Humus 0.5.1 is out!
Humus 0.5.1 is out. It is a point release with two big things in it: the whole app now speaks Italian, French and German, and a patch can reach every output of a large multichannel interface, with files to fill them.
Humus in your language
Choose Settings ▸ Graphics & UI ▸ Language and the interface switches on the spot, no restart. It is not just the menus: every organism's help page, the guide and the first-boot tour are translated too, and so is this website, at /it, /fr and /de.
The translations were drafted by machine and checked by a second pass, so they read well but have not been through a native speaker yet. If something sounds off, tell us with Help ▸ Report a Bug...: that is exactly the note we want.
Every channel of a big interface
Humus used to stop at 32 interface channels: the Audio settings would only keep 32 active, and anything sent past output 32 went nowhere. Both limits are now 256, in and out, so a 64-channel interface or a 128-channel network card is all there.
A few things make wide patches easier to build:
- Shift-drag a cord to wire every channel between two organisms at once, eight outputs into eight inputs in one drag. Shift+Alt fans one outlet across every inlet from there on.
- AuxIn and AuxOut in patches from older multichannel hosts land on their stereo pairs again (AuxOut1 on 3/4, AuxOut2 on 5/6), up to 127 pairs.
- File previews can play on their own outputs. In Settings ▸ Audio ▸ File previews play on, pick your headphone pair and auditioning in the Library stays out of the main mix.
One file per speaker
FilePlayer has a new Outputs menu. Set it to 4, 6, 8, 16, 24 or 32 and it becomes a multi-file player with one file row per output. A file plays from its row's output on, one output per channel: eight mono files go to eight speakers, and a six-channel file fills six outputs on its own. All the files start, stop, loop and scrub together, and the longest one sets the length.
Recording goes the other way through FileRecorder, which already writes multichannel files: its Ch setting decides how many inputs each file takes.
And the rest
- A What's New card after each update says what changed, in plain lines.
- Cords move: grab a cord's end at the inlet and drop it on another, or Cmd-drag an outlet to move all its cords.
- Deck gets Peak and timecode calibration, and steadier timecode, loops and film playback.
- On Windows, an ASIO driver that crashes or freezes is now tried on its own first and hidden, instead of taking Humus down with it.
- And the site has a new address: humus.art.
Everything in 0.5.1
- Added multilanguage support: Italian, French and German
- Added a "What's New" popup after updates
- Added moving cords: drag a cord's end to another inlet, or Cmd-drag an outlet
- Added Shift-drag to wire every channel of two organisms at once, and Shift+Alt to fan one outlet across many inlets
- Added a choice of outputs for file previews in Audio settings, for a headphone cue
- Added Peak and timecode calibration to Deck
- Added copying text from Help, the tour and What's New
- Added multi-file playback: FilePlayer's Outputs menu makes it a 4- to 32-output player, one file row per output, multichannel files included
- Fixed a crash when choosing ASIO on Windows with an old driver installed
- Fixed interfaces with more than 32 channels: every output and input now plays
- Fixed AuxIn and AuxOut in imported patches: each is a stereo pair again (AuxOut1 on 3/4, AuxOut2 on 5/6), up to 127 pairs
- Fixed a crash when opening patches with some sample-based plug-ins
- Fixed audio dips while editing a patch, and crackles at small buffers
- Fixed a freeze at startup with an unresponsive audio interface on macOS
- Fixed timecode, loop and film playback on Deck
- Fixed smaller issues in the Metapad, Sampler, Leafcutter, Graft and organism search
- Changed the website address to humus.art
If you already run Humus, it will offer you the update. Otherwise, the button below gets you 0.5.1 for macOS, Windows or Linux.