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Bigger release than usual. There have been many internal changes related to background tasks. I had one crash while testing the new catch buffer feature which I have not been able to reproduce since. As usual if you happen to find some way to consistently reproduce a crash or bug then let me know!
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I came up with this idea while I was working on song rendering (it's coming i promise!). I couldn't stop thinking about this stupid idea so I put song rendering on hold to work on it. It seems simple but it's taken about 4 days so far. It's not done yet but here's a video of what it looks like currently.
The catch buffer is a circular buff...
2020-11-03 11:49:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Some tasks are run in a background thread to avoid blocking the interface. This currently includes loading sample data from files, bounce operations, generation of grain offset data, and eventually song rendering.
When a bounce is triggered the op...
2020-10-29 13:13:29 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes:
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Addition of the BIGFONT is almost done. It's been a horrible time trying to bend the layout engine to my will. This is the first time during development where I've felt like I've been really fighting against Godot to get it to do something.
The ch...
2020-10-25 14:39:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I am currently working on the mind numbingly boring task of adding the option to use a bigger font for everything.
It took a while to actually figure out how to implement this so that it can be toggled at runtime because Godot's theming system isn't really designed to do it. Annoyingly I have to go through every bit of text in the DAW and ...
2020-10-22 12:31:54 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes:
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2020-10-09 14:57:19 +0000 UTC View PostIf you click the button on the top right of a block you can switch the playback mode from "Classic" to "Fudge". This is a granular resynthesis algorithm which is designed to sound "interesting" and be very flexible. If it also happens to sound "good" at times then that's more of a happy side effect than a design goal. Many good sounding granular...
2020-10-09 12:26:45 +0000 UTC View PostYou will need to unzip this somewhere to run it. Please let me know if it doesn't work. If you just see the Blockhead splash screen and then it closes then it's probably some horrible DLL loading issue or packaging problem that I will have to investigate.
If you report a crash or bug it's helpful if you can give a description of exactly ho...
2020-10-08 13:27:00 +0000 UTC View PostBlockhead now seems to work fine on my laptop. Since it's a pretty bad laptop I hope this means it will work well on the average machine but I'm sure I will encounter some computer specific issues as more people use it.
There are still many bugs I know about, many things that need to be improved, many many many features that need to be imp...
2020-10-08 13:14:50 +0000 UTC View PostI have an old shitty laptop in my wardrobe that I'm currently trying to get Blockhead to work on. The hardware is super old but it would be cool if I could get it working. The PC I've been developing on has a pretty beefy graphics card and up until now I've been using certain GPU features without worrying about it, but unfortunately some of thes...
2020-10-06 18:37:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been having trouble posting updates on Patreon, I think they are having server problems. I didn't have much to post anyway because it's been mostly bug fixing and small UI improvements. Here's a quick video of the updated samples panel which is a long way off from being a proper "sample manager" but it's ok for now.
I've been doing a ...
2020-10-05 16:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Today I fixed a bunch of small bugs, including the sample rate issue I found yesterday.
I then starting working on improving the sample manager panel since at the moment it's really useless. I've been putting off doing this for ages. I won't be making it fully featured yet but at the very least you should be able to rename samples, and scr...
2020-10-02 17:28:17 +0000 UTC View Post
I started working through my list of known bugs. In the process I found a bunch of new bugs so my bug list ended up even bigger! I'm getting through them pretty quick though because it's mainly just very small things. There is one big issue with samples with different sample rates no longer playing back properly. No idea what I broke there becau...
2020-10-01 18:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post
This changes all the time so take it with a grain of salt. This is only showing the things I have planned for the first two releases. I have a massive list of items on the backburner that are in my tracker but not displayed here.
The main three features I want to finish for the beta release are track effects/modulation, song rendering and ...
2020-09-30 16:35:32 +0000 UTC View PostModulation now seems to be pretty stable. The system in place for managing undo/redo for everything is quite mind bending so I'm not 100% confident that it's all bug free at the moment but I've been doing a bunch of testing and it all seems okay.
I'm using Godot's built-in undo/redo which works pretty well but can be confusing. I'm not an ...
2020-09-30 15:54:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Almost done with basic parameter modulation now. There's a bunch of things that are broken but I'm almost there.
One stupid thing that I had to spend a bunch of time on was having values transform correctly between the editor controls and the engine. For example when editing filter frequency the modulation editor and knob will range from s...
2020-09-28 16:52:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe past few days I have been grinding out the changes to the modulation system which is taking a while but I haven't hit any major problems. I'm probably about 50% done. I am spending a bit more time on it than I need to because I decided to take the opportunity to future-proof things a bit more.
Once I'm done with block effects I might p...
2020-09-23 16:06:41 +0000 UTC View PostAfter yesterday's diversion I'm back to rewriting a bunch of the front-end UI code for modulation parameters.
Part of the problem is that currently every modulatable block parameter and it's envelope data is directly tied to the associated button that appears at the top of the block UI, and it is assumed that each parameter (such as "Amp",...
2020-09-20 17:29:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I went to bed still thinking about that bug I found yesterday and did my trick of lying there thinking about solutions instead of sleeping. So today I implemented a nice fix which didn't involve any complex rewriting of the block processing system as I feared I would have to do. I did however introduce a theoretical limit on the number of blocks...
2020-09-19 15:58:52 +0000 UTC View PostNightmare day. I found a bug unrelated to anything I was working on which causes effects to leave artifacts in some cases.
By design block effects are not processed when the playhead is outside the edge of a block (whereas track effects will work the same way they do in other DAWs). So to avoid clicking at the edges of blocks I add a small...
2020-09-18 16:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostI'm currently working on the boring task of restructuring the way modulation data is stored. The way I originally designed this has worked fine up until now but unfortunately the introduction of effect parameter automation has led to loads of problems, mostly related to saving and loading, and block copy and paste operations.
Trying to get...
2020-09-17 17:24:52 +0000 UTC View Post