ELSE 1.0 rc6 with Live Electronics Tutorial is out!
This is a quick update, coming quite sooner than I wanted from the last release, which was also just released to end the year. The reason I updated this one was to coordinate this release with an update of PlugData by Timothy Schoen! Another excuse to release this is to celebrate the 6th anniversary of ELSE development.
I guess most of you know but it doesn't hurt to stress it out. PlugData is an awesome fork of Pd, still under a 'pre-release' phase (to end when a proper 1.0 version is out). It has a fancy GUI and is completely compatible to Pd-Vanilla. It ships with ELSE and Cyclone (so MAX users get an entry door). What's also amazing is that PlugData runs as a plugin in any DAW!
There's been a great collaboration between me and PlugData people. This means ELSE behaves as some sort of "*All batteries included*" for PlugData, but not all of ELSE's GUI objects have been ported yet. For some time I've been adding a few objects to ELSE from requests by Tim and PlugData users and Tim has also added new objects to ELSE.
I recently got requests to include OSC support in ELSE, as well as support for LUA, so I did it and this is supposed to be available in PlugData 0.6.3 coming out soon. For the first time, I am just including an existing third party external (pdlua) into ELSE. I will try not to make any modifications and keep the same name and compatibility. I will try... let's see... I am using Albert Graef's repository as a basis and just included its new 0.11.1 release, see https://github.com/agraef/pd-lua/releases This kinda felt onto my lap as Tim is really concerned with compatibility and doesn't want to support anything other than ELSE and Cyclone.
For a detailed changelog of ELSE and the Live Electronics Tutorial, see https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v1.0-rc6
ELSE is already available in deken for the main architectures and you find more options in the link above.
For the next update of ELSE I hope I take more time and include the things I already wanted to for the last release.
An attempt at a PlugData 0.6.3 release was already made today but it isn't really working well, I will reply and write back when it's really ok and safe to download it, stay tuned. I think this thing is awesome and kind of a game changer for the Pd world.
Cheers Alex