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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/audio/din
From: Santhosh Raju
Date: 2020-05-23 19:42:32
Message id: 20200523174232.81B4EF9A1@cvs.NetBSD.org
Log Message:
audio/din: Updates to 47
Minor description fix.
Changes since 46.3:
DIN Is Noise 47 @ Chennai, India
+ Menu > Drone Params now split into 3 tabs:
+ Modulation:
+ has controls to edit drone modulation parameters like AM/FM depth, BPM
+ Visual:
+ has controls to edit drone trail length, handle size,
connection stiffness (see below), colors (see below) etc
+ Motion:
+ controls to edit drone parameters like velocity, acceleration,
drones per minute, lifetime etc
+ On the mouse slider
+ when you can slide both horizontally and vertically:
+ press SHIFT to slide just vertically
+ press CTRL to slide just horizontally
/* connect and disconnect drones
+ Workflow:
+ select a bunch of drones (eg., Menu > Drone Tools > Select all drones)
+ Menu > Drone Tools > Connect
+ DIN connects drones in selection order
+ points one drone to next
+ last drone points in the direction second last drone points
+ To select drones in desired order, select drones one at a time by
click+moving a box around a drone and use SHIFT / CTRL keys while
selecting to add to existing selection or remove a drone from selection
+ Steps @ 1 connects drones successively, this is default
Steps @ 2 connects alternate drones
Steps @ 1 2 does both
try other steps sequences:
eg., 1 3 5 OR 1 2 4 etc
!note! separate steps with SPACE not comma
+ Just select a drone and move (Menu > Drone Tools > Move) and all the
connected drones move to keep their original distance on connection.
'But then one lizard (or iguana) moved, and all moved'
- VS Naipaul, Among the Believers
+ Use Connection Stiffness parameter to control the 'elasticity' of
the connections (Menu > Drone Params > Visual)
+ This is a global parameter, affects all connections among all drones
+ Menu > Drone Tools > Disconnect to disconnect the connected drones
+ Select a drone in the middle of a chain and disconnect splits the chain in two
+ Select the 'head' drones of two different chains and connect to merge the two
chains into one
/* new curve & curve editor to sculpt amplitude (aka depth) & bpm of
drone pendulum's drones
+ access using Menu > Editors > Drone Pendulum
+ edit curves even after creating drone pendulums!
+ affects drone pendulums selected drones belong to
+ use Menu > Overlay Instrument on the editor to see the effects of the
edits while making them.
/* new color sliders to set the color of selected drones
+ 2 sets of 3 sliders (1 for Red, Green and Blue).
+ Top set called Top
+ Bottom set called Bottom
+ Select some drones and
+ change color to Top to set color of all selected drones to the RGB of Top \
sliders
+ change color to Bottom to set color of all selected drones to RGB of \
Bottom sliders
+ change color to Blend to set color of all selected drones to RGB blended \
from Top to Bottom sliders
+ first selected drone color is from the Top sliders
+ last selected drone is from the Bottom sliders
+ other drones take inbetween colors
+ To select drones in desired order, select drones one at a time by \
click+moving a box
around a drone and use SHIFT / CTRL keys while selecting to add or remove \
drone to an
existing selection
+ change color to Random to set random colors on all selected drones
+ not truly random but a random color between RGB of Top and Bottom sliders
+ useful as colors are random but still from a certain part of the spectrum
+ If drones are noise, their color is grayscale, derived from just the Red \
channel of Top
and/or/both Bottom sliders, based on the chosen scheme.
+ If you edit a color slider, DIN hides the menu so you can see the edits \
better, hit ESC or click on Close
to finish/abort
/* abort octave shift
+ useful to take the key note away from 'piano notes' into 'weird' pitches yet \
still have 'scales' based on
this new key 'note'.
+ without Abort this was still possible by editing the octave shift curve
(Menu > Editors > Octave Shift)
+ to set the key back to a note, goto Settings screen and use the Key spinner
+ click Menu > Misc > Abort on Microtonal-Keyboard, Mondrian and \
Binaural Drones instruments
+ or press SHIFT + ESC
+ click Abort button on Keyboard-Keyboard
+ or press n
/* edit arrow width, depth for each drone
+ until DIN46, this was global
+ very useful for snake/centepede like visualisations of connected drones
* scale drones
* press CTRL to scale along horizontal
* press SHIFT to scale along vertical
+ moved Scale, Rotate drones to join Move in Menu > Drone Tools
+ SHIFT + e to scale selected drones
+ CTRL + e to rotate selected drones
+ press ` to flip between current instrument and last used curve editor
+ detach Spinners from Menu when using the < and > buttons to \
decrease/increase values
* Optimised GUI controls
* field, spinner etc
\0/ fixed crash when browsing waveforms on keyboard-keyboard
\0/ fixed search field in countries
\0/ fixed value field in number for bits of char
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