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Blockhead v0.38.0 alpha
Update NotesFeature: Non-destructive exporting and importing of blocks, tracks, and workspaces. Select 'Object' from the drop-down menu when exporting things. This will export everything in the right-hand list to the output directory in blockhead's project format.Exporting Notes:The output files will be nam...
Blockhead v0.37.0 alpha
Update NotesFeature: Track stem exporting.Update: Improved audio exporting interface. You can bring up the export dialog in various ways:Click the "Export..." button on the Project tab on the right-hand side.Select one or more samples in the sample browser and click on the "Export..." button.Select one ...
Blockhead v0.36.3 alpha
Apologies if the rapid-fire updates are annoying. I am just trying to get a useable version of Blockhead on Patreon before I get started on some much bigger stuff.Update NotesUpdate: Linux - Blockhead should now show up in the JACK interface as "Blockhead" instead of "PortAudio".Bugfix: Tempo Guide visu...
Blockhead v0.36.2 alpha
Update NotesUpdate: Brought back the old block/sample preview buttons (Mouse hover over the left-hand side of a block or sample list item. Left-click to trigger, right-click to stop all currently playing one-shots for that specific item.)Update: Moved F1 cheat sheet to the center of the window.Bugfix: F1 cheat sheet is...
Blockhead v0.36.1 alpha
Update NotesUpdate: Block and sample one-shots now respond to MIDI note-off eventsUpdate: Block one-shots now respond to MIDI pitch. Please note:All the MIDI stuff is still temporary and really only there to mess around with. It is not representative of the stuff I am planning in the future. I added this change because...
Blockhead v0.36.0 alpha
In addition to the stuff listed below I have tried to address some of the old issues related to starting/stopping the audio system. This issues include crashes when switching audio device settings (I think mostly on Linux) and settings not being correctly recalled on startup. Pretty much everything that Blockhead does ...
Blockhead v0.35.2 alpha
Update NotesBugfix: Slicing a squashed block is even more broken than before (whoops)Bugfix: Positions of copied/cloned blocks are not calculated correctly when the selection is not on the first track.LinksManual (WIP): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y6je_g2oNnxClL1eXV20dcQpoyZEkek5LTxQPyEFT0wKnown Issues: https:/...
Blockhead v0.35.1 alpha
Update NotesUpdate: When squash mode is enabled, the block scaling will now always pivot about the left edge of the block, regardless of the current data offset.Update: Settings dialog is a little bit neater and the content will no longer overflow.Update: Assertion failures and other runtime errors are now reported in ...
Blockhead v0.35.0 alpha
Update NotesFeature: Auto-saving (check the settings dialog to set it up.)Feature: Message Center (default key binding: F3, or press the bottom left [i] button.)Update: Saving (both manual saving and auto-saving) now always happens in a background thread.Update: Saving and loading projects is now faster.Update: Blockhe...
Blockhead v0.34.0 alpha
Video explaining the new thingswww.youtube.com/watch?v=uWSIRbpt-fkUpdate NotesNOTE: Old project files will be incompatible with this version.NOTE: I've had one user report that Windows Defender has been identifying crash_dump.exe as a trojan. This is just a tiny program that will generate a crash dump when Blockhea...
Blockhead v0.33.2 alpha
Update NotesUpdate: 'Screen Scaling' option added to view settings dialog (give this a try if you have a very large/high DPI monitor.)Update: Command line arguments added: '--always-redraw': Makes Blockhead redraw every frame, regardless of if anything changed visually. '--force-fps=': Sets the ...
Blockhead v0.33.1 alpha
Update NotesBugfix: Crash when undoing the creation of the current macro.Bugfix: Crash when deleting a lane or track inside a macro.Bugfix: Crash when lane or track is deleted while playback is running.Bugfix: Crash when Start block play button is pressed.Bugfix: Crash when chord editor Mode selector is pressed.Bugfix:...
Blockhead v0.33.0 alpha
Since November I have been almost entirely working on UI optimization. I learned a lot of things and made a lot of mistakes. The specific thing that should be faster now is moving around within a workspace and zooming in and out with many blocks on the screen. One thing that may still cause slowdown is having many lane...
Dev Log #78 - Optimization work (boring)
It makes me cringe a bit any time I see a video of someone using Blockhead when they start zooming or panning around in any marginally complex workspace and inevitably the interface starts updating at about 5fps. After uploading the last build I decided to take a quick look at things to figure out where the main perfor...
Blockhead v0.32.0 alpha
Update NotesNote: A lot of code has changed under the hood for this build so a bit of instability is expected. If you are trying to actually make music in Blockhead then you might want to stick with v0.31.3 for a little bit, however I would prefer that you report bugs for the latest build only.Note: I am using a new ma...
An update
It has been a couple of weeks since the last build and I've been a bit quiet so here is an update. When I am quiet like this it just means I am busy programming. To me the most important thing is to keep programming every day because there is still so much to.I am trying to use my time as efficiently as possible an...
Patreon membership tiers
Annoyingly it appears that Patreon has changed things so that you can no longer just choose to pay whatever amount you want when signing up, so I have had to create these stupid "membership tiers". If I don't create them then I also can't make posts exclusive to paying members so the last 4 builds were ...
Blockhead v0.31.3 alpha
Update NotesUpdate: Block resizer handles are now disabled during a drag/stamping operation.Bugfix: Crash on project close (New/Load/Quit) if the project has at least one input buffer configured.Bugfix: Possible hang when interacting with extremely small blocks.Bugfix: Choke envelope shading doesn't appear on effec...
Blockhead v0.31.2 alpha
Apologies if these rapidfire updates are irritating, I am done for the day now. It just bothered me that I missed these crashes while I was testing. Those who have been around for a while will be familiar with my habit of adding 3 new bugs for every one that I fix so I'm sure there will be more to do tomorrow.Updat...
Blockhead v0.31.1 alpha
Update NotesBugfix: "Failed to locate sample record" while trying to save project.LinksKnown Issues: https://trello.com/b/MT1A3Zob/blockhead-issuesDiscord: Blockhead (discord.com)
Blockhead v0.31.0 alpha
Update NotesFeature: Right-click on a tempo guide block and enable 'Fractional BPM' to allow generating snapping points at non-integer BPMs.Update: Blockhead will now block the entire UI on startup until the plugins have finished loading. Usually this will happen too quickly to see so there will be no visible c...
Blockhead v0.30.6 alpha
NOTE: At this point I think some of the rarer "random" crashes that are occurring are not worth me putting time into. I am planning some more large-ish refactors of some parts of the Blockhead codebase, and I don't really want to spend too much time investigating problems with code that is slated to be repl...
Blockhead v0.30.5 alpha
Update NotesUpdate: File browser bookmark buttons will now display a visual indicator if the exact path that they point to is currently selected in the file browser.Update: The default recording threshold for newly created input buffers is now -40db (up from -60db).Bugfix: Warp marker editing is now 100% bug-free and w...
A bit of admin
I have received a huge influx of new subscribers since posting that youtube video. It has slowed down a bit now but I am still receiving new subscribers every day so I'm still not sure where it will settle. Obviously people will come and go so it will go up and down a bit but at the time of writing I'm almost m...
Blockhead v0.30.4 alpha
Update NotesBugfix: Possible crash when the project is saved.LinksKnown Issues: https://trello.com/b/MT1A3Zob/blockhead-issuesDiscord: Blockhead (discord.com)
Blockhead v0.30.3 alpha
Update NotesUpdate: Some more UI optimization work.Bugfix: The button bar at the top of blocks gets all messed up whenever there are button groups.LinksKnown Issues: https://trello.com/b/MT1A3Zob/blockhead-issuesDiscord: Blockhead (discord.com)
Blockhead v0.30.2 alpha
Update NotesUpdate: Fixed a performance bottleneck in waveform rendering.Update: Some block UI optimizations.Update: Added defensive exception handling around some hard-to-reproduce crashes in the hope that it helps me debug them.Update: Added extra logging in certain error corner cases to try to track down some rarer ...
Video explaining what Blockhead is
I finally managed to make that video that I have been talking about making for the past two years, which explains what Blockhead is and what makes it different. In the end it is more just an explanation video rather than a tutorial (I will try to make some proper tutorial videos in the future going into proper detail o...
Blockhead v0.30.1 alpha
Update NotesBugfix: Crash when a tempo guide block is copied.Bugfix: Block gestures are completely broken.LinksKnown Issues: https://trello.com/b/MT1A3Zob/blockhead-issuesDiscord: Blockhead (discord.com)
Blockhead v0.30.0 alpha
Update NotesSome subtle issues and crashes related to Send/Receive buses led to me making some large-ish changes to the way data is saved and loaded during undo/redo operations and during project saving and loading.I usually only bump the second version number up when I add new features. Unfortunately for my own sanity...
