Hi Ben, I had to think of your new parameter-overlay for midi-cat, when I read this question: Increase Tooltip Contrast
Is it possible to have that big overlay for every control without mapping Midi-CAT?
It seems I’m getting the go-to-person for interface related questions 
Artem requested almost the same thing a few days before: I guess „yes, it’s possible“, but I need to code a quick module to be sure, if I find motivation for that 
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Yes, of course 
That and your open ear on these things.
Thanks 
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For sure. I think I’ve asked you questions about that before. It’s kind of a revelation that you can do all these things in a plugin! It’s not all “supported”, but it works and is pretty clean.
I think I must have copied some of your examples when I added “auto patch” to some of my modules. Seq++ will look around for the closest Impromptu clock and patch up the clock/run/reset lines. Kitchen Sink looks for a close one to hook up a two operator FM combo.
Anyway, yes, you are the dev everyone thinks of for these kinds of things.
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Thanks Bruce, just trying to improve my C++ knowledge and pushing the limits of Rack‘s API 
In the meantime I added a new experimental module ME (=mouse enhancements). I generalized the overlay‘s code before so it was pretty easy to hook into the parameter mouse events.
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Hodi!
I am just here for a big thumbs up! :+ Your modules are brilliant; I haven’t gone through half of it, I guess, but the ones I have used so far make me really happy and make Rack a better place, for sure!
Thank you, Ben! 
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thank you Ben! If you’re interested in future customization of this overlay I’d like to suggest position (up, down, center, left, right), size and opacity. As extreme settings for example it would be like a full screen tooltip with 50% of opacity @_@
Artem always has some feature requests 
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yep, sometimes 
Just saw DIRT module and the idea is awesome. Is it supposed to be a kind of console emulation situable for audio or for just everything else?
My knowledge about dsp is not nearly good enough to create something like a „console emulation“
The idea is to make polyphonic cables less clean and perfect as they are. In real world you would get some amount of crosstalk between the wires of the cable, depending on its length, and some noise from things near the cable. I haven’t done any research yet for a more realistic behavior, it is just a little bit of code put together on a Sunday morning 
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Thanks Ben!
I’ve been preparing the next version 1.9 of PackOne for the last few days and it will hopefully ready within the next week. Big shout to @secretcinema as his donation gave me the necessary motivation to work on it 
It has been over six months since the last release and the changelog has gotten quite long. Most of the manuals have been updated with the new features, the manuals for the new modules are almost finished also. One more feature on my to-do list will be added, what remains is testing and bug-fixing before release. If anyone wants to join testing I will appreciate reports on any problems you encounter.
The preliminary changelog:
Download of the latest build:
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Wow! That’s a lot of stuff.
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Yes, too much stuff, caused by me liking to write code and me not liking to write manuals
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haha, I’m slogging through writing a manual now. I usually release only one or two modules at a time - maybe that spreads out the pain? I notice you currently have 39 modules in the library! Makes my 28 seem pretty paltry. And or course many of yours are unusual enough that a decent manual is really required. A lot of mine might as well be “it’s a VCF - use it”.
Oh my, not sure how this could happen 
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And every single one is brilliant
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Haha! Thanks for the shout out mate, but seriously all kudos to you man. Exceptional work once again.
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Ben this update is sick! Thanks a lot man 
I just got a note from Trello that I have too many board for the free version. That’s what happens if you make a new board for each module…