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what’s new.
Kickstarting 2026 with our latest updates — packed with new features and enhancements to elevate your sound design workflow. This is the first post that resurrects the blog with monthly drops. Welcome back.
Meters Panel.
Introducing the new Meters Panel for Ultra and Standard edition license holders — professional-grade metering directly inside basehead. Every reading you’d normally leave the app for, now one keystroke away.
- FFT SpectrumReal-time frequency analysis bars
- PeakInstantaneous peak level metering (L/R)
- RMSRoot Mean Square level (200ms integration)
- VUClassic VU meter, 300ms ballistic response
- LUFSLoudness Units, approximate ITU-R BS.1770
- RadarMulti-channel energy across 6 frequency bands
Spectral Overlays.
On the waveform, where you look.
Right-click the Waveform View (Standard or higher) and you’ll see a whole new set of visualization options to layer over the waveform. Stack them. Dim them. Toggle them on and off. Whichever reading helps you find what you need.
Mini Waveforms.
Everywhere. Clickable.
Mini Waveforms appear throughout the interface so you can see the shape of a sound at a glance. And here’s the part nobody saw coming — click inside any mini waveform and the playhead moves to that position in real time for the selected file. Scrub without opening a bigger view.
FFT Meters.
Back. In three places.
FFT Meters make their comeback this release. You’ll see them in the Details Panel, as an overlay on the main Waveform, and inside the new Meters Panel. Same FFT clarity, wherever you’re already looking.
Other things
we quietly fixed.
Split Files Get Some Love
- Mash & Replace — convert ancient split formats via Waveform View or Results right-click
- Split files now read and write embedded images
- Split files render summed in the mini waveform
- Right-click Break Split Matches added
Mixer Panel
- Volume Sliders integrated into the Mixer Panel for fine-grained output control
- Control playback and processing output without leaving the panel
Minor Changes (but you’ll notice)
- Album Art Sizing — three display sizes in the Details Panel
- Personalize Page — three new accent colors: Red, Orange, Yellow
- Collections — “Rename Folder” in the right-click menu
- Rename Panel — expanded number range, UI cleanup
- Pitch Slider Modifier — scroll override now works app-wide
- ToolTips — now in 12 languages
Fixes
- Transport — no more auto-resume when tabbing back in
- Importing — fixed imports not appearing after scanning
- Filename Editing — double-extension bug resolved
- Skip Silence — disabled for Split Files
- PSE Store — free CloudPack library fixed
- DSS — sharing/remoting on the same machine fixed
- Taglist — single-line display consistency + split file improvements
- License Server — UUIDs instead of MAC addresses
Grab the update.
Live in the latest build. Ultra and Standard license holders get the Meters Panel and Spectral Overlays automatically — just update. Not on Standard or Ultra yet?