Faust version 2.75.7

Change log

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New

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

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

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

Libraries

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

Faust version 2.74.6

Change log

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New

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

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

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

Libraries

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

Faust version 2.72.14

Change log

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New

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

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

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

Libraries

Faust version 2.70.3

Change log

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WebAssembly

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

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

New

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

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

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

Libraries

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

Faust version 2.69.3

Change log

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New

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

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

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

Libraries

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

Faust version 2.68.1

Change log

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New

• Reworked mesh2faust tool.
• Rework faust-dynamic-engine.
• Experimental -diff option for 'Automatic Differentiation in the Faust Compiler'
• Add sigDelay1 in signal API.
• Add printCBox/printCSignal API in box and signal API.
• Add getSigInterval/setSigInterval in signal API.
• New faust2rnbo tool (see https://faustdoc.grame.fr/tutorials/rnbo/)
• Reworked faust2vhdlcode.
• Add -it option to inline rdtable/rwtable code in the main class.
• Add missing round primitive in the language.
• Add -vec mode in Rust backend.
• Codebox backend (for RNBO support).
• MIDI and polyphonic support in JSFX backend.

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• Revert incorrect route primitive incorrect fix.
• Add checkNullBargraphLabel to better handle null labels in bargraph.
• Complete -quad support in C++ backend.
• Rework broken -inj option.

Libraries

• Add ba.ifNc and ba.ifNcNo functions
• Adding new mathematical oscillators to oscillators.lib

Faust version 2.60.3

Change log

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New

• Rework -dlt threshold handling.
• JSFX backend contributed by Johann Philippe.
• Properly test -mcd values in best found vector option.
• Improve dsp_optimizer to properly test -mcd values in scalar mode.
• Add size (in bytes) item in JSON.

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• More robust FaustPlugin_template.cs, correct faust2unity.
• Using boxpp to display real values in SVG diagrams.
• Make preset management thread safe.

Libraries

• New version of reducemaps.lib with parReduce.
• Fix RMS_FBcompressor_peak_limiter_N_chan.
• Add tabulateNd.
• tabulate: use int(id+0.5) in .val

Faust version 2.59.6

Change log

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New

• Improve cmajor-faust-tester tool to display performance ratio.
• Optimize atan2(x,x) as PI/4.
• Remove sigTable and use sigWRTbl to code rdtable and rwtable.
• Adding submodule for faust2ck pointing to Stanford-CCRMA.
• Add classInit method in dsp_factory class (needed for LLVM backend)
• Add -double support in faust2bench.
• Micro optimisation for logical operators.
• Support for LLVM 17 API.
• Rework -ftz 0/1/2 mode to directly apply on signals.
• Rework same path rule for UI items: two input control cannot have a same path (trigger an ERROR), an input control and a bargraph can have the same path (WARNING), two bargraph can have the same path (WARNING)
• Add fixed-point -fxmode [WIP]
• Add Trill RING and HEX sensors support in faust2bela
• Print ASSERT message when faustassert is triggered.
• Add -fpga-mem option to replace FAUST_MAX_SIZE environment variable.
• Support for LLVM 16 API.
• faust2max6 now compiles and keeps a self-contained DSP version in the compiled external
• Soundfile support added in Interp/LLVM backend. Cleanup Interp/MIR backend.
• Add experimental -fui option, to freeze UI sliders/nentry to a given value.
• Interp LLVM backend updated to LLVM 15 API.
• Add a -cir option to check float to integer range conversion.
• Add tools in impulse-tests to test signal type.
• Use of the new interval library, developed as a separated project

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• Fixes bug in defines logic which would fail faust2daisy with -patch and -pod
• Remove gtk_progress_set_percentage in GTKUI.
• Correct mspUI handling in Max/MSP architectures.
• Use FAUST prefix in lex/yacc parser, to allow Faust parser to cohabit with other generated lex/yacc parsers.
• Correct MIDI items reflectZone method. MIDI output activated again.
• Correct C/C++ backend with soundfile. Make faustbench usable with DSP using soundfiles.
• Fix AndroidManifest.xml and faust2ios.
• More flexible channel layout in JUCE export.
• Correct VCVRack architecture.
• Correct -osX generation and architecture files.
• Correct faust2plot and faust2csvplot.

Libraries

• Add tabulateNd.
• Fix tabulate: use int(id+0.5) in .val
• Add it.remap.
• More general dryWetMixer/dryWetMixerConstantPower functions.
• Add sp.constantPowerPan.
• Add dry wet mixers.
• Add deg2rad and rad2deg.
• Correct 'os.phasor_imp' to start at 'phase' at first sample.

Precompiled LLVM and libsndfile binaries

Precompiled LLVM and libsndfile binaries to be used by GitHub actions.

Faust version 2.54.9

Change log

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New

• Android architecture updated for API 33
• Add [hidden:xx] metadata handling in JUCE architecture
• Karl Hiner support LLVM 15 by disabling opaque pointers (temporary solution)
• Update dplug architecture file
• Dynamic detection of -double mode in dynamic-jack-gtk tool
• Complete Faust/Cmajor hybrid patches
• Add -input option in interp-tracer tool
• Add a -wall option to print all warnings generated while compiling the code
• Rework -ct option and activate it by default
• Remove -cat option and rework -ct one to check the rdtable/rwtable range and generate safe access code
• Improve memory trace in Interp backend, correct SignalTreeChecker::visit to properly recurse
• Add -sts option to force strict compilation of 'selectX' primitives. Default is non-strict for stateless branches
• Add template backend
• Add missing createSourceFromBoxes API
• Add -universal (arm/intel) option in faust2supercollider
• BELA architecture: add support of checkbox widget for digital in and trill craft sensor, slider mode for trill craft sensor (contributed by Pascal Faivre)
• New Cmajor backend
• New JAX backend contributed by David Braun

Deprecated

Fixed bugs

• Complete InstComplexityVisitor::visit(LoadVarInst* inst)
• Oleg Nesterov correction on intCast
• Correct assertStoreXX/assertLoadXX in Interp backend
• Add a thread in CMDUI to update GUI
• Table generation in -os0 and -os1 in C++ backend
• Oleg Nesterov correction for functions with no input parameters: in this case the compiler generates code to call the function at sample rate
• Interval computation for % operator
• Faust::getMetadata in vst.cpp (faust2vst architecture file)
• Use a cast bool binary operations (comparison operations) to int pass in Cmajor backend
• Correct -inpl option
• Rust: Allocate on the heap with default-boxed
• Rework threaded API calls
• Generation of rwtable related code in C/C++ backends in -os2/os3 mode

Libraries change log

• Improved os.sawN and os.sawNp documentation
• Add Oleg Nesterov ba.tabulate_chebychev function
• Limit ma.BS in the [1..16384] range.