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Bidule v0.97 user manual

1. Patchbay The patchbay is the black canvas that you can see in Bidule This is where you build the layout patch to create manipulate sounds and songs Modules aka bidules Right click in the patchbay to pop up a menu that contains all available bidules modules you can use The bidules are classified into different categories like Audio Devices Audio File Building Blocks Effects Groups Instruments MIDI MIDI Devices Misc Mixing Routing and Spectral Audio Devices Audio File Building Blocks Effects Groups Instruments MIDI MIDI Devices Misc Mixing ReWire Devices Routing Audio File Delay Line Envelopes gt Gate Math MIDI Allpass Filter Basic Filter Biquad Filter Comb Filter Monitoring Multi tap Delay Oscillators Spectral Synth Voices VST Sample and Hold Sync Creator Syne Extractor YST Instruments Trigger Trigger Clock Paste Hide all windows Group Once the bidule is in the patchbay you can double click it to pop up its GUI only available if the bidule has any parameters Connectors A bidule has input and output connectors The little squares on the top of the bidule are the input connectors and the one at the bottom are the output connectors inputs Llll P m Typical Bidule 0 i LIL outputs Each connector cable colour specifies a different type of signal Using the default skin e Blue is for audio data signals e White is for MIDI signals e Yellow frequ
2. Fadercross An inverted crossfader with two stereo outputs and one stereo input Gain A simple 10db gain Mono Mixers 4 8 or 16 mono channels mixer with pan mute solo and 10db gain for each channel and a master 10db gain Note double clicking on Strip N will let you change the channel name on the window and in the status bar when hovering over the input pin Stereo Mixers 4 8 or 16 stereo channels mixer with pan mute solo and 10db gain for each channel and a master 10db gain Note double clicking on Strip N will let you change the channel name on the window and in the status bar when hovering over the input pin Pan A simple pan Stereo Squeezer Squeeze the width of a stereo signal Continuous Surround Panner A mono to 5 speaker ITU panner using laws in which each output speaker feed is a sum of circular harmonics The output speaker feed is in order Left Surround Le Front Center Right Front and Right Surround Note double clicking on Strip N will let you change the channel name on the window and in the status bar when hoveri over the input pin Mono ITU Mixers 4 8 or 16 mono channels mixer with Continuous Surround Panner mute solo and 10db gain for each channel and a master 10db gain Note double clicking on Strip N let you change the channel name on the window and in the status bar when hovering over the input pin Modulation bidules Parameter Modulator Absolute Reads all samples of each buffer of the incom
3. Brings up the Polyphonic Adapter dialog if the bidule is suitable for polyphonic uses it needs to be a group have at least one MIDI input and at least 2 audio outputs 1 polyphonic adapter will treat this group as a synthesizer voice DSP Adapter Toggles the DSP Adapter on the selected group currently the DSP Adapter is only used to have a sub group of bidules run at a buffer size of 1 sample MP Assign only available in standalone mode Sets the current bidule to run on another thread unit which usually will also mean another core than the main one currently there is a maximum of 7 entries the main audio thread counts as one so you should see the number of cores on your computer minus one with a maximum of 7 Once a bidule is set to MP Assign everything connected upwards will ALSO be running on the other thread unit so you should make sure that the layout is not set up so that multiple bidules using MP Assign or not not all depends on the same upward bidule Processing Mode Sets the way the selected bidules are behaving in the patchbay choices are Process Mute Bypass this setting is also available on the bidule s GUI The Use Fades opi is to specify if the bidule should be using a fade window of about 5 ms on mode changes to prevent clicking the main reason to disable this option is when you use numbers and not an actual audio signal Cut Copy Paste Delete Cain e xl hf Presets Params Lock Random Mutate R
4. ReWire the devices are kept open no more ReWire errors when loading layouts containing a ReWire device you re already using You might need to turn off auto launching of the application in the ReWire device configuration dialog Virtual parameters dialog you can now double click to add remove parameters VST VST i s with no custom GUI now have proper preset management VST Added rename preset VST Implemented audioMasterGetDirectory VST VST i s only requesting tempo can now be synced Bug Fixes Accum looping not working correctly if maximum is changed once the looping has started All Crashes on dual proc machines All Bidules selection lasso not working after panning the patchbay All Crash when there is a polyphonic adapter in the default layout All Crash when there is no default layout All Group contents disappearing from Parameter window after using the Virtual Parameters dialog All Potential crash when using the Parameter Modulator on a parameter in a shown window All Group properties not wanting to remember that a group has no inputs no outputs All Terminal bidules still processing when inside a muted bypass group All Only 1 group entry instead of 2 when saving an existing group under a new name All Virtual parameters dialog always rebuilding the virtual parameters when pressing OK without keeping track of parent groups referencing the virtual parameters All Virtual parameters rename d
5. Takes incoming MIDI Note On events and use the MIDI note velocity to set the value of the corresponding exported parameter that you can link to any other parameter using the Parameter Linking window Particle Arpeggiator Modified version of Nate Robins s particle c example from the GLUT library In this version colliding particles trigger MIDI Each of the maximum 128 particles repre the 128 possible MIDI notes so do some tests You might not hear your synths right away The ToneGenerator works OK with this but as you know it is monophonic Num Particles the number of particles in the system Flow the flow of the particles Gravity the gravity for the system Show Balls show the ball Spectrum Colors Blue use the MIDI to spectrum color code or not Fountain Waterfall fountain or waterfall mode Point Size size of the particles e o oo o Program Change To Params Takes incoming MIDI Program Change events and use the Program Change number to set the value of the corresponding exported parameter that you can link to any o1 parameter using the Parameter Linking window RPN To Params Same as CC To Params but for RPN MIDI Registered parameters often used by hardware devices to access extra parameters RPN are actually composed of up to 4 M CC events MIDI Remappers bidules Aftertouch Remapper Multi Allows you to remap any Aftertouch event to a different Aftertouch event on a number basis Notice the extra toolbar button
6. Version 0 4001 pre beta Oct 22 2001 Added Ctrl left mouse button as deleter of connectors midi notes MIDI and Audio Devices appears with their real names in the menu Double clicking on a Bidule in the Patchbay brings up its GUI Version 0 4000 pre beta Oct 21 2001 Version 0 3003 alpha Sep 22 2001 New features Layouts Try the 3 new Bidule examples in layouts but dont use ASIO AudioBuffer Saved wav files now instantly appear in MediaPool Patchbay Bidules now have a size proportionnal to their max inputs outputs yay MediaPool Can now load many wav aiff au raw files at once ParticleSequencer Spectrum colored balls BugFixes Patchbay Seb added a feature that _we hope_ will solve lots of crashes that occur when adding removing connections in playback Patchbay Middle clicking hiting del made Bidule crash budz_ reported Menu First dummy entry on the menu reported missing main ben KVR reported VST Now looking EffectName then ProductString then dll name marc3poirier DFX suggestion ToneGenerator Noise s wavtable access noise sounded loopy Device Names Now generic execpt in patchbay to make sharing of bidule files a reality MoogVCF Fixed speaker destroyer side effect Version 0 3002 alpha Minor fixes Started Implementation of own CPU monitoring with overflow management 50 Version 0 3001 alpha Particle Sequencer now outputs MIDI Saves now workspace layouts
7. Version v0 9675 November 3rd 2008 Basic Audio Buffer 2 bidule with selectable loop points Waveviewer bidule to view the signal waveform Parameter Modulator abs trigger version Audio File Output Added W64 Comb Filter 2 now uses hermite interpolation Main window added Find bidule by name Main window added scan new plugins only menu entry MIDI To Sync overriden tempo is now saved within the layout MIDI To Sync added round tempo parameter VST AU plugins added user specified tail time many more little improvements Bug Fixes Crossover filter Sth order minimun frequency being enforced incorrectly Import drop of bidule files don t show all parameters in the parameters window MIDI 7bit CC could be used for feedback when 14bit should have been used MIDI Devices renaming Bidule virtual MIDI ports could lead to an endless loop of renaming Monitor changing the I O of a group while monitoring could cause a crash Multitap Delay taking more CPU than it used to Multitap Delay Basic Audio Buffer buffer allocation could possibly occur in realtime thread OS X backspace key not working as shortcut to delete parameter links OS X using cmd w shortcut to close an AU plugin window could lead to a crash OS X VST version could make Live menu dissapear OS X VST version could crash when deleting it from the host Parameters window deleting links with the delete key some
8. Added Clock Added stereo version of Audio Switchers Added stereo version of Audio Matrices Added stereo version of Input Selectors Added stereo version of Output Selectors Added large label control Monitoring added tooltips to view the complete input output name Sync Transport added loop mode Sync Creator added inputs to generate looping Sync Extractor added outputs for looping information Organize Presets added Toggle Read Only status button OSC added options to assume input messages parameters are normalized 0 1 and to send normalized values Value List 2 Value with extra outputs for current index number of entries and trigger for wraparound Bug Fixes Accum does not take start value into account without doing a reset Align Bidule with two bodies could end up with one body over the other AU better handling of preset changes when aupreset files have mismatched filename and internal name Bidules with two bodies could have their position not saved correctly Group using LED control with columns lead to strange UI look MIDI Buffer fixed possible crash Organize Presets it was possible to make presets disappear when selecting multiple presets to move OS X fixed some cases where Reaktor menu sometimes would not appear Step Sequencer fixed ancient bug that could cause bad event timing when looping Version v0 9691 August 24th 2009 Offline mode can now support
9. Basic AHDSR Envelope Basic AHDSR envelope same as the AHDSR envelope except that the values used are inputs instead of sliders Attack Input Attack time in ms Hold Input Hold time in ms Decay Input Decay time in ms Sustain Input Sustain level in e o o e Release Input Release time in ms e Gate Input gate input for the duration of the A H D and S parts of the envelope e Retrigger Input retrigger the AHDSR by sending a 1 The second output is an activity gate It will output 1 for the entire time that the envelope is active Basic Exponential Envelope Basic exponential envelope Same as the Exponential Envelope except that the decay time is an input instead of a parameter Envelope Follower Basic envelope follower The second output is an activity gate it will output 1 for the entire time that the envelope is active Exponential Envelope Exponential envelope The second output is an activity gate It will output 1 for the entire time that the envelope is active Graphical Trigger Envelope Graphical Trigger Envelope Multipoint envelope automation whose transversal is activated and reset by a trigger signal The base unit is in seconds You can move points and delete them using tt delete key once they are highlighted in blue you can select multiple points when holding the Ctrl Windows Command OS X key Synched Graphical Trigger Envelope Synched Graphical Trigger Envelope Same thing as a Graphical T
10. Saving Groups Group Manager Group Submenu Bidules can be grouped together to form a new bidule that you can save and see appear in the Palette This way instruments and effects can be built re used and shared Anything related to a group in Bidule is shown in italics labels in the patchbay items in the Parameter and Palette windows Creating a new group Selecting New from the Group submenu will pop up the Group properties dialog box in which you will be asked to input the configuration of the group you want to create E g its number of inputs or outputs and of which types its name etc The display path is to customize where your group will show up in the Palette and conte menu instead of simply showing up under Groups You need to use t without the quotes as a separator eg me tmyGroups tMyGroup will make MyGroup show u under me gt myGroups Group Properties E x m Inputs Samples 2 Midi fi Frequencies fo Magnitudes fo Outputs Samples 2 Midi fi Frequencies fo Magnitudes fo a Name r Author r Version my Effect me Major 1 Minor fo Cancel Creating a new group from a selection of bidules and links Select a few bidules and links on the patchbay right click on the selection and choose Group Group selected object s Group navigation Once a group is created or selected you can expand it by double clicking on it while holding
11. Takes a Frequency and Magnitude Signal and rebuilds the sound using the selected waveform types Spectral To Loudest Freq Amp Takes the frequency magnitude in input and outputs the loudest frequency with its amplitude Spectral To MIDI Take the loudest incoming frequency and outputs the nearest MIDI note in the well tempered scale for now Sustain Keeps the highest magnitude for each bin and decay them over time e Gate input send continuous to activate keep the sustain e Reset Trigger input send 1 to reset the sustain e Magnitude multiplier param the value to multiply the magnitude values kept in sustain e Frequency multiplier param the value to multiply the frequency values kept in sustain iFFT Spectral Domain to Time Domain Conversion using the Phase Vocoder Select your own windowing method Devices MIDI Device For MIDI input and output Audio Device For audio output and duplex output On Windows you should choose an ASIO driver in order to get lower latency figures On OS X most Core Audio device settings be just fine Building Blocks The building blocks bidules are aimed at the more experienced users Their main feature is that they have inputs for their main parameters instead of a GUI which mean that the parameter values are applied at each sample instead of at each block of samples With these you can design your own effects and synths Audio File Basic Audio Buffer Really basic audio buffer th
12. please try without this option checked if it makes any difference please advise the plugin authors that they do not support C locales properly Show CC Types dialog on learn On Each time MIDI Learn is used there will be a dialog asking for CC Types i e 7 14 bit relative Off 7bit MIDI CCs will always be used Use OpenGL acceleration Windows only On The video card will use its power to render the patchbay potentially antialiasing lines Off A default Microsoft software OpenGL renderer will be used If the graphics slows down or you get audio glitching when moving things around you may want to try both settings to see what your system prefers Skin Select the skin that will be used by Bidule Cable styles Toggle between cables as straight lines or as curves Install skins Use this to install skin distributed as zip files through Bidule instead of manually VST VST Plugins Path Set the path where Bidule can find your VST plugins this only exist for the Windows version as Bidule will automatically look to the standard locations in OS X Library Audio Plug Ins VST and HOME Library Audio Plug Ins VST VST by company names On sorts the VST plugins by company names Off sorts the VST plugins with the folder names in your VST plug ins folder VST by internal names On sorts the VST plugins by internal names Off sorts the VST plugins with the filenames AU AU by company names On sorts the AU plugins by company names Off flat
13. All currently playing notes will be protected warning the new note will NOT play Lowest Only the lowest note will be protected Highest Only the highest note will be protected Stealing Priority is the complementary option to the Note Protection It applies to the notes that are playing but that were not protected by the Note Protection algorithi Between all the unprotected playing notes which one will you choose to eliminate first Arbitrary Don t care the adapter will randomly steal one Quietest The quietest note will go first this is usually less noticeable when many notes are playing Closest to New This will steal the note thats the closest to the new note you want to play Oldest Will steal the note that s been playing for the longest period of time Newest Will steal the note that s been playing for the shortest period of time Retrigger This option is only available when you want to use the Polyphonic Adapter to create Monophonic Synths in order to benefit from its automatic Note playing CPU use management By clicking this option ALL MIDI Notes will be fed directly to the single mono voice group overlapping or not so you can use the Portamento features of the Note Extractor If this option is OFF only one note at time will arrive to the group Voice groups are not limited to being created as shown They can have more audio ins and outs All its audio ins will be a direct copy of audio data coming to the Adap from the outs
14. Crossfader added selection of fade type Matrixes added renaming of I Os Matrixes added 16 and 32 I Os versions MIDI File Player now uses the Mediapool OS X MIDI devices in patchbay now currently change their state when a device is disconnected reconnected OSC added possibility to have multiple OSC Creator using the same address Patchbay added dropping of bidule and bgrp files Parameter Pool GUI added possibility to select multiple targets at once Parameter Pool GUI added replace source target buttons Spectral Bin Delay Graph now use logarithmic display Spectral Graph can now use PVOC files from the Mediapool many more little improvements Bug Fixes AU scope part parameters aren t available Bidule AU added proper support for multiple outputs in Logic 8 OS X return enter copy paste can t be used in Comment many more fixes Version v0 95 July 13th 2007 Added preliminary support for multicore processing CC Value Remapper bidule Note Velocity Remapper bidule Groups are now kept in user space Mixing bidules Better parameter change smoothing Audio MIDI Switchers added 32 64 and 128 outputs versions MIDI CC Creator and Extractor Added 14bit option Unit Converter Added MIDI 14bit to Normalized and Normalized to MIDI 14bit options many more little improvements Bug Fixes Aligning bidules misbehaves if bidules have 2 bodies in patchbay LE
15. Indexed New Included groups Convolution XFade MIDI CC Lin to Log MIDI CC Inverter Stochastic MIDI Note Stochastic MIDI Note List Stochastic MIDI Seq Spectral EQ FreqTimeDub Added Parameter properties dialog where you can set the min max mutation factor of parameters Added Randomize parameters function also a controllable parameter Added Mutate parameters function also a controllable parameter Added Lock for randomize mutate function All slider controls now have a textbox to manually enter the value don t forget to hit enter Disk Streaming beta Added ReWire devices configuration dialog so you can set a default number of MIDI inputs audio outputs Faster FFT IFFT thanks to FFTReal by Laurent de Soras VST Added support for WaveShell 4 01 OS X Started adding some AltiVec optimizations Changes Audio File Output now automatically using wav format on Windows and aiff format on OS X Audio File Output now automatically adding wav on Windows and aiff on OS X to filenames CC Creator added a third input trigger to force creation of CC messages Freq Mag Binary Operator rename itself like Binary Operator General Renamed passthrough to bypass General Cut Paste Copy Undo Redo including linked parameters and sync Parameters window the bidule hierarchy now appear in the links window in the form groupName biduleName parameterName instead of just the bidule name
16. MP Assign Send To OSC Servers context menu when applied on a group all bidules inside the group will also be set to send to the selected OSC server Added Reorganize Presets Bug Fixes AU if an AU changes its list of parameters the original list could still be seen in the Parameter window AU some multi buses plugins would show extraneous i o AU Cocoa UI not hiding CombFilter 2 not working correctly when using a delay of 0 samples MIDI File Recorder pitchbend events could be recorded incorrectly MP Assign many little adjustments made that should fix some non working cases MP Assign MP Assigning inside a group could lead to more CPU usage than it should OS X plugin mode presets menu sometimes becoming non responsive ReWire device Bidule not able to start correctly in ReWire mode with Sonar under Vista VST plugin multi output not showing correctly in Sonar Windows windows for plugins and bidules could have their position slightly offset upon loading Version v0 9690 July 6th 2009 Most pop up messages will now auto dismiss after 5 seconds Bug Fixes AU plugin fixed possible crash that could occur on key down up after several closing opening of the AU window AU VST plugin fixed possible crash on wake from sleep if the plugin was not initialized completely but still loaded in RAM VST plugin OS X fixed crash that could occur on 10 5 on drag and drop when running as a plugin and
17. MP Assign FFT iFFT doesn t work if used with MP Assign VST loading Vienna Ensemble could cause a crash Version v0 9708 November 15th 2010 Bug Fixes AU some Cocoa based UI do not display Version v0 9707 November 10th 2010 Added support for 12 cores OS X 64 bit test version of the standalone now available ReWire added preference to enable the 64bit standalone to communicate with the ReWire device VST added support for plugins changing the number of inputs outputs through audioMasterIOChanged Bug Fixes MIDI To Sync fixed possible crash when loading an existing layout OS X crash could possibly occur on certain edge cases of MIDI input OS X crash can occur in host after last instance of AU VST is removed OS X crash could occur under some specific circumstances when plugging back a MIDI device Patchbay connect insert doesn t work with some signal types mismatch Polyphonic Adapter parameter links are not kept when using the Polyphonic Adapter Sync Transport uses more CPU when the UI is shown many more fixes Version v0 9705 July 5th 2010 Added LFSR Linear Feedback Shift Register Added Gate Clock Added Basic Audio File Player 2 Added attempting to load an audio file using OS functions if libsndfile fails OS X ExtAudioFile Windows Windows Media Format Audio File Player now behaves like audio and MIDI devices for MP Assign Added autosave mode Bug Fixes Gro
18. Min Max Pitch range of available pitches for the grains Change Pitch ratio of pitch changing Stretch1 2 stretching for the grains Fade length of the fade window for each grain Freeze freeze the contents of the internal buffer e o o o o o Deconcrisseur The bidule that F s Beyond Repair is a pseudo sample rate bit depth reducer e Sample Rate change the sampling rate of the incoming signal e Bit depth change the bit depth of the incoming signal Dither Apply high pass triangular PDF dithering adds ear friendly noise to prevent harsh quantification noise when down converting on an audio signal The 32 bit float point outputs samples coming out of this bidule will only contain the resolution of your chosen final bit depth so when another down conversion is made in the audio outputs OR the audio file outputs then nothing more will be taken out e Final bit depth the target width for result signal typically this will be 16 or 24 bits Noise shaping changes where the added noise is in the spectrum No Dither This allows you to hear what the non dithered BUT down converted signal would sound like without dither If you always doubted dithering made any difference heres your chance to know if you hear the improvements of dithering at more than 16bits then you really got good ears try a 880 Hz Sine wave tone generator as source for fun ee Notel This module possibly does a better job at dithering than the Di
19. OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ON INFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARIS FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE Xerces Copyright 1999 2004 The Apache Software Foundation Licensed under the Apache License Version 2 0 the License you may not use this file ex in compliance with the License You may obtain a copy of the License at http www apache org licenses LICENSE 2 0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing software distributed under the License is distributed on an AS IS BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND either express or implied See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License Bidule uses ASIO and VST technologies which are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Bidule uses ReWire the technology which is a trademarks of Propellerhead Software Stockholm Sweden a Re Wire Chapter 14 Plogue Bidule Revision History Revision History Version v0 9715 2011 ReWire 2 6 implementation 64 bit ReWire mixer and 64 bit ReWire device Basic Audio Buffers Multitap Delay added option to force an immediate cl
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21. Reset all which will reset all parameters their original value of no remapping CC Remapper Remaps all incoming MIDI CC events to the selected CC CC Remapper Multi Allows you to remap any CC event to a different CC event on a number basis Notice the extra toolbar button Reset all which will reset all parameters to their origina value of no remapping CC Value Remapper Remaps CC values according to the curve you can draw the curve or double click to generate an entire curve or segments by specifying start and end point and value well as the function for the slope CC Type Remapper Remaps CC values between absolute and the various relative types this will internally keep the current or last value and outputs CCs accordingly Channel Pressure Remapper Multi Allows you to remap any Channel Pressure event to a different Channel Pressure event on a number basis Notice the extra toolbar button Reset all which will reset al parameters to their original value of no remapping Channel Remapper Remaps all incoming MIDI events to the selected channel Channel Remapper Multi Remaps the channel of a MIDI event to any other channel on a number basis Notice the extra toolbar button Reset all which will reset all parameters to their original value of no remapping Message Remapper Multi Transforms a MIDI event into another on a type basis Note Off Velocity Remapper Remaps Note Off velocity values according to the curve you c
22. You will need to save the group again if you wish to keep the modification in your re useable group Saving Groups To save the visible group in the patchbay right click the patchbay and select Group Save current group To save a selected group right click on the group you want to s and select Group Save selected group Once a group is saved it will be accessible in the Palette under the Groups tree item To change its name rename it using the group properties dialog Group Manager The group manager is accessible using the main window menu bar under the Tools menu It allows you to download upgrade and delete groups The upper list show which groups can be installed or upgraded To update this list click the Get remote catalog button this will contact www plogue com and download a list of available groups Once a group is downloaded it is automatically available in the Palette window usually under the Group category but it may appear somewhere else Drau manager te Remote r Description Rebuilder 2 By Plogue Art et Technologie lt support plogue com gt Auto Wah 0 0 Beba An old classic revisited watch out for those ears of yours 4 Tap Delay 1 0 Plogue Art et Technologie Random Computer Tones 1 0 Plogue Art et Technologie MonoTone 1 0 Plogue Art et Technologie LFO 1 0 Plogue Art et Technologie Flanger 1 0 Plogue Art et Technologie PhatSynth 1 0 Plogue Art et Technologie CombTo
23. are created and used in the same way there are a few small differences in the they are saved Presets created for a bidule group are only used in that instance of the bidule group and are stored only in that bidule layout Presets present in a group when the group is saved as a bgrp file are saved into that group That is they will appear in every instance of the group added to the patchbay Group bidule presets saved as an independent bprs file can be loaded into that group bidule replacing the default presets in that single instance of the group bidule bp files can be saved in a Default folder location so that they appear every time the corresponding bidule group is added to the patchbay Preset Buttons FormantFilter_1 Rename click this to edit the name of the currently selected preset Add click this to create a new preset slot that is a copy of the first default preset in the set Add N click this to create multiple new preset slots that are copies of the default preset Add Copy click this to create a new preset slot that is a copy of the current preset Add Copy read only click this to create a new preset slot that is a copy of the current preset this preset will not save any changes and always revert to its original values Add N copies click this to create multiple new preset slots that are copies of the current preset Remove click this to remove the current preset slot from the set Load click thi
24. display for the current take number when using the Create new file for each record option e o o ooo o CC Latch Latch for MIDI CCs the state value 0 or value 127 changes when receiving a MIDI value of 127 CC Splitter Splits incoming CCs to the output corresponding to the CC Number CC To Params Same functionality as the CC linking feature from MIDI devices Can be used to extract CC from a MIDI device that might change user mangled or created MIDI CCs at the output of any plugin ReWire device that can output CCs CC Value Scaler Scale the value of incoming CC values between the selected range MIDI Delay Delays the MIDI events for a specified amount of time in milliseconds MIDI Delay Synced Delays the MIDI events for a specified amount of time in quarter notes the real amount of delay will be calculated using the sync source tempo Aftertouch Filter Filters out to the second output all unselected MIDI Aftertouch on a note basis Note the additional buttons in the toolbar Select all select all Aftertouch events Unselect all unselect all currently selected Aftertouch events Inverse selection invert the current selection Set Range show a dialog to specify a range of Aftertouch events to select e o o o Aftertouch Pressure Filter Filters out to the second output MIDI Aftertouch events with values outside of the specified range CC Filter Filters out to the second output all unselected MIDI CC on a C
25. division by 0 with the Sync Extractor Possible stuck notes when using the MIDI Note Transpose Linked parameters not copied when cutandpasting a group Unlinking parameters sometimes made other links dissapear from the list in the Parameter Pool GUI Sync link not being loaded correctly sometimes List of sync sources in the context menu showing more than it should Cut and pasting of bidules from inside a group to the outside sometimes causing weird connections VST plugins directory registry key is an empty value Specified Minimun sometimes not loading correctly for Parameter Modulator and Variable MIDI Note Creator sometimes not using the correct detune value on Note Off messages MIDI Note Extractor using a Ims glide even when none was wanted Version v0 5601 October 26th 2002 Added Spectral Freeze Bidule Improved ReWire timing precision Live s synch seldom flashes anymore Version v0 5600 October 20th 2002 Added Random Bidule New group Schottstaedt String Tone Optimizations in Portaudio library thanx again Ross Fixed VSTGUI Re Wire refreshes Fixed Sync Extractor Arpegiator group Version v0 5600RC1 ReWire Mixer support New bidules Building Blocks Accum Building Blocks Basic Audio File Player Building Blocks Basic Filter Building Blocks Binary Logic Operator Building Blocks Change Building Blocks Clip Building Blocks Counter Building Blocks Function Bui
26. each MIDI Channel once that MIL Note has occurred all MIDI events will be remapped to the associated MIDI Channel until another MIDI Note with an associated channel occurs MIDI Clock To Sync Its purpose is to transform a MIDI Timing Clock Clock Song Position Start Stop and Continue into Bidule internal sync info MIDI Clock synchronisation is an old legacy standard that is hard to emulate right in the slave software The results are a combination of MANY factors including your Bidule audio buffer latency lower the better MIDI driver jitter and timestamp precision and also the following settings Override tempo manually force a tempo instead of using the calculate value Tempo current tempo calculated or user specified Time signature numerator denominator time signature to use for Bidule sync this is not transmitted through MIDI Clock This cannot be changed while the Clock is active on the other end Hard Clock Resynch force resynch of the current position every n measures Use last n values number of last events used to calculate the average tempo the higher the more stable the tempo value but the longer it takes for changes to occur Round tempo round calculated tempo to the closest integer value will usually give a much more stable result ee eee MIDI To Value Convert the selection incoming MIDI Note or CC to a smoothed out signal at audio rate e CC select the CC to listen to in the incoming signal e Use Not
27. from MIDI gt e 1 Select and right click on your voice group e 2 Set the wanted settings in the Polyphonic Adapter dialog and press OK e 3 Use your newly made polyphonic synth Notice the little green number left of it This is a visual cue telling you its maximum polyphony Notice also that the second output has disapeared Well in fact it didn t disappear in reality the bidule you now see is the Polyphonic Adapter itself The Polyphonic Adapter is now well in place and monitors incoming notes given to it and and looks at the activity gates coming from all its hidden clones It can now manage the polyphony of your synth NOTE If you later want to modify your source voice you will first need to UnPolyphonise the adapter which will make it disapear and make your voice group reappear Advanced Polyphonic synth topics Details on the Polyphonic Adapter s voice management algorithms settings These settings affect the behaviour of the resulting synthesizer once a new note arrives and there are no more free voice group clones to play it The default settings work well provided you use a good number of voices like the default 12 so these settings should not be used carelessly Note Protection With this setting you can specify if you want certain notes to be protected from being stolen i e when there are no notes available and you want a ne note to play None No note will be protected any of them can be stolen All
28. in cents Always Retrig select this to send a trigger output even if the note is currently in legato portamento mode e 0o oo oe 000 Note that once a note is rececived the frequency and amplitude outputs will continue to output the previous note s information even if note becomes OFF gate 0 This is useful to allow for proper envelope release Please look at the PhatSynth group s internals for an example Note Extractor 2 MIDI note extractor similar to MIDI Note Creator 2 contrary to the MIDI Note Extractor this version doesn t keep memory of what note is on or off Frequency Output frequency value for the incoming MIDI note in Hz Amplitude Output velocity value remapped between 0 and 1 Note On Trigger Output sends a on a Note On event Note Off Trigger Output sends a on a Note Off event e o o Pitchbend Creator Creation of MIDI Pitchbend events from values events will be created automatically when the input value changes e Normalized Value Input the value for the Pitchbend remapped between 1 and 1 where 0 is no pitch change e Trigger Input send a to force the creation of a Pitchbend event even if the number hasn t changed e Auto detect value changes parameter keep track of the incoming values and create new events when there is change if this is off events are only created when a trigger is received Pitchbend Extractor Extraction of MIDI Pitchbend events When a Pitchbend event is received the output i
29. list of AU plugins ReWire Enable ReWire Mixer Enable the ReWire Mixer i e being able to use ReWire devices feature of Bidule ReWire stereo channels Enable disable Bidule ReWire slave outputs to show up as stereo in the ReWire master application ReWire MIDI Ports Select the number of ports you want to use in the Bidule ReWire device a port represent 16 MIDI channels some software limit the number of available MIDI outputs Re Wire virtual instruments software and physical outputs and will show each channel of each port as a possible MIDI output so you might want to set this to someth lower than 4 These will usually show up as Plogue Bidule Device Bus x Chn y in a ReWire mixer ReWire Channels Select the number of audio outputs for the Bidule ReWire device ReWire device always use adapter Force Bidule ReWire device to never attempt to do a direct match of the ReWire mixer buffer size and always buffer up Chances are you will be told to enable this fez following a support query and otherwise you shouldn t bother about it Disk VO Preferences for streaming file from and to disk don t touch if you re not sure what you re doing use WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE is the new Microsoft standard header created to support multichannel WAVE files and non standard bit depths as it is new not all edi understand what those files are at all while others expect all multichannel or 24bit files to be in that format Hence why yo
30. low latency ar low MIDI T O jitter using Bidule with your driver In any case look at the Current Latency Details text displayed in the GUI of your Audio Device in Bidule for more details If you get both input output buffer size gt match then you know you have the best settings if you get gt adapting then it probably means that it can be tweal a bit more Dither Audio Output Windows only When reducing the number of bits in audio samples its better to dither If your audio card only has a 16 bit DAC you should think of putting this on for a slight CPU increase Enable Connected IOs only Windows ASIO only Use this to have Bidule only use inputs and outputs from your audio interface when connected inside Bidule this is mainly useful for multi client ASIO drivers MIDI Virtual MIDI Ports OS X only The number of virtual MIDI ports named Bidule 1 to x created when Bidule launches Reduce MIDI Jitter OS X only When this is enabled Bidule will add a little latency to incoming MIDI events in order to keep the timing between events as accurate as possible This is usually useful when either using a larger i e greater than 10ms latency or using another application to send MIDI to Bidule compared to live playing Use Display Names OS X only gt On Use the names of MIDI devices as specified in Audio MIDI Setup Off Build the names of MIDI devices using manufacturer model and port Never Substitute Devices Wh
31. outputs from the master ReWire device to any desired instruments in Bidule and connect all audio from Bidule to the appropriate audio inputs on the Bidule ReWire device to send audio to the ReWire master application Special notes e Windows Digidesign hardware and software users before trying to use Bidule as a ReWire device please launch Bidule in standalone mode and go to the Preferences entry in the Edit menu and double click the Use Alternate ReWire Bridge entry The default ReWire bridge implementation is causing problems with the Digidesign drivers e Bidule will only receive tempo transport sync from the ReWire master if this one runs at a specific audio buffer size matching Bidule s 512 256 128 64 or 32 Running your ReWire master at one of those buffer sizes also guarantees you zero added latency when running with Bidule ReWire Sync When Bidule is in ReWire master mode most ReWire devices will be able to act as either Master or Slave sync interfaces This means that they can be slave or master 1 other devices other bidules like the Audio File Looper and plugins requiring sync timing information Starting play in the slaved ReWire application will start play all items synched to the ReWire bidule If the ReWire device is synched to a master in Bidule then its playing will not start until the tempo master in Bidule gets startec When Bidule is in ReWire slave mode the ReWire device can only act as a tempo master Bidule sti
32. starts a bar too late MIDI voice counter sometimes doesn t reset to 0 although there are no voices currently opened Mouse moves sometimes causes unintended selection move Offline mode freezing single core cpu machines running Leopard OSC Creator doesn t allow to send messages without arguments OSC Extrator messages are lost if multiple messages are sent to the same address between two audio callbacks OSC Extractor MIDI don t work if OSC Server is started after adding either to the layout OS X accentuated chars in bidule group connector names aren t saved correctly OS X some media files refusing to load based on some characters in their paths and or names Plugin version sound becomes distorted in some variable buffer size cases Polyphonic Adapter reducing the number of voices could lead to a crash ReWire device not working with Cubase 4 1 Sync Transport not working correctly with Sync To MIDI Clock on pause restart VST version not working with Sound Forge and Wavelab many more fixes Version v0 96 October 25th 2007 Added possibility to use read only preset vs dynamic snaphots in bidules groups AU added support for AUs with MIDI output and MIDI output in Bidule AUs MIDI Note On To Value List bidule MIDI RPN To Params bidule MIDI NRPN To Params bidule OSC Creator 2 bidule Spectral EQ bidule Spectral Analyzer bidule Audio File Player Recorder can now read write FLAC
33. the CTRL Windows Command OS X key To go back to the parent grot hit the BACKSPACE Windows TAB OS X key You can also use the menu items found under the Group menu in the contextual menu right click on a group to ac it Once inside a group you will see a white text line at the bottom of the patchbay This line identifies the current location ie inside a group or several subgroups ASIO for EWS88 MT D duplex EWS88 MT MIDI in _ MIDI Gate lt xi z Presets Params Lock Random Mutate Mode Processing gt MIDI Note Extractor Attack fo 200 Decay 55 847 ADSR Envelope Sustin e io Release fi 0 000 ASIO for EWS88 MT D duplex MIDI Gate 1 Using the group 2 Editing the group Exporting group parameters It is possible to select parameters from the children of a group and export them as parameters for the group itself For example create a group and add a Gain bidule inside it Select Group Parameters from the contextual menu Select the amplitude item in the tree to the left and click Add Select the Amplitude parameter that jus appeared in the list at right click Rename and enter a new name for this exported parameters for example Final Amplitude Click OK to close the rename dialo and click OK once again to close the Exported Group Parameters dialog For advanced users you can also change the type of control used to represent the paramete
34. to load existing working audio files Mediapool could not load some MIDI files MIDI Buffer 0 length shouldn t be available MIDI File Looper outputs incorrect syncing Replace could crash on dual proc machines ReWire devices go back to the beginning of their timeline when switching processing on off Spectral Freeze could crash when saving a file Spectral Inverter could crash on some settings Sync Transport sometimes outputs wrong syncing info Trigger Clock doesn t reset itself correctly when making it inactive VST previous parameter value is shown in the status bar of generic ui VST OS X problems when loading files containing Kontakt instances Version v0 8 March 9th 2005 You can now use your USB joysticks mouse keyboard and other HID devices as MIDI controllers and parameter sources see Misc HID Data Extractor DX9 on Windows is HIGHLY suggested DX8 is however the minimum no extras are needed on Mac OS X Mediapool now shows more AudioFile details including bpm bars beats and includes whole new tabs for MIDI and PVOC files New and improved Audio File Looper with graphical loop points editing variable number of beats bars meter adaption and time stretching old looper has been renamed to Boboche Looper New Modules 12 14 16 24 and 32 channels Audio File Player 12 14 16 24 and 32 channels Audio File Recorder Mono Dither just duplicate by hand for the number of channels yo
35. use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF AN KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE Portaudio PortAudio Portable Real Time Audio Library Copyright c 1999 2000 Ross Bencina and Phil Burk Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any pers obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject tc following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY
36. use any maths or random thing to drive the current event MIDI Dummy The do nothing bidule as requested by Bram at martelectronix In his words No software is complete without a do nothing part it balances yin and yang it s the meta essence of Zen Sync Transport Standard transport bar that can also act as a sync source Variables Multi User drawn set of values with either an output for each one or an input to select the current one Wave Folder This will substract from the incoming values the amount over the set clipping value typically use on a sine signal to generate a more complex signal the folding over c happen multiple times if the operation with the clipping value difference goes over the other side clipping value The Rescale output parameter will multiply the output signal so that the lowest and highest value become 1 and 1 XY Little XY mouse pad to control parameters through signal or parameter linking e Origin at bottom left toggles between having the 0 0 point in the upper left and bottom left Mixing bidules Crossfader A simple crossfader where you can select the type Cos Sin fade using cos and sin law will give a 3dB boost in center position but it is what the human ears want Linear Linear fade using linear no boost in center will sound thin Cos Linear fade using cos for the left signal and linear for the right signal Linear Sin fade using linear for the left signal and sin for the right signal e o
37. using the processing pow Input Selector 8 audio ins 1 in to select the input you want to output If the value you send for the input to use isn t a integer number the output will be a crossfade between 2 inputs MIDI Matrix 8 16 32 ins 8 16 32 outs device with a grid to select the routing Left of the grid is the outputs and top of the grid is the inputs The Close MIDI Notes option will automatically close any opened MIDI Notes when turning off a cell MIDI Switcher Same as the audio switcher but for a MIDI signal MIDI Switcher 2 ports Same principle as the switchers except that the added MIDI port is use as the control to receive Program Change the first port input is directly forwarded to the currentl selected output Output Selector 8 audio out 1 audio in 1 in to select the output you want to route the input to If the value you send for the output to use isn t a integer number the input will be panned between 2 outputs Spectral bidules Bin Delay A user drawable graph to specify the delay up to 5000ms for each of the FFT analysis band Bin Delay wrong A user drawable graph to specify the delay up to 5000ms for each of the FFT analysis band mostly kept for compatibility reasons but does have a distinct sound Cherizer The name is a hint Changes the all the incoming frequencies of the input signal to the nearest ones in the well tempered scale for now Crossfader Crossfades 2 Freq Mag pairs FFT Time Domain t
38. value Reset Trigger Input when a is received resets the accumulated value to the minimum Inclusive Lower Bound Input lower bound of the accum Exclusive Higher Bound Input upper bound for the accum Wrap Around Output outputs a 1 when wrapping from max to min value ee7eeee ee Binary Logic Operator Simple logic operator e Left Side Argument Input input for the left side argument of the logic operator Right Side Argument Input input for the right side argument of the logic operator Binary Operator Math binary operators e kk MIN MAX LOUDEST QUIETEST atan2 e oe eo ee 00060 Change Monitors the incoming signal and outputs 0 when the current sample value is the same as the previous one when it s greater and 1 when it s lower Clip Clips the incoming signal between the specified minimum and maximum values Don t forget to hit ENTER to validate a value you just typed Constant Useful set of available constants you can also specified your own Counter Simple counter with specified minimum and maximum values Don t forget to hit ENTER to validate a value you just typed e Number of samples to increment at Input used to specify the counting interval I e increment at each 10000 samples e Reset Trigger Input send a to reset the counter Function Mathematical expression with up to 3 variables fed into the three inputs that is evaluated at each sample Don t forget to hit ENTER to va
39. 0 9687 May 25th 2009 Added number of columns field in the Group Parameters window Added display path field in the Group Properties window Bug Fixes AU Plugin some MIDI events could be lost in some hosts Context Menu MP Assign submenu can disappear after using the context menu on a group of objects Devices loading a bidule made with another audio MIDI device changes the display name of the current device Graphical Envelope fixed possible infinite loop Groups crash could occur if reordering group parameters when there is a group parameter linked to another group parameter Groups crash could occur when deleting a group under some specific combination of sync source sync to and groups MIDI fix possible issue where multiple events occuring on the same sample tick could become out of order Monitoring crash could occur when using replace with the monitoring window visible OSC Extractor Depending on the address pattern and other Extractors changing the address could lead to messages not being processed anymore OSC Monitor Unresponsiveness can occur after a large number of messages OSC hanging can occur if cut pasting OSC sending bidules while sending OSC messages OS X saved renamed virtual MIDI ports are not renamed upon loading back the file Relative Parameter Modulator used as group parameters could lead to strange issues VST plugin OS X added code to prevent crash when opening the UI in Resolume Avenue VST plugin L
40. Bidule v0 97 user manual Sebastien Beaulieu Vincent Trussart David Viens Copyright 2001 2010 Plogue Art et Technologie Inc Table of Contents 1 Introduction Bidule s Concepts 2 User Interface Palette Bidules Find Next Use Next History Patchbay Modules aka bidules Connectors Basic Bidules Connections Advanced Bidules Connections Context Menu Mouse Usage and Hot Keys Toolbar Features Parent Go up a level Parameters MediaPool Palette On Off Preferences User Interface VST AU ReWire Disk I O DSP MIDI Main menu Menubar File Menu Edit Menu Tools Menu Bidules Toolbar Presets Parameter Properties Dialog Parameter Locking Dialog 3 Synchronizing tempo and musical position between modules 4 Bidules Audio File bidules Audio Buffer Boboche Looper Granulator Looper Player Recorder Effects bidules Buffer Granulator Deconcrisseur MIDI File MIDI File Recorder Sync Creator Sync Extractor Trigger Trigger Clock 5 VST and VSTi support Input outputs configurations Tempo Sync Plugins availability VST banks and parameters vs MIDI CCs and program changes VST errors reported by Bidule Yet to be implemented VST Features 6 ReWire support Bidule ReWire support Basics ReWire Devices Config ReWire Slave Basics ReWire Sync Sending MIDI to ReWire Devices Troubleshooting ReWire Proble
41. Breeder Frequency Shifter Frequency Inversion Improved modules Delay Line Fully interpolating output depending on variable delay lenghts Variable now has user definable min max ranges and convenient slider VST reporting errors at the end of scan only can be terminal MIVI now works can generate VstTimeInfo be master lots of things i dont remember manual loading of FXP FXB started will be complete in 0 5000 no RC New Parameters Better efficiency in linking CC mapping lots more routing flexibility Bug Fixes misc opengl fixes ATI128 crash misc vst hosting fixes and little optimisations here and there Version v0 4501 May 12 2002 Bug Fixes ASIO devices detection logic in PortAudio OpenGL crashes with some cards please try with your own VST GUI ASIO crackles on some plugins VST loaded from bidule causing infinite loop VST protection from GUI coordinates fetch VST saving binary chunk states VST subdirs changed detection for auto scan Loss of sound in iFFT using Frequency Binary ops Patchbay panning directions inverted Version v0 4500 Apr 23 2002 Bug fixes ASIO devices fixes PlogueBiduleASIO exe can now play the tutorial layouts New Windows help file and splash and more Version v0 4500 RC1 Apr 16 2002 New modules Mixer 8 mono ins stereo out Buffer Granulator beta Spectral To MIDI beta Spectral Cherizer beta New features MIDI Splitter
42. C message e Parameter to 8 Outputs parameters for the OSC message e Trigger on message received Ouput sends a 1 when an OSC message is received at the specified address OSC MIDI Send and receive MIDI using OSC the OSC address it sends to and receives from is the path and name of the bidule appended with MIDI e g OSC_MIDI_0 MIDI if in the root of a layout GroupName OSC_MIDI_0 MIDI if it s inside a group named GroupName and that group is in the root of the layout The expected message fon is 3 integer parameters representing the 3 MIDI bytes an optional fourth float parameter can be use to apply a detune in cents Oscillators Basic Oscillator A simple oscillator with a bandlimited or not signal Frequency Input frequency value in Hz e Amplitude Input amplitude value between 0 and 1 e Phase Reset Input trigger input to reset the phase to 0 e Phase Offset Input input for the value to use as the applied phase offset By using a combination of phase reset phase offset you can create for example PWM or Phase Distortion synthesis Noise Generates different types of noise white and pink for now Pulse A simple pulse generator e Frequency Input frequency value in Hz e Amplitude Input amplitude value between 0 and 1 e Number of Harmonic Input number of harmonics present in the pulse Random Generates random values at the specific rate e Rate Input rate at which new values are generated e Amplitude Input
43. C number basis Note the additional buttons in the toolbar Select all select all CC events Unselect all unselect all currently selected CC events Inverse selection invert the current selection Set Range show a dialog to specify a range of CC events to select e o CC Value Filter Filters out to the second output MIDI CC events with values outside of the specified range Channel Filter Filters out to the second output all unselected MIDI events on a MIDI Channel number basis Note the additional buttons in the toolbar Select all select all channels Unselect all unselect all currently selected channels Inverse selection invert the current selection Set Range show a dialog to specify a range of channels to select e o o Channel Pressure Filter Filters out to the second output all unselected MIDI Channel Pressure events on a number basis Note the additional buttons in the toolbar Select all select all Channel Pressures Unselect all unselect all currently selected Channel Pressures Inverse selection invert the current selection Set Range show a dialog to specify a range of Channel Pressures to select e o o o Channel Pressure Pressure Filter Filters out to the second output MIDI Channel Pressure events with pressure values outside of the specified range Comparison Filter Filter out to the second output MIDI events according to the selected Comparison value and operator the event valu
44. Cs in a single bidule this will keep track of the last value for all CCs and only output a new CC if the incoming value has changed e CC Normalized Value Input the CC value remapped between 0 and 1 CC Extractor Extraction of MIDI CC events When a CC event is received the outputs are changed to reflect that value e CC Number Output the number of the CC e CC Normalized Value Output the CC value remapped between 0 and I e 14bit CCs Mode interpret CCs 0 to 31 32 63 as 14bit instead of pair of 7bit CC Extractor Multi Extraction of all 128 MIDI CCs ina single bidule e CC Normalized Value Output the CC value remapped between 0 and 1 Channel Extractor Extraction of the MIDI Channel of any incoming MIDI event e Channel Number Output the channel number for the event Channel Pressure Creator Creation of MIDI Channel Pressure events It stores the last value and will output an event only if the value has changed The amount of created events is bound by the MIDI specifications which means about a thousand events per second e Channel Pressure Normalized Value Input the Channel Pressure value remapped between 0 and 1 e Trigger Input to force the creation of a Channel Pressure event otherwise only created when the number or value input has changed e Auto detect value changes parameter keep track of the incoming values and create new events when there is change if this is off events are only created when a trigger is received C
45. D release time is too long No dialog showing up when a bidule can t be added to the layout Removing a bidule with no output from a layout could cause a crash ReWire an extra initialization of Bidule could occur upon loading Trying to load a large audio file in the mediapool could cause a crash VST parameter values aren t updated correctly upon loading for some plugins VST crashes could occur if a plugin refused to initialize correctly Windows DI8 Device type not shown in HID Extractor many more fixes Version v0 94 March 13th 2007 Added easy dis connect when holding the Alt key OSC Creator added force int values parameter ReWire device now configurable with up to 96 audio outputs Added drag and drop of media files in the patchbay and on Mediapool using bidules Level Meter bidule MIDI Monitor 2 bidule many more little improvements Bug Fixes Fixed some memory leaks OSC Creator not accepting addresses with multiple slashes OS X MIDI device added notification sometimes not handled OS X plugin not drawing correctly in non compositing windows Plugin crash when switching to a layout with no plugin device Plugin MIDI devices not being seen in some cases SDK mediapool param wasn t updated on add remove files SDK not showing their parameters in the OSC address space Spectral Bin Delay doesn t sound correct when all bins are equally delayed Sync To MIDI cou
46. Extractor Gate C MIDI Note Extractor MIDI Note Extractor Trigger d Attack Decay Sustain Release ADSR Output ADSR Envelope ADSR Activity Gate Oscillator Waveform Osc output h MonoTone 1 The MIDI Note Extractor does the job of separating the note information encoded into the MIDI stream in a sample accurate manner More precisely it decodes the MIDI Note On and MIDI Note Off messages This is what it outputs e a Frequency value for the incoming MIDI note with pitch bend applied in Hz e b Amplitude velocity value remapped between 0 and 1 NOTE ON only e c Gate signal Set to 1 on MIDI note ON until a MIDI note OFF is received in which case it s 0 e d Trigger Set to 1 on the sample on which the MIDI note is received and 0 at any other time Please see the bidules section for more details on this bidule Once a MIDI note OFF is received the frequency a and amplitude b it outputs stay at the same values they had when the note was still ON This allows for the rest of the group to continue computing the release of the note If we don t do this the note will stop abruptly creating an unwanted glitch Because the Gate output falls from 1 to 0 as soon as the Note is OFF that s where the ADSR comes in handy 2 Following down it s up to the ADSR to generate a normalized between 0 1 envelope signal e which is independent of the note ampl
47. I event so you can see directly from the patchbay what the value is by default this shows the hexadecimal value but there is a parame to enable a user friendly display MIDI Monitor For the geek in you wanting to see it all passing by all in hexadecimal Tick Bidule internal tick counter for the current buffer BO sample offset inside the buffer for the MIDI event ST status byte of the MIDI event D1 first data byte of the MIDI event D2 second data byte of the MIDI event CH channel of the MIDI event Event short string representation for the MIDI event e o oo o MIDI Monitor 2 A human readable version of MIDI Monitor WaveViewer Lets you see the last few seconds of audio as in an audio editor Routing bidules Audio Matrix 8 16 32 ins 8 16 32 outs device with a grid to select the routing Left of the grid is the outputs and top of the grid is the inputs The Use fade windows option will add fade in and fade out when a cell is turned on and off Audio Switcher Switch the audio input between the 16 outputs by sending a MIDI program change or choosing the output in the GUI Each output has a processing mode parameter tha you can see in the Parameters dialog and link to another bidule or group of bidules processing mode parameter When the output is selected the parameter is set at Processing and when it is de selected it is set at Mute With this it is possible to have complex layouts and having only the wanted bidules
48. Only does Hilbert 90 degree phase shift for now And coeffs are only valid in 44100 or 48000 sampling rates for now FIR Table Brute force convolution through a loaded impulse or a user drawn waveform length can be set by user fading out the impulse is optional but recommended if the impu is longer than the maximum length e Audio Input input for the audio signal e Audio Output convolution result e Latency in samples latency introduced by the convolution depending on the parameter values Gate Simple bidule that outputs 1 while the checkbox is on and 0 otherwise Gate Clock Simple bidule that outputs 1 for a specified duration then 0 e of samples for the gate to be active the clock length e Reset Clock trigger input to reset clock MIDI Activity Outputs a 1 at each sample a MIDI event occurs Aftertouch Creator Creation of MIDI Aftertouch events It stores the last value for any given Aftertouch note number and will output an Aftertouch event only if the value has changed Th amount of created events is bound by the MIDI specifications which means about a thousand events per second Aftertouch Note Number Input the note number of the Aftertouch event to create Aftertouch Normalized Value Input the Aftertouch value remapped between 0 and 1 Trigger Input to force the creation of an Aftertouch event otherwise only created when the number or value input has changed Auto detect value changes parameter keep track of the in
49. Optimized band limited osc Misc Groups manager bugs fixed Version v0 5000RC1 July 15th 2002 New features Bidule Grouping ability Pre made example groups 4 Tap Delay Comb Tone PhatSynth Flanger Freeverb based on Jezar s famous reverb public domain LFO MIDI Gate MonoTone Random Computer Tones SimpleFM Group Manager up to date live info from plogue com s Catalog of of freely downloadable groups Unified Audio Device Types now one exe for ASIO DS MM Bidule Palette Patchbay CTRL drag for n to n connections CUT and Paste of bidules connections Default Patch New modules Oscillator new name of tone generator New choice of bandlimited tones on off Freq amp trig phase inputs MIDI Note Extractor extracts freq amp gate trig from MIDI notes Can only do monophonic tones right now polyphonic and portamento managers in next version Sample And Hold Math Constant with many usefull defaults like current SampleRate Logic Gate Unit Converter ms 2 samples dB to Linear etc Envelopes Exponential ADSR Envelope Follower Filters Crossover Biquad Comb Allpass Monitoring Audio Monitor MIDI Midi 2 value smoothly interpolates CC s into audio Mixing Stereo Squeezer Stereo image width reducer Routing Audio switcher MIDI switcher Spectral Magnitude Stretcher Magnitude Breeder Magnitude Shifter Frequency Stretcher Frequency
50. Trigger Trigger Clock Audio File bidules Audio Buffer Fun little device we think here s how it works Mode Bypass sound passes through it unaltered Capture captures audio for a certain length in RAM Playback plays back what was recorded in Capture mode Buffer Size change the length of the playback buffer in seconds Bit Depth File Recording saves current buffer to the specified filename and bit depth and then loads it in MediaPool making it available to Audio File Loopers Playback Amplitude change the volume of the output Boboche Looper Loops files loaded into the MediaPool Syncable Audio file select a file from the MediaPool Add Files shortcut to add audio files to the MediaPool Speed change the playback speed of the audio file Amplitude change the volume of the output Interpolation calculation method for interpolating samples when playing at speeds different than 1x Granulator Mad grain loop audio file playback Audio file select a file from the MediaPool Add Files shortcut to add audio files to the MediaPool Min Max Static Length range of available sizes for the grains Zero Percent adjust the ratio of silence vs grains Min Max Pitch range of available pitches for the grains Change Pitch ratio of pitch changing Stretch 1 2 stretching for the grains Fade length of the fade window for each grain Looper Main short ram based Audio File Player in Bidule Main Section Audio file selec
51. a 1 is received the playing will continue for as long that 1 is received in this input Play Position Input wanted index position to play at each sample Record Gate Input once a 1 is received the recording will continue for as long that 1 is received in this input Record Position Input wanted index position to record at each sample of samples in buffer Output use this to know the upper bound to use in the play position input use this to know the upper bound to use typically in an Accum in the position inputs Loop in point output The index in the buffer for the loop start point as driven by the UI or parameter linking Loop out point output The index in the buffer for the loop end point as driven by the UI or parameter linking eeeeseeeee ee Basic Audio File Player Really basic file player that let you decide which position index to play Audio File select a file from the MediaPool Add Files shortcut to add audio files to the MediaPool Interpolation calculation method for interpolating samples when playing at speeds different than 1x Play Trigger Input send a to start the playback of the file Play Gate Input once a trigger is received the playing will continue for as long that is received in this input Play Position Input wanted sample to play at each sample Amplitude Input wanted amplitude to apply to the output of samples in audio file Output use this to know the upper bound to use in the play position input or to
52. abled if applying the offset make the value go out of range the result will be wrapped around instead of clipped Note Transposer Alters the incoming MIDI notes by the specified semitones detune and velocity value e Wrap Around when enabled if applying the offset make the value go out of range the result will be wrapped around instead of clipped Program Change Transposer Alters the incoming MIDI Program Change events number by a specified amount e Wrap Around when enabled if applying the offset make the value go out of range the result will be wrapped around instead of clipped Velocity Scaler Like a MIDI dynamics compressor e Lowest Highest Velocity range to remap all incoming note velocities e Master Attenuation attenuation for all incoming notes MIDI File bidules MIDI File Looper Standard MIDI file player Use MIDI files loaded into the Mediapool This module is also a sync master Loop players and other modules synched to is should follow a bpm and time signature changes embedded in the file The Speed parameter can be used to slow down or accelerate the playback of the file Note the Speed parameter no effect if the Looper is synced to a source MIDI File Player Standard MIDI file player Two versions are currently available the merged tracks and non merged up to 32 tracks versions In case of doubt use the merged versioi and split the outputs using a Channel Splitter This module is also a sync master Loop
53. am capturing softwares are installed such would usually install an audio driver and set it as the default output device to be able to capture If all this fails please send us the bidule log file that was created by Bidule at the moment of the crash Chapter 13 Acknowledgements Seb would like to thank his computer for so kindly taking the verbal abuse David would like to take a moment of silence for all of those dead PC keyboads and also to thank Martine parce qu elle aime ses schemas Vincent is somewhere on his bike Plogue sends thanks to Bob Bram Eric Mattson Merlijn Rene fsm ers Igb Kyle tester extraordinaire atariboy for the new default skin Steffen Laurent and everyone on the Plogue mailing list and phorum Plogue would also like to thank the following groups individuals for their support DSP Consultancy Smart Electronix Music DSP Source Code Archive for all those tips and tricks libsndfile LGPL library from Erik de Castro Lopo Mach API tips by Alex from Rogue Amoeba PortAudio library from Ross Bencina Phil Burk and many others wx Widgets library Laurent de Soras Productions for FFTReal and many other tips DestroyFX Sophia Poirier for the dfx au utilities library Xerces library of XML parsers in Java and C Formulc 2 22 A byte compiler for mathematical functions LGPL Library Plogue modified sources available on demand Nate Robins For original GLUT Particle C sources curl COPYRIGHT AND
54. amplitude value between 0 and 1 Sample And Hold Basic sample and hold e Audio Input input for the audio signal e Trigger Input input for the signal with zero crossings Sanitizer Cleans the incoming signal of denormals infinite and nans Smoother Smooths the incoming signal to avoid jumping values mainly aimed to be used on control signals Stack Stack for samples that can be set either as FIFO first in first out i e samples comes out in the same order they came in or LIFO last in first out i e samples comes out the opposite order they came in Value Input send your value here Pop Trigger Input send a to remove the next sample from the stack Push Trigger Input send a 1 put the sample from the Value input at the current sample index in the stack Value Output outputs the popped sample Empty Stack Trigger Output sends a 1 when the last element of the stack has been popped Sync Creator You can use this bidule to create your own sync source to control other bidules and plugins e Playing Gate Input send 1 continuously for play and 0 for stop e Tempo in BPM Input input for the tempo the time signature can be set on the GUI Reset Position at 0 Trigger Input send a 1 here to reset the position a Oppq e Offset in PPQ Input offset to use when creating the sync information as the creator uses its own timeline and restarts at 0 when requested Sync Extractor You can sync this bidule to any master bidule to use s
55. an draw the curve or double click to generate an entire curve or segments by specifying start and end pc and value as well as the function for the slope Note Remapper Remaps all incoming MIDI Notes to the selected note Note Remapper Multi Remaps any incoming MIDI Note event to any other Note on a note number basis Notice the extra toolbar button Reset all which will reset all parameters to their original value of no remapping Note Velocity Remapper Remaps Note On velocity values according to the curve you can draw the curve or double click to generate an entire curve or segments by specifying start and end pc and value as well as the function for the slope PC Remapper Multi Remaps any incoming MIDI Program Change event to any other Program Change on a program number basis Notice the extra toolbar button Reset all which will res all parameters to their original value of no remapping Splitter Splits a MIDI signal into 16 different outputs e Channel A MIDI Event is routed to the output according to its channel number channel 1 goes to the first output channel 16 to the last e Program Change The program number of a Program Change event will change the current output e Note FIFO first in first out assignment of outputs according to the current number of voices playing 1st opened voice goes to the first output 2nd opened voice to the second Step Sequencer With the step sequence editor you can edit a gr
56. ange add for subtract the integer is negative The Passthrough version will let the incoming signal go through instead of having to use endpoint bidules Monitoring bidules Audio Monitor For the geek in you wanting to see it all passing by Values refreshed about every 90ms Min minimum sample value since the last reset Max maximum sample value since the last reset Tick Bidule internal tick counter for the current buffer Value value of first sample in the buffer e o o Audio Stats Displays some statistics for the current audio buffer First Sample value of the first sample in the buffer Last Sample value of the last sample in the buffer Minimum Sample value of the smallest sample in the buffer Maximum Sample value of the largest sample in the buffer Average Sample average value of all samples in the buffer e o o Audio Value Display Renames itself to the current value so you can see directly from the patchbay what the value is Frequency Value Display Renames itself to the current value so you can see directly from the patchbay what the value is the display bin value is selected from the Bin Number input Level Meter Level meters you can insert anywhere in the layout Magnitude Value Display Renames itself to the current value so you can see directly from the patchbay what the value is the display bin value is selected from the Bin Number input MIDI Value Display Renames itself to the current MID
57. at let you decide which index position to record play Take note that play has priority on record meaning that if the buffer is both playing ar recording the buffer will output the sample at the given position inside the buffer before replacing it with the new one e Size in ms the length of the audio buffer in memory e Interpolation method used to interpolate samples when the playback speed is different than 1 0 e Audio Input input for the audio signal you might want to record e Play Position Input wanted index position to play at each sample e Play Gate Input once a is received the playing will continue for as long that 1 is received in this input e Record Gate Input once a is received the recording will continue for as long that is received in this input e Record Position Input wanted index position to record at each sample e Clear Contents Trigger input send a trigger here to erase the contents of the buffer e of samples in buffer Output the total amount of samples ie sample rate multiplied by time available in the buffer use this to know the upper bound to use typically in an Accum in the position inputs Basic Audio Buffer 2 An evolution of the Basic Audio Buffer to include a display where you can set the in and out points also throuh parameter linking of the contents of the buffer Notic extra and buttons mouse wheel can also be used in the toolbar to zoom in and out This is a simplified version where the p
58. automatically build an address fro the location and name of the bidule and the parameter name see the OSC Server Implementation section for more details Note you might need to change your firewa software settings to allow Bidule to send messages through the network What can I do with OSC Lots of things like Use one copy of Bidule with dummy empty groups with lots of variables arranged so the auto built OSC addresses are significant to control another copy of Bidule running on a more powerful computer Use another software supporting OSC to control Bidule Use one of the multiple available bindings for OSC to create a customized interface to control Bidule Etc Chapter 12 Troubleshooting e Windows Grey Patchbay or heavy crash at startup in graphic driver dll This usually happens when the driver for your video card doesn t support OpenGL correctly Please make sure that you have the most recent drivers by visiting yc video card manufacturer s website Please note that Bidule requires a properly working OpenGL driver To test your current configuration for OpenGL please download and try the two following te in order o OpenGL Test OpenGL Test2 o If these two tests are working there are good chances that Bidule will Bidule works best with any nVidia or ATI Radeon chipsets Microsoft s default software rendering works fine too ATI128 3Dfx Voodoo3 S3 Savage have OK OpenGL drivers Many problems wer
59. bug preventing some plugin to work correctly OS X updated Portaudio library should make more audio drivers work OS X Mbox is not detected OS X and lots of other tweaks fixes Spectral to MIDI Sending multiple notes on off if the note doesn t change Step Sequencer Size not remembered when loading a bidule SynchedArpegiator Syncing not working correctly VST Plugins not outputting sync info when they should VST Crashes with plugins erroneously reporting to be able to use chunks VST Processing mode not remembered when loading a bidule VST Generic GUI not updating for plugins internally updating their parameter values VST Complete Bank not saved when saving a bidule file and the plugin doesn t support chunks Windows bidule log file sometimes not created in the directory where Bidule is installed Windows Double clicking on a file containing a space in its name or path not working Win98 ME The infamous 98 ME bug hopefully Version v0 5701 February 26th 2003 New Modules MIDI CC Creator Recursive Function Bug Fixes Fixed PortAudio bug for ASIO cards using int24 for input EX Edirol UA 20 Fixed parameter linking Support for Waves plugins proxy waveshell dll Bad contents of Step Sequencer upon pasting Version v0 5700 February 8th 2003 New Polyphonic Adapter to make polyphonic synths out of mono groups Some audio processing optimizations Now using si
60. c implementation Windows Optional dithering of output to sound card Windows Mixing is done in SSE when there s multiple connections New Ctrl Command D shortcut for copy paste in one step Original bidule type is shown in the statusbar if the bidule was renamed groups can now be rescanned separately from plug ins Bug Fixes Sometimes duplicate connections are created Audio MIDI devices only 1 entry show up when multiple devices with the same name Accum loop mode wraps to start value 1 AU dynamically added parameters don t show in the Parameter Pool Audio File Buffer Granulator sometimes crashes when loading at a different sampling rate than it was saved Default layout some plugins state aren t loaded correctly Groups parameters are renamed even if cancel is hit MIDI File Player always in loop mode OS X files with accentuated characters can t be loaded OS X double clicking on a bidule file doesn t always open it in Bidule OS X windows saved on second monitor show up on first monitor on loading OS X renaming a preset doesn t reflect immediately in dropdown OS X AU plugins now list all aupreset files as available presets ReWire slave doesn t default to stereo channels but the dialog does Windows Workaround for MIDI Yoke changing application priority Reaktor now doesn t process if it s not connected Version v0 6602 June 7th 2004 New Modules MIDI Pr
61. calculate the length of the file with the sample rate output Sample Rate of Audio File Output sampling rate of the currently selected audio file e oe 0 0 0060 Delay Line Basic delay line e Audio Input input for the audio signal e Delay Length delay length in samples Envelopes ADSR Envelope ADSR envelope e Gate Input gate input for the duration of the A D and S parts of the envelope e Retrigger Input retrigger the ADSR by sending a 1 The second output is an activity gate it will output 1 for the entire time that the envelope is active AHDSR Envelope AHDSR envelope the H stands for hold it s the amount of time the Attack value is maintained before going to the decay state e Gate Input gate input for the duration of the A H D and S parts of the envelope e Retrigger Input retrigger the AHDSR by sending a 1 The second output is an activity gate it will output 1 for the entire time that the envelope is active Basic ADSR Envelope Basic ADSR envelope same as the ADSR envelope except that the values used are inputs instead of sliders Attack Input Attack time in ms Decay Input Decay time in ms Sustain Input Sustain level in Release Input Release time in ms Gate Input gate input for the duration of the A D and S parts of the envelope Retrigger Input retrigger the ADSR by sending a eeeeee The second output is an activity gate It will output 1 for the entire time that the envelope is active
62. coming values and create new events when there is change if this is off events are only created when a trigger is received e o o o Aftertouch Extractor Extraction of MIDI Aftertouch events When an Aftertouch event is received the outputs are changed to reflect that value Note Number Output the note number of the Aftertouch event e Normalized Value Output the Aftertouch value remapped between 0 and 1 Basic Channel Remapper Change the MIDI channel of incoming MIDI events to the input value specially useful when using extractors creators to manipulate MIDI events e MIDI Channel Input the channel to remap the event to CC Creator Creation of MIDI CC events It stores the last value for any given CC number and will output a CC event only if the value has changed The amount of created events is bound by the MIDI specifications which means about a thousand events per second CC Number Input the number of the CC to create CC Normalized Value Input the CC value remapped between 0 and 1 Trigger Input to force the creation of a CC otherwise CCs are created only when CC number or value has changed 14bit CCs Mode create 14bit CC instead of 7bit if the CC number is valid 0 31 e o o o e Auto detect value changes parameter keep track of the incoming values and create new events when there is change if this is off events are only created when a trigger is received CC Creator Multi Possibility to create all 128 MIDI C
63. down Group Config Dialog changed max number of ins outs to 128 Polyphony Config Dialog changed max number of voices to 128 Windows ASIO devices now reporting channel names as other bidules Bug Fixes AU doesn t load the correct values if the plug in has no factory presets and only file presets Audio Monitor sometimes stop working when changing buffer size sample rate Groups re saving groups doesn t keep the display path Learn mode crash if in learn mode and the MIDI device is deleted OS X crashes on startup with some Digidesign card driver combination Undo Redo not always keeping the correct links for Group Selection VST Scanning sometimes always try to re scan the same bad plug in at startup VST crashes when loading a fxb on a plug in with no preset VST some plug ins not saving correctly VST OS X glitches in drawing with some plug ins VST OS X crash on deleting some plug ins Version v0 7001 November 29th 2004 Changes MIDI Buffer added speed parameter Palette shown not shown state is now remembered Step Sequencer only clicking is needed to delete notes instead of clicking move Bug Fixes Cable detection not working correctly with short curved lines that are straight Constant Counter Clip can t set parameter when using it as a group parameter Main Window shrinks to a tiny window when loading some files Main Window using the key shortcut for proc
64. e Playback modes take note that Capture will continue to play what s in the buffer while recording Buffer Length the length of the buffer in milliseconds Loop In In point position for looping represented in of the buffer length Loop Out Out point position for looping represented in of the buffer length Clear Buffer Clear the contents of the buffer Speed speed at which the buffer is played back File Save select a file to save the buffer contents the file will be added to the MediaPool Create new file for each record create a new file with the current take appended to the name each time Save is pressed Current take display for the current take number when using the Create new file for each record option e oe oo oe 0000 Buffer Synced Same as the MIDI Buffer except it uses musical time and can follow the tempo of a sync source Mode Bypass Capture Playback modes take note that Capture will continue to play what s in the buffer while recording Buffer Length the length of the buffer in quarter notes Loop In In point position for looping represented in of the buffer length Loop Out Out point position for looping represented in of the buffer length Clear Buffer Clear the contents of the buffer File Save select a file to save the buffer contents the file will be added to the MediaPool Create new file for each record create a new file with the current take appended to the name each time Save is pressed Current take
65. e Patchbay Speed slider of loopplayer now goes from 2 0 2 0 Scratchy only available if not synched Modules pins information are now displayed in the status bar Each Bidule now has its own context menu bidule must be selected first then right clicked VST fix for some wrongly sized GUIs FM7 sonic syndicate plus etc Maybe some other things but we don t remember it s been a long time and many other bug fixes Version 0 4100 pre beta date Completely new Patchbay see next section Added Spectral Domain Bidules and connectors This is a preliminary version of all Spectral Bidules so for now FFT size HAD to be fixed to 256 so is the Standard Audio BufferSize you can t change it anymore in the registry for this version Also the Phase Vocoder overlap factor is also set to 1 no overlapp So everything you do spectral wise won t exaclty be high quality all this section is _very_ alpha see Bidules section for specific details Enhanced MIDI Sequencer 16 Sequences can run simultaneously one for each midi channel Added MIDI Splitter Added support for VST opcode audioMasterOpenFileSelector and VstPinProperties Changed saved files format you won t be able to load your previous bidule files Fixed bug with MIDI Devices allocation detection Added option for selecting your own VSTPlugins directory and manually call the scanning see the Edit Menu Fixed popup dialog when clicking cancel on open file dialog
66. e encountered using Matrox cards Use with caution Also some people experiencing weird crashes at Bidule startup had to update to DirectX 8 1 to solve them In any case please report crashes We are trying to find a solution to this Keep in mind that some drivers won t work properly with OpenGL at certain color depth i e the number of colors displayed so you can also try changing the number of colors Other OpenGl info software e Windows Slow Patchbay It might seems that the display of the patchbay is really slow This might occur if your display settings resolution and colour depth aren t supported by the Open implementation of your video card driver and the display rendering is then done in software instead of using your video card e Windows Bidule crashes at startup If you take a look at the bidule log file and you see that the last lines are Initialising Devices Severe Bidule Crash Detected The Severe Bidule Crash Detected might not be there This means that Bidule was unable to open query and close one of your auc drivers Bidule tries to query all of the available audio card drivers at startup which is a different behavior than most other audio softwares and this could expose problems you wouldn t normally see in other softwares Main causes of crashing are badly uninstalled audio drivers some users have also reported problems whe Internet stre
67. e is compared with the value at the same index in current buffer Message Filter Filters out to the second output all unselected MIDI events on a message type basis Misc Sysex Filter Filters out to the second output all unselected MIDI Misc Sysex events on a message type basis Note Filter Filters out to the second output all unselected MIDI Note events on a note number basis Note the additional buttons in the toolbar Select all select all MIDI Notes Unselect all unselect all currently selected MIDI Notes Inverse selection invert the current selection Set Range show a dialog to specify a range of MIDI Notes to select e o Note Velocity Filter Filters out to the second output MIDI Note events with velocity values outside of the specified range Program Change Filter Filters out to the second output all unselected MIDI Program Change events on a number basis Note the additional buttons in the toolbar Select all select all MIDI Program Changes Unselect all unselect all currently selected MIDI Program Changes Inverse selection invert the current selection Set Range show a dialog to specify a range of MIDI Program Changes to select e o o o Pitchbend Value Filter Filters out to the second output MIDI Pitchend events with a value outside of the specified range Key Switch Enables you to change the MIDI Channel of incoming events according to the last played note You can associate a MIDI Note with
68. e the usual one they are the list of available presets for the plugin a rename preset dialog and load and save presets Presets There are two types of presets in Bidule regular presets are dynamic snapshots they will always save the current value of parameters and read only preset will always revert to the original value of parameters when that preset was created Rename renames the current preset Add adds a new preset using the default value of all parameters Add N adds N new presets using the default value of all parameters Add Copy adds a new preset using the current value of all parameters Add Copy read only adds a new read only preset using the current value of all parameters Add N Copies adds N new presets using the current value of all parameters Remove removes the current preset Load opens a previously saved preset bank Save saves current preset bank to a file for later use if you use the default name for saving and save the file in the presets folder these presets will always be used when creating a new bidule of that type Parameter Properties Dialog In this dialog you can set the minimum and maximum value to be used for a parameter you can lock the parameter meaning that the parameter value will not change on randomize and mutate as well as the mutation factor Parameter Locking Dialog In this dialog you have the list of unlocked and locked for randomize mutate parameters and you can quickly change the
69. e to listen to some CC s _themselves_ and map their internal parameters without Bidule knowing about it You can imagine the conflict with Bidule s parameter mapping As a host Bidule can t do much about that sadly so any VST plugin can decide to map incoming MIDI CCs to their internal parameters without telling the host about it fact there is no way for the host to know However the Bidule CC learning is there on top of that in case the plugin doesn t do it Two solutions we can think of right now e Use the MIDI Message Filter bidule to filter out all CCs going to a particular VST plugin so that Bidule CC mapping becomes the only one that applies e For the users to use two MIDI input devices ex PhatBoy plugged in MIDI Input and only used as parameter mapper Keyboard plugged to MIDI Input 2 and routed to VSTi plugin VST errors reported by Bidule Each plugin can report info errors of its own But Bidule can also show supplemental ones on top of those for each plugins e Duplicate VST plugin ID found a dll uses the same ID as b dll PLUG This can suggest a couple of things Either you have two duplicate plugins in your folder potentially an older version along with a recent one or that two developers were unlucky enough to choose the same unique ID when they created their plugins In either case you will have to sacrifice one or the other and resc In the meantime informing the plugin author would be a great help to the commun
70. ear contents Choice now answers to mouse wheel Crossfader Fadercross added more curve types Added Basic Crossfader Knob now answers to mouse wheel Misc Sysex Filter added undefined MIDI messages to the list of filters OS X slider now answers to mouse wheel Value Display added some protection to prevent excessive cpu usage if name changes too often Added Replace With Paste Polyphony settings unpolyphonize Relnit Replace can be applied to all selected Ctrl Cmd 1 2 3 changes the mode of the selected bidules Ctrl Cmd 9 0 group properties group parameters Bug Fixes AU Hosting newly saved aupreset files are not added right away to the presets menu AU Hosting Sync dropdown might not show if the UI is already shown and the plug in requests musical time information Groups possible crash after using the Parameters dialog MIDI Value Display not saving the user friendly parameter value Oscillator band limited triangle was clipping Oscillator band limited triangle phase reset was wrong OS X a crash could occur when MIDI Feedback is enabled and devices go offline and back online OS X opening an AU with a Cocoa UI disables the usage of cmd w to close windows Presets current preset data could possibly not be loaded correctly when loading a layout Saving file saving could silently fail under some conditions VST version 32outputs not showing as such in Vienna Ensemble Pro WaveViewer o
71. elay Sync Creator Output Selector XY Changes Accum Added a trigger output for loop mode Audio File Recorder Stopping recording and then restarting it without changing the file will append to the file instead of overwriting it Clip Now uses float numbers instead of integer Constant Added FFT delay the delay induced by FFT iFFT an audio signal Lookup Table Added Interpolation parameter and the possibility to use audio files MIDI CC Filter Lets non CC MIDI messages pass MIDI File Player Can now be sync slave MIDI Input MIDI learn now working without having to connect the device to the graph MIDI Note Filter Lets non Note MIDI messages pass MIDI Step Sequencer Can now be sync slave MIDI To Sync Added parameters GUI to let the user specified a constant tempo Parameter Modulator now only change parameter value if the input value has changed VST plugins that can send VSTTimelnfo don t need to be connected to the graph anymore Bug Fixes All Ifthe layout was saved at a greater resolution than the one at loading time some windows don t appear All Group parameters are screwed up after changing the exported parameters of a subgroup All Shortcut for connecting multiple connectors at the same time doesn t work with group s inside connectors Audio File Recorder Sometimes file doesn t get written to disk immediatly Basic Audio File Player File doesn t play if play
72. elete polyphonize operations Right clicking on a bidule automatically select it Now show the value of the parameter being changed through parameter linking in the bidule s window status bar Bidule ReWire dynamically shows if it can sync to the ReWire master application Added dialog to locate audio files for the mediapool when loading a layout and not being able to find them Preset parameter can now be virtualized as a choice control showing all the presets by their names Audio File Recorder now shows elapsed time and size of file on disk Basic Audio Buffer upped maximum to 180 000ms MIDI File Player added loop option MIDI To Sync Better Sync generation more options Polyphonic adapter pitch bend support Polyphonic adapter can now output MIDI VST implemented reportConnectionChanges Windows Audio File Recorder can now optionally output using WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE format Bug Fixes Starting stopping audio processing causing crashes problems under certain specific conditions Glitches when using ASIO after using MME even if the cpu usage is low Crashes sometimes happening when un polyphonize ing or deleting a bidule Audio File Recorder various record stop problems when using parameter linking with it Audio File Recorder tries to append to the file when selecting an existing file for overwriting Default layout Parameters of VST plug ins in default layout not loaded correctly when s
73. en this is enabled Bidule will never attempts to replace one audio MIDI device by another if the wanted one is not currently available instead if will show only a re bidule Round Imported MIDI Files to next bar When this is enabled all MIDI files loaded in the Mediapool will have their lenght rounded to the next bar i e if a MIDI file last event happens at half in the third bar length will be 4bars Main menu Menubar File Menu e o o ooo o New starts a new layout Open opens an existing layout Import opens an existing layout and attempts to merge it into the current one Recent Files lists recently used bidule files Clear File History removes all files under the Recent Files menu Save saves the current layout to its existing location or a new one if it does not have one Save As saves the current layout to a new location Save Copy saves a copy the current layout to a location this will not change the default location of the layout Edit Menu e o o o ooo e o o o Undo undoes the last action Redo redo the last undo Cut cuts the selection Copy copies the selection to clipboard Paste pastes the contents of the clipboard in the current layout Copy Paste copies and pastes selection in a single command Auto save enables auto saving the current layout every 5 minutes for the session the time can be changed manually through the registry or defaults CLI Offline toggles offline mode Off
74. ename Replace Rename MIDI Learn Mode Processing Relnit Processing 5 3 Amplitude rue Hide all windows Mute B3 Bypass Ik Group v Processing Control from MIDI Control from MIDI Allows selection of the current bidule internal parameters to be mapped to a MIDI Controller Only available if aMIDI Device is connected to the current graph Cut Copy P ste Delete Rename Replace Relnit Hide all windows Group Polyphonic Adapter Processing Mode Control from MIDI Preset Number Mutate Randomize Mode Amplitude F xi Gain lt lt z Presets Params Lock Random Mutate Mode Processing x 333333 Send to OSC Servers Selects the OSC Servers to which OSC message for the selected bidule will be sent to Mouse Usage and Hot Keys Mouse Left Mouse Button permits moving bidules adding connections etc Right Mouse Button in black patchbay pops up a bidule selection menu Right Mouse Button on a bidule pops up a contextual menu Double click on a bidule pops up its window Keyboard CTRL SPACE starts and stops audio CTRL Windows Command OS X N starts a new layout CTRL Windows Command OS X O opens a saved layout CTRL Windows Command OS X S saves the current layout Arrow Keys pan through the patchbay CTRL Up and Down Windows Page Up and Down OS X Mouse Wheel zoom in and out of the patchbay HOME gets back to default pan zoom sett
75. ency vector and Orange amplitude vector Spectral Processing These contain not the raw FFT results complex vector but actual properly phase vocoded and overlapped signal vectors Please note that AU VST plugins might show up an extra audio output connector This means that the plugin introduces latency the extra output will send the introduce delay amount in samples so you can use a Delay Line to have PDC plugin delay compensation when you need it Basic Bidules Connections Building a layout is easy Just choose which bidules you want and connect them graphically one at the time Audio File Looper_0 Tone Generator_0 EGA for T MT D duplex To connect two bidules together you need to select a connector it will become bigger when you place the mouse pointer over it press the left mouse button and then move the mouse to another bidule s connector it will also become bigger Once you have selected the correct one let go of the left mouse button and a cable linking tl two bidules will appear Audio File Audio File Audio File Audio File Advanced Bidules Connections To connect multiple connectors from one bidule to another create the first cable while holding the CTRL Windows Command OS X key Bidule will try to create as many cables as possible EEE Boboche Sampler_0 Boboche Sampler_0 IN ae Rixer o You can also have multiple cables coming out of one connector or multiple connectors leading i
76. es use MIDI Note number as a 0 to 1 interval e Channel channel to listen to in the incoming signal e Smoothing smoothing time for changes in value e Learn go into learn mode where the number of the next CC or Use Notes will be selected NRPN To Params Same as CC To Params but for NRPN MIDI Non Registered parameters often used by hardware devices to access extra parameters NRPN are actually composed of to 4 MIDI CC events Note Latch Latch for MIDI Notes MIDI Note On opens a note and keep it open until another MIDI Note On for that note is received Note Number To Param Takes incoming MIDI Note On events and use the MIDI note number to set the value of its exported parameter that you can link to any parameter using the Parameter Linking window Note On To Value List This is a convenient bidule to be used as a shortcut instead of using 3 different bidules It is behaving like a MIDI Note Extractor gt Value List gt Parameter Modulator The Modulation parameter is changed to next entry in the value list each time a Note On is received The Min and Max are to specify a different minimum and maximu value for the modulation range all numbers entered in the value list have to be within that range Note Shuffler Randomly alters the incoming MIDI notes e Lowest Highest Note select the available range for randomization Note Splitter Splits incoming Notes to the output corresponding to the Note Number Note Velocity To Params
77. es and set the number of steps for each event Reset Events reset all events to the default BPM number of steps and no playing sequences e o o o Controls for the grid Windows left mouse button add and lengthen notes middle mouse button ctrl left mouse button delete notes right mouse button change a notes velocity darkens lightens color of note ee OS X left mouse button add and lengthen notes shift left mouse button delete notes ctrl mouse button right mouse button change a notes velocity darkens lightens color of note ee The sequence number playing on each channel is also exported as a parameter that you can link to in the Parameter Linking window For example you could have a No Number To Params per MIDI channel and have each of them link to the corresponding parameter for the currently playing sequence for each channel giving you hand control of the sequence being played on all channels at once Sync to MIDI Clock Transforms Bidule internal sync info to MIDI Timing Clock for output to other softwares or external gear MIDI Transposers bidules Aftertouch Transposer Alters the incoming MIDI Aftertouch events note number or value by a specified amount e Wrap Around when enabled if applying the offset make the value go out of range the result will be wrapped around instead of clipped CC Transposer Alters the incoming MIDI CC events number or value by a specified amount e Wrap Around when en
78. essing doesn t change the button Preferences changing AU VST sorting by company names takes a long time Tools some tool windows not remembering their size and position Revision History Version v0 7 November 23th 2004 You can now register Bidule to avoid expiration date and feed us New default look Skin support More intuitive MIDI Learn mode for all bidules plugins MIDI Feedback support send values back to controller Support for 7 bits Relatives and 14 bits Absolute MIDI CC Processing mode now in the window for each bidule plugin Sync To option now in the window for each bidule plugin Bidule is now an OSC server all parameters are accessible AudioUnits now lists all the installed presets for a plugin AudioUnits VSTs now have an extra output reporting their latency if any so you can do your own latency compensation when you need it Internationalization so you have Bidule in your native language french is done Cables can now be straight lines or curves Scan Groups and Scan Plugins are now separate Palette You can double click on a entry to use it Palette new Find Next and Use Next search use utils New Modules MIDI Buffer MIDI Synced Buffer MIDI Delay MIDI Synced Delay MIDI Dummy MIDI Multi Channel Remapper MIDI Multi CC Remapper MIDI Multi Note Remapper Changes Audio MIDI File Player can now use presets AU now shows Clump na
79. etch Type Type of time stretching used Stretch Grain Size Size of the sample blocks that the CHEAP OLA algorithm will use to overlap Pitch Shift In semitones only available when stretching e o o o Player Streams audio files from disk up to 32 channels Position slider go to a specific position in the file Home button go back to the beginning of the file Stop button stop playing the file Play button play the file Eject button select a file for playing e o o Recorder Write audio files to disk in 1 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 24 and 32 channels audio file with the specified file name Bit Depth bit depth of the file to record File select the file name and location for recording Recording stops resumes recording of audio Create new files for each record create a new file appended with the take number on every start of recording Current take Elapsed time Size on disk statistics on the current recording Create multiple files enable the creation of several mono stereo files instead of a single multi channel file see next parameter Channels per file when Create multiple files is active select between creating mono and stereo files e o o oo o Effects bidules Buffer Granulator The same algorithm from Audio File Granulator applied to the incoming and buffered audio signal Min Max Static Length range of available sizes for the grains Zero Percent adjust the ratio of silence vs grains
80. f very nice features that are slowly being used by developers of both plugins and hosts out there We at Plogue feel many of these featur should be used more often We tried in Bidule to implement most of the more obscure features Here s a rundown of Bidule s VST peculiarities Input outputs configurations We really support all possible combinations of ins and outs for VSTs Audio Effects receiving transmitting MIDI synths with audio input we even support MIDI only plugins no audio ins and outs There are few MIDI only plugins available though but they could be easily created Interested developers may ask us for a template Tempo Sync Not only VST plugins in bidule can receive tempo sync information but they can also become sync generators VST Sequencers to which others modules will sync to i now a possibility as an example TobyBear s MetroGnome Plugins availability e Unique IDs Unique IDs are a standard feature of the VST format that helps the hosts differentiate the plugins While many hosts use the file name of the plugin as reference Bidule and others use their unique IDs which is the cleanest and most cross platform way to go Sadly most commercial hosts out there don t look at those so n plugin developers don t enter a unique ID when they code their plugins As a result many plugins use the default names that were chosen by Steinberg in the SDF Gain ADIE ADly and VxSy We and other host makers have decided to de
81. give bad results upon hitting the cycle end position Version v0 97 March 2nd 2010 Added parameter linking of all parameters when selecting a bidule in the source and target tree of the Parameters window Added load and save of Map files to the MIDI and Sample Map UI Added Arpeggiator from chipsounds Added MIDI CC Creator Multi and CC Extractor Multi Added MIDI Comparison Filter Added MIDI Gate Added MIDI Basic Delay Added Variable Int Added multiple i o configurations for Audio Dummy Added 176400 Hz sample rate Increased speed parameter range in MIDI Buffer File Looper and Player Plugin mode added possibility to have different FFT settings than standalone Value List added parameter to save current position Windows x64 added possibility to have a different VST folder for 64bit Bug Fixes Audio File Player linking the home parameter through several players doesn t work Basic Audio Buffer 2 added option to save mono files Clock meter changes do not correctly change the current musical time display Groups plugins becoming syncable when processing do not change the syncable state of the parent group Multiple clicking not registering correctly on some buttons OS X Resizable AU Cocoa views not working correctly Plugin mode VSTs with no UI wouldn t work if the main window wasn t shown Plugin mode menus not working in some hosts Presets presets made with a bidule wi
82. hannel Pressure Extractor Extraction of MIDI Channel Pressure events When a Channel Pressure event is received the output is changed to reflect that value e Normalized Value Output the Channel Pressure value remapped between 0 and 1 MIDI Delay Basic Delays the MIDI event for a specified amount of time in samples the delay time is taken at the same sample index in the current buffer that the MIDI event e Delay time in samples the amount of samples to delay the event MIDI Gate Use a gate signal at audio rate to control if a MIDI event goes through or not the gate value is taken at the same sample index in the current buffer that the MIDI event e Gate Signal 1 to let event pass 0 to block Map Map association between a number key and a MIDI event value the data will be kept until it is explicitely cleared or overwritten Read Index Input send the key for the MIDI event you wish to read will be read as an integer Read Trigger Input send a 1 to read the MIDI event at the read index Write Index Input send the key for the MIDI event you wish to write will be read as an integer Write Trigger Input send a to write the MIDI event to the write index Clear Index Input send the key for the value you wish to remove from the map will be read as an integer Clear Trigger Input send a to clear the value at the clear index Clear All Trigger Input empty the contents Write Event Input send the MIDI event to be saved at the write i
83. has a new program change mode Improved parameter linking window Textures in processsing modes passthru mute Tone generator now has a toggleable linear envelope New tutorial layouts 7 and 8 Bug fixes Annoyances Layout of default GUI enhanced with value display tab access Sequencer display buffering enhanced less flashing Catching errors on VST editor close Checking for VST duplicate and Common IDs added to scanning and removing them Mediapool bugs Bugs in layouts saving Error message when current sample rate isnt supported by driver Version 0 4419 pre beta Mar 23 2002 New modules SmartElectronix Granul8 slightly modified by us MIDI Channel Remapper MIDI Channel Filter MIDI Note Shuffler MIDI Velocity Scaler MIDI Monitor SpectralDomain Pitch Shift New features ALL Process Mute Passtrhough modes added for Bidules non devices Sequencer Clear Button and Set BPM StepSize for all in PlayList Correct Phase vocoding with user selectable FFTSize and overlap factors SampleRate BufferSize FFTSize FFTOverlap are now in prefferences Bug fixes Annoyances Adding protection so that only one device is opened at once Fixed VST selected patch vs Bidule s selected patch problem Took out warnings after a VST scan Sample Accurate AudioFileLooper ToneGen BobocheSampler Fixed random GUI appearing when deleting bidules bugs Fixed MIDI Learning bug used last CC received when not in learn mode Fixed c
84. having multiple monitors Added warning to the user if saving to file fails because of too many opened files Version v0 9688 June 10th 2009 Bug Fixes Audio Stats values not exported correctly to the group level DSP Poly adapter parameters window missing parameters after using undo redo Groups names starting with an ampersand are not displayed correctly in menus Undo undo of adding a bidule does not always release memory Matrix clicking on cells when scrolled could lead to strange results Matrix scrolling causing display issues on Windows MP Assign better support of MIDI devices shared between MP assigned branches ReWire mode tentative fix for crash on closing the device when displaying MIDI ports in PT because it doesn t explicitely remove them this needs a manual config registry change OS X open a Terminal window and paste this defaults write com plogue bidule ReWireDevice PTFix int 1 then press enter Windows under HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software PlogueBidule add aDWORD value named ReWireDevice PTFix set its value to 1 Spectral Graph 4 channels version could crash depending on the FFT Window Size setting VST plugin crash could occur on a mono track when there s no default VST layout VST AU plugin ReWire mode having the Never Substitute Devices option enabled could lead to layouts not loading correctly Windows added possibility to blacklist ASIO devices in a text file Version v
85. he last two MIDI events Voice Counter Outputs the current number of voices for the MIDI stream connected at its input Map Map association between a number key and another value the data will be kept until it is explicitely cleared or overwritten Read Index Input send the key for the value you wish to read will be read as an integer Read Trigger Input send a to read the value at the read index Write Index Input send the key for the value you wish to write will be read as an integer Write Trigger Input send a to write the value to the write index Write Value Input send the value to be saved at the write index Clear Index Input send the key for the value you wish to remove from the map will be read as an integer Clear Trigger Input send a 1 to clear the value at the clear index Clear All Trigger Input empty the contents Value Output the value when a read trigger occurs Number of Elements Output the current number of key value pairs in the map eeeeee eee 8e8 Math Accum Accumulate at each sample by a specified amount and output the value at each sample with defined minimum and maximum values Accumulation type select the wanted operation to use Loop values between low high if this is selected the accum will wrap around when hitting the lower upper bound Value to Accum Input at each sample use this value and the selected operation on the current value to get the new current value Start Value Input the start
86. ialog not selecting text automatically All Virtual parameters dialog not keeping the selection when moving up and down All Parameters with value close to the minimum sometimes resulting in loaded copied parameter with minimum value All Crash when the target linked parameter has no GUI controls and the bidule owning the parameter has a gui All Note protection stealing priority retrigger not saved loaded with polyphonic adapter All Group GUI not remembering visible state position and size All Polyphonic Adapter dialog not remembering retrigger parameter of polyphonic adapter All Sometimes crashes when deleting a group containing a polyphonic adapter Audio Switcher Noise in previous output when changing the active output Freq Mag Binary Operator Min and Max not working correctly Groups Saved group not appearing in the palette if Bidule crashes in the same session MIDI to Sync Potential crash when syncing VST Mixer GUI sometimes not showing correctly Mixer Target volume jumping to maximum when source volume set to minimum OS X Rename bidule dialog not selecting text automatically OS X MIDI devices detection causing Bidule to crash OS X Problem with Mach o VST loading on some machines OS X SampleTank causing a crash when loading OS X VST audioMasterOpenFileSelector not working OS X Now using proper shortcuts for cut copy paste select all new save open OS X VST Major
87. id of 16 sequences that always loop or use the playlist to set a desired sequence to play for all 16 output channels Each sequence step in the playlist can have its own BPM and step size Note the Step Sequencer outputs on all channels and by default sequences to 16 are assigned to cha 1 to 16 meaning that if you draw notes on a sequence between 2 16 and select it as the sequence for channel 1 the events will be output twice once on channel 1 and or on the channel N where n is the sequence number between 2 and 16 Load loads a saved bank of sequences bmsd file Save saves a bank of sequences bmsd file zoom in the grid zoom out the grid Play Stop start and stop the output of the step sequencer BPM tempo for the playing sequences Remember to press ENTER to apply the value Steps number of steps for the playing sequences Channel assign the current sequence to the MIDI channel Sequence assign the sequence to the current MIDI channel Playlist Mode use the playlist loop the current sequences Edit Playlist show the playlist editor dialog e oo o 000000 o The playlist editor dialog is where you can assign a sequence number for each channel for a specified number of events You can also specify the BPM and the number steps for each event Playlist Length number of events in the playlist Playlist Start End in out points for looping BPM Set BPM specifies and set the BPM for each event Num Steps Set Num Steps specifi
88. ide So for instance if you need your synth voices to modulate to an LFO but you want this LFO to be the same for all voices then there s no need to duplicate that LFO 12 times just keep one outside of the Adapter and wrap both the adapter and the LFO in another standard group Chapter 9 Presets support Table of Contents Presets VST Presets Preset Buttons Saving VST Presets AU Presets Preset Buttons Group bidule Presets Preset Buttons Creating Default Bidule Presets Automating Presets Presets Bidule supports creating and modifying presets not only for AUs and VSTs but also for internal bidules and groups Internal presets can be saved as part of the bidule i which they were created as independent bprs Bidule PReSet files or as a default to be loaded every time that type of bidule is loaded VST Presets In addition to its own GUI each VST plugin interface has a toolbar with three buttons to edit the plugin s presets Preset Buttons SupaPhaser_0 TREE 1m on br ees Ce ES con et en e A Rename click this button to change the name of the currently selected preset e B Load click this button to load an FXB file e C Save click this button to save a copy of the current presets in an FXB file Saving VST Presets Bidule creates and loads FXB files a bank of VST presets Any VST plugin with presets will load with a default bank of presets You can modify these defaults and th save them as
89. imer in the documentation and or other mater provided with the distribution Neither the name of Destroy FX nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this softwe without specific prior written permission THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOI PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT C THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE To contact the author please visit http destroyfx org and use contact form FreeType Portions of this software are copyright 1996 2002 The FreeType Project www freetype org All rights reserved FTGL Copyright C 2001 3 Henry Maddocks Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentatic files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to
90. ing signal to find the highest sample and sets its internal parameter to that value so it can be used in the parameter linking The value if outside of the defined min and max will be set to the nearest acceptable value If the value doesn t change the parameter won t be set again The Trigger version of this allow to let you decide which actual sample to use for the parameter value whether it has changed or not The Passthrough version will let the incoming signal go through instead of having to use endpoint bidules e Min lower bound to use for the incoming signal e Max upper bound to use for the incoming signal Parameter Modulator relative Works much like how a Relative CC would work meaning that it will apply increment decrement value whatever the target parameter current value is even if you chan using the mouse Sending a positive integer value will increment the target parameter by that amount the parameter increment value Sending a negative integer valu will decrement the target parameter by that amount the parameter increment value e g for a preset parameter if the Parameter Modulator receives a 1 it will make the preset parameter go to the next preset if it receives a 2 it will make it go to the second next preset change next for previous if the integer is negative for a variable the increment is 0 001 so this means that sending a 1 will add 0 001 to the current value sending a 2 will add 2 0 001 0 002 to the current value ch
91. ings in the patchbay Backspace Windows TAB OS X goes back to the parent group CTRL Windows Command OS X double left click to explore a group CTRL Windows Command OS X A selects everything ESC cancels the current selection CTRL Windows Command OS X C V and X for your usual cut and paste needs CTRL Windows Command OS X D does a copy paste on a selection Highlighting a bidule or connector Delete deletes it Backspace too on OS X CTRL Windows Command OS X F to search a bidule by its display name in the current group CTRL Windows Command OS X P toggles the display of the Parameters window CTRL M Windows Command E OS X toggles the display of the Mediapool window CTRL Windows Command OS X G toggles the display of the Group Manager window CTRL Windows Command OS X B toggles the display of the Palette CTRL Windows Command OS X 1 sets the mode to Process on the selected bidules CTRL Windows Command OS X 2 sets the mode to Mute on the selected bidules CTRL Windows Command OS X 3 sets the mode to Bypass on the selected bidules CTRL Windows Command OS X 9 brings the group properties dialog for the selected or current group CTRL Windows Command OS X 0 brings the group parameters dialog for the selected or current group F2 renames the selected bidule ALT F4 Windows Command Q OS X quits Bidule You can select multiple bidules connectors by pressing CTRL Windows Command OS X while selecting or by using the left mouse bu
92. ions Value List A list of values separated by a semi colon A value will be output until the next trigger is received by sending a in the trigger input The second input is used to r the list to its first member without requiring to wait until the list loops back to start Value List 2 A variation on the Value List it adds some useful outputs e Current Index Output Output The index of the current value Total Elements Output The current number of values in the list e Wraparound Trigger Output sends a single trigger when the current index goes back to 0 Value List Indexed A list of values separated by a semi colon e Index Input Index of the value to output e Value Output The value e Number of Values Output The current number of values in the list Variable User defined variable range with slider and input box Don t forget to hit ENTER to validate a value you just typed e Min and Max define the range of the slider Variable Int Same as the Variable except that the value will always be an integer Crossfader Basic A building block version of the Crossfader using a 0 1 range as the fade value as an audio rate input Multi tap Delay A 4 tap delay with up to 120000 milliseconds 2 minutes delay e Audio Input input for the audio signal e Delay for Tap n in samples Input delay length for the current sample in samples e Tap n Output the delayed signal OSC OSC Creator Let you send an OSC message a
93. ir state by double clicking on the parameter name Chapter 3 Synchronizing tempo and musical position between modules In a recording studio you normally encounter many different devices that either acts as clock generator or requires receiving a clock to be able to keep up with the other But you could also have two or more sequencers that drive a certain amount of instruments beat boxes separately at different tempos Bidule s internal sync signal allc you to reproduce this freedom of sync choice concept that you have when you have a complex studio Why would you want different clock generators you ask Well you want to segue one track into another in a live situation and that the two tracks follow completely different tempos time signatures and positions In most hosts you cannot achieve this as there is often only one transport control center which resides in its toolbar So every plugin feeds on sync information thats coming from the host s master timeline But in Bidule there is no enforced master timeline and it s up to the user to decide exactly what should be synched to what as you would do in a real studio And as many things in Bidule there are graphical cues to give you a clue of what s happening under the hood If a newly chosen bidule possesses the intrinsic support to be synched then a small grey s for Slave letter will appear left of its patchbay representation meaning it knows how to deal with extra sync infor
94. ire Devices Config The ReWire Devices configuration dialog lets you specify defaults number of MIDI inputs outputs number of audio outputs and if the ReWire application shoulc launch closed automatically Use this to set up as many MIDI inputs you want for a ReWire device or restrain the number of audio outputs to only 2 if you only w to have the master output If you have multiple layouts using ReWire devices and you want to be able to quickly change between them make sure to un check the auto launch option this will keep the ReWire application opened and it will be ready to use as soon as the layout is loaded OSC Server toggles the display of the OSC Server window this is where the entire OSC address space for the current layout is displayed OSC Client toggles the display of the OSC Client window this is where OSC servers i e where OSC messages are sent are managed OSC Monitor toggles the display of the OSC Monitor window the OSC Monitor is used to log all incoming and outgoing OSC messages Find finds a bidule by display name in the current group Bidules Toolbar Most of the bidules have a toolbar in their user interface The first button is to bring up the parameter properties dialog the second one the parameter locking dialog the third one is to randomize the parameter values and the fourth one is to mutate i e slightly modify the parameter values Take note that plugins have more items in their toolbar and the new items comes befor
95. irst 3 beats of the second mesure and so forth NB All permutations of meters are possible these were just an example Chapter 11 OSC Open Sound Control Table of Contents What is OSC OSC Server Implementation OSC Client Implementation What can I do with OSC What is OSC OSC Open Sound Control is a control communication protocol over the network An OSC server can receive messages and an OSC client can send messages to servers Bidule is both a client and a server The current implementation in Bidule should not be viewed as being in its final form We have quite a few good ideas to extend the functionnality OSC Server Implementation First to enable the OSC Server part of Bidule you need to go the OSC Server dialog by selecting OSC Server from the Tools menu You need to select a port for Bidule listen for messages Note you might need to change your firewall software settings to allow incoming messages to that port the default one should be fine but you can change it Every parameter of every bidule that is available for parameter linking is also available for control through OSC Each parameter has an address to receive values the address is built automatically from the location and name of the bidule as well as the parameter name The location of a bidule is the path to it look at the bottom left the patchbay when you re inside a group to get the idea so for example a group named Freeverb in the root of the layout wo
96. is triggered before a file is loaded Buffer Granulator Randomize sometimes causing crashes on OS X Deconcrisseur Not remembering values correctly upon loading MIDI File Player Crashes if there s no time signature in the MIDI file OS X Bidule crashes if ReWire is not installed on the machine Parameter properties dialog Reset not working for maximum in some cases Variable Constant Not working after switching processing mode VST Kontakt Battery sometimes stalling when loading a layout VST Some plugins not remembering their state correctly VST Trying to control Waves plugins parameters through parameter linking crashed Bidule VST Presets drop down still display old preset names after loading a bank from the plugin s UI VST Parameters with values greater than are set to at saving time VST Classic series not correctly initialized VST VST presets can t be changed if the plugin GUI isn t showed first VST OS X Some plugins resizing their window makes the toolbar disappear Windows Bidule doesn t work if the arial font files can t be found Version v0 6000 July 18th 2003 New Modules Audio File Recorder 1 2 4 6 8 and 10 channel s Audio File Player 1 2 4 6 8 and 10 channel s Audio Matrix Basic Audio Buffer Bin Delay Gate Lookup Table MIDI File Player MIDI CC Extractor MIDI Matrix Spectral Graph Spectral to Frequency Amplitude Value List
97. itude b given by the extract It also generates the VERY important activity gate f signal that the Polyphonic Adapter will use to detect that the note has completely finished playing release included so that it can manage this instance of the voice to another note In more detail the activity gate output of the ADSR will be 1 or on from the start of the nc until its completion the release after which it will output 0 or OFF 3 Next the Binary operator multiplies the original Note On amplitude b with the current envelope value generated by the ADSR e If you recall the ADSR generated a normalized gate so in order to get the final amplitude we need to multiply both together 4 Finally the Oscillator sine wave by default will output a nice waveform h that will have its frequency given by the MIDI Note Extractor a and a smooth amplitu envelope generated by the results of the original amplitude multiplied by the envelope value at a certain point in time g If you look closely you ll notice that the third input of the oscillator phase reset is also filled in by the Note Extractor s trigger output d so that each time a new Note is sent to the group the oscillator s phase is s back to 0 Polyphonic Adapter You can now go back one level pressing the BACKSPACE Windows TAB OS X key or by clicking on the Parent button on the toolbar and connect the MIDI inpu your voice group to a source Sequencer or live MIDI inp
98. ity e VST Plugin Error a dll caused an error while unloading so it will not be used This means the plugin didn t deallocate properly when Bidule was testing it leaving leaked objects around While the plugin might work before being unloaded found it was wiser to disallow using this plugin at all since each time you would delete it from the patchbay it would have left Bidule in an undesirable state To on the safe side you should remove the plugin from your VSTplugins folder save your layout and restart Bidule e VST Plugin Error plugin a dll by companyX caused an unknown exception and will be set to bypass This error will be reported when using the plugin it means that the central processing function of the VST plugin caused a fatal error Most other host would have died by now but instead of killing Bidule we set the plugin to bypass automatically Mind you as for critical scanning errors it is always wiser to save your patc and reload it after a fresh restart of Bidule e Too common Unique ID used a dll uses a common id Gain ADIE ADly or VxSy Unique ID has been detected As previously mentioned Bidule will refuse to use any of these plugins in order to strictly resp the VST 2 0 standard Yet to be implemented VST Features Bidule has yet to support the following VST features pinConnected interface too many plugs only check this when playing starts This means that if you connect a in out while Bidule is pr
99. ive 8 configure parameters now work Version v0 9686 March 26th 2009 Bug Fixes DSP Adapter subgroups not working with DSP Adapter DSP Adapter some bidules being allowed to be used with DSP Adapter but output nothing ReWire Devices Config not saving the correct number of audio channels Version v0 9685 March 16th 2009 Added DSP Adapter feature to wrap groups to run a limited set of bidules at a buffer size of 1 samples more bidules to be supported other buffer sizes and sample rates support to come Added OSC Monitor to show all incoming outgoing OSC Messages Optimized handling of presets to reduce memory usage and fix a few bugs Added MIDI Message Creator Added MIDI Note Off Velocity Remapper Expanded MP Assign to use up to 8 cores many more little improvements Bug Fixes AU Version sample rate change could be missed Integer parameter display not always being accurate Message Remapper remapping pitchbend doesn t work OSC using the open command on a file loading audio files in the Mediapool or using the polyphonic adapter crashes Polyphonic Adapter doesn t transmit some MIDI messages to active voices Possible crash if a VST could not properly initialize itself ReWire Device added protection against out of range MIDI events timestamp Value List could load up with incorrect values VST Hosting some MIDI events coming out of plugins could be missed skipped many more fixes
100. lace With Paste Replaces the selected bidules by the the first bidule in the pasteboard connections will be kept if possible Hide All Windows Hides closes all the windows associated with the selected bidules Alignment Allows alignment of selected bidules in the patchbay The six modes of alignment are Top Center Horizontally Bottom Distribute Horizontally Spaces selected bidules evenly along the vertical axis Left Center Vertically Right Distribute Vertically Spaces selected bidules evenly along the vertical axis Group e Group selected object s Selected bidules and cables are grouped together Internal connections between selected objects are preserved external connections are lost Save selected group Save the selected group in a file If the file is saved in the groups subdirectory of bidule s installation directory it will appear in the Groups category in the Palette Properties Allows editing of the number and type of connectors the author s name the group version number and the name of this group Parameters Allows editing of parameters from child bidules that will be seen as the group parameters Parent group Display the parent of the visible group if it is not the top level group The keyboard shortcut for this feature is BACKSPACE Windows TAB OS X Expand Make the selected group the visible group The shortcut for this feature is CTRL Windows Command OS X DOUBLE CLICK Polyphonic Adapter
101. ld output bad MIDI Clock messages VST MIDI Clock output from plugin doesn t work Windows log files not being written in some cases on Vista many more fixes Version v0 93 November 13th 2006 Added Open UI parameter to all internal bidules and plugins Optimized internal processing of many internal bidules Added possibility to change a parameter UI control type in groups Added label and LED to group parameter UI controls Audio Stats bidule OS X UB version handling of AU and VST plugins UI completely redone OS X added larger buffer sizes for DSP processing OS X added reduce MIDI jitter option in the preferences OS X VST multimaker to have multiple I O VSTs now available AU added sidechain effect version MIDI Splitter added split by note many more little improvements Bug Fixes Couldn t read some AIFF files OS X Cocoa UIs sometime creating crashes when closing Plugin crash could occur when closing plugin with linked Plugin Device parameters VST latency returning to 0 wasn t noticed VST not setting itself to the host sample rate in some cases Windows OpenGL hardware acceleration now off by default you can enable it in the preferences many more fixes Version v0 92 June 21th 2006 New disk streaming code with sample accurate loop mode players now play what they can when there s a channel mismatch betwen the player and the file files with a different
102. lding Blocks MIDI Note Creator Building Blocks Sync Extractor Building Blocks Trigger Building Blocks Value List MIDI CC Filter MIDI CC Remapper MIDI CC To Params MIDI CC Value Scaler MIDI Message Filter MIDI Note Filter MIDI Note Remapper MIDI Note Transposer Misc Parameter Modulator Spectral Frequency Logic Gate Spectral Frequency Variable Spectral Magnitude Logic Gate Spectral Magnitude Variable Modified bidules Audio File Added saving as 32 bits float to Audio Buffer Audio File Audio File Output now available with 2 or 6 channels Added saving as 32 bits float Audio File Added interpolation parameter to Audio File Looper Added playing start at the same relative position when changing files Building Blocks Added retrigger input to ADSR Envelope at any stage Building Blocks Added e 12th root of 2 and 1 on 12th root of 2 to Constant Building Blocks MIDI Monitor is now terminal Building Blocks Oscillator added ramp 0 1 oscillator Oscillator changed 4th input from initial phase to phase offset Building Blocks Added portamento and specifiable wheel range to MIDI Note Extractor Inversed the order of the Gate and Trigger output to match the other bidules Plus type of action needed Always steal use lowest note Building Blocks Added Round to Unary Operator Building Blocks Added MIDI note to frequency frequency to MIDI n
103. lidate the function you just typed The following functions and constants are available abs x floor x ceil x exp x In x sin x sinh x cos x cosh x tan x tanh x asin x acos x atan x sqrt x atan2 x y mod x y min x y max x y pid eeeees3e e eesee8seeeeee3eeeee Function Recursive Same as the Function bidule except that you have access to the 4 previous values of each variable as well as the 4 previous results using the following functions with 1 or 4 as the parameter prevX n prevY n prevZ n prevR n eeee Logic Gate Simple logic gate Left Side Argument Input input for the left side argument of the logic operator Right Side Argument Input input for the right side argument of the logic operator Value for True Input input to be redirected to the output when the operator result is true Value for False Input input to be redirected to the output when the operator result is false e o o Lookup Table A 512 point lookup table with linear interpolation e Index Input input for 0 based index of the point you want e Value Output value interpolated if needed for the wanted point Unary Operator Math unary operators INVERSION RECIPROCAL ABS FLOOR CEIL SQUARE CUBE SQRT EXP LOG LOGIO SIN COS TAN ASIN ACOS ATAN SINH COSH TANH LOGICAL NOT ROUND eeee354 o0n30s30es30es3s0e3s30e30se seeeee8 ee Unit Converter Useful sets of common unit convers
104. line mode Toggles Offline mode On Off default is Off The Offline mode was added to Bidule so that it could be used to o Render audio to disk faster than realtime when the graph takes less than 100 cpu in normal use o Render stutter free audio to disk when the graph takes more than 100 cpu usage in normal use You cannot use an audio device input or output in Offline mode In almost all cases you will use an Audio File Recorder bidule or more than one instead to record the offline output When using the Offline mode you will notice that the standard cpu gauge has been replaced by an elapsed time meter which should give you an estimate of the speed at which the render is done Scan Plugins rescans VST and AU plugins from scratch Scan Groups rescans groups from scratch Update Plugins and Groups scans for new plugins and groups same as when starting up Reset History resets the count for the History tab of the Palette Set current patch as default saves the current layout as the default i e you will get this each time you startup and each time a new layout is created each mode standalone ReWire VST AU has its own default layout Tools Menu o o o eeee MediaPool toggles the display of the MediaPool window Parameters toggles the display of the Parameters window Palette toggles the display of the Palette window Groups Manager toggles the display of the Group Manager window ReWire Devices Config ReW
105. ll can of course contain other independent sync masters in additio1 the ReWire device Sending MIDI to ReWire Devices Be aware that not all ReWire devices supports that feature You can control the number of MIDI ports available on a slaved ReWire device in the ReWire Devices Config dialog see above Knowing the current mapping If you double click on the patchbay representation of the ReWire device you will get an info popup which gives information on the current channel mapping for each t currently though ReWire By using Bidule s MIDI Channel filters re mappers you can then reach the specific unit you require in Reason Troubleshooting ReWire Problems Bidule is not launching in ReWire slave mode when I start it Did you remember to add the Plogue Bidule Device to the track If you didn t then Bidule has no way of knowing you wanted it to be a ReWire slave e Bidule is always launching in ReWire slave mode but I want it to be in independent mode This will usually happen if there was a crash while running as a ReWire device Use the Clear ReWire Mode status menu entry under Edit to fix this ReWire Reason and Rebirth are trademarks of Propellerhead Software Stockholm Sweden Ableton Live is a trademark of Ableton AG Berlin Germany Chapter 7 Groups Table of Contents Creating a new group Creating a new group from a selection of bidules and links Group navigation Exporting group parameters Editing group properties
106. lue Display GUI generic UI can now have an horizontal scrollbar if needed MIDI Note Extractor added Smooth amplitude changes parameter MIDI Switcher added Close Notes on Output Change parameter OSC added offline_set message Windows speed improvement when adding a plug in bidule with a large amount of parameters Bug Fixes AU VST hosting added more possible memory error handling when restoring a plug in saved data AU version some sequences of buffer size changes could lead to distorted no sound Audio Matrix Audio Switcher Output Selector better performance in some conditions Audio File Player position not always reflecting going back to 0 when the Home parameter is changed through parameter linking Audio File Player monitoring was no longer working Discrete processing version changed the default colour for discrete cables and connectors Discrete processing version discrete param modulator does not apply the current value upon linking Discrete processing version constant and variable do not resend their values once they have been disconnected Constant FFT delay was wrong if FFT size was 4096 Group Parameters crash could occur when using the dialog OS X the list of parameters for some HID devices had extra entries preventing them to work correctly OS X filenames with some specific characters could not be saved to or loaded from OSC Client if an OSC Server was added automatically from l
107. mation Similarly a sync generator bidule Bidule s Sync Transport or Step Sequencer for instance has a small green m for Master followed by a unique identifier saying can provide sync information on this sync ID If you sync a slave able bidule to this one its letter s will turn green and the number of the unique master ID will also appear beside it e Grey means available for sync currently free running e Green means active masters are always active e Most ReWire devices Reason Rebirth Live can simultaneously be masters and slaves VST Developers note Bidule s Sync is very closely related to VstTimeInfo Also Bidule is currently the only host that support the part of the VST 2 0 spec that allov plugin to BE a Sync Master ie sending VstTimelnfo BACK to the host Such a plugin should return 1 when asked about canDo sendVstTimelInfo for this option tc become available Audio File Looper Cut Audio File Looper Copy es a Presets Params Lock Random mutate Jaste ie Mode Processing z Syne None x a None Rename MIDI Splitter Audio File drum wav vi MIDI Step Sequencer Replace BEB EBB Bees Relnit l Add File s to MediaPool Select file s Hide all windows ee OR Speed 1 000 ae Alignment phatsynth Amplitude 3 33333 Group Polyphonic 4dapter Interpolation J point spline Processing Mode Control from MIDI Chapter 4 Bidules Table of Contents A
108. me in Parameter Pool AU support for updated channel config specs when scanning AU VST doesn t show unnamed parameters in the Parameter Pool Clip Constant Counter Variable lowered min possible value raised max possible value FIR now takes a list of coefficients so you can create your own FFT iFFT faster AltiVec implementation FFT iFFT SSE implementation Audio Freq Mag Logic Gate AltiVec implementation MediaPool can now be sorted by columns MIDI Filters added select all unselect all reverse selection set range buttons MIDI Filters added second output for rejected MIDI events MIDI Note Transpose optional wraparound behavior MIDI CC Source Input can now optionally use all channels Mixer AltiVec SSE implementation New About dialog OS X Better update rate of bidules plugins UIs OS X Support for MIDI setup changes notification adding removing MIDI ports Palette double clicking on an entry adds it to the patchbay Parameter Pool now shows bidules in alphabetical order Patchbay Added Re Init in each bidule context menu Patchbay Size and position of the window is now saved loaded Patchbay Type of bidule is shown in the statusbar when going over it with the mouse Patchbay Radar now working as expected Replace now keeps parameter linking informations when replacing a MIDI input by another Sync Creator added offset input Unary Operator AltiVe
109. mono files Crossfader Pan and Mixer added interpolation to some parameter changes Loading faster loading of bigger files MIDI Switcher added sending of Note Off for opened notes when changing the active output Parameters better precision for some parameters VST faster refresh rate Bug Fixes AU parameters don t save min max mutation factor locked status AU going back to User preset doesn t always display the correct values Audio File Looper resetting the loop points at start and end of file doesn t always recalculate the correct number of beats Audio File Looper stuttering data instead of silence on some stereo files Audio Switcher an output could possibly not be reset correctly when changing the active one Basic Audio File Player doesn t unreference the audio file when going back to None Buffer Granulator could crash on some settings Context menu syncing multiple bidules to one source doesn t work Delete could crash in some special cases when OSC server is enabled Groups sometimes doesn t save the group display name correctly Groups exported amplitude parameters with a user set min and max don t always work correctly HID OS X devices won t work when waking from sleep HID now supporting POV hat switches Mediapool loading files with the same name could lead to weird events Mediapool loading of some raw audio files could cause a crash Mediapool sometimes refuses
110. ms 7 Groups Creating a new group Creating a new group from a selection of bidules and links Group navigation Exporting group parameters Editing group properties Saving Groups Group Manager Group Submenu 8 Building Synthesizer Groups Making a voice Group Polyphonic Adapter Advanced Polyphonic synth topics 9 Presets support Presets VST Presets Preset Buttons Saving VST Presets AU Presets Preset Buttons Group bidule Presets Preset Buttons Creating Default Bidule Presets Automating Presets 10 Meter Adaptation Explained 11 OSC Open Sound Control What is OSC OSC Server Implementation OSC Client Implementation What can I do with OSC 12 Troubleshooting 13 Acknowledgements 14 Plogue Bidule Revision History List of Tables 8 1 How it works Chapter 1 Introduction Bidule s Concepts Bidule is a realtime modular creation studio aimed mainly at artists seeking a new environment with which to experiment With Bidule you create your own live music making environment inserting audio and MIDI devices ReWire Devices VST AU instruments and plugins Patch them anyway you like in realtime while it plays Bi can run either as a standalone app a ReWire Device or a VST AU plug in Please take the time to read through this help document and then open and play the tutorial patches included in the layouts directory we feel they give a good idea of kind
111. n some connections which shouldn t be lost are lost if a file is loaded into a different i o config DSP Polyphonic Adapters processing mode is not saved loaded correctly Groups modified min and max of parameters could end up not being saved in a preset OS X 64bit version dropping of bidule file not working OS X 64bit version text not selected on rename dialogs OS X 64bit version maximum number of opened files might be lower than expected OS X multiple aliases to the ReWire device could be created OS X AU VST version fixed possible crash of the host depending on how the OS caches some strings OS X VST hosting plug in UI not showing up with the correct size OS X VST version UI not showing up correctly in Reaper ReWire on Windows if the host attempts to launch Bidule the 32 bit version is always the one launched Spectral Bin Delay Graph Graph Analyzer Magnitude EQ presets takes more memory disk space than needed VST hosting newer NI plug ins were getting double keystrokes VST version prevent crashing if the host sends effEditIdle before any effEditOpen VST version better protection against hosts sending crap in VstTimelnfo Windows some ASIO drivers could refuse to start Version v0 9710 March 14th 2011 Added MIDI Message Extractor Added MIDI Value Display Added 64 channels version of Audio Matrix Audio Matrix Stereo and MIDI Matrix Discrete processing version added Discrete Va
112. ndex Number of Elements Output the current number of key value pairs in the map Event Output the MIDI event when a read trigger occurs e oo oo oe 0 00060 Message Creator Create MIDI messages directly Note there is no validation on the resulting MIDI message by specifying the 3 data bytes e data0 datal data2 Inputs value for the 3 data bytes of a MIDI message e Trigger Input to force the creation of a message event otherwise only created when an input has changed e Auto detect value changes parameter keep track of the incoming values and create new events when there is change if this is off events are only created when a trigger is received Message Extractor Extracts MIDI messages directly Note there is no validation on the incoming MIDI message to the 3 data bytes e data0 datal data2 outputs value for the 3 data bytes of a MIDI message Note Closer Will act as a passthrough and keep track of opened notes when it receives a trigger 1 0 signal on its audio input it will send Note Off events at the same sample inde the trigger is received for all currently opened notes Note Creator The opposite of the MIDI Note Extractor use values to generate MIDI notes Frequency Input frequency value for the outgoing MIDI note in Hz Amplitude Input velocity value remapped between 0 and 1 Gate Input input for the gate signal set to 1 on MIDI Note On until a MIDI Note Off is received Trigger input input fo
113. ne 1 0 Ploaue Art et Technologie i Get remote catalog Upgrade Download Remote catalog fetched If you built an interesting group and want to share it with the bidule users community feel free to post it to our forums or send us the related bgrp file found in the groups subdirectory of bidule at lt groupmanager plogue com gt Group Submenu The Group submenu on the patchbay s right mouse menu allows you to e New Creates a new group and set its properties e Save Current Group Saves the group currently displayed in the patchbay e Properties Pops up a dialog to edit the group properties e Parameters Pops up a dialog to let you choose the parameters of the current group you want to export e Parent Group Goes back to display the parent group Chapter 8 Building Synthesizer Groups Table of Contents Making a voice Group Polyphonic Adapter Advanced Polyphonic synth topics Creating CPU friendly polyphonic and monophonic synths is now a reality in Bidule Once you know how to do a group it s just a matter of following these steps Making a voice Group Let s start by creating the most simplistic synthesizer voice group as a example e Create anew group with MIDI input and 2 audio outputs Get inside the group e Add the 4 modules shown below you can either create them as shown or use the already created Monotone group Table 8 1 How it works Note ote Note MIDI Note
114. ng workaround needed for Live and Tracktion to only be enabled in those hosts OS X VST plugin UI doesn t work in Renoise Particle Arpeggiator closing its UI could lead to a crash Plugins OS X doesn t display correctly with a composite window Plugins the Plugin Device always use the name saved in a bidule file leading to confusion when using files made with the standalone version Plugins MIDI data could be lost when Bidule host buffer size didn t match Polyphonic adapter random mutate gives different results on each voice VST channel names aren t always shown Windows VST plugin Envelope Looper extra windows can t be reopened Windows using Control From MIDI could crash many other fixes Version v0 9 October 19th 2005 Bidule can now run as a VST AU plug in available only to registered users Audio monitoring of inputs outputs of a bidule new context menu entry New Spanish translation many thanks to BiCho New Modules Key Sender MIDI Aftertouch Value Filter MIDI CC Value Filter MIDI Channel Pressure Value Filter MIDI Note Closer MIDI Note Velocity Filter MIDI Pitchbend Value Filter Changes Basic Audio Buffer added Clear Contents trigger input Constant added loaded files in Mediapool choices Mixer you can double click on the Volume label to change the channel strip label OS X you can drop supported audio MIDI files on the dock icon to add them to
115. ngle document interface so that OS X and Windows versions look the same OS X Alpha tests started please be patient until Beta tests New faster code to detect the selection of bidules Some OpenGL optimizations ASIO duplex devices now showing as 2 bidules in the patchbay MME and DirectSound duplex devices are now available Added a progress bar when loading sound files New VST groups scanning mechanism should always be up to date with what s on your HD VST errors now showing in the statusbar Can now set the processing mode of a multiple selected bidules New bidules Basic ADSR Trigger Clock MIDI Note Number to Param MIDI Note Velocity To Params MIDI To Sync beta Changes Stats about the driver and ASIO Control Panel now available when double clicking on an Audio Device All Envelopes bidules now have an activity gate output Step Sequencer now exporting currently playing sequence on each channel as parameters Treating Note On and Note Off as two different message types in the MIDI Message Filter Fixes VST better refresh some VSTs crashing on initialization prevent VSTs from sending MIDI events outside of the current buffer removed isPinConnected interface implementation since too much developers haven t implemented it thinking of a modular application linking 2 parameters of the same VST P4 denormal with the Biquad Filter Possible division by 0 with the Biquad Filter Possible
116. ntation could cause error in some hosts many more fixes Version v0 9650 February 28th 2008 Audio File Recorder added option to record to multiple stereo files CC Latch bidule Group Manager now allows multiple selection for download delete of groups HID Extractor on loading a file now tries to at least match the device type if the device isn t present MIDI Device rename devices Note Latch bidule OS X Cmd W can now be used to close bidule plugin windows OS X virtual MIDI ports created by Bidule can be renamed OS X added support for MIDI devices renaming callback SDK added opcode to rename I Os VST will show I O configurations for plugins supporting speaker arrangements VST rescan needed Windows some MME DS drivers should show now show up with multiple channels instead of only stereo many more little improvements Bug Fixes Audio File Player UI slider not directly going back to start on Home Dropping bgrp files in the patchbay should add the group not import its contents in the current layout Group layout manual save in plugin mode not saving parameter links Group reducing the number of outputs could lead to a crash if there were passthrough connections Keyswitch bidule corrupts some MIDI messages Linked Audio File Player Play parameter could prevent slaved files to finish playing correctly MIDI file player doesn t close notes when seeking MIDI file recorder when synced
117. nto one of the connectors the signal will be mixed duplicated automatically m m Tone Generator 0 Tone Generator 1 ASIO for EWS88 MT D duplex AudioFileOutput_0 You can repatch an existing cable by first selecting it clicking on it when it s highlighted or by lassoing then by clicking on one of the connectors at the end of the cab and holding the left mouse button until you have selected the new connector p CombTone 0 Audio File CombTone_0 Audio File CombTone_0 Audio File R h f 2 Mixer 0 Mixer _0 You can of course send outputs signals back to the inputs signals provided there is at least another module in between to create a feedback loop Audio File Looper 44100 44100 Gain Delay Line 1 Delay Line 0 To process live audio DUPLEX devices only just connect both bidules representing your duplex device to the processing module in this example SmartElectronix s SupaPhaserVST as shown ASIO for EWS88 MT D duplex SupaPhaser ASIO for EWS88 MT D duplex You can insert remove bidules by holding the ALT key while dragging Doing this on a connected bidule will remove it and reconnect the before and after bidules the b it cans You can insert into existing cables by aligning the outputs of the to be inserted bidule over the cable you wish to insert into If you ever encounter a red bidule when you load a bidule file it means that the saved file contains a reference to a module or pl
118. ny the right for plugins using these IDs to work in Bidule This is for reasons code purity mostly and to force developers to fix their plugins Same applies to Bidule if a developer points out a fault in Bidule s hosting we will gladly cooperate and fix our bugs Nobody writes perfect code e Internal names vs plugin file names One of those features that are used more and more are the plugin s internal names which can give a better description of the plugin to the user than its filename would For example Spectral Inverter Using Pvoc instead of si_up dll or si_up vst If a plugin doesn t provide a name Bidule will then revert to its filenam Users wanting to use the filename only can change this option in the preferences menu e Company name vs Directory names As with Internal Names the VST 2 0 standard also supports the plugins that export their company vendor name Most newer plugins support this feature but ol ones seldom do These automatically go into the Unknown Vendor category Users wanting to categorize plugins by their directory structure instead can do so by changing this option in the preferences VST banks and parameters vs MIDI CCs and program changes A VST plugin s internal programs and the normal 128 patches of a MIDI synth are sometimes to 1 and sometimes completely unrelated It s a case by case basis We still not sure on what would be the best solution for the users Some VST plugins can also choos
119. o Spectral Domain Conversion using the Phase Vocoder Select your own windowing method File Looper Use PVOC files loaded into the Mediapool that you can create with Freeze it will continuously output the frames contained in the PVOC file Freeze Keeps and outputs the current FFT window Gate Input the window will be frozen as long as is received The first time the input goes from 0 to 1 it uses the current window as the frozen window Trigger Input send a to force a refreeze Freeze Frequencies check this to freeze the frequencies Freeze Magnitudes check this to freeze the magnitudes Force Gate does the same as sending 1 continuously in the gate input PVOC File select a file to save the contents to upon saving the file will be automatically added to the Mediapool e o o o o Frequency Binary Operator Mathematics for Frequency data Breeder Mix two frequency signals as wanted or at random e Breed Ratio Amount of the left input to use in the output e Crazy Genetics Enable random amount of mixing for each bin Buffer Works like Audio Buffer but for frequencies no save option Gate Select the lower upper bound of the signal going through Inversion Finds the highest bin each bin is changed to the difference between the highest value and the current bin value Logic Gate Simple Logic Gate for the frequency part of the spectral signal Left Side Argument Input input for the left side argument of the logic opera
120. oading a bidule file the OSC Client GUI will not show it before a restart Oscillator better cpu usage when receiving out of range values Palette can be slow to build depending on groups plug ing installed Patchbay if several bodies are overlapped clicking cannot select a single one Patchbay using reconnect a cable when the view has panning applied would make the cable start from the wrong place RPN NRPN To Params only works if receiving MSB then LSB for parameter number RPN NRPN To Params only works if receiving MSB then LSB for value SDK terminal plug ins made with the SDK would not get their audio inputs filled correctly VST hosting more robust protection against unexpected ioChanged coming from a plug in VST version some sequences of buffer size changes could lead to distorted no sound Version v0 9709 December 20th 2010 Autosave added preference to keep the setting between layouts restarts CC Latch added reset parameter Mediapool added preference to round MIDI file length Offline will now disable the audio device in the patchbay instead of requesting its removal VST scrollbars will be added if the user interface cannot fit in the current resolution Bug Fixes Comment using presets could lead to a crash Discrete events could be lost and prevent correct processing Mediapool any bidule using mediapool files could retain reference if files were changed and there was no processing
121. ocessing audio you might not get any result unless you stop the processing and restart If you are a plugin developer and think that Bidule is missing some other interfaces please contact us Chapter 6 ReWire support Table of Contents Bidule ReWire support Basics ReWire Devices Config ReWire Slave Basics ReWire Sync Sending MIDI to ReWire Devices Troubleshooting ReWire Problems Bidule ReWire support Bidule currently supports ReWire functionality in both master and slave modes In master mode it can load ReWire devices in its patchbay as a ReWire master Using ReWire devices in Bidule in this way is similar to using VST plugins with outputs only or instruments in the case of Reason for instance In ReWire slave mode the ReWire Device bidules acts as the Audio output within the patchbay with MIDI input from the ReWire master application Basics In order to use a ReWire device in Bidule you must Close any other ReWire Mixer applications like Cubase SX Start Bidule Add the appropriate ReWire device to the patchbay right click the patchbay and select ReWire Devices then the desired device Start the device s application Live Rebirth etc but Reason will start by itself Then to end your ReWire session e Close the device s application Live Rebirth etc but Reason will close by itself Remove the device from Bidule s patchbay or close the current patch The order in which these steps are
122. odules AHDSR Envelope Basic AHDSR Envelope Graphical Envelope Graphical Envelope Synced MIDI File Recorder MIDI Map OSC Creator OSC Extractor OSC MIDI Sample Map Sanitizer Smoother Changes Application default files are now saved in user space instead of application space Audio Monitor better management of min max values Audio Monitor min max are reset when disconnecting AU added support for multiple busses HID Data Extractor added renaming of parameters when changing device HID Data Extractor added act as trigger parameter so that keys buttons can be linked to buttons Input Output Selector added Mode parameter to select between Pan and Linear Interpolation MIDI Buffers added save to file MIDI Message Remapper added Program Change to Note MIDI Monitor added Clear Buffer button MIDI Note Transpose added velocity transpose parameter Mixer now allows multiple solos Mixer added interpolation for Pan values OS X better MIDI clock input OS X better timing on MIDI output OS X help now appears in Help Viewer Unary Operator added Truncate operation VST OS X added supported for plug ins requiring compositing window Bug Fixes Application loading files with Mediapool references on a different platform doesn t truncate the filename to search correctly AU parameter list change notification takes time to process Gro
123. of patches you can make Chapter 2 User Interface Table of Contents Palette Bidules Find Next Use Next History Patchbay Modules aka bidules Connectors Basic Bidules Connections Advanced Bidules Connections Context Menu Mouse Usage and Hot Keys Toolbar Features Parent Go up a level Parameters MediaPool Palette On Off Preferences User Interface VST AU ReWire Disk I O DSP MIDI Main menu Menubar File Menu Edit Menu Tools Menu Bidules Toolbar Presets Parameter Properties Dialog Parameter Locking Dialog Palette The Palette window allows you to create a patch by dragging and dropping bidules on the patchbay It has two panes the Bidules pane and the History pane Bidules This pane contains a list of all available bidules grouped according to your preferences To add a bidule to the patchbay drag it from the Palette and drop it on the patch Find Next Find Next is a bidule VST AU search utility it helps track down bidules by name Once found the highlighted bidule can be double clicked so it can be added to the patchbay Use Next Use Next behaves exactly like Find Next but automatically creates the bidule that represents the first match found History Plogue Bidule keeps track of the bidules you use most The History pane shows these bidules in a sorted list To add a frequently used bidule to the patchbay drag it frc the History list and drop it on the patchbay
124. ogram Change Extractor MIDI Program Change Creator MIDI Channel Extractor MIDI Basic Channel Remapper Changes Expiration date now in the splash screen Bug Fixes AU sometimes crashes when trying to load a preset AU dialog about found AUs showing even it there s 0 new AUs AU some AUs always scanned as new at Bidule startup Groups re worked arpegiator cc inverter cc lin to log to keep MIDI channel ReWire device now actively waits with dialog for the Re Wire host application instead of popping up a message that it failed to OS X possible crash when scanning VST plug ins OS X less UI freezes hangs on 10 2 x but still there Parameters in dB can t be set a min max Saved groups aren t renamed after their filenames Step Sequencer doesn t start stop when synced Step Sequencer several step seq playlist problems Step Sequencer stuck notes with step seq when stopping sync Using cut delete paste in the context menu cause crashes Windows Crashes on startup on Windows 2003 with Terminal Services enabled Version v0 6601 May 19th 2004 OS X Audio Units hosting New Modules Noise Generator White and Pink noises for now Changes New Preferences dialog Added progress dialog when downloading from online group catalog Now tries to load audio MIDI devices by their names first useful when you use the same audio MIDI interface on different machines Faster cut d
125. ome of the sync info for your processing Playing Output sends 1 when playing and 0 when not BPM Output the current BPM Numerator Output the current time signature numerator Denominator Output the current time signature denominator Samples per beat Output of samples per beat ppq Pos Output the current ppq position Last Bar started at Output start ppq of the last bar Trigger at bar Start Output sends a at each start of bar Trigger Sends a trigger a value of 1 in the output signal when the the button is pressed or at the start of each measure when synched to a syncsource Trigger Clock Sends a trigger a value of 1 in the output signal when the of samples has been counted e of samples between triggers Input of samples before sending a trigger e Reset Clock Input send a 1 here to restart the clock to the current of samples input Chapter 5 VST and VSTi support Table of Contents Input outputs configurations Tempo Sync Plugins availability VST banks and parameters vs MIDI CCs and program changes VST errors reported by Bidule Yet to be implemented VST Features VST and VSTi Plugins Bidule s VST implementation is somewhat different than what you might be accustomed to from other hosts The fact that this host is modular for instance allows any possible combination of wiring that you can think of This leads to new set of possibilities for plugin developers The VST 2 0 standard is full o
126. osition index is internally managed Size in ms the length of the audio buffer Interpolation method used to interpolate samples when the playback speed is different than 1 0 File Save set a filename to record the selected portion to a file and add it to the mediapool Audio Input input for the audio signal you might want to record Play Gate Input once a is received the playing will continue for as long that 1 is received in this input Playback speed multiplier Input playback speed Record Gate Input once a is received the recording will continue for as long that 1 is received in this input Clear Contents Trigger input send a trigger here to erase the contents of the buffer of samples in buffer Output of samples in buffer Output the total amount of samples ie sample rate multiplied by time available in the buffer eeeeee eee e Basic Audio Buffer 2 Ex An evolution of the Basic Audio Buffer to include a display where you can set the in and out points also throuh parameter linking of the contents of the buffer Notice extra and buttons mouse wheel can also be used in the toolbar to zoom in and out Size in ms the length of the audio buffer Interpolation method used to interpolate samples when the playback speed is different than 1 0 File Save set a filename to record the selected portion to a file and add it to the mediapool Audio Input input for the audio signal you might want to record Play Gate Input once
127. ote cents to frequency ratio and frequency ratio to cents to Unit Converter MIDI Added play stop button to the Step Sequencer Spectral Added Ramp to the possible wave types of Spectral Resynthesizer VST Hosting Implemented effEditKey opcodes Implemented isPinConnected interface New Included groups 16 Step Seq 16 Step Seq2 Analog Drum Analog Kit Arpegiator Complex Limiter Formant Filter Note to Chord PD Osc Pitch Sampler Pseudo Granulator PWM Osc Saturate Simple Limiter Stereo Delay Stereo Flanger Tone Gen Two Band Distortion Waveshaper Wavetable Synth Added mechanism to display sync master slave status of bidules in the patchbay Added transport information when syncing bidules Added Alignement Command in the Patchbay context menu Added automatic rename in the patchbay to the parameter value for Binary Operator Constant Function Unary Operator and Unit Converter Added display of possible range in the status bar for inputs and outputs of some basic bidules Text is now automatically selected in the rename dialog Changed the play stop button in the toolbar for an on off switch Added directory browse dialog when changing the VST plugins path Better displaying of audio file types in the MediaPool GUI Added option to save MediaPool content when saving a group Added mechanism to limit the number of patchbay refresh per second Fixes Seve
128. pectral Freeze filename disappear when using presets Sync Transport stops after a 1000 bar Trigger rename Play Signal to the more accurate Start of processing VST OS X floating frames option doesn t work with cmd tab VST Windows vst still losing focus in some cases Windows crash when trying to load an nonsupported audio file in the audio file player Windows crash could happen when renaming an Envelope Version v0 8501 July 7th 2005 Changes Graphical Envelope added set position dialog when double clicking on a point MIDI Note Transposer changed velocity offset behavior to use maximum velocity instead of skipping note when resulting velocity is higher than maximum Bug Fixes AU Cocoa UIs don t work with Floating Frames option AU Cocoa UIs disappearing when clicking on some toolbar button Graphical Envelope can t delete point if scrollbar is used Graphical Envelope possible crash after reaching 100 points on Windows Graphical Envelope display doesn t update correctly when changing presets Input Output Selector confusion between processing mode and interpolation mode parameter names Replace replacing a duplex audio device with a direct connection by another duplex device causes a crash VST Windows focus on the VST panel can be lost depending on some other UI operations Version v0 85 June 24th 2005 OSC Client implementation Bidule can now send OSC messages New M
129. players and other modules synched to is should follow all bpm and time signatur changes embedded in the file The Speed parameter can be used to slow down or accelerate the playback of the file Note the Speed parameter has no effect if the Loop synced to a source MIDI File Recorder Standard MIDI file recorder When synced and recording is enabled the actual recording will only start at the beginning of the next bar File select the file name and location for recording Recording stops resumes recording Current take Elapsed time statistics on the current recording Create new files for each record create a new file appended with the take number on every start of recording Add recorded file to Mediapool automatically add the recorded file to the Mediapool once the recording stops e o Misc bidules Audio Dummy The do nothing bidule as requested by Bram at smartelectronix In his words No software is complete without a do nothing part it balances yin and yang it s the met essence of Zen Clock A display only bidule to show in a larger font the elapsed time as well as the current musical time when synced Comment Just an idea scratchpad for text no ins or outs HID Data Extractor Use any standard USB HID Human Interface Device like keyboard mouse and joystick as a MIDI and parameter source Buttons will be transformed into MIDI notes and bool on off parameters while axis based controls like the mouse wheel or
130. r triggers set to 1 for the sample on which the MIDI note should be created Add Microtonal info param if this is selected the outgoing MIDI notes will carry a detune factor if the frequency input is not an exact MIDI note e o o o Look at the Arpeggiator group s internals for an example of how to use the MIDI Note Creator Note Creator 2 MIDI note creator for creating multiple notes this version doesn t keep memory of what note is on or off Frequency Input frequency value for the outgoing MIDI note in Hz Amplitude Input velocity value remapped between 0 and 1 Note On Trigger Input send a 1 when you want to create a Note On event Note Off Trigger Input send a 1 when you want to create a Note Off event Add Microtonal info param if this is selected the outgoing MIDI notes will carry a detune factor if the frequency input is not an exact MIDI note e o o o Note Extractor Useful information extracted from MIDI Note On Off events Frequency Output frequency value for the incoming MIDI note with pitch bend applied in Hz Amplitude Output velocity value remapped between 0 and 1 NOTE ON only Gate Output output for gate signal set to 1 on MIDI Note On until a MIDI Note Off is received Trigger Output output for triggers set to 1 for the sample on which the MIDI note is received Stealing Mode select Use Lowest to have portamento Glide Time used when in portamento mode Wheel Range range of the pitch bend
131. ral little VST hosting bugs many thanx to tobybear s Kondor fixed CRITICAL bug with host dangling all notes off midi events made some plugins crash between after a stop play command fixed preset list drop down to be VST 1 0 compatible fixed receiving of MIDI events from certain plugins added Bidule side FPU control word protection misc VstTimeInfo members fixed audioMasterVersion returns 2200 as SX audioMasterCanDo s host now properly filled Rare occurence crash when deleting bidules and audio was playing Fixed propper CPU speed detection routine for tighther timing Bug in our addons to PortAudio that would prevent some audio cards to work Crash when trying to use an audiodevice inside a group Mixer crashes when using parameter linking with it Potential crash with remote catalog Bidule appearing in the taskbar and not possible to view its window Group dialogs now showing proper value of virtual parameters in the statusbar Min and Max inversion in Binary Operator Loading problems when using reserved characters for bidules parameters display name GUIs of bidules contained in a group sometimes appearing disappearing immediatly when deleting the group Fixed first bar syncinfo from Step Sequencer now starts at ppqPos 0 Version v0 5000 July 24th 2002 Added Pitch Bend to Note Extractor VST fxbs load save added VST fixed selected program save load Parameter Pool now is hierachical by groups
132. rash on manual sequencer bank loader VstTimelnfo fixed for Reaktor3 synchronisation Wav file listing discrepancy between wav pool Bidules Version 0 4153 pre beta Feb 10 2002 New options to automatically show GUIs when inserting them or not Fix for paths they are now remembered Fixed locales use whatever you want it doesnt bother Bidule anymore Misc bad VSTi behaviour fixes Added supplemental crash protection in VST scanning phase a new popup will warn the user that a plugin acted funny and that bidule wont use it in the future ASIO driver optimizations especially for the hacked Live drivers a new output only driver is now available for it instead of a fake duplex OpenGL optimizations so that it does less screen refreshes helps ASIO a lot Fixed random crashes in AudioFileOutput and AudioBuffer that would crash Bidule randomly on start stop file writing Fixed 24 16 bits file for audio cliping wraparound Version 0 4152 pre beta Jan 29 2002 MIDI Outputs work must have a Audio Device somewhere though Parameters can now learn a from a MIDI CC see Context menu below got rid of the old MIDIToParam Bidule now obsolete Playlist Interface for the MIDISequencer first version VSTs VSTis AudioFileLooper can now be synched to any MIDISequencers First third party deal SmartElectronix Chorus more to come VST Sorting by directory names and DLL names as option happy New radar view for th
133. re s now a Bidule SDK Added context menu to all sliders New Modules Surround ITU Mixers Continuous Surround Panner Changes Audio Matrix added optional fading Audio Switcher added optional fading Biquad Filter added extra input for dB value for peaking band low and hi shelf FFT iFFT added higher quality preference Group Manager added button to set a custom catalog URL MIDI Buffers Recorder added takes mode MIDI Recorder added add to Mediapool parameter Monitoring can now open multiple windows Plugins ReWire device relaxed sync information validation when looping is on bad in out point or a position outside the loop points will result in disabling looping VST finally added load save of fxp Bug Fixes Application if old VST mode is activated there s no way to reset it Audio Files bad embedded loop information could lead to weird behaviors crashes Audio File Recorder multiple mono files option is not remembered when loading Envelope moving points doesn t work Mediapool sometimes flags files as being used when they aren t Multi Channel Channel Pressure Remapper display is 0 based instead of 1 based OS X help doesn t show in Help Viewer for some persons OS X crash at startup on some 10 2 8 systems OS X closing a VST window could crash OS X changed AU cache format to prevent possible clash between plugins OS X plugins fixed mouse handli
134. rigger Envelope except that its time base is in quarter notes PPQ and it will follow the tempo of a sync source It will NOT play if not synced or if the sync source is stopped Filters Allpass Filter Basic allpass filter e Audio Input input for the audio signal e Delay Time delay time for the filter in ms Allpass Filter 2 Slightly different version of the Allpass filter consisting of a delay line and low pass filter e Audio Input input for the audio signal e Delay Length delay time in samples Basic Filter Collection of basic one pole one zero and one pole one zero 6db filters that you can cascade to create others e Type select the type of filter Biquad Filter Basic biquad filter e Audio Input input for the audio signal e Frequency Input frequency to use for the filter for the current sample in Hz e Q Bandwidth Q Bandwidth for the current sample depending on the selected filter type Comb Filter Basic comb filter e Audio Input input for the audio signal e Delay Time delay time for the filter in ms Comb Filter 2 Better version of the comb filter e Audio Input input for the audio signal e Delay Time delay time for the filter in samples e Filter Frequency frequency value to use for the comb filter internal filter Crossover Filter Basic crossover filter e Audio Input input for the audio signal e Frequency Input frequency to use for the filter for the current sample in Hz FIR
135. s changed to reflect that value e Normalized Value Output the value for the Pitchbend remapped between 1 and 1 where 0 is no pitch change Program Change Creator Creation of MIDI Program Change events from values events will be created automatically when the input value changes e Program Change Number Input the program number for the event to create e Trigger Input send a 1 to force the creation of a program change event even if the number hasn t changed e Auto detect value changes parameter keep track of the incoming values and create new events when there is change if this is off events are only created when a trigger is received Program Change Extractor Extraction of MIDI Program Change events When a Program Change event is received the output is changed to reflect that value e Program Number Output the program number for the event Stack Stack for MIDI events that can be set either as FIFO first in first out i e events comes out in the same order they came in or LIFO last in first out i e events comes o1 the opposite order they came in Pop Trigger Input send a 1 to remove the next event from the stack Push Trigger Input send a 1 put the MIDI event at the current sample in the stack Event Input send your MIDI stream here Empty Stack Trigger Output sends a 1 when the last element of the stack has been popped Event Output outputs the popped MIDI event eeeee Time Delta Outputs the time in samples between t
136. s file is saved to the Default folder Bidule will always load th set of presets whenever an instance of the bidule group is added to the patchbay Automating Presets Every plug in bidule and group has a parameter called Preset Number that can be linked to automatically switch the active preset for that bidule Link one parameter tc Present Number parameter in the Parameters dialog box See User Interface gt Toolbar Features gt Parameter Linking for more on linking parameters in Bidule Parameters Linking Source Target Source Parameters B KTGranulator E CMX844 Main Mixer amp MKeys Mutate VB_Striptool Randomize KTGranulator Processing mode Indexed Value List InGain Parameter Modulator Mix Mutate Feedback Randomize Freeze Processing mode MinlOT Modulation MaxlOT MinDuration MaxDuration Source Target Parameter Modulator Modulation KTGranulator Preset Number VST is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH Audio Units is a registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc Chapter 10 Meter Adaptation Explained Meter Adaptation is a feature in Bidule that allows audio loops and MIDI sequences and time lines of different meters aka time signatures to stay in synch with each other Why is that useful and why do we care Well probably because one of us has listened to too much prog rock in his youth and he didn t want Bidule to follow same 4 4 only looping mentalit
137. s the Del key Media Pool E 4udio tightenup aiff AIFF Apple SGI 157057 44100 16 mono 306 kilobytes 613 kilobytes E 4udio monkey au AU Sun NexT 1652 8012 8 mono 1 kilobytes 6 kilobytes E sndfiles wavLoop drum wav WAV Microsoft 87392 44100 16 mono 170 kilobytes 341 kilobytes E Audio drmapan wav WAVEX Microsoft 105507 22050 16 4 channels 824 kilobytes 1 megabytes Add file s Remoye fies Free memory 531 Megabytes Palette Press this button to toggle showing and hiding of the palette window On Off Press this button to toggle the audio processing Preferences User Interface Show Tips Enable disable the showing of tips at Bidule startup Process at startup Enable disable automatically activating signal processing upon launching Bidule Keep Auto save setting on restart Keep the status of the auto save option across restarts otherwise auto save will only be enabled for the current session Floating frames On Windows always stay on top of the patchbay Off Windows only appear on top of the patchbay when double clicking on a bidule Use Regional Options Enable disable use of your operating system s regional settings which include language units settings floating points are separated by comma or radix etc Bidule shit with some pre defined languages if you would like to help us in adding a translation to your language please advise us so WARNING if some VST AU plugins cease working
138. s to load a bprs file of saved presets Save click this to save the current set of presets as a bprs file Note the difference between the Add and Add Copy Clicking Add to add a new default preset is useful every time you want to start from scratch when designing a pres Clicking Add Copy is useful when you want to create a variation on the currently selected preset Creating Default Bidule Presets When you click the Save button by default Bidule will save the bprs file to the Presets folder located in the folder where the Bidule software is installed Bidule also assigns a name by default that begins with com plogue whatever see the following image Select a file Save in presets F default 2 B com plogue groups smexFreeze test bprs My Recent s com plogue LookupTable bprs Documents le LookUp bprs Desktop My Documents My Computer File name com plogue groups BufferMachine bprs MyNetwork Saveastype Bidule Presets files bprs If the bprs file you are saving is not meant to be a default set you can rename the file to whatever you like be sure to indicate the type of bidule group in case you for and save it wherever you like However if you want this preset to be the new set of default presets for a bidule or group then keep the default filename and save the grc to the Presets Default folder located in the folder where Bidule is installed Once a properly named bpr
139. sampling rate than Bidule aren t pitch down or up ReWire master support on MacIntel Added possibility to turn off fading windows per bidule when switching between processing modes Added 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 file players and recorders OS X ReWire temporary files are now created in a Bidule owned folder SDK added support for plugs with no output Bug Fixes Saved MIDI files are sometime corrupted Monitoring not working on terminal groups SDK plugins can t receive the sync information SDK getParameterChoices isn t called with the parameter id OS X AUAudioFilePlayer can t open its UI twice VST Plugin not setting itself to the host sample rate in some cases many more fixes Version 0 9102 March 2nd 2006 Added 8192 and 16384 FFT Window size as well as 16 overlaps Fixed ReWire device version of Bidule to work correctly on Maclntel New Modules MIDI Misc Sysex Filter Bug fixes Lemur OSC messages having no effect in Bidule VST hosting plugins requesting tempo once their UI is up don t show the Sync to control Group UI using CC and Note Remappers parameters are very slow to show up Note Transposer sending a CO Note Off when receiving a Note Off for a note without having first received a Note On for that note several other minor fixes Version v0 91 February 9th 2006 Universal Binary version for OS X x64 version VST 2 4 support both as a host and as a plugin The
140. sistency please change your layouts accordingly Mediapool added extra info on audio file MIDI Monitor add events one by one in the window instead of by block Noise added HP Tri noise type Parameter Properties Dialog added display of increment value Patchbay Paste from the context menu now pastes at the mouse position Spectral Freeze can now save to file VST Bridge added MIDI output to the host VST Bridge added OS X version Windows you can now have multiple versions of Bidule installed Bug Fixes Application possible crash if groups cache file is corrupted Application import causing crashes with some layouts Application some undo operations could fail depending on your regional options AU some AUs crashing when starting processing AU some AUs windows not resizing properly AU scanning fails on MusicDevices with a flexible configuration Audio File Granulator crashes upon certain settings Buffer Granulator crashes upon certain settings Groups parameters exported to group sometimes don t update their enable disable status correctly Groups re saving a group with a displayPath doesn t change the displayPath MIDI File Player some files not looping correctly MIDI Step Sequencer settings saved on one platform might not work on the other OS X main window title bar could appear under the menu bar OS X MIDI Ouput some MIDI events aren t sent properly for some in
141. t a file from the MediaPool Add Files shortcut to add audio files to the MediaPool File Amplitude added gain of this file Master Amplitude added gain for any files over the File Amplitude Update loop points Changes the moment when changes to the loop points are applied when using the mouse File Settings Section if the loaded file contains standard loop info some of these fields will be automatically filled with these otherwise a guess on the number of beats will be made with bpm and 4 4 e Meter Original Meter of the file e Orig BPM Original Tempo of the file This is directly coupled to the number of beats if you manually change the Orig BPM the Number of beats will be changed but not the other way around e Meter Adaptation Adapt or not the meter of the loop to the incoming timeline meter see the Meter Adaptation section in this Guide for more info e Number of beats Number of beats you specify that corresponds to the current selected loop points e Edit Loop points Pops up a separate window to edit the in and out points that you want you can zoom in or out using either the mouse wheel or the plus and minus keys on your keyboard changing the loop points will also change the number of beats but not the other way around You can always reenter the number of beats you really want that corresponds to the current selection anytime Playback Settings Section Interpolation Interpolation used in vari speed playback Str
142. t a specified OSC address the number of arguments of the sent message is the number of connected inputs e Parameter 1 to 8 Inputs parameters for the OSC message e Trigger to send message Input send a 1 to use the values at the parameter inputs to send an OSC message e Force int parameters param message will be send with integers instead of floats parameters OSC Creator 2 More complex and flexible version of OSC Creator the number of arguments of the sent message is the number of connected inputs and any parameter defined as Strin Parameter to 8 Inputs parameters for the OSC message Trigger to send message Input send a to use the values at the parameter inputs to send an OSC message OSC Parameter Type o Float from input take the incoming signal and use it for a float parameter to the OSC message o Int from input take the incoming signal and use it for a integer parameter to the OSC message o String take the value field and use it for a string parameter to the OSC message o Format string with float input C format string to generate the parameter value using the value field and the incoming signal as a float param_ f o Format string with int input C format string to generate the parameter value using the value field and the incoming signal as a int voice_ n OSC Parameter Value only used for String Format string with float input Format string with int input ee OSC Extractor Let you specify an OSC address to receive OS
143. taken are of utmost importance more info here ReWire Info ReWire Devices Config Slaved ReWire devices can have quite a few audio channels available and take up a lot of space on the patchbay The Project 5 ReWire device bidule for instance has total audio outputs by default In addition to this the ReWire devices can also have a potentially large number of MIDI outputs To keep the size of your ReWire device bidules more manageable select Tools gt ReWire Devices Config dialog to manage the number of audio outputs number of MIDI inputs and the Auto Launch behavioi if the ReWire device application supports Auto Launch ReWire Devices Devices Properties Name Audio Outputs Ableton Live Project5 Trial MIDI Inputs Auto Launch Close Program Note that this only restricts the audio outputs MIDI inputs visible on the ReWire device bidule in the patchbay As far as the slaved ReWire application is concerned nothing has changed and the full number of inputs outputs is available ReWire Slave Basics In order to slave Bidule to another ReWire master device you must do the following steps in the exact order below e Launch the ReWire master application e Activate at least one output of the Plogue Bidule ReWire device How you do this varies from program to program consult your ReWire application s manual for more details e Launch Bidule The splash screen will indicate that Bidule is in ReWire mode e Connect any MIDI
144. tarting Bidule Groups sometimes audio skips upon deleting a group Groups virtualized preset parameter maximum isn t set correctly Groups UI wasn t rebuilt after changing the UI control type of a parameter Groups terminal bidule connected to group input doesn t work MIDI Input sending note offs for every note on every channel sometimes doesn t work MIDI Note Extractor amplitude output sometimes cause clipping of synth voice MIDI Step Sequencer doesn t send sync information correctly to SupaTrigga OS X crashes on startup if Helvetica font can t be found OS X can t load more than 200 something files in sampler plug ins OS X mouse wheel behaves weirdly for zooming in out OS X windows sometimes showing under the menubar OS X VST crashes when quitting when using some specific plug ins Sync source not always updating their names in the Sync To submenu Unknown Red bidules sometimes cause crashes depending on how they are connected VST multiple plug ins with non characters uniqueIDs Pluggo can t be seen by Bidule VST only one of multiple plug ins having the same internal name show up in the list VST audioMasterOpenFileSelector returns 1 even if no file is selected VST some Waves plug ins crashing when adding them to the patchbay Windows MIDI can t see more than 64 MIDI devices Version v0 6502 January 18th 2004 Added a preference entry for choosing the number of
145. terfaces OS X VST keys aren t received by some plug ins Presets some bidules have parameters that reset to 0 when using presets ReWire looping sections inside a ReWire device sometimes causes weird results Patchbay current zoom isn t taking into account when adding bidules through drag and drop Spectral To MIDI the threshold parameter doesn t have any effect Trigger the send trigger parameter doesn t behave properly through parameter linking Windows failure to open a MIDI port isn t reported Version vO 7003 January 14th 2005 Changes Windows added preference to force ASIO driver buffer size to Bidule s size Bug Fixes ASIO lots of little fixes AU crash with some plug ins using CurrentPreset when changing presets Basic Audio Buffer Number of samples isn t set correctly for some buffer sizes Better handling of failure of starting audio processing Audio MIDI Matrix crash when clicking outside the grid MIDI File Player stuck notes when stopping playback OS X Main window shows up with the titlebar under the menu bar OS X crashes on startup with some Digidesign card driver combination Presets possible loading problem when files are shared between locales ParameterPool having a default presets file prevent parameters to show up correctly Version v0 7002 January Sth 2005 Changes AU can now save any presets not just the User preset Faster application shut
146. th an i o configuration should be able to load into another i o configuration if the parameters are the same Presets attempting to create a copy of a read only preset does not retain the changes made to the original preset Sync Creator meters could be wrong when loaded from a file Sync Transport changing meters could result in an incorrect start of bar Trigger When synced it should only output values if the transport is playing Using Reorganize presets could make some presets disappear Windows x64 input and output selectors not working correctly many more fixes Version v0 9696 November 9th 2009 Fixed scrolling display issue with Step Sequencer Windows Version v0 9695 November 2nd 2009 Added several OSC addresses to many bidules for things unrelated to parameters Added Variable Integer Audio File Looper Basic Audio Buffer 2 Step Sequencer added cursors for current positions Bug Fixes Fixed possible crash when disconnecting a bidule closing a layout closing the application ADSR AHDSR sustain could never truly be 0 AU fixed possible crash when aupreset could not be parsed AU plugin fixed display of UI sometimes not working correctly in some hosts under 10 6 Audio File Looper Basic Audio Buffer 2 relaxed zoomed out x limitation Crossfader Fadercross left input could slightly bleed into output when it s 100 right input many more fixes Version v0 9692 September 23th 2009
147. thanx seb Now using VSTPath from registry if previously set otherwise using VSTPlugins Using SGI GL implemtation If you have an accelerated card your normal Gl ICD will of course be used otherwise you have something faster than MS s implementation you could test the software mode if you want see below in GL Config Fixed AudioBuffer filename problem Fixed Paths problems Fixed Max Midi Devices crashes I hope it covers all Minor additions to sequencer can now change sequences Minor AudioDevice Fixes for same input output name thanx Laurent for finding this Version 0 3 alpha musicdsp dev friends test Added WavePool and AudioFile Player speed changes soon to match BPMs Version 0 2 alpha
148. the Mediapool OSC MIDI detune parameter is now optional Unit Converter added MIDI 7bit to from 0 1 normalized Bug Fixes Application group selected objects could crash Application for some dialogs escape enter don t act as cancel ok Audio File Output append mode doesn t work Buffers Freeze save parameter is not available for linking groups Copy Paste copy paste could crash on dual core processor machines Dialogs some dialogs aren t working with the Enter Escape keys Envelope not using correct values after loading if presets were used Envelope Map adding presets could lose the current preset values Envelope Map adding a copy of the current preset didn t copy the value FFT some buffer size FFT size FFT overlap settings could sound weird Groups possible crash when trying to save cut copy etc depending on contained parameter linking Groups loading brps file for a bidule with their preset parameter exported to the group doesn t list presets correctly MIDI Buffer Synced can t save MIDI file MIDI Program Change To Param didn t work as expected Mixer solo mute need 0 to be turned off through parameter linking OSC MIDI doesn t work depending on how its connected OS X 192kHz sample rate didn t work Presets saving a large number of presets is slow Pulse Generator crashes with 0 harmonics Pulse Generator weird output with less than 1 harmonics S
149. the digital joystick pad will be transformed into MIDI CC and parameters with a range e HID Device the device the Data Extractor takes outputs information from e Axisl gt Pitchbend force the first axis control to be transformed into MIDI pitchbend Fixed MIDI Mapping information read only display of the currently selected device available controls and their mapping e Buttons Are Triggers enable this to not have buttons send MIDI Note Off and set the parameter value back to 0 when the button is released Key Sender Simulate keyboard events that will be received by the application that is currently in the foreground You can specify a key modifier like CTRL SHIFT etc and an actual key If both the key down and key up triggers are received at the same time this will generate a normal keystroke Always remember to send a key up event if y intend to use the keystroke as a gate e Key Down Trigger Input send a 1 to simulate a pressed key e Key Up Trigger Input send a 1 to simulate an unpressed key Key Stroke DEPRECATED please use the HID Data Extractor this is only kept for compatibility Matrix Sequencer A NXN set of knobs each with a specified value and an active checkbox The global minimum and maximum value can be set The MIDI version will output MIDI note while the audio version will output value event gate and event trigger on different outputs The current x y position is driven by the audio input basically you can crea
150. the group window by clicking on the GUI Control button The Columns control enables you to set the number of columns to use for the group window the default is 1 t have a vertical list of all parameters The parameters will be displayed in the following order if you choose to change the Columns value parameter 1 parameter 2 parameter 3 parameter 4 parameter 5 parameter 6 xl Presets Params Lock Random Mutate oo 0 200 MIDE Gates U 55 847 J 100 000 ooo 10 000 Exported group parameters GUI Control ADSR Envelope Attack Slider MIDI Note Extractor ADSR Envelope Decay Slider Preset Number ADSR Envelope Sustain Slider Mutate ADSR Envelope Release Slider Randomize Processing mode Stealing Mode Down Glide Time Wheel Range Always Retrig ADSR Envelope Preset Number Mutate Randomize Processing mode Remove Rename Ok Cancel Now if you double click on the the group in the patchbay you will see a window allowing you to edit the parameter you just exported Setting its value will automatical set the value of the Amplitude parameter of the Gain bidule inside the group Exported parameters can also be linked in the Parameter window and controlled from MIDI Editing group properties To edit a group s properties right click the group and select Group Properties This will bring up the dialog you saw when you created the group See the Creating a ne group section
151. ther option in the DSP preferences but as dithering is to a large extent a suggestive improvement let you be the judges Note2 Make sure the incoming signal DO NOT break the 1 1 limit Moog VCF Courtesy of the music dsp source code archive Time Domain Convolver Don t search for parameters there aren t any Just feed two different input signals into each in socket Instrument bidules Boboche Sampler Cheapo Sampler very straight MIDI note to audio clip mapping e File select a file for each note from the MediaPool e Master Volume kept for backwards compatibility MIDI bidules Arpeggiator The same arpeggiator as found in chipsounds e Arp Mode note playing mode pretty much the standard list of available modes e Arp Play Mode loop will loop through the entire sequence until notes are released one shot will play through the sequence once one shot and sustain last will play through the sequence one and keep the last note playing until you release keys e Velocity As Played will play back the velocity of each input note in the output sequence Use First will apply the velocity of the first received note to all the output notes Normalized normalizes all output notes to the same value e Gate Ratio proportion of silence between successive notes e Proportional Division Sequences will take the same time to play however manynotes they contain Buffer Similar to the Audio Buffer but for MIDI events Mode Bypass Captur
152. times doesn t remove the link many more fixes Version v0 9656 July 14nd 2008 Crash bug fix on startup under some platforms Version v0 9655 July 2nd 2008 Comb Filter 2 bidule MIDI Matrix added option to automatically close opened notes when turning off a connection Generic UI for VSTs now always show the string value of the parameter Added a parameter to all MIDI Creators to disable the detection of value changes and only use triggers many more little improvements Bug Fixes An incorrect MIDI device could be selected at load time to replace a valid one Constant Number of media files constants could have the wrong value in certain cases MIDI File Player could cause glitches in playback MIDI File Player loop mode could skip tempo changes at the loop boundary OS X AU Cocoa UI not showing up correctly on 10 5 OS X VST version could cause a crash when closing the UI Palette Search Searching skips children if the parent matches the query Patchbay Name used in the context menu differs from the name used in the Palette Patchbay Body seem selected but is not Presets Attempting to load a presets file would always clear the current presets even the file was not for that bidule Spectral Graph bidules could crash when changing preset VST hosting some MIDI events coming from a plugin could be lost when a large number of them were sent VST plugin getSpeakerArrangement impleme
153. tor Right Side Argument Input input for the right side argument of the logic operator Value for True Input input to be redirected to the output when the operator result is true Value for False Input input to be redirected to the output when the operator result is false eeee Shifter Shifts the frequency signal e Horizontal Shift shift the order of the bins by the selected value e Vertical Shift add a constant to each bin Stretcher The spectral deconcrisseur samples a specified number of bins and interpolates values Variable User defined variable range with slider and input box Don t forget to hit ENTER to validate a value you just entered e Min and Max define the range of the slider Graph A user drawable graph to specify the magnitude of each frequency bin The frequency output is the normalized no deviation values for the selected FFT size The magnitude output is the drawn magnitudes Graph Analyzer See the magnitudes for each analysis bin Graph EQ A user drawable graph to specify the gain for each analysis bin you can also see the results on the same graph Inverter Invert the n controlled by the invert ratio bins with the greater magnitude value higher with the n bins with the magnitude value equal or higher than the specified min e Invert Ratio the number of bins to invert as a 0 1 ratio on the current FFT size e Min mag value the minimum magnitude value for bins to be included in the inversion Magnit
154. tton to lasso Toolbar Features Besides the usual toolbar buttons new open save undo and redo Parent Go up a level Press this button to go back to the parent group of the group currently displayed in the patchbay Parameters Access the parameter linking window Simply highlight one source parameter and one destination parameter then the Link button to link them together Parameters EWVS88 MT MIDICin CC_000 Bank Select CC_001 Modulation wheel CC_002 Breath control CC_003 Undefined CC_004 Foot controller CC_005 Portamento time CC_006 Data Entry CC_007 Channel Volume CC_008 Balance CC_009 Undefined Target Parameters EVVS88 MT MIDI in Audio File Looper _0 Amplitude Speed Ew588 MT MIDICin CC_001 Modulation wheel Audio File Looper_0 Speed MediaPool Click the Mediapool button to access the MediaPool where all the clips wavs aiffs etc used by bidules are managed e Use it to load an audio file so that it becomes accessible to the Audio File Player for example Even if you open 15 sample playback devices to play myWav wav it will only be read put in memory once e WARNING watch the length of those audio files it has to fit in RAM To load file s press the Add File s button and select the audio files you want with the open file dialog To remove files select them in the list and press the Remove File s button or pres
155. u have the choice of the following behaviou e always always writes it for any number of channels or bit depth e adaptive only use when required by Microsoft s standards example any 24 bit file or any file with more than 2 channels e never always use the old header style WAVEFORMATEX DSP Sample Rate The sampling rate to use for the audio interface Be aware that some interfaces don t support all possible sampling rates You will get an error message if you select a sampling rate not supported by your audio interface when you try to use it Buffer Size This is the size of the buffer used internally in Bidule not the one for your audio driver The lower this quantity the lesser the latency but the higher the CPU requireme FFT Window Size Size of the FFT window all FFT settings have no effect on CPU usage if you do not use the spectral features of Bidule FFT Overlap Number of overlaps for FFT frames also called decimation factor Higher Precision FFT Use double precision for FFT Bypass Driver s Current Settings Windows only Enable this option if you wish Bidule to bypass your ASIO driver s control panel latency setting and try set it closer to its own buffer size ONLY use this setting if you know what you re doing under some configuration it may just as well add more crackling Since some ASIO control panels like Creative ASIO do not allow you to set power of two buffers 32 64 128 256 512 this is often the only way to get
156. u want HID Data Extractor MIDI Activity MIDI Aftertouch Creator MIDI Aftertouch Extractor MIDI Aftertouch Filter MIDI Multi Aftertouch Remapper MIDI Aftertouch Transposer MIDI Channel Pressure Creator MIDI Channel Pressure Extractor MIDI Channel Pressure Filter MIDI Multi Channel Pressure Remapper MIDI CC Transposer MIDI File Looper MIDI Message Remapper MIDI Note Extractor 2 MIDI Pitchbend Creator MIDI Pitchbend Extractor MIDI Multi Program Change Remapper MIDI Program Change Filter MIDI Program Change Transposer MIDI Stack MIDI Switcher 2 ports Sync to MIDI Clock MIDI Time Delta MIDI Voice Counter 4 and 16 mono channels Mixer 4 8 and 16 stereo channels Mixer Parameter Modulator Relative Pulse Spectral File Looper Spectral Inverter Spectral Sustain Stack Sync Transport Changes Accum changed the higher bounds input to be exclusive please change your layouts accordingly AU added support for Cocoa Uls Audio File Player added loop mode Audio File Recorder Audio Buffer added option to save in either wave or aiff instead of forcing the platform s preferred format Basic Audio Buffer added Interpolation parameter Basic Audio Buffer added distinct Record position input please change your layouts accordingly FFT iFFT PVOC Improved Frequency detection Indexed Value List changed Index input to be O based for con
157. ude Binary Operator Mathematics for Magnitude data Breeder Mix two magnitude signals as wanted or at random e Breed Ratio Amount of the left input to use in the output e Crazy Genetics Enable random amount of mixing for each bin Buffer Works like Audio Buffer but for magnitudes no save option Gate Select the lower upper bound of the signal going through Logic Gate Simple Logic Gate for the magnitude part of the spectral signal Left Side Argument Input input for the left side argument of the logic operator Right Side Argument Input input for the right side argument of the logic operator Value for True Input input to be redirected to the output when the operator result is true Value for False Input input to be redirected to the output when the operator result is false e o Scaler Scales the magnitude signal Shifter Shifts the magnitude signal e Horizontal Shift shift the order of the bins by the selected value e Vertical Shift add a constant to each bin Stretcher The spectral deconcrisseur samples a specified number of bins and interpolates values Variable User defined variable range with slider and input box Don t forget to hit ENTER to validate a value you just entered e Min and Max define the range of the slider Pitch Scaler Simple example to scale frequencies out of a mag freq pair this operation can t be de correlated on phase vocodered signals Resynthesizer AKA Rebuilder s Core
158. udio File bidules Audio Buffer Boboche Looper Granulator Looper Player Recorder Effects bidules Buffer Granulator Deconcrisseur Dither Moog VCF Time Domain Convolver Instrument bidules Boboche Sampler MIDI bidules Arpeggiator Buffer Buffer Synced CC Latch CC Splitter CC To Params CC Value Scaler MIDI Delay MIDI Delay Synced Aftertouch Filter Aftertouch Pressure Filter CC Filter CC Value Filter Channel Filter Channel Pressure Filter Channel Pressure Pressure Filter Comparison Filter Message Filter Misc Sysex Filter Note Filter Note Velocity Filter Program Change Filter Pitchbend Value Filter Key Switch MIDI Clock To Sync MIDI To Value NRPN To Params Note Latch Note Number To Param Note On To Value List Note Shuffler Note Splitter Note Velocity To Params Particle Arpeggiator Program Change To Params RPN To Params MIDI Remappers bidules Splitter Step Sequencer Sync to MIDI Clock MIDI Transposers bidules Velocity Scaler MIDI File bidules MIDI File Looper MIDI File Player MIDI File Recorder Misc bidules Audio Dummy Clock Comment HID Data Extractor Fa F requer Icy Graph G aph Baas Audio File Delay Line Envelopes Filters Gate Gate Clock MIDI Map Math Crossfader Basic Multi tap Delay OSC Oscillators Sample And Hold Sanitizer Smoother Stack Sync Creator Sync Extractor
159. ugin that cannot be found within your current configuration This is usually the case if there is a plugin you didn t own or if you are trying to open a layout that had an Audio or MIDI Device having a bigger index then the number of available devices in your system The following picture is an example a patch loaded that requires a missing Plogue Rebuilder VST Rebuilder VST_O as o for EWS88 MT D duplex Context Menu To bring up a Bidule context menu first left click it to highlight should turn yellow not translucent blue then hit the right mouse button Cut Cuts the selected bidules so you can paste them elsewhere in your layout Copy Copies the selected bidules to the clipboard so you can paste them elsewhere in your layout Paste Pastes the bidules in the clipboard into the current layout Delete Deletes the selected bidules and puts them in the undo stack You can also simply hit the Del key once the bidule is selected Rename Renames the selected bidule You can also hit F2 to access the rename dialog Monitor Brings up an audio signal monitoring window that displays peak meters and sample audio values for each of the input and output channels of the selected bidule Great trace issues with clipping or loss of signal in a chain Replace Replaces the selected bidules by the one you choose in the menu connections will be kept if possible Relnit Reinits or reset the selected bidules as if it was freshly created Rep
160. uld be Freeverb now if we wish to control mode of the effect the address would be Freeverb Mode Take note that some characters like spaces are reserved and this might change the expected address so yo best bet is to look into the OSC Server dialog and see the name that is there Each parameter expect to receive values within its range click the Params button on the bidule s window to see them Parameters that are a drop down box with a list c choices will also accept a string representing an available choice These two address also exists play to start stop the processing parameter 1 or true to start audio 0 or false to stop it open force the loading of a bidule file parameter the path to the bidule file on the machine OSC Client Implementation First to enable the OSC Client part of Bidule you need to go to the OSC Client Config dialog by selecting OSC Client from the Tools menu Click on the Enable OSC Client checkbox to activate deactive If you wish to use the OSC Client mode you ll need to add some OSC servers to send OSC messages to by clicking the Add butto fill in the Name IP Address and Port fields and click the Apply button Now that you have at least one OSC server set up and OSC Client enabled you can right click on any selected bidule in the patchbay and see a Send to OSC Servers submenu For each bidule you can select one or more OSC server to send messages to The OSC messages that Bidule will send will
161. ups syncable status not being updated correctly Groups parameter linking from a group parameter to another parameter inside the group isn t saved Groups doesn t remember the i o labels when changing the i o config or using the polyphonic adapter MIDI Feedback some parameters not sending the correct value back MIDI File Looper doesn t send currently opened notes Note off messages when stopping MIDI To Sync sometimes outputs wrong info Monitors freeze after a certain time on OS X when not using an audio device not in VST or ReWire mode Oscillator normalized amplitude of bandlimited waveforms Palette history isn t always updated Patchbay sometimes doesn t refresh immediately Parameter Modulator abs presets aren t displaying their values correctly Presets some values aren t save correctly Presets can t be saved for some groups Trigger possible crash when using it synced many more fixes Version v0 8002 May 2nd 2005 Prefs added preference for the number of virtual MIDI ports Bug Fixes AU problems when loading files containing Kontakt instances AU crash with AUNetReceive Send Uls AU gain parameters don t change their value correctly with parameter linking Windows changing DSP settings could cause a crash Version v0 8001 April 21th 2005 Mixer added peak meters and clip indicators Changes Audio File Recorder added option to save to multiple
162. ups using spectral inputs outputs could cause a crash Groups using relative modulation with group parameters could result in the modulation being applied twice Group selected some parameter links are not restored Magnitude EQ parameters are not loaded correctly MIDI File Player crash could possibly occur when using Follow Sync Source transport state MIDI Splitter could crash when set to split by Note OSC a crash could occur when removing a bidule from the layout and OSC Server is enabled Plugin and ReWire mode MIDI output events could end up be out of sequence Plugin Mode clearing the contents of Basic Audio Buffer and Multitap Delay doesn t work if the UI is not shown Presets the current preset is not saved before it is changed to be read only ReWire Mode under some specific circumstances the tempo taken from the host is using a wrong value Windows double clicking on elements in both Lock Parameters and Exported Group Parameters dialog could cause a crash when running the 32 bit version on Windows 7 64 bit many more fixes Version v0 9702 March 15th 2010 Bug Fixes Biquad filter clicking on some frequency changes Audio File Recorder not allowing to change the filename Version v0 9701 March 8th 2010 Bug Fixes Arpeggiator renamed the old group version to differentiate with the new built in MIDI CC Creator Multi not loading correctly from file Sync Transport loop mode could
163. ut and ONLY the FIRST output to your soundcard you don t want to listen to the activity gate directly Once you are satisfied with the way the voice sounds and behaves you can now wrap your voice group with the Polyphonic Adapter The Polyphonic Adapter is a special bidule that only appears in the right mouse menu of a voice group Basically any group that has at least one MIDI input and at lea two audio outputs qualifies as a voice group Its purpose is to transparently create cloned copies of your monophonic voice group and to literally transform it into a polyphonic group Its job is to listen for all notes that enter it and dynamically dispatch each and every note it receives to one of the clones It is very customizable as y can even specify the maximum polyphony and both the note stealing and note protection algorithms you need for your specific synth And that s not all Some polypho synths on the market are plain CPU drains as each and every voice consumes resources all of the time The Polyphonic Adapter in Bidule takes care of that If only 1 ou 12 maximum voices are needed at one point then only 1 out of 12 is effectively taking CPU resources Here s how you wrap a voice Cut _ Paste Number of voices fi2 Delete 2 Note protection None x Rename 1 BR Replace Stealing priority Arbitrary vv Relnit Retrigger Ej Hide all windows Alignment gt Algsunzri UnPolpphonize Ok Group gt Processing Mode N Control
164. ut of bounds values aren t clipped correctly graphically Windows maximum number of opened files might be lower than expected Version v0 9712 June 9th 2011 Crash can occur when loading older groups and layouts Version v0 9711 June 8th 2011 Windows major compiler and compiler options changes if you experience anything you do not think you should please report this should also apply to OS X Added Matrix Sequencer MIDI Matrix Sequencer Added MIDI CC Splitter Added MIDI CC Type Remapper Added MIDI Note Splitter Added Wavefolder Added Variables Multi and Indexed Variables Multi Added Frequency and Magnitude Value Display Added FIR Table Added Knob control type Added Vertical Slider control type Added Gate LED control type New look for LED control ADSR AHDSR Basic ADSR Basic AHDSR added parameter to force envelope to go back to 0 on a retrigger Group parameters increased the allowed maximum number of columns Groups added a parameter to set a group as the current one show in the patchbay MIDI Note Extractor added use highest and use newest stealing modes MIDI Value Display added user friendly mode Monitoring MIDI is now monitored on a per channel basis OSC Creator Creator2 Extractor added more I O configurations Windows added support for having user defined MME and DS duplex devices through the registry see forum post on the subject Bug Fixes AU VST versio
165. wanted MIDI ports when running Bidule in ReWire Slave mode Bug Fixes Audio Switcher sometimes buzzes when changing active output Audio File Recorder doesn t record properly when takes occur rapidly MIDI Step Sequencer stuck notes sometimes happening MIDI Step Sequencer OS X Display problems Clicks in processing mode changes Crash in standalone mode when loading a bidule file made from ReWire mode Uninstaller didnt remove ReWire Device Crash when removing output connections from a VST actually fixed in 0 6501 1 Version v0 6501 December 13th 2003 Bidule can now run as a ReWire device Windows Digidesign hardware and software users please read the ReWire section of the help file first Presets support for bidules and groups Offline processing mode Fading is applied upon changing processing modes Added replace to the context menu Group connectors can be named by double clicking on them inside the group No more need to restart Bidule when changing audio FFT settings Parameters using the mediapool for selecting wavefiles can now be linked to other parameters Added Add Remove All buttons in the Locked Parameters dialog Added Takes mode to the Audio File Recorder OS X added Bidule virtual MIDI ins and outs VST chunks are now compressed in bidule files New Modules Dummy Input Selector Keystroke MIDI Note Creator 2 Multitap Delay up to 2 minutes of d
166. y that is the standard in all the other hosts at the moment It s a pain to start a track or section in 6 8 7 8 or 7 4 and be limited by the choice of audio MIDI loops we can use in it With Meter Adaptation synched bidules will t their best to fit on the fly to the bidule they are slaved to But as you are going to see some compromises need to be made At the moment only the Bidule Step Sequei and the revamped Audio File Looper supports adaptation more will follow like the MIDI loop player and other surprises Say we have a basic one 4 4 bar audio loop of exactly 4 beats and we want to synchronize it to timelines of different meters 44 This is the easy case both the loop and the timeline are at the same Meter Move along 44 This is getting interesting the timeline is running at 5 4 so the loop player has to compensate by adding a 1 beat long silence at the end of its 4 beat run Why doesn t it repeat the first or last beat of the slaved loop instead of silence Well it might work for this example but what if you slaved a 4 4 bar to a 12 4 master what do you cop now We went for the easiest method to understand we might add another adaptation method later on 44 Timeline at 3 4 so the loop player truncates its last beat and restarts over If your slaved loop is more than 4 beats long say 8 beats gt 2 bars then the first 3 beats of tl first mesure will be played followed by the f
167. your own FXB files Every plugin has a finite amount of presets available in one bank the actual number depends on the plugin To create your own set oi presets you should first rename the default preset in the VST plugin so that you know it s been changed from the default Then make your changes to the plugin s setti Repeat for as many preset slots the plugin has You can press the Save button to save your presets as an FXB file at any time Note As soon as you change a plugin parameter that change is immediately written to the preset in that instance of the VST plugin Also it is currently impossible to copy one preset slot s settings to anothe preset slot AU Presets In addition to its own GUI each AU plugin interface has a toolbar with three buttons to edit the plugin s presets Preset Buttons SupaPhaser_O e A Rename click this button to change the name of the currently selected preset this will only work for the User preset as other presets are read only e B Load click this button to load an aupreset file this will only work for the User preset as other presets are read only e C Save click this button to save a copy of the current presets in an aupreset file Bidule will look into the standard locations for AU preset and automatically add the found files to the list of available presets for a plugin Group bidule Presets Every bidule and group can have its own bank of presets While bidule and group presets

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