forge — each stage gets its own distortion shape; Orbit syncs to tempo
• Crush, Beat Repeat, Shutter, Utility, Valve, Vintage and Auto Filter also get new graphs and features
🧩 Smaller comforts
• Choose presets right in a rack device's GUI window
• A welcome-screen banner when a new version is out
• Dozens of new MCP tools let an AI assistant read and control nearly every device, including sidechain routing
🐞 Fixes
• A rack device's GUI no longer shows a frozen picture
• Rack macros stay mapped when you reorder effects
• Tempo-synced effects inside racks now follow the song tempo
• Rhythm sample voices play in stereo without a hidden filter
• Auto Shift no longer lags by ~16 ms
• Physical's 1→2 structure no longer clips
• …plus fixes in Sampler, Crush, Ceiling, Beat Repeat, Shutter and Dynamic EQ-8
⚠️ Compatibility
Old projects open and sound the same, except:
• Forge in M/S and Multi routing sounds slightly different
• Level with Auto off: press MATCH once
• Valve with a fixed cabinet or off-axis mic: you'll now hear the cabinet's resonances
• Beat Repeat: presets saved with the old Latch now turn on the new Latch switch