sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi v2.4.0

v2.4.0 - 'Defrost'

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A quick release following v2.3 to address an issue with the GUI
freezing on specific CPUs. However, although this release has had a
small development cycle, it ships with three fantastic features. Firstly
we now have the spread fn which provides an amazing way to create
interesting rhythms with very little code. Secondly we can now use
cutoff: on any sample massively increasing their timbral range and
finally we have three exciting new synths for you to play with. Have
fun!

Breaking Changes

• Unfortunately 5 pre-release synths accidentally slipped into
  v2.3. Three of them have been polished up and are in this release (one
  with major changes including a name change). However, the other two
  have been removed.

New

• New fn spread for creating rings of Euclidean distributions. Great
  for quickly creating interesting rhythms.
• GUI now automatically appends a : to the FX param autocomplete list
• Synths and FX now raise an exception if any of their non-modulatable
  params are modulated. This is disabled when the pref 'check synth
  args' is unchecked.
• GUI now renders pretty UTF-8 └─ ├─ characters when printing in the log
  on RP.
• Improve docstrings for sample player.

Synths & FX

• New Synth :dark_ambience, an ambient bass trying to escape the
  darkness.
• New Synth :hollow, a hollow breathy sound.
• New Synth :growl, a deep rumbling growl.
• Sampler synths now sport built-in rlpf and normaliser FX. These
  are disabled by default (i.e. won't affect sound of the sample) and
  can by enabled via the new cutoff:, res: and norm: params.

Bug Fixes

• Fix insanely obsure bug which caused the GUI to freeze on certain
  platforms (32 bit Windows and RP2 with 2G/2G kernel).
• Remove DC Bias offset from Prophet synth (see
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_bias)

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