Plogue releases Bidule v0.8

Plogue has released a new version of Bidule (v0.8) with tons of new features and fixes.

New Features:

• You can now use your USB joysticks, mouse, keyboard and other HID devices as MIDI controllers and parameter sources: see Misc/HID Data Extractor (DX9 on Windows is HIGHLY suggested, DX8 is however the minimum no extras are needed on Mac OS X).
• Mediapool now shows more Audio file details, including BPM, bars, beats and includes whole new tabs for MIDI and PVOC files.
• New and improved Audio File Looper with graphical loop points editing, variable number of beats/bars, meter adaption and time stretching (old looper has been renamed to Boboche Looper).

New Modules:

• 12, 14, 16, 24 and 32 channels Audio File Player.
• 12, 14, 16, 24 and 32 channels Audio File Recorder.
• Mono Dither (just duplicate by hand for the number of channels you want).
• HID Data Extractor.
• MIDI Activity.
• MIDI Aftertouch Creator.
• MIDI Aftertouch Extractor.
• MIDI Aftertouch Filter.
• MIDI Multi Aftertouch Remapper.
• MIDI Aftertouch Transposer.
• MIDI Channel Pressure Creator.
• MIDI Channel Pressure Extractor.
• MIDI Channel Pressure Filter.
• MIDI Multi Channel Pressure Remapper.
• MIDI CC Transposer.
• MIDI File Looper.
• MIDI Message Remapper.
• MIDI Note Extractor 2.
• MIDI Pitchbend Creator.
• MIDI Pitchbend Extractor.
• MIDI Multi Program Change Remapper.
• MIDI Program Change Filter.
• MIDI Program Change Transposer.
• MIDI Stack.
• MIDI Switcher 2 ports.
• Sync to MIDI Clock.
• MIDI Time Delta.
• MIDI Voice Counter.
• 4 and 16 mono channels Mixer.
• 4, 8 and 16 stereo channels Mixer.
• Parameter Modulator (Relative).
• Pulse.
• Spectral File Looper.
• Spectral Inverter.
• Spectral Sustain.
• Stack.
• Sync Transport.

Changes:

• Accum: changed the higher bounds input to be exclusive, please change your layouts accordingly.
• AU: added support for Cocoa UIs.
• Audio File Player: added loop mode.
• Audio File Recorder/Audio Buffer: added option to save in either wave or AIFF instead of forcing the platform's preferred format.
• Basic Audio Buffer: added Interpolation parameter.
• Basic Audio Buffer: added distinct Record position input, please change your layouts accordingly.
• Indexed Value List: changed Index input to be 0-based for consistency, please change your layouts accordingly.
• Mediapool: added extra info on audio file.
• MIDI Monitor: add events one by one in the window instead of by block.
• Noise: added HP Tri noise type.
• Parameter Properties Dialog: added display of increment value.
• Patchbay: Paste from the context menu now pastes at the mouse position.
• Spectral Freeze: can now save to file.
• VST Bridge: added MIDI output to the host.
• VST Bridge: added OS X version.
• Windows: you can now have multiple versions of Bidule installed.

Bug Fixes:

• Application: possible crash if groups cache file is corrupted.
• Application: import causing crashes with some layouts.
• Application: some undo operations could fail depending on your regional options.
• AU: some AUs crashing when starting processing.
• AU: some AUs windows not resizing properly.
• AU: scanning fails on MusicDevices with a flexible configuration.
• Audio File Granulator: crashes upon certain settings.
• Buffer Granulator: crashes upon certain settings.
• Groups: parameters exported to group sometimes don't update their enable/disable status correctly.
• Groups: re-saving a group with a displayPath doesn't change the displayPath.
• MIDI File Player: some files not looping correctly.
• MIDI Step Sequencer: settings saved on one platform might not work on the other.
• OS X: main window title bar could appear under the menu bar.
• OS X MIDI Output: some MIDI events aren't sent properly for some interfaces.
• OS X VST: keys aren't received by some plug-ins.
• Presets: some bidules have parameters that reset to 0 when using presets.
• ReWire: looping sections inside a ReWire device sometimes causes weird results.
• Patchbay: current zoom isn't taking into account when adding bidules through drag and drop.
• Spectral To MIDI: the threshold parameter doesn't have any effect.
• Trigger: the send trigger parameter doesn't behave properly through parameter linking.
• Windows: failure to open a MIDI port isn't reported.