​Isadora 4.5 Has Arrived: Unleashing the Power of Interactive Audio!

[Woland]

@crystalhorizon said:

I have 724 VST plugins installed. It´s scanning..........

With that many, depending on the plugins' size and complexity, startup may take a while. You may want to use the VST Inspector to enable only specific VSTs as needed, rather than leaving them all enabled all the time.

[crystalhorizon]

@woland good idea. thank you, will look into it

[Notdoc]

wow. just wow. 

roll on the weekend, when i can clear some play time. Thanks Isadoronauts for your labours, and your listening.

can't wait

x

[CitizenJoe]

@notdoc said:

Isadoronauts

 I love that!

H

[timeg]

RESPECT and Thanks!

[skuven]

@dusx Is there any intention to make actors that produce sound but from the pre 4.5 release (aud) have new audio outputs? for example, the 'speak text' actor doesn't have an audio output connector, but internally it must connect to the audio engine? I would like to be able to apply reverb and FX to that through the new audio connections workflow, etc. that would allow some creative uses of the tools already included.

[Woland]

@skuven said:

Is there any intention to make actors that produce sound but from the pre 4.5 release (aud) have new audio outputs? for example, the 'speak text' actor doesn't have an audio output connector, but internally it must connect to the audio engine? I would like to be able to apply reverb and FX to that through the new audio connections workflow, etc. that would allow some creative uses of the tools already included.

 I have a feature request in to give audio output to, for example, the Tone Generator and Speak Text actors, but it's not on the immediate roadmap at this time. It is still possible to do this with virtual audio routing software like Blackhole thanks to the Audio Input actor. (Speak Text actor --> Virtual Audio Cable --> Audio Input actor --> audio effects --> Audio Output actor)

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@skuven 

the 'speak text' actor doesn't have an audio output connector, but internally it must connect to the audio engine? 

Certain things in Isadora process audio differently, and while some share the same processes, others don't, so there's not one unified "audio engine" that all actors can push audio into and pull audio out of. If I remember correctly, the Speak Text and Tone Generator actors rely on different audio processes than the new audio actors, so it's not as simple as just slapping an audio output on them.

[dbini]

Hello Isadoramongers, quick test of a feature request: Caps Lock input for the Text Draw actor. (I never needed it before, but now there's the Speech to Text actor to play around with, it would be lovely to be able to dynamically control whether the text generated is in lower case or capitals)

[DusX]

@dbini said:

dynamically control whether the text generated is in lower case or capitals

 This can easily be done via Javascript.

// iz_input 1 "text input"
// iz_input 2 "format mode"
// iz_output 1 "text output"
/*
INPUT ORDER
arguments[0] = incoming text
arguments[1] = format mode (Integer)
FORMAT MODES
1 = unchanged
2 = UPPERCASE
3 = lowercase
OUTPUT ORDER
The single returned value is sent to output 1.
*/
function main()
{
    var textInput = String(arguments[0]);
    var formatMode = Math.round(arguments[1]);
    var outputText = textInput;
    if (formatMode === 2)
    {
        outputText = textInput.toUpperCase();
    }
    else if (formatMode === 3)
    {
        outputText = textInput.toLowerCase();
    }
    // View these messages using Windows > Show Monitor.
    print("Input: " + textInput + "\n");
    print("Mode: " + formatMode + "\n");
    print("Output: " + outputText + "\n");
    return [outputText];
}

[dbini]

Thanks Ryan, I suspected there would be a codey way to format the text. Still, I think it would be a nice addition to the Text Draw.

[dbini]

- although, after experimenting, the system works in a slightly different way, in that now the text builds up over time. if you go directly from Audio to Text into Text Draw, it resets at the end of each sentence. Im sure there's a way to add a reset trigger to the Javascript.