Dear nova-list, dear Tim, After upgrading qt and PyQt to version 4.3, I was able to test nova. It took me some time to understand how to add bangs and comments... It took me some time to understand how inlets and outlets work. Same thing for locality (chance I had the LAC2007 paper about nova). I was impressed how well soundfiler works. Congratulations! I was frustrated to not have some guis objects at hand (I supose it will come later...).
For now I can get two reproductible crashes: - Create a new patch and put this object: [inlet 1]. Immediately after, rename the object to: [inlet 1 2]... CRASH. - Create a dac~ object with more outputs than defined in the preferences, eg. a [dac~ 1 2 3 4 5 6] when only four outputs are defined... CRASH. Regarding CPU consumption (my machine is an AMD-XP2500+ 1Gb RAM realtime kernel 2.6.22): - After lauchning nova_gui.py, i get around 5-10% CPU and 12-15% RAM consumption. Selected audio device is dummy. - After choosing portaudio, CPU consumption goes up to 95% and stay here, even if there is no patch, no computation. However, system keeps responsive. Is it normal? The questions I would like to ask: - How is it possible to add comments with more than 2 lines? - Do we have access to the length of a buffer~ (like with the arraysize object of PD)? - Is it possible to create a subpatch locally (like the [pd mysub] object in PD)? - How fast are python objects done with pyx compared to a plain C++ external? The things I would miss to switch completely to nova: - midi objects and a poly object - non audio arrays and objects to access them - file IO to store arrays - more GUIs!! - fft objects That said, I would like to help in nova developement too, but I am affraid my C++ programming skills are too bad. Maybe with a clean and well documented sample external plugin, i could convert some Pure Data externals... However, are you interested on documentation patches? Best wishes, -- Olivier _______________________________________________ nova-dev mailing list [email protected] http://klingt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nova-dev http://tim.klingt.org/nova
