Blockhead v0.6.0 alpha (Patreon)

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!

Update Notes:

Feature: Individual volume control for tracks

Feature: Added a widget to the bottom panel to show currently running background tasks

Feature: Catch buffer

Update: Moved settings buttons to bottom left of window

Update: Moved device settings to settings panel

Update: Combined volume controls with level meters

Update: Added dB readouts to level meters

Update: Made waveforms easier to see when a grayish/muted color is selected

Update: Changed the way background tasks are managed

Update: Stopped performing visual updates for level meters when they are not moving

Bugfix: Harmonics editor sending incorrect values to the engine

Catch Buffer usage:

Can be toggled open/closed by pressing F5, or the "Catch" button on the lower bar.

Mouse wheel up/down to zoom in and out, middle mouse button + drag to pan left and right

You can drag a custom region of the buffer by clicking and dragging left or right with the left mouse button.

Whenever a new region is created, any regions that it intersect with are deleted.

To create a new sample from a region of the buffer, click on it with the left mouse button and place the resulting block somewhere on the workspace. The new sample be named "Catch Data #n"

You can trigger a preview of a catch buffer region by clicking the preview button at the bottom left of the region, or pressing the "toggle play" shortcut (currently spacebar) while hovering it with the mouse.

You can trigger a preview from any part of the catch buffer by hovering over it with the mouse and pressing the "play from" shortcut (currently tab)

The size of the buffer is currently hard-coded to ~45mb which is around 1 minute at 44100hz. There will be a user setting for this in the future.

Public issue tracker: https://trello.com/b/MT1A3Zob/blockhead-issues

Planned features: https://trello.com/b/DJsP5eL9/blockhead-planned-features

Discord: https://discord.gg/9ZW2UXM