DanTModules New Releases Thread

cubistguitar · September 29, 2025, 12:37am

looks useable to me, i know how to use Purfenators menus already , so an extra level to get to an option is totally fine

jeremy · September 29, 2025, 1:06am

your menus are fine with me… its not like i constantly play with the options… i usually set it and forget it

pachde · September 29, 2025, 1:18am

With so many options, it begs for some factory presets, but alas there don’t seem to be any.

dan.tilley · September 29, 2025, 8:48am

Good point, I’ll happily add some factory presets, lets have a community section I’ll start a thread for it…

I’ll have a think about the menus, it does bother me sometimes.

Possibly I could do something like have 4 small icons (Module, Colour, Image, Skiff) that have their own context menus separate from the main context menu

rsmus7 · September 29, 2025, 4:09pm

maybe you can just add a little button that activates a little flyout expander with buttons for the different menues, just an idea …

pachde · September 30, 2025, 1:07am

A flyout that is done by resizing the panel (to the right) is tricky because it moves adjacent modules when you force resize. This is annoying (fixed in CHEM in a PR post first submission). You have to implement saving the positions of the modules on the right and move them back when you close the flyout.

I’ve attempted modal dialogs but haven’t succeeded yet. Chem::Preset fakes it because the popup is within the bounds of the module.

dan.tilley · October 28, 2025, 10:34pm

Sneak peek of some features I’ve been fiddling with

dan.tilley · October 30, 2025, 9:32am

DanTModules v2.5.2

Chromakey
- Text is now scrollable when larger than the panel
- Text can be loaded from a file dialog
- Autoscroll - with speed and delay parameters
- Watch file - automatically reload the text when the file changes
- Tail mode - only load the last n lines of a file, where n is the amount that fit vertically in the panel (no scrolling required assuming the panel is wide enough)
- Presets - view log.txt and autosave patch.json directly in Rack
Purfenator
- Image tokenisation, enables sharing of presets without the need to edit filepaths
- Presets - you can still submit your own presets for inclusion in the next version
- Skiff cheeks - add some style to your skiff with fancy wooden cheeks (or load a custom image of your own)
- Menu buttons - Show Icon Menus will display four buttons on the top of the panel to easily access the customisation menus (you can still get to them via the context menu too)

…will add some screenshots and videos shortly

edit: documentation updates are on my todo list

DaveVenom · October 30, 2025, 10:17am

Some great new features! I love the menu icons - it is amazing how much it improves the workflow.

The box gradient radius and range should probably be non-zero by default. At first I thought the box gradient was broken.

dan.tilley · October 30, 2025, 10:18am

I’ll look into it, thanks for letting me know.

dan.tilley · October 30, 2025, 1:29pm

dan.tilley · November 18, 2025, 12:37pm

Sneak peek

dan.tilley · November 20, 2025, 11:22pm

DanTModules v2.5.3

General
- Updated to Rack SDK v2.6.6
- This is now the minimum required version due to the changes in BrightIdea
BrightIdea
- Added inputs & knobs to control spotlightBrightness & spotlightRadius
Chromakey
- New Text Overlay menu options:
  - Generate a patchlist, all the modules currently in the patch
  - Save the current text content to a file
Purfenator
- New Preset added
- Corrected cheek image rendering
- Added option to mirror the right cheek
- New cheek images available
That’s No Moon
- Time-Travel context menu options enabled

Sorry, updated docs are still on my TODO list

MinorNoise · December 7, 2025, 9:09pm

I noticed one tiny thing: In the Purfenator expander you can set the gradient radius center x and y position (second input jack, poly channel 13+14), but it seems that negative cv values are not accepted. In the example below, channel 13 gets 3 Volt, channel 14 gets -2 Volt. The x is moved 30% from the center as expected, but y stays at 0%. Without cv input you can move the sliders manually in negative direction. But it doesn’t seem to be possible with cv.

I haven’t installed Rack 2.6.6 yet, so I’m not using your current module version. If it’s already fixed in your latest version, just forget what I was writing…

dan.tilley · December 12, 2025, 8:04pm

Ah yes, sorry you are correct, the CV input for those params does not respond to negative CV, that’s a bug.

It’s on my TODO list to fix for the next release.

Thanks for the report.

MinorNoise · December 14, 2025, 7:33pm

Thank you in advance for the fix!