Drag the WAV out and it is ready the moment you grab it, even for a long song.
PAUSE and PLAY keep the stab on the beat with your drums, song mode included.
A loop of any length drags out with its exact length in the file name and the right tempo in Live.
The line under the logo now tells you what is happening with every export.
The window remembers the size you left it at, and the standalone resizes smoothly.
The automation list in your DAW now reads Tape and Double Blade.
Bounces carry long echoes through to their end, and automation is followed in every DAW.
Spring reverb, vinyl crackle, echo wobble and PLUCK keep the same character at 96 and 192 kHz as at 48.
1.2.0 · 13 Oct 2026
Real pianos. Four recorded pianos join STAB's sounds, from soft and close to bright and open.
New string stabs: short, lush string chords that hit like a stab.
New deep house chord stabs.
TECHNO, reworked: darker chords and more space, with less sub and mud.
RAVE: a new lead for one-note riffs.
Improvements to every style.
Sounds now fit the pattern: a busy pattern keeps a stab tight and clear of the next hit, an open one leaves it to ring. Lock a sound and SLASH finds patterns that suit it.
TAPE now works both ways on every sound: right for more cassette, left for a punchier, crisper sound.
Standalone: the AUTO / IN / SEQ button, space bar for play and pause, and STAB and BASS now link and stay in time as apps too.
Standalone: plug in an EP-133 K.O. II and send loops and one-shots straight to it over USB.
The window opens instantly.
The download is larger than before because of the piano recordings. Patches, projects and licences from 1.1.0 and later load unchanged.
1.1.4 · 5 Oct 2026
Projects with STAB in them reopen reliably. Fixes a rare crash that could happen while your DAW was loading a saved project.
Your key, LOW CUT and locks always come back exactly as you saved them.
Recommended for everyone. Download it from your Gumroad library and install over your current version; your sounds and favorites stay where they are.
1.1.3 · 3 Oct 2026
Song mode stays in time when you loop a section or move around your arrangement while it plays.
A favourite saved in song mode keeps the whole song, A and B together.
Exported files have clean names, like "STAB D MINOR DEEP 124BPM 2BAR".
The knobs on screen follow your automation as it plays.
Slow tempos get patterns written for them.
Tighter timing and tuning, and a more stable plugin all round.
1.1.1 · 26 Sep 2026
WAV RECALL. Drop a WAV that STAB exported back onto the window and the sound, the pattern and the effects that made it come back.
Song mode exports the whole song. The MIDI and the WAV you drag out are A then B, the same length, as you hear it.
Each section in song mode plays at its own length, so a short A hands over to B as soon as it ends.
The dub throw, one hit a loop sent hard into the delay, can now be heard in the plugin and not only in exports.
A little less CPU.
1.1.0 · 19 Sep 2026
Five new kinds of sound: plucks, mallets, acid lines, metallic tones and deep rumbles.
Seven new keys, among them a DX electric piano and a Wurlitzer.
Riff mode: on Y2K, RAVE, TECHNO, TECH, LO-FI and EXP, lead sounds play a riff instead of a chord.
Song mode, VARY and a favourites row.
A room reverb beside the plate and the spring, tape on LO-FI, LIQUID and DEEP, and vinyl crackle.
TAPE replaces DRIVE.
TECHNO is its own lane, and HOUSE and DEEP sound more like the club.
Hover over any control to see what it does.
1.0.4 to 1.0.6 · 5 Sep 2026
The second sound: the 2 toggle adds an answering sound to the stab.
DNB plays pads, with a sub on the root.
STAB and BASS link. Open both in the same session and BASS follows STAB's key, scale and chords by itself.
A PAUSE button in the header when STAB runs inside a DAW.
HOUSE, DEEP, DISCO, TECH and TECHNO sound deeper and less bright.
OCT +1 and +2 are fuller and easier to use.
More variety inside each sound.
1.0.3 · 30 Aug 2026
Windows: STAB installs and loads without any extra Microsoft component.
1.0.2 · 30 Aug 2026
LOW CUT and OCT no longer change the volume.
The ALL style is a curated mix: warm, deep and lush by default.
1.0.1 · 30 Aug 2026
SLASH is instant.
Consistent volume from one stab to the next.
Three new kinds of sound: a dusty electric piano, a string machine and a vocal tone.