"Miller Puckette via Pd-announce:
Pd version 0.56-0test1 is available from https://msp.ucsd.edu/software.htm
or (source only) via github: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data .
cheers
Miller"
Check release notes below and may I add, check the help file of [bag], where I added some cool examples on how to make an arpeggiator and sustain pedal. Please test, and also, please help translate some parts as now is a good time ( https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/pure-data/ )
Release notes:
The dafault sample rate is now 48000. (All the same sample rates as before are still supported).
Reworked text editing mechanism for object/message/gatom/comment boxes and applied it also for text fields in scalars (aka "data structures"). It is now reasonably feasible to use data structures to hold messages or sequences of messages. Also methods "get" and "set" added to the pointer object make it much easier to traverse the contents of a scalar; and "nearest" and extended "next" messages that make it easier to search for a scalar or scan through a list of them. A variant of the pointer object called "vpointer" allows to access the same pointer by name from more than one place, like the value object for numnbers. There are several other useful additions such as the ability to drag scalars around without having to swap the window into edit mode.
Multichannel support for delread~, etc., tabread~, etc., readsf~, writesf~, sig~, snapshot~, and print~, all thanks to Christof Ressi
a phase argument to block~ allows you to explicitly offset block segmentation (also Christof)
Ticks and labels on graphs are now saved with the graph, and run-time messages added to show/hide the name, and make editable or not (Hannes).
A new "colors" message to "pd" allows changing the foreground, background, and selection colors. Colors are specified X-style, so "white", "black", etc., are OK but you can also say "#ffffff" for white, ##ff0000" for bright red, and so on. This is not yet incorporated in Pd's preferences as it certainly should be.
updates to the "deken" ("find externals") mechanism.
Menus cleanup (Hannes)
It's now possible to edit the text contents of a GOP with hidden text from its properties dialog.
New "-devicename" argument to set jack's MID and audio device names (-jackname still works for jack audio devices but not for MIDI as before).
New option for the "bag" object to prevent multiple entries of the same value, and a "bang" message to output without clearning, plus a "query" message to look at contents without expelling them.
The "random" object takes a "float" message that both sets the range and generates an output.
Shebang support: it's optionally allowed to put a header like "#/bin/pd" in a patch file so that you can click on it and have that start Pd.
New "vis" message to Pd to start/stop the gui.
Improvements to mouse handling in MacOS (Ben Wesch).
