Hello all!
So, any other announcements recently? Anything going on?
In all seriousness, since we now have a Rack 2 date range (and since I’m going to be slammed at day job through November, it turns out) here is my goal:
- Spend any time I have between now and November:
- (before Rack 2 alpha code is made public) refactoring and refining the existing features so the codebase is as clean as possible;
- (after Rack 2 alpha code is made public) furiously adapting the existing code to the new API–while I think that everything planned (and more!) will be possible, this plugin is obviously way way out in the 10% of stuff that’s not an automatic upgrade).
- Soon (maybe 2-6 weeks, depending on API stuff) after Rack 2 is released, I hope to have an alpha with approximately the feature set described above, which I’ll send around to the kind folks who have already expressed interest, as well as anyone else who speaks up before then.
- After the alpha, and an open beta, if it seems rock-solid and the response is good, I’ll bother @Vortico about whether there ever might be space for this in the VCV Library, or whether it’s so far in the corners of the API that it will need to stay Pack Tau’d.
- In either case, I’ll plan to open it up and continue development (it’s already essential to my own music-making, even in its current fragmentary form, and I think that people who like this sort of thing–however few or many there are–will really like it!)
So, thanks for both your interest and your patience, and I’ll be back in touch by November (or earlier, depending on when Rack 2 code drops and when I get a chance to start porting).
In the meantime, feature requests and expressions of alpha/beta interest are more than welcome!