v1.17 of Hyperion was released today.
The standout feature is the new more ‘conventional’ round knobs design.
Whilst the original semi-circle knob design had some fans, and it was a practical design, most users prefer the traditional knob style of this new update - and the feedback from users so far is quite positive.
In adding the new knob design, the transpose pull-down list is now replaced by a rotary knob to help save a bit of vertical space, and in the standard oscillator and wave sequence oscillator there was a extra space for a new knob.. so we added a new feature :)
The newly added ‘Crush’ parameter is a bit-crush that is applied to the oscillator directly at the wave calculation level rather than on the total unison mix/variable output level - so it is a slightly different effect to just using the existing bit-crusher node on oscillator output, and provides some useful sonic variation - a little extra noise and high-frequency content - the effect depends on the prior processing by the shape/oscillator sync feature.
This parameter is also included in the step settings of wavesequence nodes.
Other than new features, there are a few bug fixes including one for a rare but annoying potential temporary UI freeze up.