VoLum v1.2.0 - BYO Stuff (Amps, Pedals, IR), Presets, Tremolo, Transpose & Octaver!

VoLum 1.2.0

The biggest VoLum update since 1.0 — this release turns VoLum from a fixed rig
player into an open platform: bring your own captures, IRs and pedals, save
your sounds as presets, and shape your tone with two new effects (Pitch
and Tremolo). The whole amp/pedal art catalog also got a visual glow-up.

Bring Your Own (BYO)

• Custom amps — build your own amp from your own .nam captures. Assign each
  capture to a cab + channel, name your cabs, and switch channels/cabs live. One
  custom amp can hold many captures (DIRECT + multiple cabs across channels).
• Custom IRs — import your own .wav impulse responses and use them in place
  of the baked cabs on DIRECT captures.
• Custom PRE pedals — import your own pedal/boost captures (.nam) into the
  PRE chain alongside the factory captures.
• Presets — save and recall full rig snapshots (amp, channel, cab/IR, PRE and
  POST settings) per amp, for both factory and custom amps. The header bar shows
  the recalled preset and an (unsaved) marker when you tweak it.
• Multi-file import on macOS — the "add captures/IRs" file picker now supports
  selecting multiple files at once on macOS (already available on Windows).

New effects

• PRE Pitch — a pitch pedal with two modes:
  • Transpose: shift up/down by semitones/octaves with INSTANT, DROP and POLY
    (polyphonic/chord-capable) characters, plus a live latency readout.
  • Octaver: sub-octave voices with DETUNE and TIMBRE.
• POST Tremolo — OPTICAL, BIAS and HARMONIC voices with rate, depth, shape and
  mix, plus tempo sync to your host.
• Delay tempo sync — the POST delay can now lock to host tempo (note
  divisions) in addition to free time, with ping-pong.

Amps & performance

• A2 Lite mode — a lighter-CPU model path for lower-powered machines.
• Channel-first custom cabs and custom SUPPORT amps for the Dual Amp rig.
• Faster amp/channel and PRE capture switching.

Look & feel

• Catalog-wide procedural art glow-up — every amp hero fractal and pedal motif
  was reworked with a richer, glowing "spiral galaxy" treatment (dark-sun THC
  Sunset, dragon-nebula Ampete, burning-ship Soldano, and more).
• Settings redesign and lots of standalone UI polish (scrollbars, dropdown
  dismissal, dirty-state, keyboard navigation).

Notable fixes

• PRE Pitch: fixed low-string detune and POLY stuttering/crackling.
• Custom amps in a DAW now fully survive save/reopen. A project saved while
  focused on a custom amp reopens on that amp — VST3/AU previously fell back to a
  factory amp when the host restarted (standalone was unaffected). Live knob edits
  to a focused custom amp are also saved with your project/host state, and a
  related bug where plug-in state could reset to defaults on project load is
  fixed.
• Many standalone feedback fixes across several rounds of Windows/macOS testing.

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Downloads

Windows

• VoLum-v1.2.0-windows-setup.exe — installer (VST3 + standalone + rig library).
• VoLum-v1.2.0-windows-portable.zip — portable: keep VoLum.vst3 and the
  sibling VoLumRigs/ folder together.

Heads-up: VoLum isn't code-signed yet, so on first download Chrome,
SmartScreen, or your antivirus may warn (e.g. "virus detected"). This is a
false positive on an unsigned installer. Verify the download against
SHA256SUMS.txt below, then choose Keep / More info → Run anyway.
On Windows: Get-FileHash .\VoLum-v1.2.0-windows-setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256.

macOS

• VoLum-v1.2.0-macos-installer.dmg — installs the app, VST3 and AU to the
  standard locations.
• VoLum-v1.2.0-macos-standalone.dmg — standalone app only.
• VoLum-v1.2.0-macos-vst3.zip — VST3 (keep VoLumRigs/ beside VoLum.vst3).
• VoLum-v1.2.0-macos-component.zip — Audio Unit (AU) component.

Your imported captures, IRs, pedals and presets are stored in your user content
library and are preserved across updates. Existing projects and presets from
earlier versions load unchanged.