What's new

October 7, 2026.

Exports from your DAW come out clean, and a MIDI keyboard plugged into the app finally plays it.

• A MIDI keyboard plays Contour. It never did: every message from an external controller was misread and dropped.
• Recordings play back at the speed and pitch you played them. On most iPhones they came out about three times slower and more than an octave and a half low.
• Sound comes back after a phone call, Siri, an alarm, or plugging in headphones. Before, the instrument stayed silent until you quit and reopened it.
• Stopping a recording no longer freezes the screen, and a recording that fails says so instead of doing nothing.
• One damaged sheet file no longer hides every sheet you have baked.
• Previewing and baking a sheet takes about half the time.
• With nothing playing, nothing recording and no keyboard connected, Contour no longer keeps running in the background. With a keyboard connected it plays on as before.
• VoiceOver can buy Pro, restore a purchase, and close the Pro and Settings panels. None of their buttons could be reached before.

• Playing legato no longer cuts off the note you are holding when you lift the one before it.
• Pitch bend returns to the note when the wheel comes back. In the app it used to climb further with every message.
• In the plug-in, the sustain pedal, pitch bend and aftertouch all work, and stopping the transport releases every held note.

• Exports and bounces are clean. A host renders an export much faster than real time and Contour could not keep up, so most of the file was silence broken by fragments of sound. It now renders at whatever speed the host asks, and the same project exports the same way every time.
• Exports keep the release and the reverb tail instead of cutting them off where the region ends.
• Notes land where the host places them. They were moved to the start of each buffer — up to 85 ms early in a large one.
• Automation ramps sweep instead of jumping straight to the end.
• Latency stays the same from the moment the plug-in loads, and long sessions over Bluetooth or USB audio no longer start to drop out.
• Deleting a sheet you baked no longer silences the one that is playing, and a saved project always reopens on the sheet it was saved with.

Thank you to the player who wrote in about exports.

What changed in the plug-in in 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 is in Version notes.