Celebrating the 10th anniversary (yikes, a whole decade of my repository today (February 21st 2026), I have wrapped an update for Cyclone. Check https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/releases/tag/cyclone_0.9.4 and find binaries in deken for mac/linux/windows and raspberry pi. And please let me know if you have any problems with these binaries!
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