--- title: "What's new in Tunr 0.5 · Tunr" description: "Tunr 0.5.0 in plain words: a rebuilt engine that measures, proposes and previews, a true-peak limiter, a delivery report, more export formats, a native Intel Mac build and Windows 0.5.0." canonical: https://tunr.studio/whats-new markdown: https://tunr.studio/whats-new.md last-updated: 2026-10-26 site: Tunr (https://tunr.studio) version: 0.5.0 --- # What's new in Tunr 0.5 Released 2026-10-26. Version 0.5.0. Tunr 0.5.0 rebuilds the mastering engine from the ground up: Tunr listens to your track first, tells you what it found, suggests a chain with a plain-language reason for every step, and lets you hear the result before you render. It finishes with a true-peak limiter and a report you can hand to anyone. Intel Macs get their own native installer, and Windows is on 0.5.0 too. ## Highlights - **Measure, propose, preview.** Tunr measures first, shows its findings with the numbers, and explains why each step is in the chain. - **Hear it before you commit.** The loudest 20 seconds render through your chain in about a second and play against the original. - **A limiter that stays clean.** Lookahead, 4× oversampled detection and a ceiling you set, −1 dBTP by default. - **A report for every master.** Before and after measurements, what each module did, and a check of the file you exported. - **WAV, FLAC, AIFF, MP3, M4A.** Sample rate, bit depth, dither and metadata, ISRC included, all in one dialog. - **Native on every desktop.** A separate installer for Intel Macs, and the Windows installer is 0.5.0 as well. ## It listens first, then explains We audited 0.4.5 and found four problems in the way it processed sound: a limiter that changed gain in steps, a glue compressor that ignored its attack setting, a loudness stage that was really a gain boost into a soft clipper, and saturation that aliased on bright material. Instead of patching them one by one, we rebuilt the engine and wrote a test for each problem so it cannot come back. - Drop a track and Tunr measures it: tonal balance, dynamics, loudness, true peak, stereo image, noise floor, clicks, hum, sibilance and clipping, each with its numbers. There are no quality scores or grades, just what it found. - From those findings it proposes a chain of ten modules in a fixed order: gain, restoration, match EQ, parametric EQ, dynamic EQ, compressor, multiband, saturation, stereo and the limiter. - Every module says in plain words why it is there. You can bypass it, tweak it, or reset it to the suggested value. - Clean-up (de-noise, de-click, de-hum, de-ess) is only suggested when the analysis is confident there is something to fix. Width and balance changes are suggested but stay off until you switch them on. - Give it a reference track and match EQ steers the tone toward that song's curve. - It is quicker too: analysing a full-length track now takes a few seconds instead of about a minute. ## Hear it before you render You no longer have to render a whole master to find out whether you like it. - Tunr picks the loudest 20 seconds of your track, renders them through the current chain in about a second, and plays them A/B against the original. - Drag the loop to any part of the song. Change a control and the preview updates. - Curious how it will sound on a streaming service? The optional codec preview plays the segment through MP3 or AAC and shows the true peak after encoding, which often lands half a decibel to a decibel above the ceiling. ## A true-peak limiter that stays clean The final stage now works the way a mastering limiter should: smoothly, with lookahead, and without crunching your transients. - Lookahead, dual release and 4× oversampled peak detection. You choose the ceiling; it starts at −1 dBTP. - Pick a loudness preset: Dynamic (−14 LUFS), Balanced (−11, the default), Dense (−9), Club (−7), Broadcast (−23), Podcast (−16), Spotify (−14), Spotify loud (−11) or Apple Music (−16). - A platform table shows how much each streaming service will turn your master up or down, and a readout estimates how hard the limiter has to work before you render. - Straight talk on very loud targets: Dense and Club can stop a little short when getting there would mean limiting more than 30 % of the track. The report tells you by how much, and adding the compressor or multiband stage usually closes the gap. ## A report you can hand over Every master comes with a mastering report, so you, your label or your client can see exactly what happened. - Before and after numbers: integrated loudness, loudness range, peak-to-loudness ratio, true peak and stereo correlation. - A short summary of what each module did. - A delivery check of the exported file itself, not just of the audio inside the app. - Save it as a printable HTML page. ## Export the way you deliver One export dialog covers the formats and details a release needs. - WAV, FLAC, AIFF, MP3 or M4A. - Choose sample rate and bit depth, and add title, artist, album, year and ISRC. - 16-bit files get proper dither (TPDF or shaped). - After sample-rate conversion Tunr checks the true peak again, so the file you deliver still respects your ceiling. ## Intel Macs and Windows Tunr 0.5.0 comes as three installers, one for each kind of desktop it runs on. - Apple Silicon Macs: Tunr.dmg. Intel Macs: the new Tunr-Intel.dmg, a native build of its own. Both are signed and notarised by Apple and need macOS 11 or later. - They are two builds rather than one universal app because the number-crunching libraries behind the engine do not come as universal binaries. - Not sure which Mac you have? Apple menu, then About This Mac: “Chip” means Apple Silicon, “Processor” means Intel. - Windows: Tunr-setup.exe, now 0.5.0 like the Mac builds, for 64-bit Windows 10 or later. The installer is not signed yet, so if SmartScreen appears, click “More info” and then “Run anyway”. ## How to get 0.5 Already using Tunr? You do not need to download anything. - Installed copies of 0.4.x update themselves through the in-app updater. On a Mac it picks the right build for your chip. - Your licence key does not change and keeps working. - New to Tunr? Grab the installer for your computer below or on the download page. ## Same deal as always The new engine changes how Tunr sounds, not how it treats you. - Free: three masters per machine without a key, and the licence key that lifts every limit is free too, sent by email. No card, no subscription. - Offline: every bit of processing happens on your computer. Your audio never leaves it, and there is no account to create. - Every update, this one included, is free for the life of your licence. ## Downloads - macOS (Apple Silicon): https://tunr.studio/download/mac — Tunr.dmg, macOS 11 or later, signed and notarised - macOS (Intel): https://tunr.studio/download/mac-intel — Tunr-Intel.dmg, macOS 11 or later, signed and notarised - Windows (x64): https://tunr.studio/download/windows — Tunr-setup.exe, 64-bit Windows 10 or later; the installer is unsigned, so SmartScreen may ask once Full release notes: https://tunr.studio/changelog. 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