Mobius

Release 2.5 of Mobius is now available.

There were a few minor bugs fixed, but the big new feature is Loop
Windowing. If you don't know what this means then you probably won't
be very impressed, but if you're an old EDP user you might find this
exciting.

Basically, loop windowing lets you create loops by sliding a "window"
back and forth over the entire history of the loop. Imagine that all
of the loop layers are connected together in one seamless piece of
recording tape. Then being able to instantly jump to any location
within that tape and play a section of any size. The results can be
completely unpredictable as fragments of different layers are glued
together. Or with careful use of quantization and the windowing
parameters you can create windows that play varying rhythms at a
consistent tempo.

There are are six functions to control the window, and two more
for use in scripts.

Window Backward
Window Forward
Window Start Backward
Window Start Forward
Window End Backward
Window End Forward

In addition to sliding the window backward and forward you can also
adjust the edges of the window independently to make the window smaller
or larger. For complete documentation on this new feature, read
the Loop Windowing section in the Mobius Techniques manual.

http://www.circularlabs.com/doc/v2/t...#LoopWindowing

I've been having a great time with this. It's not for everyone, but I hope some of you give it a try.

The following bugs were fixed:

Script action buttons always behaving like !momentary scripts

GlobalReset called from within a script was not canceling other scripts

Take out the common bindings used for development since they often
conflict with new user bindings.

Remove some EDPisms that most people don't expect.

Mute+Multiply = Realign
Mute+Insert = RestartOnce (aka SamplePlay)
Reset+Mute = previous preset
Reset+Insert = next preset

Bugs fixed:

Slow memory leak on Mac when drawing text in the UI

Large Memory leak if Max Redo Count is more than 1

Changing "Beats per Bar" unstable with mouse

Input Port and a few other parameters not displaying correctly in the main status area

Binding dialogs always show 8 tracks and 4 groups rather than the number of tracks and groups configured

Crash on Mac at startup when OSC is enabled

Missing Mac osc.xml file

Synchronization beats missed when Ableton transport is playing in a loop

New features:

The "Periodic Status Log" global parameter enables printing of Mobius memory consumption once a minute for debugging

The focus of this release was fixing bugs reported in the 2.2 release
related to continuous speed and rate shifting, and a few assorted old bugs.

In addition the OSC interface has been completely redesigned and a new
manual has been written and is available on the documentataion page.

As always, I ask that if you find a bug in this release that you post that
in the General forum rather than as a reply to this thread. This thread can be used for questions about new features or comparisons with older releases.

Bugs fixed:

SpeedBend can now be set as a control in scripts: set speedBend 0

CC bindings to Auto Record Bars and other integer parameters should work

Empty Loop Action and a few other parameter can now be bound

Midi Binding to Setup should now work

Custom bend ranges were not active until a preset was edited

Custom bend range could not reach the maximum value with a MIDI CC

Custom Speed Bend Range was wonky when bound to a MIDI pitch wheel

Spread function ranges on different channels were canceling each other

MuteOff will always force mute off instead of toggle

New features:

Interrupt statement can be used to cancel a script wait

Instant Multiply 2 is now just "Instant Multiply" and can take a

binding argument

Instant Divide 2 is now just "Instant Divide" and can take a

binding argument

Binding arguments can be enumerated parameter names,

"subcycle" "off" etc.

"ReloadScripts" function can be used to reload all scripts from

a menu or a MIDI event

Setup, Preset, and Bindings are now parameters that may be bound

to a MIDI CC to sweep through the values

"UIRedraw" function can be used in scripts or bound to a switch

to force a redisplay of the UI

Redesigned OSC support

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The new features that will be visible are:

Redesigned synchronization engine for improved sync

Support for Audio Units host sync (Logic, Garageband)

Support for other sample rates besides 44100

Redesigned UI button window that works like other binding windows

Improved OSC support

While this release has many improvements over 1.45, due to number of changes it is quite possible that new bugs have been introduced. We expect to find bugs over the next few months and we will do our best to fix them promptly. If you are an active performing musician and do not have time to test the new release to make sure all of your current scripts and techniques will work the same, then I recommend that you consider this like a beta release and wait for one or two point release.

New Features:

Setup and Preset may be selected as Instant Parameters so they

are always visible in the main window.

Bugs Fixed:

Rename button on OSX not working.

Sustain functions not working.

Popup message when presets change not working.

Changing a setup with "set setup" was being delayed so saving

and restoring the currently selected track wasn't working. (Fro)

Loading scripts in a scrip directory is doing a case sensitive

comparison for ".mos" and missing ".MOS". (Fro)

The script name used after the "Call" statement in scripts was

case sensitive. (Fro)

Reported Issues:

Calling a script by referencing it like function without the "Call"

prefix delays the execution. This makes scripts behave differently
than functions. If you want the script to run immediately you must
preceded it with Call. This will be fixed in a later release.

New Features:

- GlobalReset will clear all user defined global and track variables.

- Add "Sustain Functions" preset parameter to replace the the old
InsertMode/RecordMode/OverdubMode=Sustain parameters.

- Binding overlays can now be specified in the track setup.

- Add "Binding Configuration" to the visible parameters list so it can
be seen in the UI and selected like a preset.

- Configuration objects that have names (Presets, Setups, binding sets)
now use a "Rename" button and a popup window rather than the confusing
text field.

Bugs Fixed:

- OS X AU Validator failing.

- Sustain Insert and Sustain Multiply don't work, they leave you
in Insert/Mulitply mode.

- Crash changing the number of tracks on Mac. (Todd Matthews)
You must now restart in order to change track count.

- Track Sync'd recordings aren't doing alternate endings correctly.
(simeon)

- Selected track changed after using the MIDI Control and other
configuration windows.

- Track preset changed after using MIDI control and other
configuration windows.

- MidiOut function cancels Record and Multiply modes.

- Move function not working if the argument was an expression.

- Crash doing record/overdub/overdub. (palmwino)

This happened only when Max Undo is 1, Enable Secondary Feedback is on,
and Secondary Feedback is less than 127.

- Keyboard bindings empty if more than one MIDI binding set was
created and selected.

- Focus Lock Functions being reset to the default list after deleting
all of them.

- Upgrading TrackCopy to EmptyTrackAction isn't upgrading the values
e.g. sound->copy, timing->copyTime (simeon)

- Crash after changing binding overlays.

This release contains *many* small changes and improvements that were
added during the writing of the new documentation. Some of the old
EDP preset parameters have been removed and some have been replaced
with more flexible parameters. Lots of names have been changed to
make them clearer and more consistent.

If you are a new user I recommend you install this release because it
will match the documentation.

If you are an old user I do not recommend that you upgrade until you
have time to verify that the new version will work for you. I tried
to automatically upgrade the mobius.xml and ui.xml files but some
scripts may no longer work. Always back up your mobius.xml, ui.xml,
and all of your script files so you can go back to the previous version
if something goes wrong.

Some of the parameters changes are:

- "Interface Mode" and "Insert Mode" parameters have been removed

- "Alt Feedback Enable" checkbox replaces InterfaceMode=Expert

- No more "Record Mode" parameter, now we have "Record Resets Feedback"

- No more "Overdub Mode", now we have "Overdub Quantized"

- No more "Sampler Style", now have "Switch Location", "Switch Duration",
and several other new parameters

Crash in Reaper when closing the VST edit window.

Occasional crash in Global Reset.

Ending a Multiply with Sync=Out sometimes jumps to the start of the

second cycle rather than beginning of the loop.

Bugs fixed:

With SyncMode=Out, ending a Multiply sometimes starts

playing at the beginning of the last cycle rather than
starting over from the beginning.

Unable to select track 4 out of 6 when running as a plugin

with parameter Selected Track published as a plugin parameter.

Add type corection functions int(), float(), and string().

float() was necessary for the "scrub" script.

On Mac, when moving more than one MIDI slider, knob or pedal

at the same time, messages are lost and some controls won't move.

New features:

Shuffle supports shorter or longer patterns than the

source layer

Bi-directional feedback of MIDI controls

This release fixes the following bugs:
- Threshold recording broken, could never stop recording
- loopCount variable always returns zero
- script lines ignored if they didn't end with a newline
- VST edit window not remembering the last location

The following features were added:
- Loop radar "packmans" are back!
- Shuffle now supports complex patterns in scripts