InterComp release notes

The footer shows InterComp's own logo. The interwebbi.com logo at the foot of the panel is now InterComp's lockup: the Interwebbi plug-ins' knob mark and the name beside it.

• Nothing you hear changed: no control, no default and no sound is different, and your projects and presets open as before.

IW-76's ATTACK and RELEASE numbered as on a 76, values you can type, a trial you cannot miss, and a new version shown the same day.

• IW-76's ATTACK and RELEASE show the knob's own number, 1 to 7 with 7 the fastest, as a 76-style compressor numbers them, instead of times. The knobs always worked that way, so a setting read off another 76 carries straight over.
• The value under each of the ten knobs can be typed. A comma works as a decimal point and a unit is optional. A host's own parameter window reads typed values the same way: before, 5,5 became 5.
• While the trial runs, the first plug-in window you open each day, of InterComp or any other Interwebbi plug-in, shows a card with the days left, and buttons to buy a licence, enter a key or continue the trial. Once the trial has ended the card stays, without the button to continue. A licensed copy never shows it.
• InterComp now looks for a new version whenever you load a project that has it, or insert it on a track: at most once in ten minutes, for every Interwebbi plug-in on the computer together. A project with forty instances still asks only once.
• As before it only shows the orange chip in the header, and never installs anything. The menu item that turns it off is now called Check for updates.
• Projects and presets are safe: no parameter changed and the sound is identical to 0.12.2.

Nothing changed in InterComp since 0.12.1. This release is there to prove the update notice that 0.12.1 brought.

• With 0.12.1 installed, the header shows an orange 0.12.2 AVAILABLE chip within a day of this release. Clicking it opens InterComp's page at its downloads.
• The code, the parameters and the audio path are exactly those of 0.12.1, so installing it is optional.

InterComp now tells you when a newer version is out. Everything else is as it was in 0.12.0.

• An orange chip, such as 0.12.2 AVAILABLE, appears in the header beside ACTIVE when a newer InterComp has been released. Click it to open InterComp's page at its downloads.
• InterComp never downloads or installs anything by itself, so it cannot change under you mid-show. You install the update when it suits you.
• It asks once a day, for every Interwebbi plug-in on the computer together. The request carries nothing about you or your computer, and if it gets no answer, nothing happens.
• Check for updates daily, in the settings menu (☰ on the preset bar), turns it off for every Interwebbi plug-in on the computer at once. In a sandboxed host with no network access it does not ask at all.
• Projects and presets are safe: no parameter changed and the audio path is the same.

InterComp now needs a licence key, after a 14-day trial.

• It works fully for 14 days from the first time it runs on a computer, with no key and no sign-up. After that its output is silent until a licence key is activated, and its window says the trial is over, with a button to buy one.
• Activating needs the internet once: choose Enter licence key… in the menu (☰), paste the key and press Return. A key works on two computers.
• Preset names are no longer cut to seven characters on Windows when you use Save as.
• Activate before a show, not during one: when the trial ends the output goes silent at that moment, even in a running session. Projects and presets are unaffected.

IW-3A can now limit, and IW-DS gains a gentle 2:1.

• COMP | LIMIT under the IW-3A title. LIMIT starts at the same point but holds peaks down much harder, at roughly 6 to 9:1 instead of about 4:1, and lets go a little faster. The switch crossfades, and auto gain follows it.
• IW-DS's ratios are now 2, 4, 6, 10 and NUKE. 2:1 is the gentlest, for levelling a vocal before IW-3A.
• Saved projects and presets open as they were, with IW-3A in COMP. If you automated IW-DS's ratio with 0.10.0 to 0.11.2, re-draw that lane: the list of ratios grew.

Two preset fixes. Nothing about the sound changed.

• Names that differ only in characters a file name cannot hold, such as Vox a/b and Vox a:b, now save as two presets instead of one replacing the other.
• The star after a changed preset's name appears at once when you change a control.

InterComp now comes as an Audio Unit as well, so Logic Pro can see it. Nothing about the sound changed.

• Your host treats the Audio Unit as a different plug-in from the VST3, so a project moved across needs setting up again. Presets carry over.
• Installing by hand: a symlinked Audio Unit is never found, so copy the bundle.

Parallel compression built in, and gentler defaults.

• A new MIX knob blends the untouched input with the compressed signal, from 0 to 100%. Still zero latency, so the blend never smears or combs.
• A new instance starts with IW-76's DRIVE, IW-3A's PEAK REDUCTION and IW-DS's DRIVE at their minimums, so it barely touches a track until you dial it in.
• Saved sessions and presets open exactly as they were, with MIX at 100%.

A third character: IW-DS. The left half can now be IW-76 or IW-DS, a modern character compressor that goes from gentle levelling to all-out squash.

• Click the dim name in the left half's title to switch. It crossfades, so you can switch while playing, and each model keeps its own settings.
• IW-DS has ratios 4, 6, 10 and NUKE, level-neutral DRIVE, and DIST, SAT and WARMTH switches.