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Changelog

Last updated: Apr 7, 2026

v1.3.0 (March 31, 2026)

Major Changes

  • New Camera Generator captures a live video stream from any device camera with front/back selection, zoom control, and automatic orientation handling.
  • New Wave Effect for applying wave distortions with configurable waveshape, frequency, amplitude, position, rotation, phase, and attenuation.
  • New Crop Effect with three shape modes: Rectangle (edge offsets), Quad (individual corner positions), and Ellipse (width/height). Useful for projector output, basic projection mapping, and creative framing.
  • Keying Effect can now key by hue, or saturation in addition to luma, enabling color-based keying.
  • Virtual MIDI input port allows other apps on the same device (e.g. sequencers) to route MIDI to Chromatose.
  • New monthly subscription option with a redesigned paywall.
  • Audio engine now coexists with other audio apps, so you can play music from other apps while using Chromatose.
  • Device preview rendering when an external screen is attached. The local device screen now shows a downscaled copy of the external output.
  • Patch auto-save snapshotting: unsaved changes are automatically saved when the app goes into the background, and restored on next launch.
  • Photo Generator now includes built-in rectangle cropping parameters for trimming the source image before tiling.
  • Improved Macro Knob configuration. They now display all mapped parameters with their full location path (e.g. “Gen A > rotate”), or a custom label, along with detailed display & configuration options.
  • Library remembers the last used query (search text, sort order, tag filters) when reopening.
  • Library now uses infinite scrolling for faster loading and improved responsiveness with large collections.
  • Added 32x and 1/32 modulation rate multipliers for extreme slow or fast modulation speeds.
  • Various performance optimizations to: Graphics Engine, Audio Engine, and user interface.
  • New Color Dodge blend mode.
  • 9 New Factory Presets: Edge Wave, Smile, Luma Fluid, Broken TV, Cubism, Flow State, Drippy Wave, Wiggly Bounce, Modern Art.
  • Audio modulation parameters can now be modulated and macro mapped.

Breaking Changes

  • Fixed a significant bug in the mixer: blend modes and composite operators were applied incorrectly. All blend and composite mode combinations now produce spec-correct results with proper alpha handling and smooth edges. NOTE: Patches saved prior to this update may appear visually different. You may need to re-adjust blend and composite settings on existing patches to account for the corrected behavior.

Other Changes

  • Simplified Graphics Engine settings view with a new Simple/Advanced configuration mode.
  • Some selectable parameters now use a picker menu instead of the cycle-tap control.
  • Effects tabs now visually indicate if they are disabled.
  • Battery indicator added to the top status bar.
  • Low power mode and low memory warnings are now displayed.
  • FPS indicator display is now smoother.
  • Display Mirroring setting changes now take effect immediately without reconnecting the display.
  • Screen Mode setting is now remembered across sessions when reconnecting an external display.
  • Video recordings in 16-bit render mode now use Rec.709 color gamut for better compatibility with other software.
  • Audio gain setting now uses a power curve for easier fine-tuning at lower values.
  • Upgraded MIDIKit library, fixes rare crash when connecting a MIDI controller.
  • Removed liquid glass panel option and all panel transparency to improve rendering performance.
  • Line Generator: Deprecated wave parameters (wave freq, wave amp, x). Use the new Wave Effect instead. Existing patches will still load these parameters, but new patches will not display them.
  • Transform Effect: Renamed x-crop and y-crop parameters to X fold and Y fold.
  • Patch Detail View now indicates whether a patch uses audio-reactivity features.
  • Info message displayed when loading a patch if the audio engine is needed but disabled, or if there is a render mode mismatch.
  • Library search no longer hides the toolbar.
  • Loading patches is slightly faster.
  • Pro Badge now shown next to pro-only features (high-resolution external display, patch saving limits).
  • Settings categories now have icons for easier navigation.
  • Updated all custom SVG icons for visual consistency.
  • Fixed potential rare issue applying license entitlements without internet access.
  • Fixed bug preventing some parameter macro mappings from being saved.

v1.2.0 (Dec 8, 2025)

New Content

  • New Tunnel Effect: Turns any input into a 3D-like tunnel.
  • New Channels Effect: Separate the Red/Green/Blue channels of the image. Individually mix them, offset them, and change the angle of offset.
  • Feedback Effect: New parameters for: luma threshold, layer position, source input level.
  • Reduce Effect: New pixelation parameters for: shape, spacing, smoothness, invert.
  • Photo Generator: New parameters: spacing, texture sample-mode (Mirrored, Repeat, Clamped).
  • New Factory Presets: Cosmic Circus, Jupiter, LED Wall Tunnel, Neon Dream, Simple Color Shift.
  • Updated Factory Presets with additional macros: Ancient Bardo, Copper Smoke, Rainbow Worm.

Modulation

  • Audio Modulation: New Slew parameter when in Follow mode to smooth transitions.

Core Features

  • Main Mix: New Level parameter to control the final output level.

UI/UX

  • New Responsive Layout
    • Supports any screen size.
    • Supports both Portrait and Landscape orientation.
    • Supports iPadOS 26 multi-tasking and window resizing.
  • Fine Tuner Input Control
    • Various bugfixes
    • New intelligent up/down stepper buttons.
  • Faster Library loading.
  • When recording a video, the patch name is automatically used as the video file name.
  • New screen informs if an app update is available.
  • New screen shows what’s new after updating the app.

Push Notifications

  • Added push notification support.
  • Requires explicit opt-in to any of 3 categories of notification: Important Updates, New Version Updates, Product News.

Other Fixes/Changes/Improvements

  • To improve library search speed, searches now only match the beginning of patch names.
  • Reduced patch thumbnail sizes and made square to fit more on screen.
  • Settings Screen: Now uses Apple’s “Navigation Split View” for standardized layout on any device.
  • Help Section: Embedded tutorial videos.
  • Help Section: Added button to restart onboarding tour.
  • Bugfix: Fixed potential startup sequence issue when launching.
  • Improved some Japanese translations.
  • Added more words to the name generator.
  • Fixed various typos.

v1.1.0 (Sept 12, 2025)

New Pricing

  • Standard and Pro plans have been merged together for one low price.
  • Removed watermark from Free version (but still restricts saving to 2 patches).

Graphics Engine

  • HDR support for on-device rendering and HDR video export
    (enable under Settings > Graphics Engine > Render Mode).
  • New “Display Mirroring” option to mirror controls on external displays - great for demos and screen recordings.

New Content

  • New Cymatics generator: simulates fluid movement on a flat metal plate vibrated by sound.
  • Warp Effect: new “flip” parameter to complement “mirror”.
  • Displace Effect: new “SG” parameters for noise-based displacement, also increased channel displacement range.
  • Transform Effect: “Crop X” and “Crop Y” parameters mirror the slices now to produce smoother results without visible seams.
  • 9 new factory presets included - including “Gateway Machine” by @optictempo .

Video Recording

  • Entire video recording system redesigned.
  • Record in 16-bit SDR mode (HEVC 10-Bit Rec.2020).
  • Record in 16-bit HDR mode (HEVC 10-Bit Rec.2020).
  • New “Render Resolution” setting for recording videos in common resolutions.
  • Fixed auto-timeout bug causing shorter recordings.
  • Improved performance.

iOS 26 Ready

  • Full iOS 26 support.
  • New Liquid Glass interface option.
  • Enhancements to UI elements for consistent look & feel.
  • MenuBar Support for iPad.
  • Various UI fixes to support iOS 26.

Bug Fixes

  • Removed multi-window option on iPadOS (wasn’t working properly).
  • Fixed default scale for Photo Generator.

Other Improvements

  • Added confirmation dialog before deleting patches..
  • Graphics Engine settings now show your device’s actual capabilities (resolution, max FPS, HDR support).
  • Growth generator: removed ‘speed’ parameter
  • Added Japanese language support.
  • Minimum iOS version raised to 17.5

v1.0.1 (July 06, 2025)

Initial public App Store release version.
Supports any iOS device running iOS v17.0 or greater.

Generators (run up to 4 simultaneously)

  • Grid
  • Lines
  • Orbit
  • Noise (2 types)
  • Orbit
  • Photo
  • Shapes
  • Growth (DLA)

Effects (use unlimited number)

  • Displace
  • Edge
  • Feedback
  • Kaleidoscope
  • Keying
  • Levels
  • Reduce
  • Ripple
  • Transform
  • Warp

Mixer

  • BPM: global modulation tempo control
  • Blend Mode
  • Composite Mode

Modulation

  • Waveshapes: Sin, Square, Ramp-Up, Ramp-Down, Random, Smooth Random, Continuous Forward, Continuous Backward
  • Rate Multiplier options: 1/16x, 1/8x, 1/4x, 1/3x, 1/2x, 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 8x, 16x
  • Polarity: negative, positive, bipolar
  • Rate (also modulatable)
  • Depth (also modulatable)

Audio Modulation

  • Source Signal: Raw, Low-Pass Filtered, Hi-Pass Filtered
  • Invert Signal toggle
  • Polarity: negative, positive, bipolar
  • Type: Follow Mode, Envelope Mode
  • Sensitivity (only in Follow Mode)
  • Attack (only in Envelope Mode)
  • Decay (only in Envelope Mode)
  • Depth

Performance Mode

  • 8 Assignable macro knobs
  • Macro min bound setting
  • Macro max bound setting

MIDI

  • MIDI Bluetooth device connection
  • MIDI over Network connection
  • MIDI Learn for macro mapping
  • MIDI CC control over 8 macro knobs
  • MIDI Sync for global BPM

Patch Library

  • 9 Factory Preset Patches included
  • Save as New, Save replace
  • Tagging & Filtering
  • Search
  • Sorting
  • Rename Patch
  • Metadata display
  • Delete

Data Management / Import / Export

  • Save screenshot to photo library
  • Record video
  • Share Patch files
  • Import Patch files

User Interface

  • Full background content rendering
  • HUD UI Overlay with status indicators
    • FPS
    • Audio level
    • External screen connected
    • MIDI CC Received
    • MIDI Clock received
  • Top main menu action button
  • Expandable/Collapsable Control Panels
  • Knob-based numeric parameter value entry
    • Unipolar and Bipolar
    • Haptic feedback (iPhone only)
    • Animated modulation indicators
    • Tap to open additional settings
  • Fine-Tuned entry control
  • Color selection control
  • Multi-Value Toggle selection control

Settings

  • Subscription management
  • General
    • Knob sensitivity
    • Show touches
  • Graphics Engine
    • 8-bit or 16-bit color
    • FPS selection
    • External screen resolution
  • Audio Engine
    • 3 configurable signals for modulation: Raw, Low Freq, Hi Freq
    • Peak vs RMS analysis
    • Gain & Threshold settings for all signals
    • Filter Cutoff for Low Freq and Hi Freq signals