Toaster 0.4.13

Every scene redrawn, a twelfth scene (the basement show), D's drop reaching the scenery, a quicker start, and fixes from outside code reviews.

• Every scene redrawn. Water, rock, ground and buildings are solid shapes now instead of loose characters, with pixel art where it looks better:

  • a pixel moon;
  • a campfire that leaps and roars on the kicks;
  • a trout leaping at the falls;
  • the garden's koi;
  • a flock of birds by day;
  • a sailboat on the sea's horizon and a crab walking the beach.

  Halloween has a great moon by night and a banded sun going down by day. The city's towers are detailed by day, and its puddles hold the sky.

• The basement show, a twelfth scene:

  • the toaster at the mic with its guitar in a brick basement, a drummer behind it;
  • the cans sweeping the haze and smoke every 8 bars;
  • on a drop, a strobe, confetti and every hand up.

• D drops the scenery too. Before, D (drop now) set off the drop effect, but the scenery never heard it. Now on a drop:

  • the toast pops;
  • the koi dart in and ring the toaster;
  • the sharks charge the bait ball;
  • the festival's fireworks go up;
  • the falls' trout leaps.

  With the drop effect turned off (B), it stays off.

• Made for reels. In a tall (9:16) window with the code hidden, the scenery's land rises, so the toaster sits above the caption a phone lays over the bottom of a reel. It glides up when you press Z. On a drop the koi ring the toaster in a tall window too, and they follow it when Z moves it.

• Starts quicker. Each background is made the first time you pick it, not all at startup. The worlds get ready in the background once the first background is showing.

• Z hides the code everywhere. The syntax-error box hides with the code, the glass stops showing it magnified, and the worlds use the whole window.

• Exporting (X) a long set is ten times quicker, and the window keeps going while it writes. A three-hour set used to freeze the window for 1.7 s. Now it's written in the background while the listening and drawing carry on.

• The code rain rains your code again. It had filled with plus signs from the drum grid's boxes.

• Hand tracking tells you when the face or the cut-out can't start, and keeps the hands going.

• Resizing the window keeps the sharks and the koi where they were. Before, every fish jumped somewhere new on every frame of a drag.

• The window's own buttons fit a narrow window. At the smallest size, mini and 9:16 included, every button sits clear of Windows' buttons.

• The scenery:

  • a scene that fails to compile is left out instead of blanking the scenery for the session;
  • a hand on every raised arm at the festival;
  • the koi feed tidily near the window's edge, and a koi's fin no longer cuts a hole in the one below it;
  • the stingray, the code fish and the pond's petals no longer jump every 17 minutes.

• The worlds start their looks a few frames apart instead of all in the first frame, and stop measuring the code's layout every frame.

• Smaller things:

  • the machine info (I) no longer leaves an empty box in the corner when it's off (it showed in every recording);
  • drop clips (J) save in the background;
  • the beat tracker drops old readings at once after a pause in the music;
  • when the beat tracker double-checks a tempo change, it counts only the hits that fit;
  • the mini player and 9:16 change the layout only once the window has changed;
  • a failed mic check or song file no longer leaves anything open;
  • the now-playing helper starts a moment after the window.

Windows: if you have 0.3.9 or later, Toaster offers this update by itself. Otherwise:

1. Download Toaster-0.4.13-win-x64.zip.
2. Unzip it anywhere and double-click Toaster.exe.
3. The first time, Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" because the app isn't signed. Click More info, then Run anyway.