Blockhead v0.44.0 alpha
Added 2025-01-16 17:43:11 +0000 UTCUpdate Notes
Update: The UI for creating new workspace blocks has completely changed and is described to the best of my ability in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI3r57Gj_O4
Update: An error screen should now be displayed if libblockhead fails to load for some reason and will give some platform specific information about why it may have happened, instead of just crashing/hanging on the main screen as is commonly reported.
Bugfix: "Focus hovered block" operation is completely broken.
Bugfix: Playhead does not escape from a loop region when loop is toggled back off on the meta block.
Bugfix: Undo doesn't work for hot-switching a block plugin.
Bugfix: "Plugin info" popup widget appears on Blink effect blocks which have no information to show.
Bugfix: "Smooth Transitions" cannot be turned back on after being turned off for a block.
Bugfix: Newly bounced blocks don't have the correct size.
Bugfix: Block context menu checkmark lies about whether or not "Smooth Transitions" is enabled.
Bugfix: Several other subtle issues in the interactions between "Smooth Transitions" and bouncing.
Bugfix: Visual issues with block selections.
Links
Manual (WIP): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y6je_g2oNnxClL1eXV20dcQpoyZEkek5LTxQPyEFT0w
Known Issues: https://trello.com/b/MT1A3Zob/blockhead-issues
Discord: Blockhead (discord.com)
Development Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@colugo5172/videos
Comments
Thanks a lot for your incredible work!
Rares Cirlan
2025-02-25 10:58:07 +0000 UTCYes the latest build is a bit unstable but i'm currently working on a big bugfixing update which should fix a lot of issues. Thanks for the bug reports!
Colugo Music
2025-02-25 10:49:48 +0000 UTCHey man. I love your work—just discovered it and am trying to learn the software. This is the first version I’m using, but I’m experiencing a lot of instability. 1) Pressing the delete key has a very high chance of causing the DAW to crash. It throws the following error: ``` An exception occurred in world::update! Blockhead is now in an invalid state and will probably crash soon. Here is the exception message: Element index out of range This message will also appear in the message center (bottom-left). If you know how to reproduce this consistently then please let me know. ``` 2) There’s also a high chance of the DAW crashing when listening to and selecting samples from the small menu in the bottom right. I’m running it on an M1 MacBook Air, macOS Sonoma 15.3.1. Let me know if I can provide any more details. Thanks!
Rares Cirlan
2025-02-25 10:02:58 +0000 UTCapologies that's a bug in the current build. i'm trying to finish a big bugfixing build at the moment which fixes a bunch of things so hopefully it will be ready soonish
Colugo Music
2025-02-18 17:36:21 +0000 UTCLoving playing around with this :) Just wondering - whenever I try and export my workspace it's completely silent, is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?
Elliott Elder
2025-02-18 17:32:26 +0000 UTCTo me it seems like some kind of permissions issue where arch isn't allowing you to write files to your desktop folder for some reason, but i might be wrong
Colugo Music
2025-02-12 13:30:30 +0000 UTCThanks for the confirmation!
Colugo Music
2025-02-12 13:28:55 +0000 UTCno problems on windows
vision_m
2025-02-11 20:40:36 +0000 UTCbut now im getting a newerror when i try to save my project ' Info: Saving project to: /home/jack/Desktop/Blockhead v0.44.0 alpha linux/mix/mix.blkhd Info: Creating a temporary file: /home/jack/Desktop/Blockhead v0.44.0 alpha linux/mix/mix.blkhd.tmp Info: Saving layout data Error: Failed to save project: Failed to open layout entry'
vision_m
2025-02-11 18:46:11 +0000 UTCyour workaround does work. I am able to open the program after i deleted scuff-scan
vision_m
2025-02-11 18:30:15 +0000 UTCI got a similar problem. The binary wont open on Arch Linux getting error. Godot Engine v3.6.stable.official.de2f0f147 - https://godotengine.org glx: failed to create dri3 screen failed to load driver: nouveau OpenGL ES 3.0 Renderer: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) Async. shader compilation: OFF Blockhead v0.44.0 alpha raw_alsa_helpers::enumerator::enumerate_devices: cannot determine device number: Inappropriate ioctl for device terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::process::v1::process_error' what(): execve failed: No such file or directory Aborted (core dumped)
vision_m
2025-02-11 18:26:57 +0000 UTCIf I press escape several times all the disapperaring stuff reappears.
Kjell Sørgaard
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Alan Gregory
2025-01-24 19:50:49 +0000 UTCit`s weird. I can preview the sounds down in the right corner but the second I drag something into the "tracks" everything apart from the line that says "track 1" with the Solo/mute buutons "dissapears"
Kjell Sørgaard
2025-01-23 12:08:28 +0000 UTCIf you managed to get it to play back and sound was successfully playing then it sounds like it was working and your hardware is not an issue but maybe you just encountered some weird bug that was preventing you from right-clicking.
Colugo Music
2025-01-23 11:16:16 +0000 UTCHi. I tried first on my 2011 macbook running 10.13.6 high sierra but wouldnt initiaize. Then I installed it on a Lenovo Laptop running windows 10. I can now open the program and right click to Add sample, then "track 1" appears and everything apart from the mute/solo buttons does not react at all. Right clicking does nothing either. First time I tried there was a few yellow sqaures running wild on top of the screen and pressing TAB would start playing, but sound only following some of the squares. Am I or my gear totally outdated?
Kjell Sørgaard
2025-01-23 11:05:47 +0000 UTCI received the same bug report from another linux user but I don't know how to reproduce the problem yet. My guess is that the plugin scanner is failing to start for some reason. This is an executable named 'scuff-scan' which exists in the same folder as the blockhead executable. I think deleting it would make blockhead skip plugin scanning though if that fixes it you would be without 3rd party clap plugins until i find a fix
Colugo Music
2025-01-22 07:54:51 +0000 UTCYes the new interface has been described in the youtube video linked in the post
Colugo Music
2025-01-22 07:51:20 +0000 UTCThe right click menu for adding lanes, tracks etc no longer has the add manipulators, tempo tracks options. Has this been moved to a different part of the program?
Alan Gregory
2025-01-21 19:42:31 +0000 UTCI'm on arch linux 6.12.6-zen1-1-zen kernel
Ben van Essen
2025-01-20 19:39:54 +0000 UTCI get this: Godot Engine v3.6.stable.official.de2f0f147 - https://godotengine.org OpenGL ES 3.0 Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/PCIe/SSE2 Async. shader compilation: OFF Blockhead v0.44.0 alpha terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::process::v1::process_error' what(): execve failed: No such file or directory [1] 534233 IOT instruction (core dumped) ./Blockhead\ v0.44.0\ alpha.x86_64
Ben van Essen
2025-01-20 19:37:25 +0000 UTChello i'm not sure exactly what you are describing but if you just want to see a list of available effects you can press Enter to open the quickfind and right-click on "Plugins" so that it's the only item type selected
Colugo Music
2025-01-18 12:35:52 +0000 UTChey colugo, I'm not getting any of the effects showing up in my workspace
Curtis Moses
2025-01-17 22:27:16 +0000 UTC
