falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Light mode saga continues...

Now instead of color inversion and trickery for making panels dark, we do the contrary and make some dark panels white. :D

@wrl this looks good now?

Will need to have a few authors about this, as sadly not all artwork is liberally licensed, some needs explicit permission for usage and distribution.. Hopefully they can be convinced.

Yay for color/theme consistency!

Just did a "mini" build version of Cardinal on the web, see https://minicardinal.kx.studio/

Only contains core and fundamental modules, extras like carla/ildaeil are also not in there.

The intention is to have something that is quick to load, so I can more easily show it to people, and also place it in a "software portfolio" I am working on.

The mini version assets have a combined 15Mb size. It is small enough that Firefox is happy to cache the page, so that's nice :)

Feel free to use and share!

@faben70 there is some info her https://github.com/jpcima/ysfx but that is not documentation. intention is to have full compat, if not report a bug there.
guis are not supported in carla yet.

@wrl yep, that makes it "WIP" ;)
There are other unreadable bits, and the screw needs to be silver one instead of black.
Plus integration in a few modules, because this was never an official VCV Rack feature.

For an initial test, I think it is good. Now it will need more tweaks to finalize it, but it was important to see first if it could be done. And yes it can :)

Not everyone is happy with Cardinal pushing dark colors everywhere.
A little bit of white then.

Feels very weird after being used to dark mode.
Still WIP, will finish up the details for this later on, but shows promise.
Can likely be an official feature in 22.08.

The cool part is that it changes during runtime!

And now it is time for Carla.
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=carla-244-and-250-released

It is 2 releases at once, wow!

JSFX plugin support and SDL engine driver are highlights, and some little extras to keep everything updated.

Not an exciting release perhaps, but a necessary one.

It is release day! and night, because I am always late for these things.

Anyhow, first of the set is here, and it is Cardinal 22.07 🐦
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=cardinal-2207-released

Mostly bugfixes this time, hoping keyboard input is more reliable now.

I see signs of great design.
3 of the plugins listed (with names visible) are VST3 and 2 are VST2. Can you tell which is which?

PS: The order is not consistent, VST3 is first for one, VST3 is last for the other. 🤦‍♂️

Trying a bunch of daws for helping debug plugin related issues, I am seriously impressed how bad Steinberg makes everything.

Want to download a trial? Here, please write your email so we can send a link. Oh and please subscribe to our newsletter before continuing, and no, you cannot install a demo without subscribing.

What's that, you want to use the app now? Oh silly, you need to download a manager, to then a licenser, to download the app.

Why???
err I will need a clean OS install after this

Hi folks, if you use Cardinal please help a bit with testing for the keyboard input issue.
Way too many reports of things that work or dont work, it is a mess..

I have made a ticket to track down exactly where things are working, and where they are not.
https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/issues/304

If you'd be so kind, please start your daw, run through the test criteria, and write results at the end.
Thanks!

btw, the "Cardinal WebApp" (is that what we should call it?) now features audio input, MIDI and dynamic buffer size changes, all accessible in the engine menu.

https://cardinal.kx.studio/

Almost viable as a production tool.
With touch events this might get even more useful, need to try to set that up next...

This web stuff testing is sorta addicting.
More like, cannot stop until investigating and checking everything that is possible.

Right now it is LV2 plugins.
Got artyfx, die-plugins (from ardour) fomp and mda.
https://falktx.com/data/wasm/Ildaeil-FX.html 👀

It just works for some reason... 🤷

@murks did you see it? if you have an older PC or web-assembly disabled the page wont work.
I have not yet setup detection for missing browser features.

@dantescanline damn I am jealous. what cpu do you have?

Is your PC powerful enough to run this Cardinal patch?
https://cardinal.kx.studio/?patchstorage=wasm-house-loop

(after loading the page click on the "run" button on the top-left-most plugin, named clocked)

This was shared to me by someone else, my PC is unable to render it without glitches 😂

What about yours, can your PC handle it?

@TauPan@mastodon.technology known issue, mentioned in https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/issues/287

you can import uncompressed projects though

@charliebrownau It's cardinal. You got an extensive readme here https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal

@charliebrownau wtf are you talking about?

For those following the cardinal web saga, I deleted the old files on my personal domain.
Instead you can now use https://cardinal.kx.studio/ for Cardinal in the web shenanigans.

All 922 modules are in! 🚀 🚀 🚀