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@stefdoerr stefdoerr released this 29 Sep 08:22
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v0.4.0
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New

  • Strum ↑ / ↓: two new buttons strum the sympathetic strings directly, the way a sitarist brushes the tarafs. ↑ sweeps low to high and ↓ high to low. Each is a momentary trigger, so you can give each arrow its own Dwarf footswitch and alternate strokes. SWEEP sets how long the strum takes (20 ms – 2 s) and STRENGTH how hard it plucks. The strum eases in like a real hand and sounds even with nothing plugged in.
  • LEAD: the sitar's vowel sweep on your own notes. Every note you play glides from a bright "ee" to a dark "oo" as it decays, like a sitar's main string on its jawari bridge. It defaults to 0, where your dry sound passes through untouched.
  • JAWARI, rebuilt: each ringing string now sings its own vowel as it fades, bright at the pluck and gliding down to dark. It replaces the old saturation-and-tone stage.

Fixed

  • Bloom could run away. With many strings, a low or high OCT, and higher Bloom settings, the strings could keep sounding, or even grow, after you stopped playing. In a sweep of 1,200 settings this happened in 216, some near full volume. It no longer happens in any of them. Each string is now tuned a fixed ±3 cents off exact just intonation, like a human tuner (below what the ear can hear as out of tune), and Bloom's safety limit follows the most resonant string.
  • High strings no longer die out early. Every string now rings for the same time at a given DECAY. Before, each octave up rang half as long, so the bass drowned the high shimmer, and turning OCT up quietly shortened everything.
  • Much lower CPU on the MOD Dwarf: about 35–40% less at the same settings. 13 strings dropped from about 31% to 19% of a core, and 48 strings from about 97% to 53%.

What changes for existing pedalboards

  • Pedalboards with JAWARI above 0 will sound different. The knob is now the per-string vowel sweep. It's also about 4 dB quieter under steady, sustained playing (roughly level-neutral on plucked notes), so you may want to nudge LEVEL.
  • The halo is slightly different at the same DECAY. Strings below middle C now ring a little shorter and resonate about 2 dB weaker, and strings above ring longer. If you miss the old length, turn DECAY up a little.
  • The pedal is wider (862 px) to fit STRUM, SWEEP, STRENGTH and LEAD. The new controls start at their defaults, and all existing settings are kept.

The manual (attached PDF) covers every new control.

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

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