What's new in HarmonyKeen.

Releases

1. 1.0.10

   October 12, 2026
   • New: A new project offers Import MIDI and an example melody, right on the empty grid
   • Improved: Refreshed piano keys, a smoother welcome tour, larger labels and many small refinements
   • Improved: Selected notes go quieter while another app is in front, and menus confirm your choice with a blink
   • Fixed: In the plug-in, a note on the first beat of a looped section now plays every time round
   • Fixed: In light mode, the sheet music view shows your music again
   • Fixed: Various fixes and improvements

2. 1.0.9

   October 6, 2026
   • New: Move your whole song to a new key, and right-click a note for Cut, Copy, Paste and more
   • New: Open Recent, tap tempo, and double-click a project file to open it
   • New: The keyboard lights up as notes play
   • Improved: Start Fresh and Open ask before you lose unsaved work
   • Improved: The chord picker works from the keyboard, plays a chord before you pick it, and can show Roman numerals
   • Improved: Smoother, calmer motion, a smaller app, and many small refinements
   • Fixed: Recording into the plugin works every time, and no longer picks up HarmonyKeen's own notes played back by your DAW
   • Fixed: Harmonies end more naturally: the last melody note always gets a chord that contains it

3. 1.0.8

   October 2, 2026
   • New: See what's new in an update before you install it
   • Improved: The Spread setting is set aside while it's rebuilt, and harmony uses balanced spacing meanwhile
   • Improved: Many small refinements and fixes make HarmonyKeen smoother to use
   • Fixed: Harmony notes that clashed with the key in some styles now stay in key
   • Fixed: With "Also play the melody into your DAW" turned on, your melody now reaches your DAW as soon as it's recorded, without a Generate first
   • Fixed: On Windows, the Import MIDI window no longer opens out of sight

4. 1.0.7

   September 28, 2026
   • New: Paint mode: turn it on with the pencil button or B, then click or drag to draw notes of any length
   • New: Edit each note's velocity in a lane under the piano roll
   • New: The HOST button can play your melody into your DAW, not only the harmony
   • New: The plugin can send each part into your DAW on its own MIDI channel, so each harmony can have its own sound
   • Improved: Many refinements make the piano roll smoother to work in
   • Fixed: Loop repeats the whole song when no loop range is set, and the metronome clicks during playback

5. 1.0.6

   September 23, 2026
   • Fixed: Melodies with an occasional doubled note, like an octave, now import
   • New: When two notes in an imported melody start at the same time, choose which one to keep: Loudest, Highest or First
   • Improved: The plugin now plays the instrument you pick, sound quality has improved, and all instruments play at a similar volume
   • Improved: The settings menu is easier to use
   • Improved: Import messages are easier to read, and leave on their own when nothing was lost
   • Fixed: Various fixes and improvements

6. 1.0.5

   September 18, 2026
   • Fixed: Melodies with overlapping notes import instead of being refused
   • Improved: Harmony follows your melody's volume
   • Fixed: The free trial starts on networks where it could not be reached before
   • Improved: Closing no longer asks about unsaved work, and a setting brings the question back
   • Fixed: Various fixes and improvements

7. 1.0.4

   September 12, 2026
   • New: Space starts and stops your DAW from the plugin panel in VST3 hosts on Mac, and plays HarmonyKeen's own preview everywhere else
   • New: HarmonyKeen asks before a dropped file replaces notes already on the grid
   • Improved: Drag to DAW now lands separate tracks, and a setting puts it back to one track
   • Improved: HOST can be switched on at any time, not only after generating
   • Improved: Play starts from the playhead instead of the beginning
   • Fixed: Various fixes and improvements

This history starts at 1.0.10. Earlier releases shipped before this page existed.