Versions of the PHY5 plugin (PHY5 Synth and PHY5 Fx) and updates of the web version.
1.1.0 current release, 21 October 2026
Already own PHY5? Download 1.1.0 from your account and install it over 1.0.1. Your licence stays activated, and your projects and presets sound the same.
Configurable signal path: drag the tabs to reorder the exciters, grains and bodies; each source can be routed to either body.
Body 2: a second vibrating body, with its own settings, in parallel or in series with the first one (per note or sympathetic). Each body has a Dry/Wet control under Level.
Feedback loop: new FEEDBACK family. Part of the bodies' output goes back into the body (self-sustaining notes, like an EBow) or into the grains (rising pads), with built-in safety limits.
Exciter: new Saw and Square waveforms; a Sample source (beta) playing sounds from a small built-in bank, with Keytrack, Loop, Reverse and Start; Stick control, a bow-like stick and slip that follows the phase of each voice; Link to give source 2 the envelope of source 1.
Grains: CLOUD family with random pitch (Range, Scale, Direction), random length (Variance) and grain Shape; Blur up to 2.
SHAPER (formerly Tail Gate): Gate mode by default, Tail mode, and a Release control.
LFOs: add and remove LFOs; draw your own shape (Custom, now the default) with curved segments, steps, grid snapping and starting shapes; tempo sync from 1/64 to 8 bars, with triplets and dotted values, locked to the host's playback position.
Modulation: unipolar or bipolar polarity per route; new Random source (a value drawn at each note, per voice on the body settings); tempo sync for the grain Window and Delay; right-click a source tile to edit its settings.
Random button (dice) to create a new sound, with Shift+click for a small variation.
Presets: new STRINGS family (cello and violins), 37 factory presets in all.
Standalone: play notes from the computer keyboard.
1.0.1 13 October 2026
First public release of PHY5 Synth and PHY5 Fx: VST3 and standalone on Windows and macOS, Audio Units on macOS.
About thirty factory presets grouped by family (PLUCK, PAD, MALLET, KEY, BELL, BONK, EXPE).
Undo / redo (Cmd/Ctrl+Z), Save As with name field, online and offline activation.
Web version
21 October 2026: tempo sync, Random source, drawn LFO shapes, Dry/Wet per body, feedback loop; MUMBLING WOODS song with its own music; shareable links to a song (?song=).
19 October 2026: Stick control in the Exciter.
17 October 2026: song menu (LE LUTH, Violins) with its linked preset; STRINGS presets.
17 October 2026: Saw and Square waveforms; signal path set by dragging the tabs; Body 2.
16 October 2026: Sample source (beta) with a built-in bank.
15 October 2026: SHAPER; Grains tab on two rows with the CLOUD family.
14 October 2026: LFOs that can be added and removed, bipolar routes, Random button, ‹ › arrows around the preset menu.
13 October 2026: the web version goes online, with community presets (one per account).