Hi, after a test phase with Windows errors, it seems we solved the windows compilation issues and here's the update I'm wrapping up for the PdMAXCon in a few days! I just have to ship this, but I had a new [streamin~] and [streamout~] objects for streaming and I'm leaving it out for now cause the build for windows is still failing. Hold on for that. Note that older ELSE versions are not working on Pd 0.56. This one requires 0.56-1!

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.

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cheers
Alex

else RC13 is not ready for 0.56-0

I'll release RC14 in two weeks and it'll be good for it

@porres said:

but check [else/score] and [else/score2]

@cfry did you check these?

@cfry said:

The ELSE library?

Not really a tracker list... but check [else/score] and [else/score2]

else also has this

But the example also shows that! That is what the keyboard gui sends, midi notes

I see help files render better in Vanilla I don't use plugdata really and it has issues when opening patches that are alligned with vanilla

the screenshot didn't go... it's the help file of VCO

let me try again

unlike automatonism, if you open the help patch, you'll find a working example that should get you started at least in making noise! See also [pd about.merda] for more.

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let me know if you still run into trouble

@Konked2 said:

@porres no, tried googling it, didn't find anything.

It's natively included in PlugData and can be included from the left palete ("generators", "filters". "effects" and "extra").

It's also part of the ELSE library in Vanilla, it's called "MERDA"