Plogue has released a new version of Bidule (v0.8) with tons of new features and fixes.
New Features:
- You can now use your USB joysticks, mouse, keyboard and other HID devices as MIDI controllers and parameter sources: see Misc/HID Data Extractor (DX9 on Windows is HIGHLY suggested, DX8 is however the minimum no extras are needed on Mac OS X).
- Mediapool now shows more Audio file details, including BPM, bars, beats and includes whole new tabs for MIDI and PVOC files.
- New and improved Audio File Looper with graphical loop points editing, variable number of beats/bars, meter adaption and time stretching (old looper has been renamed to Boboche Looper).
- 12, 14, 16, 24 and 32 channels Audio File Player.
- 12, 14, 16, 24 and 32 channels Audio File Recorder.
- Mono Dither (just duplicate by hand for the number of channels you want).
- HID Data Extractor.
- MIDI Activity.
- MIDI Aftertouch Creator.
- MIDI Aftertouch Extractor.
- MIDI Aftertouch Filter.
- MIDI Multi Aftertouch Remapper.
- MIDI Aftertouch Transposer.
- MIDI Channel Pressure Creator.
- MIDI Channel Pressure Extractor.
- MIDI Channel Pressure Filter.
- MIDI Multi Channel Pressure Remapper.
- MIDI CC Transposer.
- MIDI File Looper.
- MIDI Message Remapper.
- MIDI Note Extractor 2.
- MIDI Pitchbend Creator.
- MIDI Pitchbend Extractor.
- MIDI Multi Program Change Remapper.
- MIDI Program Change Filter.
- MIDI Program Change Transposer.
- MIDI Stack.
- MIDI Switcher 2 ports.
- Sync to MIDI Clock.
- MIDI Time Delta.
- MIDI Voice Counter.
- 4 and 16 mono channels Mixer.
- 4, 8 and 16 stereo channels Mixer.
- Parameter Modulator (Relative).
- Pulse.
- Spectral File Looper.
- Spectral Inverter.
- Spectral Sustain.
- Stack.
- Sync Transport.
- Accum: changed the higher bounds input to be exclusive, please change your layouts accordingly.
- AU: added support for Cocoa UIs.
- Audio File Player: added loop mode.
- Audio File Recorder/Audio Buffer: added option to save in either wave or AIFF instead of forcing the platform's preferred format.
- Basic Audio Buffer: added Interpolation parameter.
- Basic Audio Buffer: added distinct Record position input, please change your layouts accordingly.
- Indexed Value List: changed Index input to be 0-based for consistency, please change your layouts accordingly.
- Mediapool: added extra info on audio file.
- MIDI Monitor: add events one by one in the window instead of by block.
- Noise: added HP Tri noise type.
- Parameter Properties Dialog: added display of increment value.
- Patchbay: Paste from the context menu now pastes at the mouse position.
- Spectral Freeze: can now save to file.
- VST Bridge: added MIDI output to the host.
- VST Bridge: added OS X version.
- Windows: you can now have multiple versions of Bidule installed.
- Application: possible crash if groups cache file is corrupted.
- Application: import causing crashes with some layouts.
- Application: some undo operations could fail depending on your regional options.
- AU: some AUs crashing when starting processing.
- AU: some AUs windows not resizing properly.
- AU: scanning fails on MusicDevices with a flexible configuration.
- Audio File Granulator: crashes upon certain settings.
- Buffer Granulator: crashes upon certain settings.
- Groups: parameters exported to group sometimes don't update their enable/disable status correctly.
- Groups: re-saving a group with a displayPath doesn't change the displayPath.
- MIDI File Player: some files not looping correctly.
- MIDI Step Sequencer: settings saved on one platform might not work on the other.
- OS X: main window title bar could appear under the menu bar.
- OS X MIDI Output: some MIDI events aren't sent properly for some interfaces.
- OS X VST: keys aren't received by some plug-ins.
- Presets: some bidules have parameters that reset to 0 when using presets.
- ReWire: looping sections inside a ReWire device sometimes causes weird results.
- Patchbay: current zoom isn't taking into account when adding bidules through drag and drop.
- Spectral To MIDI: the threshold parameter doesn't have any effect.
- Trigger: the send trigger parameter doesn't behave properly through parameter linking.
- Windows: failure to open a MIDI port isn't reported.
