falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com

Cardinal 24.05 is released!
This is a quick bug-fix release that also brings 2 new plugin modules.

https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal/releases/tag/24.05

We now have an old-style music tracker in Cardinal 😮 🎉
Checkout a very small demo patch in https://cardinal.kx.studio/live?patchurl=https://kx.studio/Paste/raw/eMJXf

PS: I updated the online version already with the RCM modules coming for the release after this one, so you get both a music tracker and piano roll in your browser now 😘

@somatalos @boo_ some apps work like that yes.

The big problem seems to be that there's no way for iOS apps to read files from arbitrary folders, say documents or downloads.

Each app must use its own directory for storage, which defeats the purpose of what I wanted to do - nextcloud sync to local files, and some other tool would play them.

It is such a simple thing yet impossible to do on iOS. Ironic that 10+ year old iPods can do this task much better wtf

@boo_ it is, and it also what I have been using so far. but I need to import every single music file individually which is a major PITA

the more I look into the mobile application ecosystem the more depressed I get...

it is quite tough to find a simple tool without ads or user data tracking, damn so frustrating
I just wanted a nice way to play offline files... 😠❗

This is on iOS because someone offered me an iPhone a while back, but these sorta things make me not want to use it.
I might just buy an old style "mp3" player again, dedicated physical buttons are a plus.

A little origami is always nice for keeping mind occupied while also relaxing at the same time.
Can 100% recommend.

These ones were made following https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mKRKSCn3qg

web views verified to work on windows too (previously I just used wine under linux)

somehow ends up feeling very natural hah 🌷

Web view progress, well basically it is working... 🚀

Now just a matter of cleaning up and documenting the process.

For now it only handles loading local files, no embedding html/css/js in the binary. But I think that is ok, these resources are shared across different plugin formats so they are better off not stored inside the binary.
Exception would be if trying to hide those? but it would be so trivial to bypass that doesnt feel worth it.

Patching #Befaco #CV modules at #superbooth

After so long playing with them in Cardinal, I got to try the physical version.
I really miss the "connect a source to multiple targets" thing from the software side.

Also using purely Befaco modules is a bit of a challenge.
Definitely a nice experience though.

Just posted another patreon update
https://www.patreon.com/posts/developer-log-104045608

TL;DR: announcing the https://github.com/falkTX/lv2-gtk-ui-bridge project, carla forcibly needs to update to Qt6, web views in DPF will become a thing and Cardinal will soon be put in maintenance mode.

Have a nice day! 🌈

oh hey it is a little plugin web UI 😊

@pettter I think this is intentionally, makes it very handy for stuff like:

```
const char* someval = getenv("MYVAR") ?: "fallback";
```

It seemed quite weird at first to me too, but now I cherrish it.
There are no compiler warnings around it even in release/optimized builds, so I assume it is either an official feature or some compiler extensions.

It works on both GCC and Clang by the way

Did you know you can use C/C++ ternary operators without having to repeat the 1st value?

This:
```
int x = 1;
int y = x ?: 2;
printf("y is %d\n", y);
```

is valid code and prints "y is 1".

Basically makes it work alike the Javascript "let a = b || c" syntax.

Neat 🌅

Anyone recently updated Ardour and got a bit sad that some plugins lost their custom GUI?
I have a solution for that, I hope to make a release for it soon.

https://github.com/falkTX/lv2-gtk-ui-bridge

Testing and feedback would be very much appreciated if you use any these LV2 plugins:
- Calf
- EQ10Q
- Invada

https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF-Widgets?tab=readme-ov-file#dpf-widgets is looking specially neat today. 📸

Recently added a LVGL widget, as a way to learn the toolkit as I might need it for work.

Trying to make DPF a nice little framework to work with, it has been 12 years already! 😅

@wonshu yes for sure, but not sure I would call it an explosion.