PunchKit 1.8 makes live performance safer to leave and easier to recover. • Switch from MIDI Playground to REC to enable monitoring without losing active MIDI machines. Return to MIDI Playground to see the same playing state and stop it. • ALL OFF now sends standard All Sound Off and All Notes Off messages across every MIDI channel, including notes left behind after navigation. • Chord Machine adds explicit high and low chord registers, with normalized transport controls and clearer chord feedback. • Devices with USB input but no separate stereo USB return can monitor through the built-in iPhone or iPad speaker. Route labels and a warning explain speaker output, feedback risk, and possible duplicate EP sound. • Monitoring uses the iOS default output path more reliably, with louder output and a stable MON control while the audio route changes. • Keep using the shared local sample shelf, MIDI Playground, recordings, takes, projects, and backups without an account or automatic upload. PunchKit is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Teenage Engineering.

PunchKit 1.7 adds a new MIDI Playground and a safer, more transparent way to fill EP sample memory. It also brings the major performance and workflow improvements across the board. • Open MIDI Playground from Kit Builder and layer independent Chords, Melody, and Bass machines on a connected EP. • Start and stop each machine separately. A running part keeps playing while you open another machine or leave MIDI Playground. • Use Auto Key in each tool header to follow a stable live-input key estimate, or set key, mode, and scale manually. • Use PunchKit-owned selector panels for MIDI Playground presets and harmony controls; tap anywhere inside a bordered control to open it and choose an option. • Shape chords with diatonic, borrowed, or chromatic harmony, extensions, compact two-column voicings, inversions, strum, humanization, randomness, velocity, and octave controls. • Adjust chord feel with strum order, groove, timing, humanization, velocity, and release controls while the active chord machine is running. • Lock arpeggios to exact EP MIDI clock with musical rates, triplets, swing, note count, gate, and pattern controls • Build melody and bass phrases on 16-step note grids with note-name playhead feedback. Choose musical melody rates and swing, and transpose either phrase by octave without regenerating it. • Drag a complete folder from Sample Shelf onto a Library slot to include every supported audio file in that folder and its subfolders. • Review each file's path, duration, source size, and converted device size before uploading. Remove individual files from the pending upload without deleting them from the shelf. • Edit samples one by one before upload to trim long files, change mono or stereo processing, preview effects, and bake the result. • Capture beat-synced half- to eight-bar loops using MIDI, detected audio, or tap tempo, then scratch and perform them from the cassette. • Browse backups offline, reconnect or hot-plug EPs more reliably, and move between device, backup, kit, recorder, and MIDI views more smoothly. All Punch It processing, recordings, samples, projects, MIDI performance data, and backups remain local to PunchKit unless you explicitly choose an upload, share, report, or other user-initiated action. PunchKit is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Teenage Engineering.

PunchKit 1.6 turns the cassette and Punch It into a deeper live-performance instrument. This latest build also makes everyday sessions more dependable: newly connected EP MIDI devices are detected more reliably, stale sample-folder permissions can be repaired, backup imports and previews hand audio over cleanly, tabs respond faster, and the REC sort menu stays stable. And on top of that - we have improved the scaling and font sizes to make PunchKit easier on the eyes on bigger screens. • Open ∞ below FS to capture a seamless half-, one-, two-, four-, or eight-bar loop from live input (multi-in/out USB audio device required (such as the EP-136)) • Quantize capture to the next beat or bar, release immediately, on a beat, or at loop end, and choose pre- or post-FX capture • Follow a selected CoreMIDI source, automatically choose a sole active MIDI clock, detect beats from audio, or set a tapped/manual tempo • Keep a captured loop running at the last stable tempo if MIDI clock stops, then relock smoothly when clock returns • Perform captured loops at ½×, 1×, or 2× tape varispeed, view the captured waveform and playhead, and continue scratching downstream on the cassette • Send the final effected and tape-manipulated loop to a safe separate USB return and capture that same performance when REC is active • Explore a dedicated Space page with Reverb, Dub, Granulator, Tape Echo, Chorus, Phaser, Spring, Shimmer, Resonator, Infinite, Gated Verb, and Wide • Perform every Space effect in Direct mode or route one or more effects through the XY pad • Push Reverb from compact reflections into long, modulated tails; bloom Shimmer into a dramatic octave cloud; and hold Infinite for sustained frozen ambience • Build a 12-slot Custom page from any combination of Color, Motion, and Space effects, with a denser six-effect-wide editor tray • Get smoother parameter movement and safer long feedback tails, including improved level consistency and protection against crackles, dropouts, and runaway values • Browse one shared local sample shelf across Library, Projects, and Kit Builder, then drag sounds directly to device samples or pads • Switch automatically into the connected EP workspace while keeping saved backups available to preview, share, or delete offline • Monitor class-compliant USB audio through a lower-latency path, including interfaces and EP devices that expose only one stereo return • Name takes faster with dice suggestions, date-stamped defaults, clearer save controls, and more reliable editing layouts • Record, play, trim, process, and separate takes through supported audio-only routes without connecting an EP • Use roomier landscape layouts, clearer sample play controls, wider backup controls, and more reliable search and menu interactions All Punch It processing, recordings, samples, projects, and backups remain local to PunchKit. Effects never modify connected EP data unless you explicitly choose an upload or assignment action. PunchKit is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Teenage Engineering.