v0.9.2-test3

New version coming up with huge improvements. This is the final release candidate for v0.9.2!

Changes since last test version:

• Fixed various bugs inside the DAW, related to ffts, lua, and a bunch of shutdown bugs. Big thanks to Nasko for helping me find these issues
• Around 30% reduction in download and installed size by compressing resources more
• The Heavy toolchain download and install size is now much smaller
• The Heavy exporter can now deal with paths with spaces in them
• The Heavy exporter now prints the commands it's executing thanks to @dromer
• Patches are now able to handle messages if the plugin is bypassed, or if there's no audio running. This prevents the UI from being unresponsive when plugins are bypassed.
• Improved robustness of some filesystem operations
• Dialogs and tooltips now have proper high-dpi scaling on Windows and Linux thanks to @sadguitarius
• Fixed blurry rendering for [note] and [messbox]
• Draggable number boxes now limit themselves to a reasonable number of decimals
• Improved array rendering performance
• [param] object can now have a default argument set by passing it in after the "create" message (like "create 0.5")
  • The default value will only be loaded the first time a patch is loaded inside the DAW. As soon as the parameter gets set from DAW state, the default will no longer apply
• Fixed various [param] bugs
• Fix slow sidebar dragging on Linux
• Improved tabular numbers font
• Fixed welcome panel glitches when using search
• Fixed issue with opening pd files on Windows and Linux
• Fixed store images displaying in wrong colour space
• Fixed [hradio]/[vradio] glitch
• Fixed [hsl] reporting wrong name
• Completed [popmenu] implementation
• Keyboard shortcuts are now all disabled in plugin mode

Changes since v0.9.1:

Breaking changes:

• [knob] size has changed when in circular mode
• A few breaking changes from ELSE rc13: https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v.1.0-rc13

Features:

• Patch store to install community-made plugins (also available online here)
• Experimental Gem support
  • If you want to use Gem in global namespace, you have to go to settings->paths and add "Gem" to the Libraries section. Otherwise, you need to prefix objects with "Gem/"
• Redesigned welcome panel
• Redesigned limiter and oversampling controls
• Redesigned inspector parameters
• Option to split sidebar to show inspector and console at the same time
• Minimap
• Command input to control patches with text commands
• Drastically improved patch rendering performance
• Improved patch loading time
• New platforms for Heavy exports: OWL and WASM
• MIDI devices are now assigned to fixed port numbers
• pure-data (0.55) and ELSE (1.0-rc13) updates
  • New in ELSE:
    • Improved multichannel support
    • Improved envelope generators
    • Improvements to [knob]
    • Improved [play.file~] object and new [sfinfo] and [sfload] object allow loading any kind of audio file format out there. Many audio file abstractions are also now based on these objects
    • New [popmenu] GUI object
    • Other new objects: [float2imp~], [lace], [delace], [lace~], [delace~], [gatehold], [gatedelay],[gatedelay~], [gaterelease~], [gaterelease], [scope3d~], [tanh~], [resonator~], [smooth], [smooth2], [smooth~], [smooth2~], [dbgain~], [level~] plus [crusher.m~], [sfont.m~] and [level.m~] MERDA Modules.
    • A lot more! Keep in mind there are some breaking changes, so please check the release notes: https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v.1.0-rc13
• Linux aarch64 builds are now available as release artifacts (and nightly builds)
  • Debian (aarch64) is confirmed to work on Raspberry Pi
• Volume slider shows dBFS value when hovering
• Improved workflow for multi-window instead of multi-tab
• Tabbar now returns to last shown tab when closing tabs
• Added "destroy" message for [param] to deactivate an audio parameter
• Improved text dialog for [pdlua], [text define], etc.
• Added syntax highlighting theme option
• Improved patch search feature
• Palettes can now be imported/exported
• Patches stored in the ~/Documents/plugdata/Patches folder can now be located by DAWs on different computers
  • If the patch is in the same location inside the Patches folder, and you load a DAW project from another PC, it will be able to find the patch
• You can now send a "limit " message to "pd" to enable/disable the limiter programmatically
• iOS improvements:
  • Now supports sfizz~
  • Now has plugin mode support
  • Fixed file reading/writing permission issues

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed aliased rendering of connections and text on non-retina screens
• Fixed audio parameter rounding bug
• Fixed DAW automation latency
• Fixed array "points" mode looking different from pd-vanilla
• Fixed issue with array "width" parameter
• Fixed crash on startup on macOS monterey
• Fixed dialogs not resizing on Linux/X11
• Fixed autocompletion when using library prefix
• Fixed various text colour contrast issues
• Fixed subpatch window closing when typing underscore into an object box
• Fixed memory leak caused by label rendering
• Fixed inspector object positions issue
• Fixed broken networking objects
• Fixed crash on startup on Raspberry Pi
• Fixed dead shift key inside pluginmode
• Fixed object connection bugs when setting send/receive symbols
• Fixed slider/knob accuracy bug when close to 0
• Fixed various else/cyclone text editor based objects not working, like [coll]
• Fixed connections misaligning when copy/pasting
• macOS: make cmd+w shortcut close the topmost window instead of patch if you have a dialog open
• Fixed pdlua graphics rendering issues inside plugin
• Fixed broken combo boxes in settings panel
• Fixed parameters with "mode 2" resetting on init
• Fix [messbox] not respoding to "set" message
• Fixed copy/paste not working on atoms
• Fixed number/float not outputting repeated numbers
• Fixed file browser not remembering last location
• Fixed segfault when renaming arrays
• Fixed inlet/outlet hiding bugs for atoms
• Fixed broken 100% zoom shortcut
• Fixed various undo/redo bugs
• Fixed object text rendering getting cut off
• Fixed bad resize logic for number boxes
• Fixed resize jank for [hradio]/[vradio], [keyboard] and atom objects
• Fixed text editor popup menu not showing on objects
• Fixed tabs closing unnecessarily when deleting subpatches
• Fixed [clone] "vis" message issue
• Fixed grid lines glitching
• Fixed DSP starting when changing audio devices
• Fixed graphical glitch when opening first patch
• Fixed text objects not resizing down to 1 char width
• Added protection against settings corruption rendering plugdata unstartable
• Fixed many realtime safety issues
• Fixed data structures not being draggable
• Fixed [vu] rendering incorrectly
• Fixed various autocomplete issues
• Fixed issue when right-clicking graph in locked mode
• Fixed connection tooltips showing inside plugin mode
• Fixed alt+drag duplicate bug
• Fixed tab dragging issue
• Fixed [keyboard] range bug
• Fixed [openfile] crash
• Fixed issues with draggable numbers
• Fixed wrong patch title bug
• Added compile error message on Windows when python is not found
• Fixed bug where array would not update correctly
• Fixed [scope~] range property bug
• Fixed [note] being very slow to load
• Fixed object flags broken for GUI objects (specifically [button])
• Quite a few more!

v0.9.2-test2

New version coming up with huge improvements You can consider this a release candidate for v0.9.2

Breaking changes:

• [knob] size has changed when in circular mode
• A few breaking changes from ELSE rc13: https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v.1.0-rc13

Features:

• Patch store to install community-made plugins (also available online here)
• Experimental Gem support
  • If you want to use Gem in global namespace, you have to go to settings->paths and add "Gem" to the Libraries section. Otherwise, you need to prefix objects with "Gem/"
• Redesigned welcome panel
• Redesigned limiter and oversampling controls
• Redesigned inspector parameters
• Option to split sidebar to show inspector and console at the same time
• Minimap
• Command input to control patches with text commands
• Drastically improved patch rendering performance
• Improved patch loading time
• New platforms for Heavy exports: OWL and WASM
• MIDI devices are now assigned to fixed port numbers
• pure-data (0.55) and ELSE (1.0-rc13) updates
  • New in ELSE:
    • Improved multichannel support
    • Improved envelope generators
    • Improvements to [knob]
    • Improved [play.file~] object and new [sfinfo] and [sfload] object allow loading any kind of audio file format out there. Many audio file abstractions are also now based on these objects
    • New [popmenu] GUI object
    • Other new objects: [float2imp~], [lace], [delace], [lace~], [delace~], [gatehold], [gatedelay],[gatedelay~], [gaterelease~], [gaterelease], [scope3d~], [tanh~], [resonator~], [smooth], [smooth2], [smooth~], [smooth2~], [dbgain~], [level~] plus [crusher.m~], [sfont.m~] and [level.m~] MERDA Modules.
    • A lot more! Keep in mind there are some breaking changes, so please check the release notes: https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v.1.0-rc13
• Linux aarch64 builds are now available as release artifacts (and nightly builds)
  • Debian (aarch64) is confirmed to work on Raspberry Pi
• Volume slider shows dBFS value when hovering
• Improved workflow for multi-window instead of multi-tab
• Tabbar now returns to last shown tab when closing tabs
• Added "destroy" message for [param] to deactivate an audio parameter
• Improved text dialog for [pdlua], [text define], etc.
• Added syntax highlighting theme option
• Improved patch search feature
• Palettes can now be imported/exported
• Patches stored in the ~/Documents/plugdata/Patches folder can now be located by DAWs on different computers
  • If the patch is in the same location inside the Patches folder, and you load a DAW project from another PC, it will be able to find the patch
• You can now send a "limit " message to "pd" to enable/disable the limiter programmatically
• iOS improvements:
  • Now supports sfizz~
  • Now has plugin mode support
  • Fixed file reading/writing permission issues

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed aliased rendering of connections and text on non-retina screens
• Fixed audio parameter rounding bug
• Fixed DAW automation latency
• Fixed array "points" mode looking different from pd-vanilla
• Fixed issue with array "width" parameter
• Fixed crash on startup on macOS monterey
• Fixed dialogs not resizing on Linux/X11
• Fixed autocompletion when using library prefix
• Fixed various text colour contrast issues
• Fixed subpatch window closing when typing underscore into an object box
• Fixed memory leak caused by label rendering
• Fixed inspector object positions issue
• Fixed broken networking objects
• Fixed crash on startup on Raspberry Pi
• Fixed dead shift key inside pluginmode
• Fixed object connection bugs when setting send/receive symbols
• Fixed slider/knob accuracy bug when close to 0
• Fixed various else/cyclone text editor based objects not working, like [coll]
• Fixed connections misaligning when copy/pasting
• macOS: make cmd+w shortcut close the topmost window instead of patch if you have a dialog open
• Fixed pdlua graphics rendering issues inside plugin
• Fixed broken combo boxes in settings panel
• Fixed parameters with "mode 2" resetting on init
• Fix [messbox] not respoding to "set" message
• Fixed copy/paste not working on atoms
• Fixed number/float not outputting repeated numbers
• Fixed file browser not remembering last location
• Fixed segfault when renaming arrays
• Fixed inlet/outlet hiding bugs for atoms
• Fixed broken 100% zoom shortcut
• Fixed various undo/redo bugs
• Fixed object text rendering getting cut off
• Fixed bad resize logic for number boxes
• Fixed resize jank for [hradio]/[vradio], [keyboard] and atom objects
• Fixed text editor popup menu not showing on objects
• Fixed tabs closing unnecessarily when deleting subpatches
• Fixed [clone] "vis" message issue
• Fixed grid lines glitching
• Fixed DSP starting when changing audio devices
• Fixed graphical glitch when opening first patch
• Fixed text objects not resizing down to 1 char width
• Added protection against settings corruption rendering plugdata unstartable
• Fixed many realtime safety issues
• Fixed data structures not being draggable
• Fixed [vu] rendering incorrectly
• Fixed various autocomplete issues
• Fixed issue when right-clicking graph in locked mode
• Fixed connection tooltips showing inside plugin mode
• Fixed alt+drag duplicate bug
• Fixed tab dragging issue
• Fixed [keyboard] range bug
• Fixed [openfile] crash
• Fixed issues with draggable numbers
• Fixed wrong patch title bug
• Added compile error message on Windows when python is not found
• Fixed bug where array would not update correctly
• Fixed [scope~] range property bug
• Fixed [note] being very slow to load
• Fixed object flags broken for GUI objects (specifically [button])
• Quite a few more!

v0.9.2-test1

Test release for v0.9.2

Big features:

• Patch store dialog to install community-made plugins (also available online here)
• Redesigned welcome panel
• Option to split sidepanel to show inspector and console at the same time
• Minimap
• Command input to control patches with text commands
• New platforms for Heavy exports: OWL and WASM
• MIDI devices are now assigned to fixed port numbers
• Latest pure-data and ELSE updates

v0.9.1

Bugfix release for v0.9.0

• Fixed crash when closing the parent patch of an opened subpatch
• Fixed plugin shutdown crash on Windows
• Fixed array redrawing bug
• Fixed crash when using palettes or "add object" menu in plugins
• Fixed broken multi-drag connection behaviour
• Fixed graph rendering bug when scrolling
• Fixed rendering artifacts on connection cords
• Fixed [pic] send symbol
• Fixed multichannel connection rendering
• Fixed MIDI input for Logic instrument plugins
• Fixed strange tooltip behaviour on Linux
• FIxed crash when sending "open" message to "pd"
• Fix redo broken after deleting an object and undoing
• Fix rendering with very small global scale applied
• Fixed memory leak when plugin editor is closed
• Fix numbox issue with canvas synchronisation
• Fixed window dragging scale bug
• Added "gradient connection" theming option, similar to cables.gl
• Optimised [note] and [messbox] objects
• Drastically reduced VRAM usage
• Optimised various actions like copy/paste/duplicate/remove when performed on many objects
• Small startup optimisations
• Various rendering optimisations
  • More efficient use of memory and CPU cache
  • Do more work directly from shader
  • Removed redundant work
• Fixed various iOS bugs (release will be on AppStore soon!)

v0.9.0

Our biggest release ever! Thanks for everyone who helped!

• Huge performance improvements because of GPU accelerated rendering!
• Design improvements: less outlines, smaller toolbar, reorganised statusbar, new about panel.
• Implemented all of pure-data's autopatching (only missing paste/replace)
• Improved presentation mode
• Updated to pure-data 0.55-0
• Updated to ELSE rc11
  • NOTE: some upcoming changes for ELSE rc12 have accidentally been included. These include [damp.osc~], [vcf2~] and [scope3d~]. Use these objects at your own risk, their interfaces may change and they might not be completely stable yet.
• Added macOS legacy version, recommended when running macOS <10.15 or on Macs from before 2017
• New connection activity display
• Connection arrows drawn between segments when connection is segmented
• Windows build now uses system rounded window border and dropshadow. (Straight for w10)
• Connections can be set behind / in front for both edit & locked mode.
• Can now search for send/receive symbols in patch search panel
• Rewritten tabbar and split view for better stability and maintainability
• Improved patch loading time in DAW.
• Patches load a lot faster now
• Latest ELSE master branch changes, including updated MERDA modules
• Latest pure-data master branch changes
• Improved compatibility with [drawcurve], [fillcurve] and [plot] drawing
• Redesigned GraphOnParent area resizer
• Plugin version now displays the current latency in the statusbar if it has been changed from the default
• Improvements to pd-vanilla compatibility, patches should look even more similar to their vanilla counterparts than before
• Improved Heavy toolchain download speed
• Fixed [keyboard] bugs
• Many more bugfixes!

Breaking changes:

• [cyclone/scope~] and [else/oscope~] have been replaced with [else/scope~]

Note that compared to recent test versions, Gem has temporarily been disabled because it was not stable enough yet.

v0.9.0-test2

Pre-release version 2 of plugdata v0.9.0

Headlines:

• Huge performance improvements because of GPU accelerated rendering!
• Design improvements: less outlines, smaller toolbar, reorganised statusbar, new about panel.
• Ships with Gem built in. Gem objects need the "Gem/" prefix, unless you add Gem to the list of libraries to load.
• Improved presentation mode
• Added macOS legacy version, recommended when running macOS <10.15 or on Macs from before 2017
• New connection activity display
• Connection arrows drawn between segments when connection is segmented
• Windows build now uses system rounded window border and dropshadow. (Straight for w10)
• Connections can be set behind / in front for both edit & locked mode.
• Can now search for send/receive symbols in patch search panel
• Rewritten tabbar and split view for better stability and maintainability
• Improved patch loading time in DAW.
• Patches load a lot faster now
• Latest ELSE master branch changes, including updated MERDA modules
• Latest pure-data master branch changes
• Improved compatibility with [drawcurve], [fillcurve] and [plot] drawing
• Redesigned GraphOnParent area resizer
• Plugin version now displays the current latency in the statusbar if it has been changed from the default
• Improvements to pd-vanilla compatibility, patches should look even more similar to their vanilla counterparts than before
• Improved Heavy toolchain download speed
• Fixed [keyboard] bugs
• Many bugfixes!
• A lot I'm forgetting here, since this has been 6 months in the making

Breaking changes:

• [cyclone/scope~] and [else/oscope~] have been replaced with [else/scope~]

v0.9.0-test

Pre-release version of plugdata v0.9.0

Headlines:

• Huge performance improvements because of GPU accelerated rendering!
• Ships with Gem built in. Gem objects need the "Gem/" prefix, unless you add Gem to the list of libraries to load.
• Patches load a lot faster now
• Latest ELSE master branch changes, including updated MERDA modules
• Latest pure-data master branch changes
• Improved compatibility with [drawcurve], [fillcurve] and [plot] drawing
• Redesigned GraphOnParent area resizer
• Plugin version now displays the current latency in the statusbar if it has been changed from the default
• Improvements to pd-vanilla compatibility, patches should look even more similar to their vanilla counterparts than before
• Improved Heavy toolchain download speed
• Fixed [keyboard] bugs
• Many bugfixes!

Breaking changes:

• [cyclone/scope~] and [else/oscope~] have been replaced with [else/scope~]. These two were essentially the same object anyway.

v0.8.3

Since test release:

• Updated hvcc, added new options
• Improved performance since last test version
• pdlua external can now draw graphics
• Fixed MIDI issue in DAW
• Fixed audio input issue in DAW
• Fixed object grid crash
• Force all save names to end with .pd
• Fixed many more crashes

All changes:

• Fixed bug causing the previous version of crash on startup on Windows
• New signal debugger display will show a small oscilloscope and sample value when hovering over signal connections
• Redesigned search panel to show the full patch structure as a tree
• Improved documentation browser search, is now faster, less buggy, and shows results a as a tree
• Large performance improvements, especially for patches with a lot of fast messaging
• New autosave feature that will save your patch regularly to a database.
  • If you later try to reload that patch and it finds a newer version in the database, it will prompt you to pick which version you want to use
  • In settings, you can enable/disable autosave, adjust the save interval, and view the complete database of autosaves
• Array editor dialog has been redesigned, it now has a list view as well, like pd-vanilla
• Fixed CPU meter delay
• Fixed problems when listening for folder changes
• Object DnD now gives visible feedback if the drop action is invalid
• Reduced clicking when interacting with canvas under high DSP CPU load
• Fixed problems with icons in right-click menu on Windows
• Test: new documentation view for Heavy exporter dialog. This still has some known issues.
• Improved design for showing keyboard shortcuts in popup menus, allowing for a less wide popupmenu on Windows and Linux
• A bunch more!

v0.8.3-test

Pre-release version of plugdata v0.8.3.

• Fixed bug causing the previous version of crash on startup on Windows
• New signal debugger display will show a small oscilloscope and sample value when hovering over signal connections
• Redesigned search panel to show the full patch structure as a tree
• Improved documentation browser search, is now faster, less buggy, and shows results a as a tree
• Large performance improvements, especially for patches with a lot of fast messaging
• New autosave feature that will save your patch regularly to a database.
  • If you later try to reload that patch and it finds a newer version in the database, it will prompt you to pick which version you want to use
  • In settings, you can enable/disable autosave, adjust the save interval, and view the complete database of autosaves
• Array editor dialog has been redesigned, it now has a list view as well, like pd-vanilla
• Fixed CPU meter delay
• Fixed problems when listening for folder changes
• Object DnD now gives visible feedback if the drop action is invalid
• Reduced clicking when interacting with canvas under high DSP CPU load
• Fixed problems with icons in right-click menu on Windows
• Test: new documentation view for Heavy exporter dialog. This still has some known issues.
• Improved design for showing keyboard shortcuts in popup menus, allowing for a less wide popupmenu on Windows and Linux
• A bunch more!

v0.8.2

Patch release with some important bugfixes:

• Fixed array messages not working
• Fixed crash when typing "hv." in suggestioncomponent (and possible more stuff with a "." in it)
• Fixed wrong helpfile showing sometimes (when they end with the same text)
• Fixed soundfont not initialising on first run
• Reduced slowness when changing themes from settings panel
• Fixed sidebar toggle shortcut not working
• Fixed bug in cyclone/phaseshift~
• Fixed daw_storage helpfile missing
• Fixed stack overflow in plaits~ MERDA module
• Can now click everywhere on scrollbar, not just the thumb
• Fixed wrong reported version number for ELSE
• Updated default font to Inter v4.0

Reuploaded on 21/11 to fix a Windows font size issue