3.0a is now available on the Itch page! It's an alpha, so please let me know in the bug report thread if you encounter anything.

For more info on 3.0a check out the original announcement!

I'd like to bring attention to a few smaller details I didn't mention in the announcement.

You can select input channels from your devices!

Before HONK just defaulted to channel 0 (the first channel in programmer counting). But now you can choose between your input's left and right channels (if it has more than 1 channel). Most microphones only use the first channel. I also defaulted to regular people counting which is to say channels start at 1.

C1 = Channel 1, C2 = Channel 2

Updates to Documentation

I've updated HONK's Documentation! And I'll continue to do so.

FPS capped at 120fps

I realized HONK was capable of running 300+ FPS on my machine when I wasn't running much other software. Which is awesome! But really unnecessary. We want to free up that performance for other software to run faster. So I capped HONK at 120. In the future I may cap the rendering to 60fps while letting the voice-detection run at 120fps. 

Does anyone want HONK rendering at 300fps? 

It feels silly, let me know if I'm wrong.

Plans moving forward

For HONK 3.1 I want to implement GIF support. The community seems to prefer GIFs over APNG, so I will focus on the GIF format solely. 

More background options! I'd like to add more BG options to HONK, transparent has been requested a fair amount. So I'm going to look into that. Do you have other suggestions for colors?

More animation controls. I'd like to add more, like blink options and per-object bounce. This is likely to come in a later update (like 3.2), what other controls would you like? Maybe I'll look into smoother bouncing (with interpolation) or a sway/shake option instead of bounce. Thoughts?

Thank you again, you're all amazing! Have fun with 3.0a!