This version brings support for animated GIFs, as well as wider image support, allowing you to open PNG and JPEG images! Here's a little showcase of what's new:

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/6984d58e-adac-4b26-9ae6-7cf71ce71164

There's also a new About section that provides some credits, as well as the current version of osci-render:

Here's a full changelog for this version:

• Support for animated GIFs
• Support for PNG and JPEG images
• Improved software oscilloscope controls
  • Includes ability to pop-out software oscilloscope into a separate window
• Various fixes and improvements

Changes

• Support for opening pre-rendered Blender scenes, and syncing them to music
  • This allows you to connect with several instances of osci-render and Blender at once
  • It also massively improves performance when using Blender this way
  • This comes as a new file type, .gpla, which stands for Grease Pencil Line Art
  • Blender scenes can be animated within osci-render, and synced to the BPM of your DAW
  • Thanks so much to @DJLevel3 for making this feature, and for writing the tutorial below!

Using the new Blender features

• Install the latest Blender plugin below
• Create an animation in Blender

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/753f0345-dd68-4ce3-beb8-f750b43d2608

• Add a Scene Line Art object, or Collection Line Art object if using collections

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/8885a4fa-57dc-4077-b313-848698ff3f57

• Change the following settings from default
  • Edge Types
    • Intersections: Enable
  • Geometry Processing
    • Overlapping Edges as Contour: Enable
    • Crease on Smooth: Enable
  • Composition
    • Overscan: Set to 0
    • Image Boundary Trimming: Enable

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/ca275326-a83d-4a4c-96cc-e5e5c5bfeb42

• Bake the line art. If keyframes appear on the timeline, great! If not, clear the baked line art and bake again.
• When seen from the side, the line art is only visible on some edges, which are the edges that are visible to the camera.

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/8e639b92-562b-4607-b5c4-6a1c54c6ce75

• This becomes clear when viewed from the camera’s perspective.

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/267319ad-518d-4ca1-9010-3947aaa207fe

• In the osci-render Blender plugin, click “Save line art to file” and name the file to which the line art will be saved. Note: The plugin automatically adds the extension .gpla if there is no extension or if the extension is not .gpla.

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/b4374aff-774e-4f26-bb28-872bfb16a48b

• In a DAW (in this tutorial, Ableton was used), open the osci-render VST3 plugin and (optionally) enable MIDI. If using MIDI, it is recommended (but not required) to set the number of voices to 1 and increase the sustain level to 1.000.

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/6588abca-45d1-4261-916e-34cb5b143a01

• Using the “Choose File(s)” button in osci-render, open the .gpla file exported from Blender. This will open the Line Art Settings panel and begin rendering the line art from the file.

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/bc72f9bc-6f25-46f6-89e1-e5a8ae841922

• To synchronize the animation with the BPM of the song, tick the “BPM Sync” box and set the framerate in frames per beat. For animations that have a length of a power of 2, setting the rate to a lower power of 2 makes the animation loop exactly at the beginning of a bar. In this example, where the animation is 32 frames and the rate is 8 frames per beat, the animation loops every 4 beats or 1 bar at 4/4.

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/1d0979c8-13bf-4ff4-b9ca-e7dd6f55c2a3

Version 2.1.6

• Fixed bug where custom Lua effect code would be blank when opening and closing a VST window
• Fixed bug where enabling sidechain on the first parameter in an effect causes sidechain on all parameters to be enabled
• Fixed crash when reordering effects
• Changed AU plugin type so it appears correctly as an instrument in GarageBand
• Osci-render now automatically opens the code editor when a Lua or text file is created

v2.1.5 changes

• Fixed bug causing audio input to be disabled
• Improved checkbox design
• Allow LFO sliders to be more granular, supporting increments of up to 0.01Hz

• Tweaked the interface to make it more responsive, modern, and clear
  • Corners are rounded
  • White outlines removed from buttons and text boxes
  • Increased contrast between parts of the interface
  • Improved performance when moving and resizing the window
  • File editor now includes the file name
• Lua now throws an error if the script runs for too long, helping stop infinite loops without freezing osci-render
• You can clear the console from within Lua using the clear() function
• Fix various bugs

v2.1.3 changes

• Fixes bug on macOS when changing the range of sliders
• Replaces effect checkboxes with toggle switches

https://github.com/jameshball/osci-render/assets/38670946/7782e0bf-5e1c-452b-8c09-2bf3373a20f6

Osci-render 2.0

Version 2.0 is a complete rewrite of osci-render from the ground up!

Osci-render 2.0 is now an audio plugin, meaning you can automate every effect, slider, and setting from within a DAW, and easily make music using it.

Get it here!

Hear more about it here :)

v2.1.2 changes

• Adds debug console for Lua, to allow you to view messages printed to the console using the print function
  • The console is closed by default, and can be opened by clicking the console title
  • Click the pause button to pause printing to the console, allowing you to scroll through the console history
  • Click the delete button to clear the console
• Fix a bug that caused a crash when opening multiple files at once
• Add a button next to sliders to allow you to change the range of the slider, and LFOs that control this slider
  • This was previously possible by right-clicking the slider name, but has been moved to a button to make it easier to find

Osci-render 2.0

Version 2.0 is a complete rewrite of osci-render from the ground up!

Osci-render 2.0 is now an audio plugin, meaning you can automate every effect, slider, and setting from within a DAW, and easily make music using it.

Get it here!

Hear more about it here :)

v2.1.1 changes

• Lua sliders can now be animated with LFOs!
• Lua slider values now smoothly change between values
• Lua slider values can now be used in effects
• PLEASE NOTE: Performance when using Lua may be worse. Let me know if you notice a difference!

Osci-render 2.0

Version 2.0 is a complete rewrite of osci-render from the ground up!

Osci-render 2.0 is now an audio plugin, meaning you can automate every effect, slider, and setting from within a DAW, and easily make music using it.

Get it here!

Hear more about it here :)

Osci-render 2.1 release

Osci-render 2.1 is the first major release of osci-render, packed with new features, bug fixes, and lots of quality-of-life improvements.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a major release, and old .osci projects or old DAW projects may break if you are upgrading osci-render to 2.1

New features & improvements

• New audio effects!
  • 3D Ripple
    • Applies a 3D ripple effect to the image in the Z direction
    • Ripple Depth controls the size of the ripples applied to the image
    • Ripple Phase controls the position of the ripple
      • By default, this is animated to make the image ripple inwards
    • Ripple Amount controls how many ripples are applied to the image - increasing this will reduce the space between ripples
  • 3D Rotation
    • Controls rotation of the image and object in X, Y, and Z directions
    • By default, the image rotates around the Y axis
  • Scale
    • Scales the image and object in X, Y, and Z directions
    • Make this negative to invert the image
  • Swirl
    • Applies a swirl distortion to the image
  • Dash
    • Traces along the image in dashed-lines - increase this to increase the length of the dashes
• Modified audio effects
  • All existing effects now operate in 3D rather than 2D
    • This means effects like bit crush apply the effect in X, Y, and Z directions, like below:
  • Added Z dimension to Distortion and Translation effects
  • Simplified and expanded 2D Rotate effect into 3D rotation without a rotation speed slider
    • Rotation speed can now be more easily controlled by animating rotation using a Sawtooth or Reverse Sawtooth LFO, and setting the exact speed in Hz
    • Removed any fixed-rotation axis buttons since these are no longer required
  • Trace effects are now more consistent
  • 3D perspective effect has been removed since everything is now treated as a 3D object
    • This has been replaced with the Lua Effect, for programmable audio effects
    • You can now create 3D custom effects, using the variable z, which is the Z coordinate of the input audio
• Lua can now output 3D coordinates, as well as 2D coordinates like before
  • This means you can now program 3D shapes, objects, fractals, or anything else you want!
• New button to randomise all the audio effects
  • This gives you a really quick way to experiment with new audio effects
• The default shape is now a square rather than a circle
• Slightly rearranged the interface
• Improved the file opening and navigation interface
  • You can now switch between files using left and right arrow buttons, instead of pressing j and k
  • Close files by using the delete icon to the right of the file name

Bug fixes

• frequency, phase, sample_rate, and step variables are now available in custom Lua effects, just like in Lua files
• Lua slider values can now be changed when editing a custom Lua effect
• 3D objects that are behind the camera, or out of the range of the camera are now clipped
  • This removes undesirable audio and visual glitches when objects are in strange places
• 3D objects are now consistently sized when opening them

Osci-render 2.0

Version 2.0 is a complete rewrite of osci-render from the ground up!

Osci-render 2.0 is now an audio plugin, meaning you can automate every effect, slider, and setting from within a DAW, and easily make music using it.

Get it here!

Hear more about it here :)

v2.0.8 changes

• Fixes min trace and max trace effects, so they work as expected
• Improves audio performance
• Fixes a bug that meant osci-render could crash when rendering a Blender scene
• Adds a button to open the Audio and MIDI settings from the MIDI panel when running the standalone version

Osci-render 2.0

Version 2.0 is a complete rewrite of osci-render from the ground up!

Osci-render 2.0 is now an audio plugin, meaning you can automate every effect, slider, and setting from within a DAW, and easily make music using it.

Get it here!

Hear more about it here :)