Audio Damage Continua: free update 1.2 transforms it into a multi-engine synth - March 14, 2026

In early 2020, Audio Damage released the Continua VA Synthesizer plugin for macOS, Windows, Linux, and iOS. Even though it is very classic in many places, it offers features that are rarely found in VA synths.

This includes warp, shape, and skew controls for the waveforms, an advanced modulation engine where every parameter is modulatable, MPE support, and a very hands-on design. Six years after its release, the free Continua 1.2 update is now available and massively boosts the synth’s capabilities.



Audio Damage Continua 1.2
This free update is quite a surprise. After six years, one would expect bug fixes or little refinements. Audio Damage took a different approach with Continua 1.2, supercharging the synth with new features.

A big highlight is the all-new oscillator section. It now features four new oscillator modes, including the original virtual-analog engine. Additive synthesis stacks 64 sine waves with per-harmonic amplitude control.

Then, Supersaw layers five detuned sawtooths while Supersquare does the same thing with square waves for a darker, hollow result.

The fourth new one is IXA, which combines phase modulation and waveshaping borrowed from an obscure early-90s Synthesizer. This makes the Continua a multi-engine Synthesizer, which is a big step forward.



More Advanced Features
Continua 1.2 also adds a fully-featured arpeggiator with 18 patterns ranging from standard to more experimental, like converge, diverge, and brownian. Extra flexibility can be added via the chance knob that infuses probabilistic rests into the patterns.

It is fully sycable to host tempo, with dotted and tripled values and up to two octaves of range.

The new free update also introduces Genetics, a new extra panel in which you can generate a branching tree of mutations for every patch. Instead of randomizing a patch entirely, you get a slightly or even more heavily mutated patch based on pre-selected parameters.

Lastly, Audio Damage overhauled the preset browser in Continua with a faster navigation, cleaner 4-column layout, and other neat extras, including import/export via ZIP.

That’s a wonderful gift that Audio Damage has given to its existing Continua customers. Thank you!

Audio Damage Continua 1.2 is available now as a free update for existing users. Continua is now on a special sale for a limited time, with 25% OFF. This update is also available for iOS, and the app is on sale for $6,99. The deal runs until April 1st, 2026.

Source: https://synthanatomy.com/2026/03/au...nthesizer-plugin-with-a-clever-interface.html

 

Reasons to be cheerful...1, 2, 3

1.Audio Damage has absolutely no copy protection

2. Audio Damage products can be used without restrictions on any or as many of your machines as you desire.

3.This is a great major and free update

 

great synth. One of my most used on iOS

 

thx, gonna try this. i hope that sound is so great as the ui

 

I have always liked this synth, but this great update makes it so much more versatile and interesting to play with. Way to go Audio Damage!

 

I will definitely check this out but I do feel like I’ve seen it on sale recently, I gotta check if that Facebook group posted it being updated or put on sale… I might have found what I was planning to spend a little money on voluntarily (because of the severe thunderstorms and me wanting to break something physically but I ended up cooling down and forgetting)… Unfortunately I can’t just go watch the demo videos at the moment but I will be able to tomorrow

 

I just picked it up for CHF 46 which is probably priced about right.

 

CONTINUA così ! *

(* for italians only)

 

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