What’s new.

What changed in Transcend, month by month. Testers get each build automatically.

October 2026

Audio to Instrument, the extension Store, a public beta, and getting songs out as easily as they come in.

Studio One songs (.song) open directly: tracks, folders, sends, instruments, plugins with their settings, Pro EQ, Compressor, Gate, Limiter and X-Trem with theirs, and the tempo map.
Audio that followed the tempo in a REAPER, Studio One or DAWproject song keeps following it in Transcend.
DAWproject export: File ▸ Export ▸ DAWproject writes your song for Studio One, Bitwig and Cubase. It also converts an FL, Live or REAPER project to DAWproject.
FL Studio import: sample root notes, sidechains in older projects, a keyed Fruity Limiter, FL’s Pitch Shifter and its master pitch now come across, clips play on their own track, and MP3 clips land on time.
The import report has a new look and says which version of the other DAW wrote the file. A version newer than we have tested is checked against what Transcend knows, and you can tell us, in one click, about anything it didn’t recognise: only that, never the project.
Share Project: a copy for someone without your plugins, with those parts rendered to audio, zipped and ready to send.

Project Versions is now a stack of snapshots: go back through your saves, read what changed, listen to both, name a version, or go back to it.
File ▸ Revert To ▸ Last Save.
Capture MIDI: what you played is kept, even when you weren’t recording.
One key for the whole song, detected from your notes.
Drop in a whole song and Transcend can follow its tempo, beat by beat.
If a plugin took Transcend down, the next launch names it and asks whether to leave it out or load it in its own process, and so does adding it again.
A project copied from another computer can be saved over even when its file is read-only.
Loading a project full of long audio is about three times faster, using half the memory.
Track freeze, undoable faders, pan, width, mute and solo, crash reports you see before they’re sent, and signed updates that install when you say so.

A new clip menu, grouped and quicker to read.
Audio clips can carry effects of their own.
Edit several audio clips at once, and change a clip’s pitch without changing its speed.
Turning warp on syncs a clip to the song’s tempo.
Every instrument on a track plays through that track’s fader and effects, and an instrument follows the track that plays it.
Picking another instrument for a pattern never changes the notes already in it.
A redesigned step sequencer, and the Samples and Patterns bins draw each row as a little clip.
A full automation editor, a pitch editor for sung takes, and MIDI effects on patterns and on the keys you play.

Audio to Instrument: turn one recorded note into an instrument you can play and edit.
Find any plugin with Ctrl+F and add it to a track.
Transcend Strings: sampled orchestral strings, with its own instrument window.
TK-1 is now Keyroom, with a photo of each kind of keys.
A redesigned Pad Sampler and Reverb, and a new Transcend Auto Pan.
The Library: your own sounds, patterns and MIDI, plus free sound packs to download, with credits shown.
An effect that loads but passes no sound (an expired trial, usually) is noticed and named.
TranSynth imports your own wavetables and has a wavetable editor.

Three new themes, Walnut, Midnight and Moss, and a picture behind the timeline, your own photo too.
The extension Store, with Reviewed and Community extensions, and installing from any GitHub link.
Extensions can open windows, add right-click menu entries, give a pattern its instrument, and read the tempo map, meter, key and markers. Transcend --test-extension runs their tests.
Settings is one sidebar with a search, and hovering a button shows its name.

Opening projects from other DAWs, a real tempo map, and the drum and sampling tools.

FL Studio projects (.flp), with plugins, mixer, routing and automation, and FL’s main effects rebuilt with their settings.
Ableton Live sets (.als), including warped audio, Drum Racks and Live’s own effects.
REAPER projects (.rpp), including envelopes, the tempo map and ReaPlugs with their settings.
DAWproject files exported from Studio One, Bitwig, Cubase and others.

A tempo map: tempo changes, ramps and time-signature changes on markers, in beats.
Warp: audio clips follow the song tempo, with tempo detection for loops.
A redesigned audio editor with Tape, Beats and Tones stretch modes.
Audio to MIDI, with separate settings for keys, guitar, bass, drums, vocals and full mixes.
Markers on the ruler.