Celebrating the 7th anniversary of our takeover, Cyclone 0.7-0 has been released today on february 21st 2023.

The main goal for 7 years has been updating cyclone to MAX 7, the major release version at the time in 2016. I thought we had taken care of all updates but we missed [mtr], an object that got updates sometime after 7.0 and ironically this is one that got too much new stuff. Amongst new messages and attributes, there are almost 30 new things, no kidding. Many of which can't even be included in cyclone because we miss some stuff like dictionary and transport.

We included some of the main things and started dealing with it... we now have 'speed', 'trackspeed', 'embed' and 'loop', but the thing is that the design of this object is questionable and things don't work quite well, like 'looping'. This is a usual problem in Cyclone, implementing things as they are originally instead of how they should be if designed in a sane way... [mtr] is also a feature creep nightmare and some things will be really hard to implement, but let's see.

Worst case scenario we'll stop at one point and say we couldn't make it and only reached like 99% of our goal :) I guess cannot help but pass the impression that I am not so happy and excited about keeping up with this, I am really busy with ELSE and also Vanilla stuff. We may be reaching the point where Cyclone's development of new stuff will stop and we'll keep it in maintenance mode.

I am not sure we'll pursue MAX 8 updates, but maybe that can happen if nothing crazy like [mtr] happens. For now, not much really happened in MAX 8 so I don't wanna discard it yet. Let's see if we can do it when MAX 9 comes out. The thing is that cyclone contains a limited set of MAX/MSP and MAX has been adding new things all the time, which makes it a bit pointless to get a limited set of things updated to the last version. The other thing is not caring much about this anymore after 7 years :)

Other things in this release is that [comment] is basically done, before realizing [mtr] updates were missing, this was the last thing that needed finishing and we also said we couldn't include all features from MAX 7 in it. This object now has also extra features just for cyclone, something that rarely happens in Cyclone. To be honest, this is now a clone of [else/note], an object that first started based on cyclone/comment. Anyway, this thing finally has a properties windows, thanks to Tim Schoen, and is now acceptable!

I did some other funny thing. I expanded [pink~], which now also has extra features, it is now the same object as else/pink~, which has extra features and is backwards compatible to the old cyclone/pink~. I hope people don't mind this.

Full changelog at https://github.com/porres/pd-cyclone/releases/tag/cyclone_0.7-0

it should be up in deken

Cheers

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