Howdy, a quick update I needed to make
                              in the middle of a course and to settle
                              the ground for a project I'm unveiling
                              this week in a symposium (the first draft
                              of my modular abstractions). 
                            
                            
                            One new thing I have is a great gift
                              from Tim Schoen, he just gave me this
                              incredible object named [circuit~] that
                              emulates analog circuitry. I'm blown away
                              and have no idea how it works, it's just
                              pure magic as I see it. As an atheist, I
                              can't explain it... 
                            
                            
                            Tim also helped in a compild version of
                              [conv~]. I had this very expensive
                              abstraction and this is now a much more
                              simplified version of the great william
                              brent's [convolve~] object. This was one
                              of the things on my list for a final
                              release, so we're getting closer. By the
                              way, I think I've said it before, I'm
                              planning a final release next year when
                              Tim's Plugdata reaches version 1.0 (phew,
                              finally).
                            
                            
                            I'm still extendind the MC awareness of
                              objects in ELSE. The [sine~] , [imp~]  and
                              [adsr~] objects are now MC aware! The
                              [adsr~] and [envgen~] also got a new audio
                              inlet for retriggering with impulses.
                              Including new objects, ELSE now has 70
                              signal objects that can deal with
                              multichannels. 
                            
                            
                            A family of new objects I'm really
                              proud of is [pm6~], [pm4~] and [pm2~].
                              These are 6, 4 and 2 operators synths with
                              a modulation matrix for phase modulation.
                              So yeah, think of DX7 and stuff. Or Native
                              Instruments' FM8, actually. This is
                              beautifual, and MC aware! Being MC aware
                              makes it polyphonic with [voices~],
                              without the need of [clone]. Did I mention
                              I'm working on modular abstractions? Yup,
                              one based on [pm6~] is done, and looks
                              great with all the GUI there for you to
                              set values in the modulation matrix, plus
                              panning, detuning, ratio. Really damn
                              proud of this one. 
                            
                            
                            A new [mono~] object offers monophonic
                              voice management with signal rate
                              portamento output. A [
mpe.in]
                              object is my first take on managing MIDI
                              Polyphonic Expression. I guess that's the
                              highlights and it for now. 
 
                            
                            
                            Current object count is: 518 (277
                              signal objects and 241 control objects)!
                              299 coded objects (192 signal objects /
                              107 control objects) 219 abstractions (85
                              signal objects / 134 control objects) Not
                              much new in the tutorial, just some
                              updates and revisions to add the new
                              objects and breaking changes in ELSE.
                              Total number of examples is now 508!
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            Get it from there or deken (no
                              raspberry pi yet).  Expect this one soon
                              in a next PlugData release.
                            
                            
                            cheers