Phosphor 0.4.0

What's new in 0.4.0

Phosphor speaks eight languages now, maps like MadMapper, and lets you build your own control panels.

Languages

• English, Español, Deutsch, Français, Italiano, Português (Brasil), Japanese and Simplified Chinese: pick one in the brightness (sun) menu › Language. "Automatic" follows your computer's language. Japanese and Chinese use the fonts already on your Mac or PC.

Mapping (Outputs)

• Layouts: whole arrangements of slices and masks per output. Click one to fade to it; map them to pads, keys or OSC.
• Groups of slices and masks with their own on/off and opacity; masks can be grouped and faded too.
• Show a camera, screen, Syphon or NDI input on any slice.
• A Photoshop-style transform box for slices and masks (sides stretch, corners scale, the knob turns).
• Slices and masks animate: position, scale, rotation and soft edges, mappable and on the timeline and in cues.
• Every opacity slider in the Studio has an on/off switch that hides the thing without moving the slider.

Your own panels

• View › New Panel: buttons, faders and pads wired to anything and to OSC, docked or floating.
• Panel browser (View › Panel Browser…): every panel at a glance; show, close or bring back any of them.
• LFOs and modulators have their own place in the Show layout.

Effects

• Effects follow clips and media files: a clip's own effects come back whenever it plays, on any layer.
• Drag an effect from the Effects panel onto any effect list in the Inspector; panels scroll while you drag.
• ISF effects sorted into the Effects panel's categories; previews fixed (each tile shows its own effect, none stay black).

Clips and media

• Stop all, and a stop button on each layer.
• Media tiles and layers show badges when they carry effects, speed changes or trims.
• File info (right-click a media file): everything about it, copyable, and its effects to copy.
• Sort media by length, a "Plays on" picker, random clip on a layer, favourites from a clip.
• Clips from an external drive are copied to this computer the first time they play, so shows don't stall on a slow drive.
• Scratch moves only while you scratch; the playhead sits above Speed and Opacity in the Inspector.
• A new start screen for projects (File › Projects…).

Controls

• Every slider and button can be mapped (MIDI, OSC, keys), locked, given snap points and limits: drag the small brackets at a slider's ends to keep it from going lower or higher.
• Every menu command can be mapped too.
• MIDI controllers reconnect by themselves.

Interface

• Help sentences shrink to small (i) icons (hover or click to read); tooltips can be turned off.
• "Saved" and other news show in the status bar instead of over the panels.
• Preview before live: a layer you're preparing plays in the Inspector, then Go live fades it in.

Reliability

• GPU errors no longer end the show; output windows keep displays awake.
• If Phosphor ever freezes, the crash report says where, so it can be fixed.
• Many smaller fixes and speed-ups.

Full history: CHANGELOG.md

Install

Mac (Apple silicon): download Phosphor-mac.zip, unzip, drag Phosphor to Applications and open it. It's signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without warnings.

Windows 10/11 (preview): run Phosphor-windows-setup.exe (or unzip Phosphor-windows.zip anywhere and run Phosphor.exe). Windows warns once because the app isn't signed: More info, Run anyway.

Older Intel Macs (macOS 10.15 Catalina to 12): download Phosphor-mac-intel.zip, unzip, drag Phosphor to Applications. The first time, right-click Phosphor › Open › Open (it isn't notarized yet). Same app without screen / window capture and hearing the Mac's sound.

After that, Phosphor updates itself (Help › Check for Updates…).