[PD-announce] Re: ELSE 1.0-0 RC13 with Live Electronics Tutorial is out

oops, this didn't come up with a previous tester but now I got a couple of
show stopper errors from a new windows tester :/ so I gotta fix them and
will have to make a new "revision release" or something, sorry. Release is
still up and others can still test and report issues. Haven't heard from
Linux people yet.

Thanks

Em sex., 2 de mai. de 2025 às 15:39, Alexandre Torres Porres <
[email protected]> escreveu:

> Hi, I uploaded binaries to deken for mac (intel/arm) and Windows/Linux for
> Pd 64 bits - no double precision as I haven't committed to that yet and I
> hope it's 100% officially provided and supported soon by the way (and I'm
> using that as an excuse not to get to it just yet). This has been tested on
> mac (intel/arm) and I got confirmation that a windows user got it running
> just fine. I don't believe Linux will be a problem, but hey, let me know. I
> just grabbed Windows/Linux from github actions and I don't have a VM
> anymore to test them.
>
> Someone compiled binaries for the raspberry pi, and it's been uploaded
> with the others. Apparently, they're not working 100% and we'll still look
> into that. *Hopefully someone from the list could help me/us with it.* I
> might make another upload just for the pi later on if we figure it out.
>
> Find release notes below and a link to the repository at the end with more
> details.
>
> If you see something funny, write me back to the list (hey, I'm getting
> back to the list by the way), contact me personally or file a report at
> https://github.com/porres/pd-else/issues
>
>
>
> *--------------------------------------RELEASE
> NOTES:--------------------------------------*
>
> Please support me on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/porres  I'll now try
> to add special content for subscribers. You can follow me on instagram as
> well if you like... I'm always posting Pd development stuff over there
> https://www.instagram.com/alexandre.torres.porres/
>
> It's been a little bit over 7 months since the last update and I almost
> broke the record for taking too long to release an update (which had
> happened in my previous update). So yeah, there's just too much to talk
> about! I guess the delays in releasing updates is because it's been a
> little tricky and hard to sync the release cycles of ELSE with PlugData,
> which includes ELSE in its download.
>
> Plugdata 0.9.2 should come out soon with ELSE RC13 and it's supposedly the
> last update before 1.0.0, so I've heard. And the plans was to get to that
> still in 2025! This means ELSE could be at its last "Release Candidate"
> phase as I'm aiming to sync the final release with PlugData. Until then,
> I'll still make breaking changes and I can't wait until I can't do that
> anymore as I really feel bad. On the other hand, it's kind of inevitable
> when I'm always adding new stuff and redesigning and reconfiguring objects
> to include more functionalities. And I always got a lot of new stuff! So
> I'm thinking that I will eventually try some mechanism like Pd's
> compatibility flag or something. I'll try to come up with something like
> that in the next update.
>
> This update has 22 new objects for a total of 573 and 26 new examples in
> my tutorial for a total of 554 examples. Let's dive into the highlights
> (see full changelog below after the release notes).
>
> - Multichannel Support: Last release had 92 MC aware objects, now it's
> 139! Over a 50% increase that include old and new objects (all the new ones
> have been coming with MC support). Virtually all oscillators and envelope
> generators now have MC support, plus some other random ones. Let me
> highlight the new [lace~]/[delace~] objects that are 'MC' tools that
> perform interleave/deinterleave in Multichannel connections. My bare
> minimum number of objects "to start with" would be at least a bit over half
> the number of signal objects. That was my target for 1.0! ELSE right now
> has 319 signal objects, so that'd be at least 160. I will definitely pass
> this milestone in the next update. I guess a good number of MC objects
> would be around 75% of the signal objects. I will aim for that as soon as I
> can. Some objects simply can't be MC at all, so 100% will never be the
> case, but maybe an ideal 90% eventually? We'll see... I am just proud and
> happy that ELSE is taking such a big jump on MC awareness in less than a
> couple years.
>
> - Envelope generators ([adsr~]/[asr~]/[envgen~]/[function~]) now have more
> curve options. For [adsr~]/[asr~] the default is now a new log curve that
> you can set the curve parameter (and was 'stolen' from SuperCollider). A
> new [smooth~] family of objects perform the same kind of curved smoothening
> for alternating inputs - [envgen~] and [function~] also have that but also
> '1-pole' filtering, 'sine' and 'hann' curves. You can now trigger [adsr~]
> and [asr~] with impulses.
>
> - The [play.file~] object now supports even more file formats besides MP3
> and stuff. Hey, you can even stream the supported formats from weblinks!
> The [sfload] object (which loads files into arrays) also gained support for
> more formats and can download from weblinks as well! It also has a new
> threaded mode, so loading big files won't choke Pd. It now also outputs the
> file information, which is a way to tell you when loading finished in
> threaded mode. The [sample~], [player~], [gran.player~] and [pvoc.player~]
> objects are now also based on [sfload], so they support all these file
> formats!!! Now [sample~] and [tabplayer~] are integrated in a way that
> [tabplayer~] is always aware of the sample rate of the file loaded in
> [sample~] (so it reads in the "correct speed"). A new [sfinfo] object is
> able to extract looping regions and instrument metadata information from
> AIFF files (which is something I wanted for ages) - it should do more stuff
> in the future.
>
> - [knob] has become the ultimate featured bloated creep GUI I always
> feared and avoided. MAX is envy! but I'm happy with this structure and I
> want to replicate in other GUIs in the future (yeah, I got plans to offer
> alternatives to all iemguis). I wanna highlight a new 'param' symbol I
> added that allows you to remotely set a particular method in an object, so
> you don't to connect to a "method $1" message and you can even do this
> wirelessly with a send symbol. [knob] now also acts like a number box,
> where you can type in the value, which may also be displayed in different
> ways or the value can be sent elsewhere via another send symbol so you can
> temper with it using [makefilename] or [else/format]. I've been using this
> for the MERDA modules and it's really cool.
>
> - We finally have a [popmenu] GUI object! This was in my to do list
> forever and was crucial to improve the MERDA modules to set waveforms,
> instruments and whatnot.
>
> - Let's about MERDA, the "Modular Euroracks Dancing Along" subset of
> abstractions in ELSE. It was first released in the last update and it's
> been driving lots of the development in ELSE as you can see. I now added a
> MIDI Learn feature for all knobs that feels great and quite handy! There
> are many fixes and improvements in general and some new modules. I wanna
> highlight the new [sfont.m~] module, which loads "sound font" banks and you
> can just click on a [popmenu] to choose the instrument you want. The
> default bank has numerous (hundreds) options and also comes with PlugData.
> The sequencer module [seq8.m~] was rather worthless but it's now a whole
> new cool thingie. It allows you to set pitches with symbols and even has
> quarter tone resolution. I added a right outlet to send impulses to trigger
> envelopes and stuff (there's still more stuff of course, see full changelog
> below).
>
> - There are newly designed/renamed/recreated [resonbank~]/[resonbank2~]
> objects that are well suited for Modal Synthesis.
>
> - What actually drives my development is my Live Electronics tutorial,
> which got a fair upgrade with a new chapter on Modal Synthesis amongst
> other things, such as new subtractive synthesis examples and a revision of
> envelope generators with examples on AHDSR and DAHDSR - by the way, there
> are new gaterelease~/gatedelay~ objects for handling envelopes (and other
> processes).
>
> - I have to thank some people. Tim added 'zoom' to the [pic] object, as
> well as an image offset. Tim also implemented a new and better technique
> for bandlimited oscillators. Ben Wesh gave me a new [scope3d~] GUI object,
> pretty cool, that plots an oscilloscope in 3 dimensions, which is coded in
> LUA - and ELSE has been carrying a modified version of [pdlua] because it
> now depends on it for a couple of GUIs. Tim and Ben made many improvements
> to [pdlua] (as well as Albert Graef, of course).
>
> - For more noew objects, let me also tell you about the simple and
> cool [float2imp~], that is based on [vline~] and can convert floats to
> impulses with sample accuracy (don't know why I didn't think of that
> earlier). A new [tanh~] object has Multichannel support. A bit earlier I
> made an update to Cyclone that actually "borrows" and includes this one
> from ELSE instead of its original one (which does not have Multichannel
> support). PlugData users will load the one from ELSE. This is another tiny
> step that sort of integrates ELSE and Cyclone, specially for PlugData users.
>
> cheers
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Here's the link to the github release with the same release notes and a
> full blown changelog with all the humongous details of what I've been up to
> ==> https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v.1.0-rc13
>
> cheers again
>

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