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Last year I made a minor update (0.9.3) a couple of months after the 0.9.2 release, but I never formalized a release update with binaries into deken and an announcement. Let's just skip that, but here's the changelog for 0.9.3 while we're at it:

• Fixed bug in [unmerge] where it wouldn't deal well with mixed floats and symbols in a list
• Fixed crash and resize bug in [zl.group]/[zl.stream]

This one made it into the PlugData 0.9.2 release recently, by the way.

I was actually hoping I'd have a 1.0 right now to celebrate my 10 years involved with Cyclone, but I failed miserably. The plan is to release that along with PlugData 1.0 as well, whenever that happens (some updates to [mtr] is what's missing for me to call it 1.0.0 already, by the way).

So anyway, here's 0.9.4!

Many cosmetic changes in this one, which I'm kinda proud of. I did finally add a menu entry so people can disable the object browser plugin, while I also improved it to include browsing in more nesting level depth.

So, if you think my beautiful and hard work designing a nice plug-in browser is not welcome, you can go to Preferences=>Cyclone-Browser-plugin and disable it.

Other more cosmetic changes are that I made some updates to the text editing window of objects like [coll]. One of the things is that it now uses Pd's "theme" colors in it (so Pd >= 0.56 is needed)! I also made some other changes like being able to use CTRL+S to save and CTRL+W to close the window. Also, typing and editing it on the window now marks the patch as dirty if you have the "@embed" flag enabled (same is true for [table]).

There are some other bug fixes, and here's a full changelog if you're curious about all the details.

CHANGELOG:

• We now have a preferences menu to disable the browser plugin! See Preferences => Cyclone-Browser-plugin. If you always hated this, disable it and save the setting. The browsing plugin is now also better organized with more nesting levels.
• [prob] removed the functionality for viewing the data because the MAX original doesn't have it and it makes no sense, cause we can't edit it and save it and you can already see the data with "dump" (which prints on the terminal window). When embedding, now we also have a dirty flag when setting data, just like [cyclone/coll] and [cyclone/table] (even though the MAX original doesn't do it).
• Text Editing Window Improvements: colors now adapt to Pd's theme (so >= 0.56 is needed) and font size also adapts to patch's font size. Allow ctrl+s to save and ctrl+w to close the window. This affects [cyclone/seq], [cyclone/coll], [cyclone/table] and [cyclone]/[capture~] (again, [cyclone/prob] doesn't have it anymore). Also make manually editing the window and saving it sets the dirty flag on the patch for [coll] and [table] (and not only with changes via messages as before).
• [coll]/[table] improved dirty management as it wouldn't mark dirty if the owning canvas wasn't visible (which was a stupid hack to not mark it as dirty when loading the patch).
• [coll] now forces a correct order of args and deals with 0/1-length list messages.
• [table] fixed trying to open the name argument as if it was a file. Now resizing updates the editing window if it is opened.
• Improved [cross~], it is now a 4th order filter (even though Max claims theirs is a 3rd order filter). The last one didn't sound good when adding the lowpass and highpass output.
• [scope~] improved resizing handle mechanism
• [comment] fixed "mouse release bug" annoying error and initialization with a zoomed patch.
• Fixed many typos in the docs.
• Improved github actions and added Raspberry Pi binaries
• Fixed CMake build for compiling a single binary

Cheers
Alexandre Torres Porres

Cheers~

https://github.com/takamiko8

PS:

One easy way is to install Thonny IDE for Python, in Linux, Mac or Windows, it will ask you to install the packages for the code to run and you will see a code for creation of MIDI with the detection of your fingers with the web-cam; and in the other hand; when you make a summatory in the calculator it creates a little Algorithmic composition in MIDI format. You can use the MIDI to compose in Pd or any MIDI software.

If Thonny creates an error because “you don’t have the packages installed”, you can ask a Python text which packages to install. Or try:

import cv2
import mediapipe as mp
import time
import tkinter as tk
import random
import threading
from mido import MidiFile, MidiTrack, Message

And, an explanatory video:

https://github.com/takamiko8

PS:

One easy way is to install Thonny IDE for Python, in Linux, Mac or Windows, it will ask you to install the packages for the code to run and you will see a code for creation of MIDI with the detection of your fingers with the web-cam; and in the other hand; when you make a summatory in the calculator it creates a little Algorithmic composition in MIDI format. You can use the MIDI to compose in Pd or any MIDI software.

If Thonny creates an error because “you don’t have the packages installed”, you can ask a Python text which packages to install. Or try:

import cv2
import mediapipe as mp
import time
import tkinter as tk
import random
import threading
from mido import MidiFile, MidiTrack, Message

And, an explanatory video:

José_Plymouth.

< https://framagit.org/nicolasdanet/S/-/blob/8ba8ab289b1e7e2f41164a87aab7378bb34f590c/Spaghettis/Libraries/T/TODO.h >

I have just released [vstplugin~] v0.6.1! Binaries are available on Deken (search for "vstplugin~").

Here is the full changelog: https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/releases/v0.6.1

Please report any issues at https://git.iem.at/pd/vstplugin/-/issues

Have fun!

Full release notes:
https://github.com/plugdata-team/plugdata/releases/tag/v0.9.2

My last update aimed at a PlugData update but that didn't happen yet, though there's a PlugData 0.9-2 test release, based on 0.55-2. This new ELSE update will hopefully come soon right after at PlugData 0.9.3, or maybe even a newer update. I was hoping to better coordinate releases but it's not happening

There's a lot of new stuff, but I'm mainly focusing on my MERDA modules, which I'll show at PdMAXCon. They're coming out fancy with lots of stuff and details I can't get into. There's lots of eye candy, like Implementing a new mechanism for minimizing and maximizing the GUI or opening in a new window. Added "tab" navigation for most knobs in the modules. This is just the tip of the iceberg as there's lots of work to support this, so I made several changes and updates to [knob] and [button]. The [knob] object also gained several features and it became a feature-creep monster. Now I'm also including mouse wheel scrolling, for one thing.

There's a new "Super Saw/Square" oscillator (a sum of 7 oscillators based on JP-8000) abstraction object that also became a MERDA module. I wanna highlight a new [mix~] object made for it that makes convenient mixing and panning MC connections. There's also a cool [arpeggiator] abstraction, in the next release I hope I'll have a new MERDA module with that included.

This is the main deal! There are 15 new objects, I'd like to also mention mid/side encoding and stereo widening, and another one for envelope following. Total number of objects now is 587! The tutorial now has 561 examples and an expanded subchapter about stereo imaging and improvements to envelope following.

It's up in deken, let me know if something is wrong...

There are of course many many other numerous changes and fixes. Detailed changelog in https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v.1.0-rc14

As of now, I started being more careful with breaking changes. I'm still allowing old patches to run, but telling people to adapt to new stuff. For instance, I had a [del~ in] and [del~ out] object now split into 2 ([del.in~]/[del.out~]) thanks to a new functionality in Pd 0.56-0, but you can still call the old [del~] object (for now). Like I've been saying, I'm just waiting for PlugData 1.0 to call this a final release as well.

Please support me on https://patreon.com/porres

#puredata #pdvanilla

cheers
Alex

Unfortunately, I can't remember off had what I did differently to get RC12 to compile. I remember removing some .c files and also commenting out a few bits from the cmake file. Basically anything referencing the offending objects. I also had to download something related to ffmpeg-devel, from memory.

Hope that helps for now. But I can have a look in a few weeks when I have time.

https://github.com/zepadovani/planifolia (it's also in deken)

This is a abstraction-only library without dependencies designed to be used in vanilla or almost vanilla (plugdata) versions of PD, aiming to be as portable as possible. Complete list of objects and functionalities are in github, in english and portuguese.

Regarding the virus accusation: Falsely claiming that someone intentionally creates or spreads malware is a serious allegation that could be considered defamation. While online communications can often lead to misunderstandings, especially across language barriers, such claims carry significant weight and cannot be dismissed casually.

That's what you took from saying it was "weird" and that "it almost looked like"? Seems more about how you want to interpret things than a language barrier. And that's what it looked like to me and I explained it in all honesty. I can't take that back, really. I'll even say it again, posting a repository with no source code and just a single .zip file that unpacks to an .exe is quite weird and almost looks like it's a virus... so I don't know, sue me? Or calm down fellow, really...

I'm happy to announce the release of AOO 2.0-pre4. Binaries are already available on Deken.

AOO is a lightweight and flexible peer-to-peer audio streaming and messaging solution. It allows to send audio and messages in real time and on demand between arbitrary network endpoints, not only in local networks, but also over the public internet!

The underlying C/C++ library can be easily embedded in host applications or plugins and even runs on embedded devices, such as the ESP32.

For more information, see the AOO website (https://aoo.iem.at).

I have also written a short article about AOO: https://www.soundingfuture.com/en/article/aoo-low-latency-peer-peer-audio-streaming-and-messaging

Note: technically this is still a pre-release, but the Pd external and the network protocol can be considered stable. (They haven't changed since v2.0-pre3.)

Please report any issues at https://git.iem.at/aoo/aoo/-/issues

Have fun!

Christof

Check the book here.

As a side-note, the publisher is looking for readers to write a review on Amazon. If you're interested, DM me your email and I will forward it to the publisher. You'll get a free PDF version of the book so you can read it and then write a review. This is on a first-come first-serve basis, for a limited number of people.

Admins, sorry for this shameless slef-plug, if you think it doesn't fit this forum, please remove.