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Blockhead v0.2.0 alpha (Patreon)

Published:
2020-10-09 14:57:19
Edited:
2020-10-11 17:32:17
Imported:
2026-06
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Update notes

Added panning (only as a block modulation option currently)

Removed the "enable bias" item from effect knob context menu because that's not implemented yet.

Uniformity is now a percentage instead of ranging from 0.0 to 1.0 (may break existing save files)

Some answers to feedback

Where is sample data stored? When you save a project, the samples are converted to FLAC and stored inside the project file. The *.blkhd file is actually a renamed zip file so you can open it up and extract the samples if you want.

Can stereo channels be manipulated independently? No, I didn't get to this yet. This problem requires a lot of time and thought and I have a lot of different ideas in my head about how the UI should work.

My screen is really big and the font is too small! Sorry! This is definitely a problem. I will investigate adding some larger fonts as an option, or switching to an automatically scaling font. Unfortunately it's not a trivial problem to solve right now because some of the UI is built around having very specific pixel dimensions.

I also made a discord server

Here it is: https://discord.gg/EXxadd 

Comments

Marek Bereza

Just gave it a test drive on a macbook pro running windows, works great! Love the aesthetic too.

Marek Bereza

Observations: - love the stripped back vibe dispensing with the usual UI clutter in "DAW's" - got confused when dropping a sample from the sample view onto the main window because after I dropped it, there was still a wave under my cursor ready to be dropped, took me a while to work out to press right click to get rid of that. - Lo-fi seems pretty strong with the bitcrush param - doing some funky things to my speakers (e.g. non audio) - seemed to stop my audio working until reboot - love the snap amount interaction - when alt-tabbing between programs sometimes the cursor got stuck lassoing a selection where I can't do any more clicking til restarting the app - that might be my laptop's trackpad drivers tho, Apple don't really care about supporting good windows experience. - maybe it would be good to keep the escape key as a way to always go back (i.e. get out of sample drop mode, get out of the shortcuts list, get out of focused sample details etc) - couldn't work out how to loop a section on the timeline, guess that's not a feature

colugomusic

- I will check what is going on with the bitcrush effect. it probably needs a DC filter. If I can't fix it I will remove it temporarily because i dont want to break peoples speakers. - I will also investigate the alt-tabbing thing. - and I agree with your escape key idea.

colugomusic

To create a looping region you can right click on a lane to create a "meta block", then enable looping on the meta block

Marek Bereza

Just be clear, the blockhead is a massive inspiration - it’s the first bit of music software I’ve seen that’s really trying to do something new in a grown up way - please don’t prioritise any of my feedback unless it lines up with your own plans! Really looking forward to watching this beast grow!! Best of luck

colugomusic

It looks like it does currently produce a DC offset when sample rate is set to 0%, so i will try adding a DC blocker into the signal path

cairnan

it's definitely the first new direction i've seen in DAWs in a while. something that will clearly grow while remaining quite unique!