I'm pleased to announce the 20170701 release of WhySynth, a DSSI softsynth plugin featuring four oscillators per voice, multiple oscillator, filter, and envelope modes, effects, and more. New since the last release: * Over 100 new patch presets, thanks to Brian Collins at linuxsynths.com. * Patches now have a 'category' field, with which you can organize the patch list. * Fixes for a couple security concerns, a pile of bugs, and a raft of compiler warnings. * A change to the default knob behavior. * No new synthesis features (yet). See below for information on potential breakage or confusion caused by these changes. Find WhySynth here: http://smbolton.com/whysynth.html More information on the DSSI plugin standard, available hosts and plugins can be found here: http://dssi.sourceforge.net/ WhySynth is written and copyright (c) 2017 by Sean Bolton, and licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. Oh, goody, breakage and confusion: * The addition of the category field meant a change to the patch file format. Unfortunately, earlier versions of WhySynth were not designed with forward compatibility in mind. If you save patches in the new 'version 1' format, older WhySynths will not be able to load them. If you save patches in the old 'version 0' format, both older and current versions of WhySynth can use them. (Current versions can even save and load the categories using 'version 0' format, thanks to a bit of a hack, but don't round-trip from new to old to new versions of WhySynth, or you'll lose your categories.) * This release changes the default mouse button bindings of the knobs. Previously, dragging mouse button 1 made changes in angular mode: the knob would (quite abruptly) move to point toward the mouse pointer. Dragging mouse button 3 used to operate in linear mode, where moving the pointer vertically or horizontally would make smooth incremental changes. This release swaps that behavior between the two buttons, to what I think is a more usable default. If you prefer the old behavior, you can add the following to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0: gtk-control-rotary-prefer-angular = 1 Have fun! -Sean _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
