Wren latest version - 2023.2.8.0

Blue Hell · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 12:19 pm Post subject:

Added a file render option.

Blue Hell · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:20 pm Post subject:

Changed render mode, and fixed a filter stability issue.

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Blue Hell · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:21 am Post subject:

Had some unreleased stuff and some new things . thought it to be time for a new release.

Mainly the Euclidean Rhythms and the CSV data player, some changes on existing modules too.

Blue Hell · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:47 am Post subject:

Some bug fixes, some new modules for version 2014.10.19.0 - see first post in thread for more info.

Blue Hell · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 5:07 pm Post subject:

WREN is about one year old now!

Current version is 2014.12.12.0

http://bluehell.electro-music.com/wren/forums.html

I've added PortAudio support, this makes the program much nicer to work with.

When PortAudio is used the latencies are lower, the CPU load is lower too (for a CPU with more than one core), the audio artifacts on editing or touching the program's title bar are gone too.

Multi channel works when ASIO is being used, for me at least (with Asio4all and the RME ASIO drivers, although I had to install Asio4All to make the RME ASIO work ... ).

Device selection still works so so and it is needed occasionally to exit WREN and to restart it to get it all working, but once set and working on a next startup it is all OK. I'm working on that still.

The next release will have a button to call up the ASIO control panel. As of yet I'm not happy with how I implemented that, but soon ...

There were some more changes, for one it looks better and you can color modules, and there are 101 module types available now.

Also tons of stability issues were ironed out.

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Blue Hell · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 5:25 pm Post subject:

And a little demo track.

This is a WREN noodle using some samples, one of them spoken by Bubzy from here.

There is a little external echo and reverb on this one.

bubzy · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 5:47 pm Post subject:

i like it ! Very Happy

Blue Hell · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 5:56 pm Post subject:

BobTheDog · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:33 pm Post subject:

101 modules Shocked

I might have to to install this on a VM now it is it's birthday.

Blue Hell · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 6:32 pm Post subject:

Hmm .. I had some fuckups Confused

Wren would not start without an ini file present and it would not store the channel selections properly either .. this got fixed in the 2014.12.20.1 release currently present at http://bluehell.electro-music.com/wren/forums.html

Sorry for for that .. but hey .. you never tried it anyway, or you would have told me about it Laughing

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Blue Hell · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:45 pm Post subject:

You'll need to find sweet spots a bit for buffer sizes ( the default settings are not usable, usually).

When using PortAudio keep them shortish ... like 64 .. 512. For ASIO the size from the ASIO driver will be used, so pop up the ASIO control panel for that. For my RME thingie I needed to set 4096 and it still sucked .. so dunno about ASIO.

Latency will will be almost bearable, well for me it still sucks, but got a user quoting 4ms.

When using legacy mode use longish buffers, like 16384 .. 65536. latency will be awful .. like 1 .. 2s.

I never got it better than about 30ms here, MIDI to sound that is, 60ms on audio in to audio out.

I had high hopes on using PortAudio .. and yes it is like 20 or 30 times faster than legacy mode, but it is not quite like the 'couple of ms hey how bad can it be' idea I had in mind.

So .. might be usable for MIDI control, but as an FX device its still not nice .. yeah .. I played guitar trough it Confused

Maybe WASAPI exclusive mode will help, did not try that yet.

Blue Hell · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 8:59 pm Post subject:

But hey .. it did

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for me

Blue Hell · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 7:42 pm Post subject:

Added a basic vocoder, basically :: http://bluehell.electro-music.com/wren/forums.html#dones

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Blue Hell · Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2015 7:56 pm Post subject:

New version : http://bluehell.electro-music.com/wren/forums.html#dones

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forcefielder · Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:13 pm Post subject:

that demo track sounds great

Blue Hell · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:09 pm Post subject:

Thank you :-)

Blue Hell · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 11:26 am Post subject:

New version : http://bluehell.electro-music.com/wren/forums.html#dones

Some works on the sequencers .. chaining works better with the new SeqSeq module, step interpolation and reversal for chained sequences.

Added Talkie a retro style speech thingie with a list of about 1200 words it can say. You could make your own word lists for it too it seems, but I did not try that myself.

Also made a fresh source code release.

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Blue Hell · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:01 pm Post subject:

Mostly the audio rate oscillators are band limited now. Some other small changes too, like Talkie got expo FM control and got a bit easier to control.

Anyways, tri, saw and square oscs are usable now, with a lot less aliasing. Anti-aliasing works on PM, FM and hard sync modes too.

http://bluehell.electro-music.com/wren/forums.html#dones

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Blue Hell · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:33 pm Post subject:

Some bug fixes, a clocked delay module, sped up some stuff ...

http://bluehell.electro-music.com/wren/forums.html#dones

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Blue Hell · Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:59 pm Post subject:

2015.4.25.0 was just posted .. changes since 2015.2.26.0 :

Logic selector module added

Convoder module added

Forth interpreter added - experimental only

Euclidean scale module added

Pattern module added

Fixed MIDI modules

New bitmaps for knobs, so they look a bit nicer on colored backgrounds

Made peak and valey indiccators on VU meters

Fixed the global tuning parameters

Programmable Frequency divider added

DigiMux and DigiDemux modules added, DigiDemux has a built in hold mode

Changed 2to1 switcch to be 2to2 - it swaps the channels on a switch

FreeVerb got some work to make it sound a bit better

Made a version checker - available trough help menu or about page

Added a new reverb module based on GVerb

Various small bugs fixed

Source code released for 2015.4.25.0 too

See http://bluehell.electro-music.com/wren/forums.html#dones for details and downloads.

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Blue Hell · Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 3:59 pm Post subject:

2015.5.10.0

Please read http://bluehell.electro-music.com/wren/forums.html#changes for changes.

A recent screen shot:

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JLS · Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 1:59 pm Post subject:

Hi Jan

New version 2015.5.10.0 not working on WinXP SP3 32bit and Win7 Pro 64bit

After run wren.exe generated error window "Access violation at adress 0081B75 in module wren.exe."

Sorry my bad english

Kamil

Blue Hell · Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 2:14 pm Post subject:

ok .. at start up? or with a particular patch?

JLS · Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 2:36 pm Post subject:

startup

Blue Hell · Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 3:12 pm Post subject:

Ok .. is it related to PortAudio?

please see http://electro-music.com/forum/topic-64254.html for details about that.