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A major quality-of-life and workflow update focused on usability, playback stability, generation quality, and overall user experience.

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🎲 New Random Generator

Added a dedicated Random (Dice) button next to Generate.

With a single click Genesis now randomizes:

  • Root Note
  • Scale
  • Pattern Type
  • Pattern Length
  • Density
  • Complexity
  • Humanize
  • Velocity Variation
  • Note Length
  • Octave Range

and instantly generates a new pattern.

Perfect for fast inspiration and exploration.

🎨 Welcome Screen Redesign

The About / Welcome screen has been completely refreshed.

Improvements

  • Premium card-style links
  • Improved hover states
  • Better typography
  • Cleaner visual hierarchy
  • More compact layout
  • Improved accessibility

New Layout

  • ABYZOR Website
  • YouTube
  • GitHub
  • Instagram
  • KVR Audio

The old Beacons link has been removed.

🎵 Improved Toolbar Icons

Several controls now feature custom-designed icons:

Control Improvement
STOP Proper stop-square icon
METRO Dedicated metronome icon
SEEDS Custom seed icon
RANDOM Dice icon

This improves clarity and overall UI consistency.

🎹 Piano Roll Improvements

Manual Edit Protection

Genesis now protects custom edits made inside the piano roll.

When a pattern is edited manually:

  • Automatic regeneration is disabled
  • Parameter changes no longer overwrite edits
  • The seed display changes to CUSTOM
  • A warning banner explains the current state

Using Generate or Mutate restores normal generation behavior.

Note Overlap Prevention

Genesis now prevents overlapping notes on the same pitch.

Invalid overlaps are automatically rejected to keep patterns clean and readable.

Live Preview Updates

Edits made in the piano roll are reflected immediately while preview playback is running.

No restart required.

🎼 Host Synchronization Improvements

Playback timing has been significantly improved to stay in sync with the DAW transport.

Enhancements include:

  • More accurate host tempo tracking
  • Improved loop handling
  • Automatic note-off protection
  • Playhead jump detection
  • More reliable playback timing
  • Better transport synchronization

Result: smoother synchronization with the host timeline and more predictable pattern playback.

🔧 Preview Engine Improvements

Major improvements to playback stability and responsiveness.

Improvements

  • Sample-accurate looping
  • Improved BPM tracking
  • Better voice allocation
  • Real-time pattern replacement during playback
  • Improved thread safety
  • Reduced playback interruptions

Preview playback no longer stops when generating a new pattern.

🥁 Metronome Improvements

The metronome system has been completely reworked.

Improvements

  • Sample-accurate timing
  • Host and preview synchronization
  • Improved click generation
  • Better transport alignment
  • More consistent playback

The metronome now behaves more reliably in both standalone and DAW workflows.

🎶 Generation Quality Improvements

Chord Overlap Fix

Chord durations are now automatically clipped to avoid overlapping harmonic events.

Benefits:

  • Cleaner chord progressions
  • Improved harmonic clarity
  • Less muddiness

Melodic Gravity

Large melodic jumps are automatically pulled toward the center of the scale.

Benefits:

  • More natural melodic movement
  • Better note flow
  • Reduced extreme pitch jumps

Pitch Variety Enforcement

Motif-based generation now guarantees greater melodic variation.

Particularly noticeable in Techno-oriented patterns where repeated-note sequences could become overly static.

Benefits:

  • More interesting melodies
  • Better pitch diversity
  • Stronger musical movement

🌱 Seeds

Updated Seeds workflow.

Improvements

  • Improved tooltip text
  • Direct access to the Genesis Seeds page

Learn more:

https://abyzor.space/products/genesis/seeds/

🎨 Visual Improvements

General visual polish throughout the plugin.

Improvements

  • Updated slider accent colors
  • Improved typography consistency
  • Better icon rendering
  • Enhanced visual hierarchy
  • UI refinements across multiple screens

🐛 Bug Fixes

Fixed:

  • KVR Audio button font rendering issue
  • Preview loop boundary playback issues
  • Preview stopping during regeneration
  • Metronome playback inconsistencies
  • Piano roll overlap edge cases
  • Thread-safety issues in preview playback
  • Metronome state synchronization

❤️ Thank You

Thank you to everyone testing Genesis, sharing feedback, downloading releases, supporting the project, and helping shape future versions.

More improvements are already planned for upcoming releases.

ABYZOR Genesis — Fast MIDI inspiration, deterministic generation, and endless creative exploration.

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