Faust version 2.81.10

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New

• Add dx7.dsp example.
• Cleanup/rework faust2wwise GSoC project.
• Cleanup faust2clap GSoC project.

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• Added init section for polyphonic MIDI in JSFX backed

Libraries

Faust version 2.81.8

Change log

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New

• Paschalis Melissas (melissaspaschalis@gmail.com) faust2wwise GSoC project.
• Facundo Franchino faust2clap GSoC project.
• New SignalFIRCompiler (WIP).
• Use fmin/fmax for real numbers and macros min_i/max_i for integer in ocpp and C backends.
• Add generateCAuxFilesFromFile2/generateAuxFilesFromString2 functions.

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• JSFX backend: fixed initialization missing for visible sliders & fixed string matching for polyphonic midi reserved names (exact match)
• Typos in codebox backend.
• Add missing shortname entry for soundfile in JSON.
• remNode should use fmod if one of the two arguments is a float number, cleanup

Libraries

• Major DX7 update.
• Add ma.unwrap().
• Correct aa.Rsinh and aa.Rtan.
• New linsweep/logsweep contributions by Oleg Nesterov.
• Add an.resonator().
• Add ba.pick() and ba.pickN().

Faust version 2.81.2

Change log

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New

• Add all MCP related code in McpUI.h, put in the faust/gui.
• Improve Rust backend for static tables handling.
• Add recursion, tables, waveform, select2 and prefix handlling in SignalRenderer.
• Add wasmtime architecture.
• Rework MidiHandler and audio driver memory handling.
• Allow widget modulation targets to be defined by path. For example "chan 3/gain" will target any widget "gain" inside a group "chan 3".
• WebAssembly mixCheckVoice now use RMS for level computation.
• faustgen~: reworked polyphonic handling.
• Rework polyphonic handling: VOICE_STOP_LEVEL set to -90 dB, RMS used for level computation, correct legato.
• Add pipewire support with console, qt and gtk GUI.
• Add kb_rom_rev1.dsp example.
• Add RNBO/codebox export in faustgen~ and generateAuxFilesFromFile2/generateAuxFilesFromString2 in libfaust.

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• JSFX backend: fixed sliders that were not being created in MIDI context (skipped), so they now behave as normal sliders controlled manually OR by midi messages, the exception being MIDI controls targetting a specific voice in polyphonic context (not created as sliders). Added program change MIDI support. Added pitchweel MIDI support. Fixed an issue (typo) in ysfx-dsp.h.
• JSFXInstVisitor::_midi_poly_assign should only generate polyphonic (freq/gate/gain) parameters.
• Incorrect use of integer abs function instead of floating-point std::abs.
• Widget Modulation Bug. Labels in format 'v:group1/h:group2/name' were not handled correctly

Libraries

• Deterministic noise function.
• Add multiTapSincDelay.
• Add Vicanek's matched (decramped) second-order Butterworth low and high shelving filters.
• Add Vicanek's decramped second-order resonant filters.

Faust version 2.79.3

Change log

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New

• faustgen~: more robust code in multichannels mode.
• Add reverbTank.dsp example.
• Add wfs.dsp example.
• Add new mesh2faust API method to generate modal model and Faust DSP code independently.
• Add parameter tracking and FFun/FVar in SDF3 backend.
• SignalPromotion now checks and possibly casts values in the waveform, allowing for simplification in FIR generation.
• Option -rnlm (--rust-no-libm) added in Rust backend.
• Add sflooper.dsp and inlooper.dsp examples.
• Defining sdt::less<CTree*> operator to provide an unique and stable ordering is enough to garanty determinism.
• Add -nopost option to faust2w32max6 and faust2w64max6.
• Install architecture/hothouse folder so that faust2hothouse can use it.

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• Correct rnbo.py for faust2rnbo.
• Add missing parameters in Unity FaustUtilities_template.cs/FaustPolyUtilities_template.cs so JSON parse does not fail.
• faust2atomsnippets now removes the (pf) prefix.
• faust2w32max6 and faust2w64max6 now export DLL that can be correct loaded.
• JUCE: correct setSelectedItemIndex use in uiMenu which should take the value - 1.

Libraries

• Define generic gen_fb_comb and reimplement fb_comb and fb_fcomb with it.
• Add Keith Barr Allpass Loop Reverb.
• Add WFS algorithm.
• Add os.dsf environment, oscsillators with exponentially decaying harmonics.
• Add pm.rk_solve() function, Runge-Kutta solver.
• Revert to the old CF mapping for the moogLadder filter, add the same filter as a new function that takes parameters in Hz and feedback gain raw values.
• Correct dx.dx7_algo documentation.
• Add svf morph functions.
• David Braun fix on mixLinearClamp/mixLinearLoop/mixPowerClamp/mixPowerLoop to properly accept the N buses as inputs.

Faust version 2.77.3

Change log

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New

• Remove undeeded SVG generation in faustgen.
• Add -miniaudio option to faust2api.
• MiniaudioReader and miniaudio device using miniaudio library.
• Compilation is now deterministic.
• Add lint test for nondeterministic pointer comparison
• Add signal interpreter (WIP).
• Rust: provide a inplace interface for rust
• Implement soundfile handling at init stage in C, C++, LLVM and Interp backends.
• Add the 'varname' field to the JSON format.
• Update MIR backend for 1.0.0 API.
• Implement -ec, -cm and -os options in Rust backend.
• Rework minimal.c to demonstrate use of UIGlue.
• Updated class daisy_midi to be compatible with libDaisy v7.1.0
• Implement SDF3 generation backend.
• Rework Rust code generation.
• Use shortnames instead of labels in Cmajor backend.
• Add Faust DSP Testbench in JUCE architecture.

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• Remove empty groups when merging UI subcontainers.
• Fix duplicated bar graphs bug caused by double simplification.
• Fix missing type annotation step. This step is needed to draw the retimed sig graph.
• Reserved keyword used in labels do not trigger impossible simplications anymore.
• uiCheckButton in JuceGUI state handling.
• Correct -fgpa-mem option handing combined with fDLThreshold.
• Add -universal option in faust2unity, formatting.
• Update fastmath.cpp to be used with a C compiler.
• Update fastmath.cpp for GCC >= 14.2.x.
• Add a cmake LINK_LLVM_STATIC option.
• Add :: prefix to dsp class to help with integration in JUCE.

Libraries

• Add oneEuro filter.
• Add ba.mulaw_bitcrusher function.
• Add Kalman filter.
• Add linear algebra library.
• Topology-preserving transform SVF following Zavalishin's method; Andy Simper's Dynamic Smoothing.
• Add ba.tAndH and fix ma.zc.
• Add second-order anti-aliased softclip.
• aa.softclipQuadratic2 renamed in aa.softclipQuadratic1.
• Add anti-aliased quadratic softclip.
• Add linear piecewise interpolation function.

Faust version 2.75.7

Change log

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New

• Add -mc option in faust2w32max6 and faust2w64max6.
• Add FAUST_DTREE_SIZE env variable.
• Deterministic compilation activated with the FAUST_DTREE environment variable.
• Faster hashkey computation taken from boost::hash_combine.
• Update faust2object for Apple ARM targets.
• Add llvm-test-poly test.
• Introduction of sigRegister and retiming algorithm.
• Another gameaudio - complex rain sounds.
• Another gameaudio - modal synthesis of wind chimes.
• Another gameaudio example - thunder.
• Christof Ressi multichannel implementation in faust2puredata. New -newio option to activate the new model.
• Document ratio related methods in APIUI.

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• Man page generation now uses '--' for long options.
• Use 'struct' instead of 'class' for C++ code generation in -uim mode.
• Steven Kraninger fix for JUCE architecture bus channel changes for VST3 compatibility up to 8 channels. The original code would create errors in debug and only provide 2 channels even when more channels were selected.

Libraries

• New scatN function for general N-port scattering
• New scat primitive facilitates acyclic tree scattering networks.
• Add balanced par, sum, prod to signals.lib.
• Add selectxbus (selectbus with crossfade).

Faust version 2.74.6

Change log

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New

• Improve JuceOSCUI to use OSC alias when they are used instead of the path.
• Create architecture file and faust2stratus script for Chaos Audio Stratus pedal (Martin Bartlett).
• Add multichannels support in faustgen~.
• Add -mc (multi-channels model) option in faust2max6.
• Reworked mesh2fausttool by Karl Hiner.
• Added faust2caconsole (Core Audio + Console architecture).
• new DirectedGraph based code in progress in -ocpp backend.
• Reworked -fx mode with new -fx-size option. Merge Agathe Herrou interval and precision branch.
• Rework -os (with new 'frame' method) and -it options. New -ec option to separate 'control' and 'compute'.
• Improve Rust backend to have ffi remainder/rint properly compile on Windows.

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• Correct impulse-tests to correctly use -O3 optimisation level.
• Add a generic 'one update per single updateAllGuis refresh' model in GUI class. Use it for -bundle mode in OSCUI.
• Correct faust2max6 (OPTIONS was not used everywhere needed).

Libraries

• Add ba.selectbus (David Braun).
• New spulse function added in basics.lib.
• Add reverbTank_demo (David Braun).
• Add ba.downSampleCV (David Braun).
• Add tapeStop effect and demo (David Braun).
• Add Vital reverb (David Braun).

Faust version 2.72.14

Change log

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New

• Deactivate 'Const' optimization in InstructionsCompiler::generateVariableStore.
• Rework interp-tracer (-trace 7 not needed).
• Adding a new architecture file (faust2paconsole) and front-end script for PortAudio console application building
• createPolyDSPInstance can use -1 so that the voice number is found in the [nvoices:N] metadata.
• In Cmajor backend, processors are generated in 'namespace faust {...}'.
• Add createDspFromSignals API in faust-dynamic-engine.
• Add -double support for faust2jackrust and faust2portaudiorust.
• Add output control handling in faust2supercollider.
• New TypeScript based model for Web glue, linked to the separated faustwasm project.
• Complete faust-dynamic-engine-test with test of createDspFromBoxes API.

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• Correct-cnoption in LLVM backend.
• Handling of -c option in faust2sndfile.
• Bug in -inj option handling. Make faust2max6 properly manage -inj option.
• Fix remainder and rint in Rust backend.
• Fix remainder in JAX backend (using a PR from David Braun).
• Correct simplification function for 'lowest/highest' primitives.
• Type information was not correctly returned in LLVMInstVisitor::visitIndexedAddress.

Libraries

Faust version 2.70.3

Change log

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WebAssembly

This is the latest release which contains the JavaScript written Faust/WebAssembly glue code using the compiled libfaust-wasm.js, libfaust-wasm.wasm and libfaust-wasm.data files, also used in the faust2webaudio separated project. See documentation.

A new TypeScript/JavaScript based model will be used in the next versions.

New

• Support of LLVM 18
• Add tests in faustbench, correct use of createSRAdapter.
• Add initial implementation of a Control UI for the daisy patch init device
• Change BinOp("|") to have fLeftAbsorbing/fRightAbsorbing predicates
• Teach kAND/kOR to optimize &(1) and |(1)
• Add boxFFun/CboxFFun and sigFFun/CsigFFun APIs
• Support rtaudio ver > 6.0 in rtaudio-dsp driver
• Add soundfile support in faust2supercollider
• Add createDspFromBoxes API in faust-dynamic-engine.h

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• mesh2faust: Fix out-of-order arg in main. Fix eigen dirs not being included in executable target (was only included with library).
• Correct uiVUMeter in JuceGUI text display
• Correct Teensy architectures files, especially when several DSP are compiled and used together
• Identifier naming in Cmajor backend

Libraries

• Add co.ratio2strength and co.strength2ratio functions
• Add ba.kr2ar function
• Add os.sidebands function

Faust version 2.69.3

Change log

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New

• Improve faustbench-llvm by checking -ct 0 option
• Update faust2max6 link step for Max 8.6
• Remove identifiers generation workaround in codebox backend
• JAX: improve soundfile path searching
• Introduction of widget modulation expressions
• Add boxHGroup, boxVGroup, boxTGroup and C versions in libfaust API
• Rework -1*exp like expressions in FIR by adding MinusInst
• Improved simplifications in particular for -n*exp expressions
• Expressions 0-x rewritten in -1*x in aterm::normalizedTree()
• Update faustgen~ link step for Max 8.6
• Update faust2jackconsole to allow effects option
• Add -I option to faust2caqt

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• Correct LLVMInstVisitor::visitIndexedAddress
• Minus expression is not correctly handled for now in codebox backend, so use the -1*exp workaround, improve MinusInst handling in LLVM backend

Libraries

• Add si.smoothq function
• Add ma.not function
• Add adsr_bias and ahdsr_bias
• Add fibonacci functions
• Adding more mixing functions
• Add si.repeat function
• Add wavefold and `softclipQuadratic saturators