We spent most of the last year working on improving theKaleidoscope user experience, and today we are pleased to share the results of these efforts with you. Kaleidoscope 1.1 is available immediately, and focuses on three things: performance, performance, and performance! Efficiency should be at least 200-300% better and many cases significantly more than that when using the latest generation CPUs. Additionally a new Resonator Threshold preference can disable very low level resonators that have little to no audible effect on the resulting output, thus saving even more CPU usage. Kaleidoscope's buffering system has also been completely redesigned, and provides independant settings for Real-Time and Offline. The Real-Time setting should be set to Auto, which is a newzero latency mode that will provide the best performance for your host. Off-line settings can be set to use a huge value to giveblisteringly fast render times. Kaleidoscope is also now a completelydouble precision process, providing a scientific level of precision that is effectively mathematically perfect. 

In summary, Kaleidoscope 1.1 is more precise than ever before, and at the same time several hundred percent faster when all of the above is combined. In total, this vastly improves usability and opens up Kaleidoscope to an even wider target customer with an even wider range of available computing horsepower. If you previously tried Kaleidoscope and found it to be too CPU intensive for your system, we highly recommend to give it try again now. For more details and a list of a few cool new features we added as well for 1.1see here. 

Kaleidoscope 1.1 is a free update for existing customers. 

Any demos or examples of Kaleidoscope creating something other than ambient drones or tones for bad sci-fi/art school film sound tracks?
 

I actually wasn't trying to be snarky.
 
I was hoping someone would pop up and have a real world, commercial music usage and say something like
'geez this is better than Eventide for vocal processing, check out these background tracks'
or
'check out this leslie-like effect it gave my synth lead'
or
'check out this reverse mangle, sounds like the guitar solo crawled out of a meat grinder and then melts your face off' 
or even
'makes the best chicken marsala if you're microwave is MIDI enabled!'
(my friggin microwave died last night while I was throwing a family dinner together, didn't ruin the meal but I'm still fuming about it).