Humus 0.5.0

Humus 0.5.0 is the release where finding a sound stopped being a file dialog. The Library is a browser now - places, ratings, tags, collections, and one search box that reads #tags, stars, kind, bpm and key - and clicking a sound plays it where it sits, waveform and all.

The decks learned video: picture and sound out of one file, scratched together, timecode and all. Helix wears a face, a lane per strand with a button per job. Math formulas read any Var in the patch by name. VideoMix takes up to eight feeds.

Thanks to everyone in the beta who installed this, patched something strange with it and then wrote in about what broke. Most of the Fixed list below is yours.

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Added

• The Library is a file browser: places, ratings, tags, favourites, collections and one search that reads #tags, stars, kind, bpm and key
• Click a sound in the browser to hear it, with its waveform, Loop and tempo Sync; what you audition is never recorded
• Cmd+O and every file slot open the browser on the file you already have; Use File Browser... opens the system dialog
• Projects gathers every project and patch wherever it lives, as cards, tiles or a list
• Cmd+O comes back to the place you last opened a project from
• Watched folders, Computer places and Import to Library; Refresh (Cmd+R) finds new, moved and deleted files
• A place the browser has not read yet shows a spinning Loading
• An inspector (I) and a batch bar rate, tag and collect one file or many
• The Loads into column names the organisms that take a file; drop it on a box to load it, or on the canvas for a new organism
• Missing media gets one card with Locate and Dismiss
• Error and warning cards have a Copy button
• Every MIDI mapping has a kind and a mode: knob or fader, button or pad, encoder
• Math formulas read any Var in the patch by its name, and Vars corded into the Vars inlet lend theirs
• LFO, RNG and Morse lock their phase to the beat when Sync is on
• The keyboard on a MidiIn lights the keys held on a real MIDI keyboard
• VideoMix takes 2 to 8 inputs; from three it is a channel mixer with a fader per feed
• Audio to Track on Helix, for one strand or all, or drag a strand onto the timeline
• SoundSpace: a square map, grains that flash where they play, Scatter and a Default preset
• Sequence picks 1 to 8 rows, and its outlets follow
• Kick and Trellis tune by pressing a key
• Pink Trombone sings in stereo, with Width and Pan
• Morse draws its message on a tape in dits and dahs and lights the one keyed
• SpectralMorph: hold A or B to cut straight to one side
• Shift-click selects every clip between the first and the one clicked; Option-click adds to the selection
• A deck plays video: sound and picture from one file, picture on a video outlet
• Scratching a video follows the platter, timecode and all
• Hit record on a deck and it rolls on its own clock, timeline or not
• A deck records the sound and the picture arriving into one take
• Two lamps on a deck say what sound and what picture are arriving
• Drop a video or a track straight onto a deck
• A deck's whole transport is mappable, and FilePlayer, MidiPlayer and Paulstretch with it
• Cue loops start where they land
• Nudge shifts the last cue point, by a millisecond up to five seconds
• Clear every cue point, held like Helix's Clear
• A deck can burn in its own time, carried along the video cords
• Random on a deck jumps to a random moment in the track
• Helix wears a face: a lane per strand, inset meters, a drawn Level knob
• One button per job on every Helix strand, with lamps, Play all and Stop all
• Helix rings draw what is on each strand, with a halo for the level arriving
• Snap puts a strand's first hit on the downbeat and fits it to the bar
• Helix strands follow the tempo, by pitch or by stretch
• A stereo inlet and a Monitor choice on every Helix strand
• Follow, a fourth Helix sync: presses land on a running loop's seam
• Hold playback inside a quarter of a Helix ring
• MidiFilter: eight rules that block or remap a note or a controller
• Firefly, a visual organism: a flash over the picture on the beat
• Lumen's hallucination scene, with feedback, swirl and colour bleed
• VideoPad has an audio outlet
• Capture with nothing armed follows the cords and arms a track per node
• Every armed MIDI track takes the same take and stays armed after Stop
• An input chip on each MIDI track row: Auto, All, one port or None
• A take landing in a MIDI clip adds to it, each pass in its own colour
• Panic stops every hanging note, in the patch and on your hardware
• File > History: snapshots of the patch, kept across restarts
• PianoRoll's Rec, Loop and Q are mappable, and Rec records on its own
• Quantise notes from the PianoRoll's right-click menu
• Notes and controller points wear a colour
• A note box's keyboard picks the note you play
• The Sampler reads stage keyboard libraries, with loops and key ranges
• Organism skins can be pictures: panel, knobs, sliders and buttons
• Selecting a track in the timeline highlights its node on the canvas
• The edit tools are proper themed icons, replaceable by an SVG
• The AI settings page lists the models the local server holds
• Riff names the note under every sounding step
• A box's video and control jacks line up with their own row
• The bounce-done card has a Go to folder button

Changed

• Rings is now Atom, with Elements and Planets presets
• The Console is redesigned, with tape labels that name what is plugged in
• One swing control for every organism that swings
• VuMeter, Scope and Spectrum only listen, with no outlets
• The mapping inspector pictures each control behaviour, and right-click removes a curve point
• A patch update says what changed in plain words
• A patch that reopens a video output opens it in a window instead of filling your screen
• The Deck's scroll wheel no longer zooms; the zoom buttons do
• MidiPlayer drops the Play and Loop toggles the transport strip already carries
• The help says video, not film or movie
• Patches are read and written by our own XML code
• The organism SDK no longer needs the GUI framework for its banks
• The status line is gone: news arrives as a card that leaves on its own
• Arming a MIDI track is what puts the keyboard on it
• A new MidiIn listens to every input
• A row's M silences it whatever drives it
• A deck's quantize is off until you ask for it
• The camera and the deck wear the same lit buttons as the rest of the app
• A deck's Sync is an Audio delay you can type, and the pitch box is narrower
• Takes from an unsaved patch gather in a folder named for the moment you started
• A deck keeps its rows when you resize it, rolls included
• Cue pads sit over two rows of four, with nudge and the clears to the right
• The beatmatch options are buttons, like timecode and flip
• The transport row packs its icons up and gives the display the rest
• Random rolls a range as well as a value
• File pickers open where you were last
• The tempo reaches down to 1 BPM
• Right-clicking a note opens its menu instead of deleting it
• The bank browser splits into All, Recent, Yours, Imported and Bundled
• A bank slot is its name and two arrows
• The Sampler starts recording at -15 dB
• The setup wizard offers a startup update check, already ticked

Fixed

• The note editors' keyboard lines its black keys up with the notes
• The master Out knob glides instead of stepping
• Bypass and solo crossfade instead of clicking
• Cmd-click no longer copies a clip in place
• A cord behind a box can no longer be clicked through it
• A corded Var's name wins over a built-in variable of the same name
• Moving SoundSpace's X/Y stays out of undo
• A controller resending the same Bits or Rate no longer reloads a Sampler's bank
• Quitting while a file is still loading no longer crashes
• Rewiring while a file reads no longer sends the load back to the start
• A picture survives a moment of being unwired
• A timecode record no longer drifts as it plays
• Picture and sound arrive together on a deck
• A deck's clock is its own, not its picture's
• A preview takes the shape of what comes down the cord, without black borders
• Pause and Stop answer while a deck is recording
• A clip with no sound still loads, with a timeline to scroll
• A take never writes over one already on disk
• Clearing a deck's video lets go of the sound that came with it
• A video take keeps its frame rate, and lets go of the file when it is done
• The frame-rate overlay belongs to the brick you clicked
• A MIDI mapping belongs to the controller it was learned on
• A plug-in reporting nothing but zeroes no longer opens silent
• Bypassing from the patcher updates the organism's own button
• A looping bank holds instead of buzzing
• A looping bank keeps its loop when Rate thins the file
• The Sampler's coarse Rate no longer rings
• Loop on the Sampler is On or Off
• A one-shot fades instead of being cut off
• A stage library sharing sample ids gives every key its own sample
• A bank that left the disk says so
• The bank arrows step on from the bank on show
• A MidiIn passes controllers out of its cord
• A track added while recording plays at once
• Parameter Control: numbers drag again after a click
• A dropdown dims what it gates straight away
• A rotary switch on its first option shows its name
• The PianoRoll's edit tools match the toolbar
• Deck labels fit whatever font metrics the platform has
• Opening a patch that automated the tempo no longer warns