I finished the initial implementation of the choke region recoloring effect. The way it works at the moment is by recursively generating textures for each lane starting from the bottom of each trac...
2021-04-04 16:21:15 +0000 UTC
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Discord link for new people:
https://discord.gg/9ZW2UXM
Over the past few days I fixed som...
2021-04-03 00:52:14 +0000 UTC
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The envelope editor is now fully reimplemented and I added lots of improvements. The most obvious ones are:
- An "Enabled" toggle in the bottom right which allows you to disable the envel...
2021-03-30 13:42:54 +0000 UTC
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I have been working on hooking up the modulation editor UIs to the new system, in particular the modulation selector in the header and the footer controls. Some of these controls have been re-used ...
2021-03-26 16:11:22 +0000 UTC
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I like having block parameters visible at the front rather than hidden in menus but there is always going to be limited space available.
To make the spin-box controls a bit smaller I made a s...
2021-03-19 16:01:49 +0000 UTC
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The last one I posted is pretty out of date now. Things changed a lot because I decided to abandon those plans for the modular effects system in favour of something which I think will be much bette...
2021-03-17 15:02:45 +0000 UTC
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By double-clicking anywhere on a lane it toggles an "expanded" mode on and off. There's no official name for this state really. When a sampler block is on an expanded lane all its controls are visi...
2021-03-12 17:34:23 +0000 UTC
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I've been working on a lot of different things over the past week. The data structure of projects has changed completely since v0.12.1 alpha so for a long time saving and loading has been broken. T...
2021-03-11 17:05:35 +0000 UTC
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The new version of the audio engine will have the audio signal of a single track being routed downwards through the lanes with blocks being able to manipulate the dry signal coming from above them ...
2021-03-04 14:01:05 +0000 UTC
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The Edges
To avoid clicking at the right edge of a block, Blockhead automatically adds a short fadeout to the end:
2021-02-17 03:00:13 +0000 UTC
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I have been having health problems for the past few weeks and have only been able to work on Blockhead for a few hours a day due to tiredness. I spend a lot of time sleeping for 4 hours at a time a...
2021-02-01 13:08:05 +0000 UTC
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There is something about music software that doesn't feel right to me. Maybe you agree and that's why you are here. It's hard to explain this feeling of wrongness when I'm such a terrible communica...
2021-01-17 21:53:57 +0000 UTC
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I am pretty happy with the progress I have made with the refactoring so far though it turned into a much bigger job than I anticipated. The second stage of refactoring (modularizing the sample play...
2020-12-31 00:13:34 +0000 UTC
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These are just the big tasks and features. The order of tasks might change. Smaller features not listed here will likely still be worked on in between everything else.
Massive refacto...
2020-12-18 20:54:32 +0000 UTC
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For the past week and a half I have been working on moving a bunch of UI code from GDScript to C++, mai...
2020-12-16 22:17:21 +0000 UTC
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The process of distributing new Blockhead builds is currently quite miserable. I have tried to streamline the actual build process as much as possible but the distribution process is really painful...
2020-12-06 16:11:37 +0000 UTC
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Update Notes:
- Bugfix: Crashes about 75% of the time when loading project file!
Public issue tracker:
2020-12-06 16:07:47 +0000 UTC
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Update Notes:
- Feature: Key binding editor
- Feature: Key binding import/export
- Update: New settings dialog
- Update: Visual changes to dialog boxes
- Bugfi...
2020-12-06 00:30:21 +0000 UTC
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Update Notes:
- Bugfix: [macOS] Should now work on older mac versions (I think theoretically back to 10.11)
- Bugfix: [macOS] Crash when the Remove Track button is pressed
2020-12-02 18:00:30 +0000 UTC
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v0.11.1 should be functionally identical to v0.11.0. Many internal changes were made to get everything working on MacOS.
I am currently building only for x86 architecture however it is likely...
2020-12-01 16:55:12 +0000 UTC
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Update Notes:
- Feature: Basic song rendering (from workspace context menu). If there is a sample start block on the workspace then rendering will start from there and stops at the end of...
2020-11-28 13:30:30 +0000 UTC
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- Feature: Added "Resample" checkbox to export dialogs (visible when a sample rate is selected which differs from the source sample rate). When enabled the resulting fi...
2020-11-26 17:09:21 +0000 UTC
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There's a pretty bad bug in Blockhead at the moment where if you go far enough left or right in the workspace and start playing audio all the way over there then you will start to hear a sample red...
2020-11-24 15:37:42 +0000 UTC
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Update Notes:
- Feature: MP3 sample support
- Update: Sample data is now stored in project files in WavPack format. 32-bit samples are no longer converted to 24-bit. Any ...
2020-11-23 17:52:04 +0000 UTC
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When a Blockhead project is saved it currently encodes all the samples as 24-bit FLAC files to save space. This means 32-bit samples are converted to 24-bit when the project is saved which is not i...
2020-11-21 15:27:36 +0000 UTC
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Update Notes:
- Feature: Block export (From sample block context menu)
- Feature: Can now drop a single *.blkhd file onto the Blockhead window to open it
- Update: Users are...
2020-11-19 16:50:51 +0000 UTC
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Update Notes:
- Feature: Sample export (Triggered from the context menu in the sample list). Supported export formats are currently WAV and FLAC. Block exporting is still in progress.
2020-11-17 13:57:03 +0000 UTC
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Update Notes:
- Update: Zoom and scroll position is now saved with project
- Update: Slight visual improvements to waveform rendering.
- Update: Several small waveform glitc...
2020-11-14 12:52:27 +0000 UTC
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Blockhead is a mixture of C++ and a language called GDScript, Godot's built-in scripting language. All of the audio/performance critical code is C++ whereas the majority of the UI is written in GDS...
2020-11-12 12:20:12 +0000 UTC
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Update Notes:
- Bugfix: Possible crash occurs while placing a new sample block at the current playhead position while the song is playing.
- Bugfix: Grain uniformity defaulting to ...
2020-11-11 16:40:49 +0000 UTC
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