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Feature: Non-destructive exporting and importing of blocks, tracks, and workspaces. Select 'Object' from the drop-down menu when exporting things. This will export everything in the right-hand list to the output directory in blockhead's project...
2024-05-14 14:48:24 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Feature: Track stem exporting.
Update: Improved audio exporting interface. You can bring up the export dialog in various ways:
Click the "Export..." button on the Project tab on the right-hand side.
Apologies if the rapid-fire updates are annoying. I am just trying to get a useable version of Blockhead on Patreon before I get started on some much bigger stuff.
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Update: Linux - Blockhead should now show up in the JACK interface as "Bl...
2024-04-12 11:54:06 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Update: Brought back the old block/sample preview buttons (Mouse hover over the left-hand side of a block or sample list item. Left-click to trigger, right-click to stop all currently playing one-shots for that specific item.)
Update...
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Update: Block and sample one-shots now respond to MIDI note-off events
Update: Block one-shots now respond to MIDI pitch. Please note:
All the MIDI stuff is still temporary and really only there to mess around ...
2024-04-10 18:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostIn addition to the stuff listed below I have tried to address some of the old issues related to starting/stopping the audio system. This issues include crashes when switching audio device settings (I think mostly on Linux) and settings not being correctly recalled on startup. Pretty much everythi...
2024-03-24 22:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Bugfix: Slicing a squashed block is even more broken than before (whoops)
Bugfix: Positions of copied/cloned blocks are not calculated correctly when the selection is not on the first track.
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Update: When squash mode is enabled, the block scaling will now always pivot about the left edge of the block, regardless of the current data offset.
Update: Settings dialog is a little bit neater and the content will no lon...
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Feature: Auto-saving (check the settings dialog to set it up.)
Feature: Message Center (default key binding: F3, or press the bottom left [i] button.)
Update: Saving (both manual saving and auto-saving) n...
Video explaining the new things
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSIRbpt-fk
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NOTE: Old project files will be incompatible with this ve...
2024-03-04 17:32:39 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Update: 'Screen Scaling' option added to view settings dialog (give this a try if you have a very large/high DPI monitor.)
Update: Command line arguments added:
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Bugfix: Crash when undoing the creation of the current macro.
Bugfix: Crash when deleting a lane or track inside a macro.
Bugfix: Crash when lane or track is deleted while playback is running.
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Since November I have been almost entirely working on UI optimization. I learned a lot of things and made a lot of mistakes. The specific thing that should be faster now is moving around within a workspace and zooming in and out with many blocks on the screen. One thing that may still cause slowd...
2024-01-27 10:33:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt makes me cringe a bit any time I see a video of someone using Blockhead when they start zooming or panning around in any marginally complex workspace and inevitably the interface starts updating at about 5fps. After uploading the last build I decided to take a quick look at things to figure ou...
2023-12-09 19:31:08 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Note: A lot of code has changed under the hood for this build so a bit of instability is expected. If you are trying to actually make music in Blockhead then you might want to stick with v0.31.3 for a little bit, however I would prefer that you...
2023-11-23 20:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostIt has been a couple of weeks since the last build and I've been a bit quiet so here is an update. When I am quiet like this it just means I am busy programming. To me the most important thing is to keep programming every day because there is still so much to.
I am trying to use my time as ...
2023-11-01 11:41:05 +0000 UTC View PostAnnoyingly it appears that Patreon has changed things so that you can no longer just choose to pay whatever amount you want when signing up, so I have had to create these stupid "membership tiers". If I don't create them then I also can't make posts exclusive to paying members so the last 4 build...
2023-10-16 05:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Update: Block resizer handles are now disabled during a drag/stamping operation.
Bugfix: Crash on project close (New/Load/Quit) if the project has at least one input buffer configured.
Bugfix: Possible ha...
Apologies if these rapidfire updates are irritating, I am done for the day now. It just bothered me that I missed these crashes while I was testing. Those who have been around for a while will be familiar with my habit of adding 3 new bugs for every one that I fix so I'm sure there will be more t...
2023-10-15 15:58:08 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Bugfix: "Failed to locate sample record" while trying to save project.
Links
Known Issues: https://trello.com/b/MT1A3Zob/...
2023-10-15 12:40:50 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Feature: Right-click on a tempo guide block and enable 'Fractional BPM' to allow generating snapping points at non-integer BPMs.
Update: Blockhead will now block the entire UI on startup until the plugins have finished loadi...
NOTE: At this point I think some of the rarer "random" crashes that are occurring are not worth me putting time into. I am planning some more large-ish refactors of some parts of the Blockhead cod...
2023-10-10 04:31:36 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Update: File browser bookmark buttons will now display a visual indicator if the exact path that they point to is currently selected in the file browser.
Update: The default recording threshold for newly created input buffer...
I have received a huge influx of new subscribers since posting that youtube video. It has slowed down a bit now but I am still receiving new subscribers every day so I'm still not sure where it will settle. Obviously people will come and go so it will go up and down a bit but at the time of writi...
2023-10-05 05:03:22 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Bugfix: Possible crash when the project is saved.
Links
Known Issues: https://trello.com/b/MT1A3Zob/blockhead-issues
Discord:...
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Update: Some more UI optimization work.
Bugfix: The button bar at the top of blocks gets all messed up whenever there are button groups.
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Known Issues: 2023-09-25 18:32:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Update: Fixed a performance bottleneck in waveform rendering.
Update: Some block UI optimizations.
Update: Added defensive exception handling around some hard-to-reproduce crashes in the hope that it help...
I finally managed to make that video that I have been talking about making for the past two years, which explains what Blockhead is and what makes it different. In the end it is more just an explanation video rather than a tutorial (I will try to make some proper tutorial videos in the future goi...
2023-09-23 06:08:26 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Notes
Bugfix: Crash when a tempo guide block is copied.
Bugfix: Block gestures are completely broken.
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Known Issues: 2023-09-23 02:22:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Some subtle issues and crashes related to Send/Receive buses led to me making some large-ish changes to the way data is saved and loaded during undo/redo operations and during project saving and loading.
I usually only bump the second version number up wh...
2023-09-22 13:19:01 +0000 UTC View Post