When your session can't start, JUDE now tells you exactly why and what to do about it.
- Clear spoken feedback when you hit a trial limit, account issue, or other blocker—no more guessing what went wrong.
- JUDE reminds you when your trial recharges so you know when you can record again.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
Sign-in and account status now work smoothly — expired sessions take you straight to sign in, and ended plans show clearly with an option to see available plans.
- If your saved session expires, JUDE brings you directly to the sign-in screen instead of getting stuck in a confused half-signed-out state.
- When your plan ends, you see a clear message with a button to explore plan options, instead of a cryptic hard-stop error.
The launch offer in Settings is now clearly marked as limited-time, so you know exactly when it expires.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
JUDE now supports annual billing with three months free, and speaks up the moment you hit your included hours.
- Switch between monthly and annual plans in Settings > Account, with your included hours resetting each month either way.
- Your engineer announces when you've used your included hours—or tells you up front if a session starts past them.
- JUDE now remembers your gear setup and song details between sessions, so you can pick up exactly where you left off.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
Your engineer is quieter and faster — no more thinking out loud before acting, and responses come back quicker.
- Removed the verbal play-by-play that used to happen before JUDE executed your commands, so your session flows without the extra commentary.
- Session history now correctly distinguishes between today's takes and yesterday's, so you can reference the right moment without confusion.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
JUDE now runs natively on Intel Macs — one universal app works on both Apple silicon and Intel, macOS 13 or later.
- The engineer's voice level responds instantly when you adjust it, no lag.
- GarageBand arming and take management are more reliable (GarageBand 10.4.14 or later recommended).
- Send feedback by voice — just tell your engineer what's on your mind.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
Record with speakers instead of headphones — tell JUDE what you're listening on and it mutes the mic while talking to you.
- Speaker mode with automatic mic gating lets you work without headphones while JUDE stays clear and audible.
- Better guidance for new users coaches you through the space-to-talk feature when you first start recording.
- What's new page keeps you in the loop about every update, linked right from the app.
- Improved conversation replay and speech clarity for more natural back-and-forth with your engineer.
JUDE now respects your project's sample rate — whether you're working at 44.1 kHz, 96 kHz, or anything in between, JUDE leaves your audio interface alone and locks to whatever your DAW is running.
- Sample rate changes mid-session are followed live without restarting JUDE.
- Fixed a false warning about control surface wiring on projects with fewer tracks than your mixer has channels.
- Better support for Behringer XAir consoles (XR18, XR16, XR12).
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
A cleaner console layout that keeps everything readable, even when alerts pop up.
- Alerts now float over the console instead of pushing it around, so you stay focused on what matters.
- The talkback area always shows a few lines of history, making it easier to follow the conversation as you work.
- The window has a minimum size, so it can't accidentally shrink into an unusable state.
- Update checks now run once at launch instead of repeatedly, reducing unnecessary background activity.
- When your trial period ends, you'll get a smoother prompt to send feedback if you'd like.
Cubase and Nuendo now remember JUDE's MIDI ports across restarts — assign them once and they stick.
- Stop reconfiguring your MIDI ports every time you restart your DAW. JUDE remembers your setup in Cubase and Nuendo permanently.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
Your engineer now remembers your recording history and can put your sessions on your calendar.
- Ask natural questions about your sessions: "What did I record this week?" or "When was the last time I was in here?" and get real answers from your session record.
- One-click calendar subscription in Settings, or just tell your engineer "put my sessions on my calendar" and they'll handle it.
- Review your past notes and session details by asking your engineer to bring them up.
JUDE now keeps a private calendar of your sessions with notes on who was engineering, what you worked on, and how many takes you got.
- Subscribe to your session history as a calendar—each entry includes your wrap-up notes and take counts for easy reference.
- Session diagnostics now survive even when a session ends unexpectedly, so you don't lose that information.
Session reliability improvements: JUDE now verifies its transport commands against your DAW to prevent sync errors, handles trial time-ups gracefully without interrupting your flow, and stops re-reading when you add tracks.
- Transport commands are verified against your DAW so "Rolling" actually means you're rolling.
- When your trial time runs out, your session wraps up smoothly instead of stopping abruptly.
- Adding tracks no longer triggers unnecessary re-reads from your DAW.
- Deleting a take returns the transport to where you started, keeping your place.
JUDE now understands your recording commands more reliably, and won't listen for new commands while you're talking during a take.
- The AI engineer has been retrained to better understand what you're asking it to do, even when you phrase things differently.
- Say "Hey Jude" to start talking to the engineer mid-session without JUDE trying to execute commands from your casual conversation.
- Fixed issues with transport controls, microphone settings, and session state that could cause confusion between what you intended and what JUDE thought you wanted.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
- Better protection against outdated versions: JUDE now prevents older builds from running if they've been deactivated, ensuring you're always on a supported version.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
Logic Pro now works seamlessly with JUDE through automatic discovery and control, with major improvements to stability and responsiveness across all your commands.
- Logic Pro integration is now rock-solid—JUDE automatically finds and controls Logic, and handles its quirks (like dialog boxes interrupting control) gracefully.
- Panning, muting, fader control, and input arming are now honest and predictable; JUDE accurately reflects what Logic is actually doing.
- Session recall and playback commands work reliably, even in complex multi-track setups.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
MCU XT support: JUDE now works with Mackie Control Universal XT controllers, giving you the same hands-on mixing surface experience with more faders and better workflow.
- Full MCU XT hardware integration with automatic device detection and configuration in Settings.
- Improved hardware diagnostics that clearly show connection issues and fix themselves when you reconnect your controller.
- More reliable control surface handshakes and offset handling for smoother, more predictable operation.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
Better pan control in Nuendo — the pan knob now responds reliably to your commands, even when you're making rapid adjustments.
- Pan knob is now always ready to turn when you ask JUDE to adjust it.
- Rapid pan commands work smoothly without getting stuck in a queue.
- Corrected documentation about GarageBand's compatibility with hardware control surfaces.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
GarageBand support is here. JUDE now drives GarageBand with the same voice commands you use for Logic Pro, plus improved reliability across all DAWs.
- Talk to GarageBand like you would a recording engineer—arm tracks, start takes, play back, and control monitoring by voice, just like in Logic Pro.
- More reliable control over input monitoring, track arming, and muting in GarageBand, with smarter handling of dialogs and focus.
- Better keyboard-first interactions across all DAWs—JUDE now prioritizes reliable keystroke commands over fragile clicks.
- Improved Reaper and Cubase support with better documentation of what each DAW can do with JUDE.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
JUDE now stops you at your included hours and makes it crystal clear how much studio time you have left.
- A live clock shows your remaining hours right in the app, with a hard stop when you hit your limit—no surprise overages.
- When you're about to go over, JUDE speaks up and asks you to confirm, with a clear explanation of what happens next.
- Your Account tab now shows your billing period and when your hours reset, so you always know where you stand.
- The usage clock only counts down while you're actually recording, not when JUDE is idle.
- You can change your plan directly in Settings and see your hours update in real time.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
- Settings layout has been reorganized for better clarity.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.
Session vaults are now more resilient — your recordings stay safe even when connection hiccups happen.
- A temporary connection problem no longer clears your saved sign-in, so you don't have to log in again after a bad network moment.
- Plus smaller fixes and stability improvements.