Scream

This update introduces the first pass of Scream’s GUI, establishing the visual foundation for the plugin. It’s still early, but this marks the start of the overall look, feel, and user experience of Scream.

This update improves overall stability and usability, with fixes for parameter text value accuracy and a multi instance crash. It also adds anti-aliasing, along with direct parameter value editing by left clicking and confirming with Enter/Return.

This update captures an early UI concept phase for Scream’s LFO/Performer, where we explored different ideas for how modulation should look and feel in practice. The focus here was on shaping the workflow, testing concepts like drag to place editing, drawable motion, and parameter controls that could be adjusted more intuitively and musically. It was a key step in defining how the LFO/Performer would eventually function inside the plugin.

This update introduces Scream’s LFO/Performer, adding deeper modulation and movement control directly inside the plugin. You can draw and edit patterns, adjust modulation amounts for LFO 1 and 2, paint in shapes, store up to 8 patterns per LFO, and sync everything directly to your DAW’s BPM and playback position for more dynamic, performance ready automation.

This update improves the LFO/Performer workflow with clearer visual feedback and easier control. Grid lines are now more visible, pattern slots 1–8 are easier to read, modulated ranges are displayed more clearly, and new rate controls have been added. It also introduces a paintable sine shape, slider based grid controls, and tooltips on more complex parameters for a smoother overall experience.

This update adds a new retrig button for more flexible LFO behavior, along with a smoother, more polished playhead animation. It also improves pattern control by turning the triangle selector into a draggable slider and making all pattern numbers directly clickable for faster workflow.

This update makes the LFO fully usable in personal projects, with support for saving and loading LFO state, including rate, pattern settings, shapes, and related controls. It also adds the ability to switch between sync-based timing and millisecond rate types for more flexible modulation control.

This update reworks the LFO drawing workflow to feel more familiar and intentional, now functioning closer to Massive and Serum 2. Instead of using hotkeys while drawing, you now select a specific point edit or shape draw mode before interacting with the grid. An output gain slider has also been added for additional level control directly within the plugin.

This update adds a new one shot mode for the LFO, introduces key tracking, and gives you the option to disable autogain for more control over the plugin’s behavior. It also includes fixes for UI scaling, window resizing, and a number of other general bugs and stability issues.

This update fixes the drag range for the input gain parameter, corrects scaling issues in the header and footer, and resolves occasional GUI stretching when opening and closing the LFO section for a more stable and consistent interface.

This update includes fixes for scaling issues inside Ableton, improving how Scream displays and behaves within the DAW for a more consistent and reliable interface.

This update completely replaces the previous NanoVG graphics backend with a new custom renderer, delivering a massive performance improvement by reducing CPU frame time from roughly 443 microseconds to 58 microseconds. It also brings sharper subpixel anti-aliased text rendering on Windows for a cleaner and more polished interface.

This update reduces the minimum GUI size for more flexibility when resizing the plugin window, and improves VSync behavior on Windows for smoother overall rendering and visual performance.

After over a year of development, testing, and refinement, Scream 1.0 is finally here. What started as an idea to bring the iconic 2010 Scream sound into a standalone plugin has grown into a fully realized release, shaped through extensive iteration, major performance improvements, and feedback from hundreds of beta testers. This version marks the official launch of Scream as a free, open source plugin built to capture the character, movement, and energy that inspired it from the start.