Staying tuned.
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Woo
Finally Here we go: Beta-4
Some important notes on this pre-release:
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a) It contains a new module: Vacuum TubePreamp, this is in a very early stage! VU Meters do not behave correctly and CVs are not labeled and may not work proper. The main reason for including it in the beta, was just the idea to get a feedback about the sound and feeling - so please give me a an idea how you like it and how it could be improved
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b) The problems occurred with Bitwig may still exist, this is a very strange thing, but I did not want to block the whole release just because of this issue, so please please donāt be resentful in this matter.
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c) The current beta will be valid until Nov 1st.
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d) Its still beta - save you patches and/or backup!
Thanks!
Download via dropbox: (Linux will be ready soon)
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Just wake upā¦thankāsā¦
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Thanks Patrick!
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Hope you got some sleep
Indeed!!! Bien entenduā¦
The āNoizerā output seems to be broken,
I get 0 Volt and a ānanVā in the VCV tooltip when I hover over it
Wonderful !
I confirm that the bitwig bug still exist ā¦ 
I need a bit more info on this, because here it works great. What OS are you? Whats the parameter of the Noizer? Does it always occur?
Please send all bug-reports to: heapdump@icloud.com Providing a minimum on information to me, thanks!
Not going to email this because I donāt know if it qualifies as a ābugā, but Iām noticing a significant freeze-up when trying to turn on the weathered module theme. It also takes a bit of a performance hit. Iām looking at the debug and I donāt see any errors or warnings, but Iām wondering if thereās something in the textures that isnāt consolidated or merged in the textures thatās overwhelming the rendering engine.
i can confirm some kind of āfreezing-nessā when changing the theme only with the āGrungeā option activated. Iām on Win11 64bit (latest version)
What do you exactly mean? Set the theme and that check used look, or reversed? Does it occur always or just after the first set? The drop of performance is on fps or CPU? Still anything produce NaN or something?
Here on my Mac it took around 200ms to load the grunge textureā¦they are pretty big to get some kind of variation, but they are also cached, so it should run fast after the first loadā¦ They are now loaded āon-the-flyā to avoid some āhangingā when you open the module-browserā¦ I changed that, but no problems here on my machine.
Anybody else noticed that? What OS? Thanks.
Itās a 1-second freeze for each module when āgrungeā is enabled on Windows 11. While I know thatās just how SVG can be to a degree, it does seem a tad bit long. Iāll try to run it in a debugger and see what happens.
Patrick makes the most detailed SVGs Iāve ever seen, but they come at a cost. In 2019 I made this (fun) post to see how long it took to load a patch.
I use a own version of the SVG rendering-engine that is able cache complex SVGs. SVGs like the patina/used ādirtā are huge and it would take way to long to draw it every time, so the engine ist drawing it just once to a buffer which acts as rasterised image, the speeds up things allowing to use complex SVGs. Also the engine extracts positioning information of controls via virtual drill-holes, which enables me to design completely in a graphics suite instead of writing coordinates directly to code. And finally a bit of corrections made relating gradient drawing the the possibility to lock objects and gradients from rotating, which is important for knob-rendering. (Sorry, just a bit internal stuffā¦)
So actually it should work fast even on slowish computers except the first load of an image. Does this always occur when switched to grunge patina, or just once when itās first setup?
I am try setting up my Windows machine here to see if that occurs in generell, but it seems that it messed up by some anti-virus software :-/ Hope to get it running todayā¦
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It occurs every time, even with multiple copies of the same module.
Just to say it seems to work fine here on my iMac - no noticeable delay even the first time I load a grunge theme - so sounds like a Windows issue.
I wonder if PNG panels might be a better solution for the grunge/used themes though? Similar to what Voxglitch does.
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I test the patch on my laptop Core i5 under Windows 10 Pro. It took 10 seconds the first time and 3 seconds the second timeā¦
I finished setup my Windows machine and see the problemā¦ I will fix it as soon as possible. Thanks for reporting so farā¦
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