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