Release v0.11.0 · markovcd/Flyback

100 commits since 0.10.1.

A Speech plugin on the preset site: Speak says or sings the words typed into it in a voice made from filters, with ~ for a rest between sung notes, and Mouth draws lips that move with it and the words as they are said, with a Daisy Bell preset that sings.
Raymarch, in the Picture plugin: a lattice, a tunnel or a gyroid in 3D for the camera to fly through, drawn by marching a ray from every pixel, with Flythrough, a techno track flying through a lattice that pulses with the kick.

Every preset is tagged from ten topics, so the gallery's topic row is short: basics, song, playable, drums, melody, ambient, synthesis, effects, scope and patterns; a preset's card shows the description and tags written in its file, and a plugin registers one with PresetText.Preset in place of PresetText.Embedded.

Live patching: Shift+F11, the transport row's Live button, or Tab over a full-screen picture puts the patch over the picture to edit while it plays, as modules that fade while nobody touches them or as text with F2, outlined to stand out against a picture of any color, with no keyboard needed and its look set in Settings → Picture.
An unwired input's value sits in a well to drag, pick, nudge, reset or type, with a card over the module reading it out; Alt+L links it to a panel knob; on a touch screen a tap gives buttons to step it and a held finger slides it; a shut box's inputs work the same.
macOS menu bar: Flyback's own app menu and File, Edit, View, Play, Window and Help menus, with Measure moved to Ctrl+Shift+M (⇧⌘M); on Windows and Linux, Settings → Canvas → Show a menu bar puts the same menus along the top of the window.
Settings → Picture → Smoothing smooths the picture's jagged edges on every renderer, on by default; render smooths at four samples a pixel, and --smooth fast or --smooth off overrides it for one run.
The desktop editor's first start asks whether to share anonymous usage counts.
An Expression's inputs that its formula doesn't read are drawn faint.
On a phone the web editor's transport and status bars stay on screen, and added to the home screen it opens full screen.

ask, measure and shot list the shipped presets with --presets, as the other commands that take --preset do.

The sound on an iPhone or iPad plays about 40% faster.
On a Mac, an iPhone or an iPad the picture draws through Metal, and a large patch no longer holds the window while its shader builds; Settings → Picture's Renderer box, or the viewer's --driver for one run, picks Metal or OpenGL on a Mac and OpenGL or Direct3D on Windows.

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