
NEXUS5 version history
5.3.24
2025-11-04
changes:
- Always show mute/solo buttons on layer header.
- Show mute/solo buttons on osc header until there are 34 oscs per layer.
5.3.23
2025-10-27
new:
- Added short category column to librarian.
- Added metadata column to librarian.
- Added lag parameter to layer envelope.
- When importing wavetables, cycle length can be specified by midi note.
changes:
- Changed colors of arp notes when they are deleted.
fixes:
- Fixed trancegate dials not showing correct modulation values.
- Fixed portamento dial showing incorrect value when re-opening the UI.
- Increased accuracy of arp strum.
5.3.22
2025-10-09
new:
- Added void verb.
- Folders in the librarian can now be re-ordered.
- Add mute / solo buttons to the oscillator header buttons.
- Added mod destinations for each trancegate.
changes:
- Increased accuracy of shuffle in arp / sequencer.
- Improved performance re-opening editor.
- When pasting layer, optionally allow all oscillators to be duplicated.
- When copy / paste oscillators or layers, also copy / paste all associated mod matrix entries.
- When deleting a layer or oscillator, delete all associated mod matrix entries.
- Main arp pattern can now be copied to/from the layer arps.
- Added 'paste layer' to routing page background popup menu.
- Added 'paste layer & oscillators' to layer header buttons.
- Next/prev buttons in impulse, shape and oscillator now respect selected folder in sample browser.
fixes:
- Fixed range of pan dial for several effects.
- Fixed retro librarian not saving selection.
- Fixed incorrect preset being selected at startup if 'Load as default' preset enabled.
5.3.14
2025-08-29
fixes:
- Fixed 0 length loops in the layer envelope causing hangs.
5.3.13
2025-08-25
new:
- Added some presets for the FM oscillator.
fixes:
- Fixed crash disabling Glitch FX.
- Fixed plugin window not remembering it's size in FL Studio.
- Fixed creating previews for presets in user folders.
5.3.10
2025-08-21
fixes:
- Fixed crash importing wavetables.
- Improved precision of Delay time when unsynced.
- When importing SFZ/SF2, apple pan to oscillator instead of layer.
- Fixed importing samples from SF2 files.
- Reverb/Impulse: Hide gate controls when not used.
- Allow keyboard split display in footer to be hidden.
- Disabled mouse wheel for EQ/HexEQ controls.
- Fixed mod wheel modulation not being detected in some DAWs.
- Removed duplicate Default FX presets.
- Fixed default preset for EQ, Otter & Vinylizer.
5.3.7
2025-08-16
fixes:
- Fixed crash loading presets with Glitch FX.
- Fixed issues loading / saving trancegate presets.
5.3.6
2025-08-14
new:
- Each effect can now be added to an FX group up to 10 times.
- SF2/SFZ can now be dragged to oscillators.
- MIDI create dialog can now create variations.
- Add zoom to EQs.
- Add gate to Reverb and Impulse.
- Added time based portamento.
- Added step record mode to arp.
- Added clear button to mod matrix entries.
- Added new FX picker dialog.
- New Nexus 1 retro skins.
- New Nexus 2 transparent skins.
changes:
- Increased font sizes.
- Tweaked colors.
- Insert effects have been converted into their own FX types.
fixes:
- Fixed mod source dials in footer not saving their selection.
- Fixed mod source dial in footer not controlling synced LFO speed.
5.2.18
2025-07-21
new:
- Added button to sample editor that locks crossfade for all samples to be the same amount.
fixes:
- Fixed loading of presets that used 16 fx groups.
5.2.17
2025-06-20
new:
- Add draw mode to layer envelope.
- Added SFZ / SF2 import.
- Added tune, pan, level to user samples.
- Added copy/paste for fx groups.
changes:
- Optimized plugin editor opening speed.
- Oscillators are now recreated if pasting layer into new preset.
fixes:
- Fixed preset browser sometimes showing the wrong category.
- Fixed bookmarked presets appearing in librarian twice.
- Fixed loading samples with accents in the filename.
- Fixed creating folders when some folders are hidden.
- Fixed crash loading single cycle wavetables < 1024 samples in length.
- Fixed latency calculation when fx either added or deleted or sample rate changes.
- Disabled resonance knob on layer filter if filter type does not support resonance.
5.2.3
2025-04-28
fixes:
- Fixed crash with right to left languages like Arabic or Hebrew.
- Fixed crash right clicking in sample editor.
- Fixed crash modulating wavetable position.
5.2.2
2025-04-10
new:
- Users can now import and export user expansions. All presets and samples will be bundled into one archive.
- All oscillator parameters can now be modulated from layer mod sources.
- Added likes to sample browser.
- Added search term history to sample browser.
- Added fixed mode to oscillator starting phase.
- Add option to always from filter, reverb and delay on front page.
- Add FM oscillator presets.
- Add automatic slicing of drum loops.
- Add AM effect to oscillators.
- Added soft sync to virtual analog oscillator.
- Added support for importing impulses.
- Support creating variations when importing user samples.
- Added 6 band EQ (HexEQ).
- Add copy/paste between arps.
- Added new variations modes, true random, reverse round robin and reverse velocity.
- Added ability to hide expansions and presets.
changes:
- Increased max bpm of time stretch to 220.
- Moved transpose buttons to footer.
- Grain pos can now get modulated to negative positions.
- Added latency compensation to effect groups.
- Arp now remembers name of last used preset.
- Sample widget now has a drop target for samples and wavetables.
- VA Oscillators now show starting phase.
- Hash character is now allowed preset names.
fixes:
- Optimized browser search speed.
- Fixed preset sound differences between N2 and N5.
- Fixed retro librarian not remembering selected preset.
- Fixed vinylizer dry signal always mono.
- Reduced memory usage.
- Fixed arp pattern sometimes not getting saved / recalled correctly.
- Fixed analog chorus crackles.
- Distortion FX acts differently depending on the insert FX number.
- Fixed zooming in Sample Editor could cause DAW to hang.
5.1.9
2024-12-26
fixes:
- Fixed crash when unloading multiple instances.
- Fixed glitches when loading retro-skins
5.1.8
2024-12-23
new:
- Retro page has a skin-selector now.
- Added 35 skins (all N2 era skins that ever existed, plus a few new ones)
fixes:
- Filter envelope wasn't modulatable via the filter-modifier correctly.
- Single-cycle wavetables import correctly now.
- Don't delete "unused" EQ during preset load anymore.
- Improved v-sync behaviour.
5.1.6
2024-12-09
new:
- Retro librarian now saves the sort order.
fixes:
- Fixed filter cutoff envelope being applied in rare circumstances.
- When loading FX presets, fixed incorrect preset name being displayed.
- Fixed folders being sorted randomly instead of alphabetically if they are not 1st party content.
- Fixed Librarian changing selection when collapsing folders.
- Fixed sequencer mode doesn't clip notes correctly.
5.1.5
2024-12-06
new:
- Added setting to disable hardware graphics acceleration [Windows].
- Added setting to reduce amount of user interface animations.
changes:
- Disabled automatic generation of missing preset previews on startup. Right click on a folder to generate missing previews.
- Revert subsonic filter to be the same as the one used in Nexus 4.
- Report main LFO speed in Hz.
fixes:
- Sample Editor: Made detecting root note from sample filename more robust.
- Sample Editor: When importing, get loop points from wav/aiff metadata.
- Fixed timestretch generator ignoring phase settings.
- Rename OSC mode destinations from 1 - 4 to A - D to match names of operators.
- Fix mouse cursor disappearing in Logic after dragging knob.
- Fixed Cubase converting save state from VS2 to VST3.
5.1.3
2024-12-04
new:
- Added option to make default UI retro mode.
- Default state for keyboard open or closed is now saved in preferences.
- Add icons and activity meter to layers on routing page.
changes:
- Improved error messages when importing samples.
fixes:
- Fixed crash when shortening arp pattern.
- Fixed crash when importing samples into sample editor.
- Fixed existing slices getting cleared when importing new sample into sample editor.
- Fixed preset loading progress bar not animating.
- Fixed hang loading ProTools projects.
- Fixed being able to select dividers in librarian.
- Fixed crash drawing reverb.
- Fixed sustain pedal.
- Improved stability and general bug-fixes.
5.1.1
2024-11-30
fixes:
- Fixed flanger sometimes going silent.
- Fixed Saw Init presets not having user's name.
- Fixed user LFO3 & LFO4.
- Changing / disabling layer mod matrix entries is now more reliable.
- Added locks back to amp and filter modifier.
5.1.0
2024-11-28
new:
- Completely Revamped Interface.
- 1177 new presets.
- N2 retro UI.
- Sample import & edit.
- New effects: Particle, Vowel Filter, Vinylizer, Rotary.
- New generators: Retro, Grain, Cloud, and FM.