flim v.26.10.29

Merge or Lock, glowing edits, far fewer lost edits, and Rooms by @cashflowbeatz.

New

• Lock or Merge for notes: whoever hosts chooses what happens when two people edit the same instrument in the same pattern at once. Lock = one person at a time (as before). Merge = both people's notes are kept. Hover the (i) in the Host dialog for the difference. Merge is cashflowbeatz's note merging.
• See what others just changed: their new or changed notes and clips glow in their color and fade out over 1.5 s. When they turn a knob, the window it's in glows (the plugin or effect window, or the channel rack / mixer).
• Rooms: a new Rooms button opens flimrooms, which is entirely cashflowbeatz's work: his app, his relay and his flim engine. Create or join a room with a name and an 8-digit code. Rooms sessions run through his server and don't mix with Host / Connect. Download flim-rooms-0.2.23-win64.exe below (portable, separate from flim) and put it in a rooms folder next to flim.exe.
• Tempo, main volume, main pitch and shuffle now sync.

Fixed

• Knobs jumping back or resetting to default after someone else's change (e.g. after moving an instrument to another mixer track).
• Edits disappearing ("dropped inputs") while a plugin was being updated on the other side.
• Smaller locks so you rarely block each other: notes per instrument within a pattern, the playlist per track, each plugin knob on its own.
• Fast knob and tempo scrolling sends the latest value instead of every step.

In our stress test (two people editing as fast as possible), lost knob, note and clip edits went from 52 to 0 when working on different things.

Update together

Everyone in a session needs this version (notes and clips use new messages). Download flim-client-win64.zip, unzip it over your old copy, and run flim.exe. FL Studio 2025 build 25.2.3.5171 (or 25.1.6.4997).

Credits

Huge thanks to @cashflowbeatz for Rooms and note merging (from his pull request #1).

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