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SodaSynth and Analog Extracts are Now Free

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To celebrate 13 years of SodaSynth and as a thank you to our customers over the years, we’re releasing the full versions of SodaSynth and Analog Extracts for free. Although these products will be no longer supported, they are still completely functional and work very well on Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11.

You can download SodaSynth and Analog Extracts for free today from our Downloads page.

SodaSynth is available as a VST 2 synthesizer plugin (32 and 64-bit) for Windows. Analog Extracts is a sample pack of analog modular synth samples (WAVs), and includes a VST 2 sampler plugin to make it easy to drop into a DAW.

Learn more about SodaSynth

Learn more about Analog Extracts

SodaSynth VST 2 synthesizer plugin for Windows
Analog Extracts VST 2 sampler plugin

BeatCleaver 1.4.0.5 Released

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We’re pleased to announce a new BeatCleaver update is now available.

This minor update brings some modernization and bugfixes to improve the overall experience.

Changes include:

  • Support for High DPI displays (Windows Display Scaling) – Graphics and window sizing are much improved for users with modern, High DPI monitors.
  • Soundcard bug fixes – We’ve backported 8 years of bugfixes from our soundcard I/O code that went on to power Rocket Broadcaster. Includes better default device detection, samplerate detection, and better device compatibility.
  • 64-bit – BeatCleaver is now a native 64-bit application for Windows. Windows 10 and 11 are fully supported.
  • Dark Mode – BeatCleaver now supports Dark Mode, if you enable it system-wide in Windows.
  • Windows Vista support has been dropped. BeatCleaver should run on Windows 7 and up, but we’re only QA testing it on Windows 10 and 11.
  • Bugfixes:
    • Fixed an extra note in MIDI exports if there was a slice point at 0
    • Fixed jittery zoombar dragging, which happened in some cases
    • A couple crash fixes

Existing customers can download BeatCleaver by logging into the Oscillicious Shop and clicking My Products or by clicking the download link in your license email.

If you purchased BeatCleaver before 2016, you can register for a shop account and then link your license to your account for convenient access to your downloads.

Discontinuing Support for Mac

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Since we started Oscillicious, we’ve always been keen on making our products cross-platform and available for users on as many desktop platforms as possible. However, due to recent changes in macOS (formerly Mac OS X) and a longer pattern of decisions by Apple, we’ve come to the difficult conclusion that continuing to build and support our software for Mac is beyond our means.

Our current released versions of BeatCleaver, JamDeck, SodaSynth, and Analog Extracts for Mac will continue to be available for download for existing customers. Whether or not they continue working on future versions of macOS is up to Apple. Future updates to all products will be available for Windows only.

We deeply regret the disappointment and inconvenience that this will cause our community on Mac. We’re as disappointed as you are.

If you’ve purchased our products for Mac, your licenses will continue to work on Windows. If you decide to install Windows on your Mac with Bootcamp, or purchase a Windows laptop or PC in the future, you’ll be able to continue enjoying our products.

Albert

BeatCleaver 1.2.1 Released!

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I’m pleased to announce a new bugfix release of BeatCleaver, which brings us to version 1.2.1.

I’ve been accumulating small bugfixes in anticipation of a future release, but yesterday a Swedish BeatCleaver user emailed me with a curious problem: He couldn’t open an MP3 with an “å” character in the title.

Uh oh. This was a bit embarrassing because it sounded awfully similar to bugs we had fixed in Mixxx many times before. The only difference was that this time, the bug was in my own code. Whoops!

The good news is that I fixed it quickly, and I think it’s important enough to warrant a new release of BeatCleaver. With that, the changes in 1.2.1 include:

  • Important compatibility improvements with files containing non-Roman characters. If you’re slicing files with non-ASCII titles or work with non-Western music, you’ll want to update.
  • Fixed a related bug in our open source library libaudiodecoder
  • Added the currently open file’s name to the window title
  • Fixed a crash when moving a slice’s end point after playing
  • Minor improvements to the registration process
  • Fixed a settings saving bug on Mac OS X
  • All Windows packages are now certified and signed. (When you install BeatCleaver, you should see something like this instead of this.)

Lastly, we’re pleased to confirm that BeatCleaver is the first beat slicing tool that is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Registered users can download this free update by clicking the download link in their original registration email again or by visiting our downloads page.

An updated free trial version is available for download from the BeatCleaver site.

BeatCleaver, the sampling and beat slicing tool for Windows and Mac OS X, is available for the bargain price of only $15, 12 €, or £10 exclusively from the Oscillicious Online Shop.

What’s Cooking at Oscillicious?

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Though it’s been more than a month since my last update, fear not, I’ve been working on Oscillicious products non-stop.

First off, I’ve managed to produce a version of BeatCleaver 1.2 that’s XP compatible, which needs some beta testing. It’s separate version because it doesn’t have the fancy MP3 / M4A slicing that BeatCleaver has on other versions of Windows and OS X, but it still slices and dices WAV and AIFF files just fine.

Interested?
Download BeatCleaver 1.2 for Windows XP here and try it out! (Leave a comment if it works for you!)

Next, I’ve got a 64-bit version of SodaSynth VST and AU in the pipeline. The Mac OS X is available for testing for registered users (email me!), and I hope to have a 64-bit Windows version available for testing soon too.

Now on to something totally new: We’re working on a pretty funky analog synth sample pack that we’re hoping to share with you by the end of August. As I hope you’ve come to expect from us, this sample pack is going to be a little bit different. We’re going to do this sample pack the Oscillicious way: Fresh.

Lastly, we’ve got one more big product in the pipeline, and I hope to release some more information about it soon. Development is progressing very well so far, and it’s what I’m spending almost all of my time on these days. I’m really excited about it because it’s totally different from anything else out there, and I think it’s going to be a very distilled expression of what Oscillicious is all about – Creating awesome, easy to use tools for musicians. Stay tuned!