What’s new

Steadier sound, steadier sign-in, and our sounds on Android

New

• KeyLayers sounds play on Android, straight from your keyboard.
• Your keyboard’s sliders and sustain pedal work from the first note, and you can give them other jobs in Settings, Controls.
• The sounds you saved on your keyboard yourself are listed in the sound picker, under User.

Improved

• Every button goes faint while it works, so a double press only counts once.
• Pads retuned: Crystal is in tune, Breath is soft and breathy, Open plays at the right octave, and every pad sits at the same level.
• The next song in your set loads ahead, so its first notes are never silent.

Fixed

• Panic now clears reverb and echo tails, and stops a bass note left ringing.
• Unplugging the keyboard mid-note releases every held note and the pedal.
• Keyboards that played every note twice now play it once.
• A keyboard left quiet after quitting KeyLayers is handed back as it was found.
• A Wi-Fi blip no longer signs you out, and signing in never spins forever.
• Security improvements.

Sign in from any device

New

• Sign in from any device: the email shows which device asked, and one tap lets it in.
• One account on up to three devices. Sign in on a fourth and the one used least recently is signed out, with nothing deleted.
• Your songs and sets are backed up to your account and come back on every device.

Improved

• On iPhone, KeyLayers sounds play with the silent switch on and the screen locked.
• A phone call no longer stops your sounds for good, and pulling out headphones stops the sound instead of playing through the speaker.

Fixed

• Security improvements.

A new layout on every device

New

• Play, Library, a new song, Search and Settings, always at hand in one bar.
• The Library lists every song with its artist, genre and key, with filters that stay in view.
• A new song in four short steps.

Improved

• Request a song you need from inside the app, and see it saved even before it is sent.

Changes that keep up with you

New

• A sound picked on the keyboard itself comes into KeyLayers as it is.
• Switches for what the sustain pedal and the wheel reach on each layer.

Improved

• Only what moved is sent to the keyboard, so every change lands at once.
• One solo at a time, shown in yellow.
• No Save button: every change is kept as you make it.

Fixed

• Audio interfaces are never mistaken for your keyboard.