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