v3.0.1

New features

• JS: add a Device.system method to run system shell commands
• JIT: log more errors and give line numbers when an error occurs

Bugfixes

• VST: Replace assert by softer safety check in case of missing plug-in
• Magnetism: Add a safety in case some magnetism value ends up negative
• Magnetism: Fix magnetism in sub-scenarios
• Protocols: Multiple protocols fix in libossia when opening multiple documents (joystick and artnet)
• Performance: Optimize curve rendering by caching common powers
• Performance: Do not translate some strings as they show up in perf traces for now
• Performance: Cache some texts that were being unneededly re-rendered
• Various small code tidyings and fixes
• VST3: Fix Vital loosing parameters upon save...
• Midi: workaround some issue when dropping a midi and putting it in loop if there is already a nodal
• LV2: Initialize sample rate correctly
• UI: Various improvements for musical bar display
• UI: Do not create connections between inlets when double-clicking from the process library
• Rename Value Filter into Smooth as it is shorter and more specific
• Refactor Micromap and normal mapping, add a po / pov variable and pa/pb/pc to access the previous output and previous values for a,b,c
• 2D spline: Improve rendering smoothness of playback
• JIT: Add rnd to jit in debug build to give access to a fast random value generator
• Math expression: fix wrong samplerate for audio
• UI: fix incorrect preset indexing
• Optimize binary size by disabling some unused features in fmt

v3.0.0

New features

• JSFX support available on Linux / Mac / Windows releases.
• Many new functions in the JS console to serve generative needs. See https://vimeo.com/662325572 for an example.

Fixes & updates

• Processes names have been reorganized a bit in categories. Audio plug-ins are now in a "plugins" category, as many plug-ins aren't audio effects or instruments, but for instance midi <-> midi, etc. Likewise, "Mappings" was put under "Control"
• Add various missing licenses in the About dialog.
• FFT with KFR will now use AVX, etc.. if available.
• Ton of build fixes for various platforms
• Update VST3 SDK to latest version.
• Appveyor disabled until we have some time for fixing MSVC (and someone actually asks for it)
• Save / reload for LV2.
• Various fixes for VST.
• Linux builds are now done under centos:8 (soon rockylinux:8).
• Various accuracy fixes for Looper.
• Various fixes for analysis plug-ins. Added a small filter as input to the pitch detector which makes it much more accurate
• Fix support for some formats with shmdata.

v3.0.0-rc7

New features

• Add support for JSFX (Reaper) plug-ins through the ysfx library. Note that this is not part of the release yet and has to be built from source.

• VST: controls being created for plug-ins with large amounts of controls is now opt-in with a new button in the inspector:

This is going to be extended to other plug-in APIs soon.

• Pattern sequencer: visual feedback

• Image process: wip: allow to tile input images
• Value generator: allow to return arrays
• WIP on new console functions for creating automations programmatically
• [Linux only] Support shmdata as a way to send / receive video frames between applications.
• Audio analysis plug-ins merged into score directly: pitch recognition, onset detection, etc. are now all available out-of-the-box, thanks to the Gist library !

• Add a Leapmotion device. Note that this is not part of the release yet and has to be built from source.
• Allow to control the UI execution update rate (rate at which the UI reads the new state from the execution engine).
• Micromap: support input of array types with xv / pxv variables.
• JIT: Automatically create controls with the information available.
• MIDI: Added note deletion using the Delete Key for Piano Roll plugin. Thanks @RobinMontferme !

Bugfixes & changes

• VST: many small compatibility fixes from trying various plug-ins. Also always set a stereo speaker arrangement until we find a better way of handling that.
• LV2: small correctness fix
• FFT can now use KFR instead of FFTW which makes it easier to build in some cases
• Main tempo is now saved correctly
• Various buffer allocation optimizations
• Fix image loading when a palette is used
• Optimize image loading for image process
• Looper: add a small fade-in / fade-out
• Looper: fix blank output when switching to an empty input
• Fix process name when creating with drag and drop
• JSFX: fix ports created at the wrong place
• Cables will now always be shown at the same hierarchy level
• Fix corner cases for musical quantization
• Minor qt6 fixes
• Refactor and fix infinite scrolling for ui widgets
• Various drag'n'drop fixes
• Fix that nodal view execution position had disappeared
• Various video pixel format fixes, e.g. for ARGB, YUYV and YUV422. Support more formats being decoded on the GPU.
• Library: support for subcategories in processes.
• The old envelope plug-in is now deprecated. Use the new ones which support gain adjustment.
• Refactor rescaling and camera input and fix many bugs in the process.
• Various drag'n'drop improvements.
• Fix issue when hitting ctrl-c when no document is loaded.
• Refactor the viewport bounding code.
• JIT: Add seemingly missing flag for EH handling.
• JIT: Preserve ports when editing script
• MIDI: handle note selection properly
• Linux: Fix startup crashing under offscreen Qt QPA, useful for gui-less on small underpowered SBCs.
• UI: Improve comboboxes
• Fix that adding processes through the library would add them to every document.

Special thanks

• @VastareMetal for testing the JIT process in-depth and reporting many bugs.

v3.0.0-rc6

New features

• Allow to create after a selected process or port by double clicking in the library ; the newly created process will be selected. If there's an address, it will be moved to the output of the new process.

example-ports.mp4

• OSC device: allow to create addresses with paths and brace expansion

example-expansion-osc.mp4

• New processes (thanks @thibaudk !) : Value Filter and Rate Limiter. Value Filter allows to apply various smoothing algorithms (1€ filter, lowpass, average, median). Rate limiter allows to limit the rate of incoming values.

example-value-filter.mp4

• Mapper device: allow to use the [{address: "foo:/bar", value: 123}] syntax as output of read: to be able to output to any address in the tree.

• Serial device: allow to select baud rate (thanks @thibaudk !)

• WIP on libmapper support.

Bug fixes

• Improve drag and drop area on intervals
• Fix selection of intervals below the max bound of another interval
• OSC: properly reload ports & settings from exported devices
• Accessors are now correctly handled in automatic mappings, e.g. setting window:/cursor/absolute@[position.cart2D.y] in a slider will apply the whole range of the y axis of the window to the slider.
• Add a lot of missing tool-tips (thanks @thibaudk !)
• Fix a small issue in window device deletion
• window: give a domain to the parameters such as cursor position, etc.
• Fix that opening a newly created interval in full view was super zoomed
• Fix that info panel text would disappear after a few seconds

v3.0.0-rc5

New features

• Holding Alt when dropping something in a scenario will disable the automatic creation of an interval, which is useful for doing more "live" stuff.
• Windows: should support back to Windows 7 again (note that the Windows update have to be done for the ucrt: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows-c0514201-7fe6-95a3-b0a5-287930f3560c

Bugfixes

• Fix that a drop would sometimes end up at the top of the score instead of the mouse position in the Y axis.
• Fixes for loading externals in the Pd integration. Note that externals must be built with #define PDINSTANCE 1 for this to work !
• Fix off by one error in bar computation
• Pd: look for externals in the folder of the loaded patch
• GFX bugfix when removing a window
• Fix issues where a deleted item could still be shown in the inspector, leading to... complications
• Various build fixes on various platforms
• Allow to build against Qt 6.2 directly on Arch since it now provides all the required libraries
• ALSA: fix period count to support RPi Audio Injector Ultra
• Mapper: use floats even in the int case. Fixes #1085
• Fix issue when removing an OSCQuery device. Fixes #1317
• Various LV2 bugfixes on Ubuntu 20.04 (#1319)
• Compatibility with latest PortAudio CMake
• PureData: use port metadata to allow automatic mapping
• Disable GL if only OpenGL 1.1 is available (don't laugh)
• CI: Use Big Sur / Xcode 13 for building macOS

v3.0.0-rc4

Bugfixes

• Fix some issues with audio buffer allocation
• Fix building on a system that has Lilv and Suil but not LV2.

v3.0.0-rc3

New features

• Automatic mapping between parameters from the explorer and controls.
  That is, assigning a MIDI CC (0..127) to a VST (0..1) or Faust (20..20000, -1..1 or anything really) parameter will automatically scale to the correct target range. See https://vimeo.com/647930195 for a demo.

• Simplified version of the LFO to take that into account.

• New "Value display" process to easily see the value of something in the score.

• Recenter-and-fit option in nodal view to show things at 1x zoom.

v3.0.0-rc2

New features

• Linux (experimental): add a direct ALSA implementation for some special hardware

Bugfixes

• Many CI fixes
• Fix issues when scanning VSTs
• Fix a note off bug with the Arpeggiator processor
• Fix that ArtNet universes weren't handled
• Fix a rare crash with Pd process
• Fix that intervals after a graph node looping back to the beginning of a trigger would get stuck
• Fix various issues when editing a faust DSP in a way that changes ports
• Improve VST2 compatibility
• Fix an error when a vst could not be instantiated
• Editing devices: prevent changing the protocol used
• Handle nodes that did not create their renderer (#1313)
• Fix an invalid factor in triangle waves in LFO (they had too much amplitude)
• Fix a lot of warnings
• Improvements to context menus
• Imrpovements to add-ons being JIT-compiled
• Compatibility with FFMPEG 4.4 and LLVM 13

v3.0.0-rc1

New features, changes

• New bigger and more readable icons for presets and showing plug-ins & script UIs (thanks @aklevy !)
  
• Show a warning if a file could not be saved due to insufficient permissions or stuff like that (thanks @aklevy !)
• Inspector : use same name in widget and in object tree (thanks @aklevy !)
• Add help tips in a lot of places in the central view
• Remove the add process "+" button ; use the library instead (or drop content directly !)
• Add support for pinch-to-zoom for instance on Mac touchpads

Bugfixes

• Fix issues with some network updates being done in two threads at the same time causing crashes
• Fix that window device settings did not reload
• Fix various timing issues due to bugs in the quantization code, for instance with the pattern sequencer.
• Fix issues with the trigger quantization logic which wasn't correct
• Fix issues when using the "play from here" feature (the start of the score would also start playing since b5 due to a change in the execution engine)
• Fix various issues with vst3 support, add support for MIDI pitch bend, and channel aftertouch.
• Fix issues when merging events in a chain of intervals
• Fixes for scrolling which should now correctly follow system settings

v3.0.0-b9

New features

• Two processes are added to convert a pair of LSB/MSB MIDI CC into a high-res value and conversely (Midi hi-res input / Midi hi-res output).
• Add a lot of status information in the score elements to improve documentation.

Bugfixes

• Improve timing accuracy for video playback
• Fix #1295 (Thanks @thibaudk !)
• Fix #786 by simplifying the execution settings which were pretty much unused anyways
• Improve detection of local IPs for ArtNet
• Fix an issue with the first ports of some processes not being able to change their address during execution of the score.
• Fix a rare crash when switching to nodal mode.
• Save the git commit and tag used in the save files (Fix #1280).