osci-render/CHANGELOG.md

• 1.26.4

  • Make GPU rendering toggleable to prevent crashes due to bad initialisation
  • Can be toggled under View > Render Using GPU

• 1.26.3

  • Fix potential bug with updating frequency spinner and slider from not-GUI thread

• 1.26.2

  • Add more error logging

• 1.26.1

  • Add error logging to the directory osci-render is run from /logs/

• 1.26.0

  • Reorganise the interface so that more sliders are considered audio effects
    • This means you can animate things like volume, rotation, and translation!
  • Add a precedence to audio effects so that they are consistently applied in the same order
    • Lower precedence means the effect will be applied earlier
    • Precedence of current effects from lowest to highest:
      • Vector cancelling
      • Bit crush
      • Vertical distort
      • Horizontal distort
      • Wobble
      • Rotate 2D
      • Translation
      • Depth 3D
      • Smoothing
    • This means that smoothing is always applied last
  • Add 3D audio effects
    • This treats the image being displayed as a 3D object and rotates it
    • This means you can now rotate 2D images, like SVGs and text files
    • COMING SOON: A way to control the depth or Z-coordinate of the image using a depth-map/displacement-map image

• 1.25.2

  • Bug fix: Fix FileSystemNotFoundException on start-up due to faulty loading of code editor file

• 1.25.1

  • Add drop-down under Audio settings for recording with different audio samples
  • Supports UINT8, INT8, INT16, INT24, and INT32
  • Thanks very much to DJLevel3 for the suggestion and contribution!

• 1.25.0

  • Live-coding and editing/creating/deleting files!
  • Files can now be created, edited, and closed by using the respective buttons in the "Main settings" panel
    • To create a new file, enter a file name, and select the file type from the dropdown before clicking "Create File"
      • Each supported file type has a demo/example file:
        • .obj displays the default cube
        • .svg renders a circle from an SVG path
        • .lua is an example of audio synthesis using Lua that displays an oscillating tan function
        • .txt renders the word "hello"
    • Closing a file will remove it from the current project
    • Editing a file will open a code editor, allowing you to change the text for all supported file types
      • Any edits will update the image being displayed immediately
      • You can safely close the editor whenever you are finished editing - your edits are saved automatically
    • When you create or edit a file, the title of the window will update to remind you to save the current project in order to save your changes
    • Any changes to files are only made to the osci-render project, and will NOT modify real files on your computer
  • .lua file support added
    • Scripts using the Lua language can be opened and live-edited to create your own completely custom audio source!
    • Slider values under ".lua file settings" can be accessed within the script
      • Accessed as variable names: slider_a, slider_b, slider_c, slider_d, and slider_e
      • Can be used to control parameters in your script, e.g. frequency, volume, or anything else!
    • Variable step is passed in and incremented every time the script is called
      • This can be used as a 'phase' or 'theta' input into a sine, cosine, etc. wave
      • e.g. return { math.sin(step / 1000), math.cos(step / 1000) } would draw a circle
    • Variables declared in a script are maintained between calls to the script
    • Demo/example .lua script can be viewed and edited by creating a new .lua file in the "Main settings" panel
      • This gives a practical example of how this can be used to synthesise audio

• 1.24.8

  • Mono and more than 2 audio outputs supported
  • Any audio output after the first L and R channels are used for brightness
    • The brightness is controllable under Audio > Brightness
    • This will only work if the audio interface being used is DC-coupled as it is a static voltage signal

• 1.24.7

  • Double-click of slider resets value to 0 rather than min

• 1.24.6

  • Effect text boxes are now editable
  • Version number now visible in File menu
  • You can now double-click sliders to reset their values to minimum

• 1.24.5

  • Bug fix: MIDI CC signals can now be used to change frequency slider

• 1.24.4

  • Fix various bugs with MIDI synthesis
    • Attack and decay now applied to sine waves in background
    • MIDI synthesis now sounds far cleaner
  • MIDI attack and decay is now configurable from the MIDI menu

• 1.24.3

  • Update description of osci-render application

• 1.24.2

  • Massively improve audio stability on Mac
  • Remove audio stability toggle as no longer needed!

• 1.24.1

  • Various optimisations
  • Mic-based control is now slightly smoother

• 1.24.0

  • Add spinners to all effect sliders
  • Add spinner to frequency slider

• 1.23.0

  • Add software oscilloscope to visualise output!
  • Open from Window > Open Software Oscilloscope

• 1.22.4

  • Add option Audio > High Audio Stability
  • This increases audio latency but significantly improves audio stability - especially on lower-end machines

• 1.22.3

  • Make interface usable whilst loading files

• 1.22.2

  • Revert to CPU execution if an exception occurs when trying to use GPU

• 1.22.1

  • Gracefully handle disconnects from both Blender and osci-render to prevent restarts!

• 1.22.0

  • Add support for externally rendered lines!
  • This means there is now Blender support!
  • Blender add-on included in /blender/osci-render.zip
    • Settings under 'osci-render settings' section in the 'Render Properties' section of Blender
    • Simply connect to osci-render whilst it is open
    • Sends any grease pencil lines over to osci-render
    • This includes any objects/scenes with the line art modifier
  • Report any potential as still in early development!
  • YouTube video explaining how to use this with Blender in development

• 1.21.1

  • Significantly improved .obj rendering performance on larger objects
  • Reduce framerate when drawing too computationally intensive scenes rather than pausing audio (less jarring framerate changes)
  • Correctly skip lines between objects with disconnected sections

• 1.21.0

  • Introduced GPU-based processing of objects
    • THIS IS POTENTIALLY UNSTABLE - PLEASE REPORT ANY ISSUES
  • Added option to remove hidden edges from meshes
    • This can be toggled in View > Hide Hidden Edges
  • Moved device options and recording options to Audio on the menu bar
  • Reshuffled interface to reduce height and increase length of sliders

Versions prior to 1.21.0 are undocumented!