# Voidseer 2.6.0 Release Notes

Released 2026-10. Windows x64, VST3 + standalone. Unsigned installer (see guide.html for SmartScreen).

## Versions
- FATHOM II 2.6.0
- IMPACT 0.7.0
- SIGNAL 0.7.0
- WRAITH 0.6.0
- TERMINUS 0.6.0
- NETHERBASS 0.8.2 and FORGE 0.5.3 (maintenance: session reload fix)

Every plugin keeps its plugin ID, so your projects, rigs and presets open as before.

## All plugins
- Session reload fix: a saved project now reopens with exactly the values it was saved with, so it renders the same as before you closed it.
- Preset browser (FATHOM II, IMPACT, SIGNAL, WRAITH, TERMINUS and NETHERBASS): START HERE presets pinned at the top, tags, favourites and search. Loading a preset resets every control first, so nothing is left over from the previous one.

## FATHOM II 2.6.0
- Everything from 2.5.0 (QUALITY modes, HQ RENDER, MATCH BYPASS, DOUBLER, FIZZ, RIFF GATE, OD TIGHT/BODY, LOCKS and the 10 rigs from 2.5) is included.
- Level-matched factory rigs: each factory rig sets RIG LEVEL so switching between rigs stays at a similar loudness. Your OUTPUT setting stays yours. Your own rigs and older projects load with RIG LEVEL at 0 dB, so they sound the same.
- 3 START HERE rigs for black and death metal: "START HERE - Black metal tremolo", "START HERE - OSDM chainsaw" and "START HERE - Modern death". They come after the existing 24 rigs and are pinned at the top of the preset browser.
- BROWSE (next to the preset list) opens the new preset browser.

## IMPACT 0.7.0
- Simple page: six macros (TIGHTNESS, ATTACK, BODY, SMASH, COLOUR and the new FEEL, from natural to machine) and Listen & Set, which listens to a passage and proposes gate settings for you to accept or ignore.
- Blast Mode: keeps the gate tight between hits at blast-beat speed. The knob works evenly across its range. Listen & Set suggests it when it hears very fast playing. Slower playing is unaffected.
- Gate lookahead (0 to 5 ms): the gate opens slightly early so the first transient of a hit is not cut. It adds the same amount of latency, reported to your DAW. At 0 ms nothing changes.
- Tail Clean: darkens only the ringing decay after each hit; the attack is left alone. Off by default.
- Hit display on the Simple page.
- Gate detector release control, and START HERE presets pinned in the preset browser.

## SIGNAL 0.7.0
- Simple page: five macros (WEIGHT, BITE, FIZZ TAME, GLUE, WIDTH) and Listen & Set, which proposes settings for the track or bus you play into it.
- Four bus starting presets: "BUS - Guitar wall", "BUS - Bass DI + amp", "BUS - Drum smash" and "BUS - Tremolo air", with START HERE pins.
- Smoother gain and dynamic EQ changes when you move or automate controls.

## WRAITH 0.6.0
- Simple page: five macros (AGGRESSION, SIBILANCE, CHEST, LEVEL, SPACE) and Listen & Set with four voice types: Shriek, Fry, Guttural and Clean.
- Four VOICE presets: "VOICE - Shriek", "VOICE - Fry", "VOICE - Guttural" and "VOICE - Clean".
- Smoother gain and dynamic EQ changes when you move or automate controls.

## TERMINUS 0.6.0
- Simple page with five macros.
- Loudness target: -14, -9 or -7 LUFS, or your own value. Learn listens once and sets the drive into the limiter to reach it; the setting then stays fixed until you learn again, so bounces are repeatable. If a target cannot be reached on your material, TERMINUS tells you the loudest level it can reach.
- Matched A/B for monitoring: compare at a similar loudness. It is ignored in offline bounces.
- Two new master presets: "Black metal master" and "Death metal master".

## Upgrade notes
- Close your DAW before installing. Licences, trial state, presets and projects are kept, and an update does not restart a trial.
- Projects saved with earlier versions open with the new features off, so they sound the same as before.
- The Complete and Trial installers include all seven plugins at the versions above. Single-plugin installers are available for each plugin.