DIN Is Noise Changelog

What's new in DIN Is Noise 58

Jan 12, 2024

position affects velocity and acceleration vectorsinstead of just velocity vectors
Menu > Drone Tools > Position affects Vectors
improved documentation, see https://dinisnoise.org/docs/
fixed visual modulation behaviour on drones
removed Boost library requirement to build DIN Is Noise from source code.

New in DIN Is Noise 57 (Jul 23, 2023)

New in DIN Is Noise 56 (Dec 24, 2022)

New in DIN Is Noise 55 (Sep 20, 2022)

New in DIN Is Noise 54 (Apr 26, 2022)

New in DIN Is Noise 52 (Dec 12, 2021)

walked back some changes introduced in DIN 51
the drone tracked by gravity does not change when the selection changes
renamed drone arrow parameter called Head to Neck
new gravity size modulation for DIN 52
change the size (aka strength/magnitude) of gravity vector over bpm:
on the gravity widget, turn on Modulate
bpm = speed of gravity size modulation
depth = how far to 0 gravity drops
depth = 1, goes all the way to 0 and back in 1 beat
depth = 0.5, goes from starting size to half size and back in 1 beat
depth = 0, no size modulation ie size does not change at all
default depth = 1
set an initial size using gravity presets or click on Change Size
and move the mouse up or down. keep Modulate off when doing this.
click Edit to edit the size modulation curve for interesting fx.
press q to toggle drone wanding when Menu > Drone Tools > Wand is selected
was always in Add drone mode until DIN 51.x
optional tracking of drones when connecting them with Menu > Drone Tools > Connect
enable / disable @ Menu > Drone Tools > Track
if enabled on connection: drone 1 points to drone 2 points to drone 3 and so on
if disabled on disconnection: selected drones stop tracking any other drone
select drone on creation
Menu > Drone Params > Defaults > Select on Creation
drone is not selected by default
useful for looking at pitch/volume info of launched drones as they fly past
white = noise interpolator curve
@ Menu > Editors > Noise Interpolator
white = drone that makes noise
was grayscale in DIN 51.x
color of velocity vector of drone = color of drone
was green in DIN51.x
constrain magnitude of drone velocity +/ acceleration to be > 0
click on 0 checkbutton on the Menu > Drone Params > Motion > Velocity or Acceleration to toggle
if enabled, magnitude of velocity +/ acceleration will always be > 0
if disabled, magnitude of velocity +/ acceleration can go < 0 ie will reverse movement or
orbiting
browsed drone marker color is color of the browsed drone
was green in DIN51.x
improved drone arrow drawing
improved note/frequency labeling on microtonal ranges
improved 'with left/center/right fixed' menu item on Menu > Ranges
new default volume distribution curve to have value increase (linearly)
after 100% instead of staying at 100%. upto 200% now.
improved drone > < noise progress display
<> moved (and renamed) Menu > Drone Params > Move under Gravity to Menu > Drone Tools > Balloon
still does the same thing:
releases (like gas balloons :) anchored drones
these are now launched drones and die at the end of their lifetimes.
<> moved Snap drones to notes / Position affects velocity from Menu > Drone Params > Motion to
Menu > Drone Tools
<> moved Bounces, rebound Speed% and drone bounce behaviour from Menu > Drone Params > Motion to
Menu > Drone Params > Defaults as they apply equally to all launched drones
replaced drone Rise Time Min and Max spinners with a Rise time spinner
turn on ~ to generate a random rise time (default is 50% to 100% of Rise time) on drone creation
change range of randomness by editing %~ field
replaced drone Fall Time Min and Max spinners with a Fall time spinner
turn on ~ to generate a random fall time (default is 50% to 100% of Fall time) on drone removal
change range of randomness by editing %~ field
drones can bounce ahead, back or ahead/back
can select drones while voice phrasor plays
reinstated (from din-5.2.1 release!) a form of indian notation for notes
from Settings screen, choose notation = indian
a launched drone lifetime = lifetime of launcher or if ~ is active on Menu > Drone Params > Defaults > Lifetime
a randomisation based on ~% of the lifetime of the launcher
fixed bug when setting snap left/right values
fixed mouse wheel scrolling of UI when hovering over label widget
gravity continues tracking drone as its moved around or when scrolling microtonal keyboard

New in DIN Is Noise 51.1 (Jul 12, 2021)

New in DIN Is Noise 51 (Jul 7, 2021)

drone is anchored or launched on creation:
anchored means stays fixed at the place of creation
launched means 'flies' off based on its velocity and gravity
try with Menu > Drone Tools > Add / Wand
set at Menu > Drone Params > Defaults
set velocity +/ acceleration vectors of drones to presets via Menu > Drone Params > Motion > Set velocity/acceleration:
presets are +ve or -ve vertical, horizontal, velocity, acceleration and zero
auto flip (clock < > anti-clock) auto rotating velocity/acceleration vectors every some degrees:
via Menu > Drone Params > Auto flip > Set / Unset / Toggle
default 'every some degrees' is 90 degrees
gravity:
presets for gravity vector
0, left, right, up and down
gravity tracks mouse position
click Gravity > Mouse
gravity tracks the first among selected drones
click Gravity > Drone
! as drone selection changes, gravity may track a different drone !
removed Menu Drone Params > Track gravity
mesh polygon filling per drone color:
color of a launched drone is same as color of the launcher
try changing color of the launcher as drones are launched
changed color of velocity/acceleration vectors to move away from green (used for selection) and red (used for errors):
cyan = color of velocity vector of all drones
(reddish) magenta = color of acceleration vector of all drones
changed arrow visualisation of velocity +/ acceleration vector of all drones:
Head
edit the position of the arrow tip
can go 'above' the vector tip ie > 1.0
can go 'below' the drone location ie < 0.0
can be on the body ie 0 <= tip <= 1.0
Shoulder Position
edit position of the arrow's shoulder tips
Shoulder Width
edit width of the arrow's shoulder
Cap or Decap the arrow
set default arrow head, shoulder position and width, cap from Menu > Drone Params > Defaults:
used when adding & wanding drones
change existing drone's velocity/acceleration vector arrow params via Menu > Drone Params > Visual
improved geometric chuck:
on a chuck with N drones, the first N - 1 drones have trail set to 0
the last drone has trail set to 10000
toggle auto reset trails
Menu > Drone Params > Chuck > Auto reset trails
2 changes above aid visualisation and experimentation instead of manual trail
resize/reset every time after changing a chuck param
toggle chuck outline
click Menu > Drone Params > Chuck > Draw chuck outline
aids screenshotting
chuck outline drawn per drone color
default scale/rotate drones center to microtonal keyboard center
default selected range to C Eb
mouse wheel on microtonal keyboard to scroll along horizontal
press SHIFT and scroll to scroll along vertical
short form of echo command is .
improved bpm handling of drone pendulums and meshes
improved drone trail handling/display
close menu after setting modulation direction
! fixed bug in zoom of curve editor when mouse slider is active !
! fixed draw crosshairs on drone mesh preview !

New in DIN Is Noise 50.2 (Apr 21, 2021)

New in DIN Is Noise 50.1 (Apr 1, 2021)

New in DIN Is Noise 50 (Mar 15, 2021)

Wand drones into existense using Drone Tools > Wand
tool toggles between Add and Wand modes
In Add mode (the only mode until DIN49.1), you add a new drone by left clicking on the microtonal keyboard. You click and drag to 'spray' new drones.
In Wand mode (new in DIN 50), you simply wave the mouse to add drones on the microtonal keyboard. Use the Wand distance (Drone Params > Defaults) to control how close or spaced out the drones are to each other.
new Drone Params > Defaults tab to set defaults for some drone parameters:
wand distance - distance to move the mouse before DIN adds a drone in Wand mode.
! smaller distance means drones are created close together
! larger distance means drones are more spaced out
type of drones wandedadded:
. immortal - drone forever until deleted << default and the only type until DIN49.1
. mortal - die after their lifetime << drones launched from another drone are this type
. reincarnate - die after their lifetime only to be (re)born immediately! << new to DIN 50!
> type of sound made by drones:
> moved from Drone > Tools in DIN 49.1
> drones a pitchvolume
> noise @ pitchvolume
> Drone rise (min, max), fall (min, max), lifetime and handle size.
> rise, fall times moved here from Settings screen
Drone Tools > Immortalize to make drones immortal
Drone Tools > Mortalize to kill drones after their lifetime
Drone Tools > Reincarnate - drones rebirth after their death, immediately!
Auto rotate Velocity or Acceleration or Both of selected drones from Drone Params > Motion tab:
@ RPM
Clockwise or Anti-clockwise
Start, Stop or Toggle
Set AM and FM directions to:
Vertical, Horizontal, Velocity or Acceleration
Until DIN 49.1:
AM direction = Vertical
FM direction = Horizontal
interesting fx possible via auto rotating velocity + acceleration and using them as modulation directions. also interesting to launch drones from auto rotating velocities.
DIN 50 introduces a virtual geometric chuck inspired by the geometric chuck, a drawing machine from the 19th century! DIN's chuck, made with a bunch of drones, not only draws (via drone trails) but also sounds notes (via snapping), drones or noises!
To begin, select a bunch of drones and choose Drone Tools > Chuck
DIN creates a geometric chuck with these drones:
Minimum 2 drones
Good start = 3 drones
Each drone rotates about the other
st drone is central, rotates about nothing, so stays still
You can move this drone around and move the whole chuck
The 2nd drone rotates about the 1st,
The 3rd drone rotates about the 2nd, and so on
Browse the selected drones of the chuck with Drone Tools > Browse drone or press <- and -> to select a drone in the chuck and
Adjust the speed at which this drone rotates about the other:
(Drone Params > Chuck > Speed), the distance at which it rotates
(Drone Params > Chuck > Length), flip the direction of rotation
(anti-clockwise < > clockwise) (Drone Params > Flip), pausego
(Drone Params > Chuck > Toggle) the rotation and draw a trail
(Drone Params > Chuck > Trail length). Recommend trail on the last drone of a chuck to make drawing like the real geometric chuck
Set Angle per frame to speed up (large angle) or slow down (small angle) the rotation of all the drones of (all) chuck(s).
The drones of the chuck sound the pitchvolume they are on the microtonal keyboard.
You can muteunmute any all of the drones of the chuck.
Drone Tools > Mute, Drone Tools > Unmute
You can convert any all of the chuck's drones to noise (Drone Tools > Drone > Noise) or vice-versa.
Drone Tools > Drone 2 Noise, Drone Tools > Noise 2 Drone
You can snap drones of the chuck to sound notes
Drone Params > Motion > Snap drones to notes > Set
+ stop drone decay (and death) if frozen
+ retime decay time of deleted drone(s) if you select drone(s) and delete again
change FM depth (like AM depth) by moving along vertical on mouse slider
moved along horizontal until DIN 49.1
change FM bpm (like AM bpm) by moving along vertical on mouse slider
moved along horizontal until DIN 49.1
helps with moving drones along circular paths at different speeds
improved value spinner UI
improved find_nearest_note (..) performance
improved drone trail performance
improved console text & value display

New in DIN Is Noise 49.1 (Nov 16, 2020)

New in DIN Is Noise 49 (Nov 11, 2020)

New in DIN Is Noise 43 (Sep 13, 2019)

move groups of harmonics on sine mixer
shift + click harmonic on sine mixer to select / deselect
moving one of the selected harmonics moves all the selected harmonics
But then one lizard (or iguana) moved, and all moved'
VS Naipaul, Among the Believers
but shift when moving moves just the selected harmonic
all, none, invert buttons for gross selection
resize phrase position slider
DIN saves/reloads slider
change both notes of selected range using mouse slider
Use Menu > Ranges > Change note? > Both
removed Change Left note, Change Right note menu items in Menu > Ranges
replaced with Change note? Left Right Both menu items
scrub / scratch point modulations
click on Scrub and move up or down
Sync on Point Modulator
workflow is
select modulations
pause
sync
play
voice volume minimum can be < 0 [voice waveform flips]
spinner to set absolute drone master volume
drone master volume can be < 0 [drone waveform flips]
removed mute drones button
just spin drone master volume to 0
save/load auto apply state on sine mixer
save/load drone selection state
save/load drone frozen state
save/load plugins fold state for each curve editor
save/load auto select launched drones flag
turn on/off UI in all screens, not just in instruments
optimised
click repeat of Apply button and key repeat of shortcut r for continous apply
of plugin output to curve
useful/interesting when point modulating custom sin/cos/radius curves etc
drones per minute is floating point instead of integer
improved phrase handling for voice on microtonal keyboard
improved plugin browser on curve editors
changed default drone handle size to 3
fixed bug: turning on/off ui on point modulator may crash DIN42 !
fixed bug: pressing shift/ctrl effected selection box when not previewing mesh !
fixed bug: changing parameters on Number plugin didnt update preview !
fixed bug: frozen drones saved to disk thawed on reload !
fixed bug: didnt save/load turns on spiraler !
fixed bug: rotate/scale of drones happened in UI loop, now moved to audio loop !
fixed bug: stopped gravity editing when menu displayed !

New in DIN Is Noise 42 (May 11, 2019)

Point Modulator on all curve editors, new for DIN42 +++
modulate any point on any bezier curve along horizontal (ie X) and
vertical (ie Y) axis over BPM
eg., when done on a waveform, leads to timbral modulation, look @ the FFT :)
try on shapeforms too!
try on decays, delay feedback and volumes, pitch and range modulation
curves etc etc!
to modulate, click on the + button on the Point Modulator panel
now pick a point on curve (any vertex or tangent) to modulate
DIN draws a dotted line joining a state button to the point on curve
nothing is modulating yet
change X depth to modulate the point along horizontal axis over BPM
the point should start moving along the horizontal
change Y depth to modulate the point along vertical axis over BPM
change X BPM and Y BPM to change the rate ie speed of modulation of the point
when more than one point is modulating,
click on None to deselect all modulating points
click on a point's state button to change modulation params for just that point.
use the X depth/BPM, Y depth/BPM spinners to change the params
use All, None and Invert to select more than one state button and thus more than
one point.
use the X depth/BPM, Y depth/BPM spinners to change params for selected points
press play button to toggle point modulation of selected points
press kill button to kill point modulations of selected points
point modulations are saved [and loaded] to [from] disk :)
Captures - mouse capture panel on all curve editors, new for DIN42 +++
play, pause and kill captures
To record a mouse capture, position mouse on the curve item
that you want to assign the mouse capture, choose Menu > Mouse capture > Start,
move mouse as you please and click or ESC to finish.
To assign the mouse capture, choose Menu > Mouse capture > Assign and pick
the curve item to assign the mouse capture. You can assign the same mouse
capture to other items by repeating the same.
mouse capture is *not* saved to disk [maybe in a future release]
Overlay pitch and volume distrubution on microtonal-keyboard:
Menu > Misc > Overlay pitch distribution
Menu > Misc > Overlay volume distribution
Pixels Per Level
more pixels, less acurate rendering of distribution but faster
less pixels, more accurate rendering of distribution but slower
Default is 5 pixels
Mirror whole curve or curve vertex/tangent about Horizontal and Vertical axis
Swap 2 curves [experimental, only works on editors with 2 curves]
removed Close button from Menu

DIN Is Noise Changelog

What's new in DIN Is Noise 58

New in DIN Is Noise 57 (Jul 23, 2023)

New in DIN Is Noise 56 (Dec 24, 2022)

New in DIN Is Noise 55 (Sep 20, 2022)

New in DIN Is Noise 54 (Apr 26, 2022)

New in DIN Is Noise 52 (Dec 12, 2021)

New in DIN Is Noise 51.1 (Jul 12, 2021)

New in DIN Is Noise 51 (Jul 7, 2021)

New in DIN Is Noise 50.2 (Apr 21, 2021)

New in DIN Is Noise 50.1 (Apr 1, 2021)

New in DIN Is Noise 50 (Mar 15, 2021)

New in DIN Is Noise 49.1 (Nov 16, 2020)

New in DIN Is Noise 49 (Nov 11, 2020)

New in DIN Is Noise 43 (Sep 13, 2019)

New in DIN Is Noise 42 (May 11, 2019)

New in DIN Is Noise 27.0 (Apr 2, 2017)

New in DIN Is Noise 25.0 (Jul 28, 2016)

New in DIN Is Noise 24.0 (Apr 26, 2016)

New in DIN Is Noise 22.0 (Nov 3, 2015)

New in DIN Is Noise 19.0 (May 13, 2015)

New in DIN Is Noise 18.0 (Apr 20, 2015)

New in DIN Is Noise 16.0 (Dec 29, 2014)