hi jeff, > >> * In a simple two object patch with an oscillator to a dac I get > >> dropouts when I move around gui items. Is everyone getting this? Any > >> idea what's going on? It seems odd given the separation of the engine > >> and the gui. Are position changes being sent to the back-end? > > > > that is odd ... the information of the position is passed to the engine, > > but with a low priority ... the container that is storing the data is > > using a reader-write-lock, but the lock is not acquired by the realtime > > thread ... > > which driver-backend are you using? > > Portaudio -> HW:0.... > (No idea what driver backend this corresponds to.) > > When I try running nova after having started jackd I get a core dump. > Haven't run with the debugger because I don't know how to do that in > python yet.
... that is alsa ... i would try update the version of portaudio ... the latest snapshot in ubuntu is from the beginning of 2007 ... (yes, another reason to bundle portaudio) > Why does gui information need to travel back to the engine? It seems > like the beauty of the separation is that you can just do synthesis in > the back-end while letting python deal with gui stuff. the information is just stored in the engine ... it is not processed there ... the engine doesn't know of the semantics of the information, though ... > >> * Shouldn't the title of the project wiki get changed to Nova? > > > > yes ... it is just that i am not a web designer :) > > Hmmm. It seems like hooking artists and musicians is key for a project > like this, and many will respect a sense of style... Is the wiki styled > out with a template and some CSS? it is just the simples plone site that i could set up ... > > the only two gui-objects that are currently available are gui.bang and > > gui.comment (you have to type that into the object box) > > Cool, I like that. Using the "gui." will make it especially easy to > supply IDE style drop-down hints for object name completion as well. nova provides namespaces ... so, when creating gui.bang, you create the object bang, in the namespace gui ... > >> Can we not have path's that suck like PD? :-) > > > > what kind of paths? > Search paths, location of installed binaries etc. PD compiles the path > to pd-gui, for example, into the pd executable. Since this kind of > software is so based on externals, libraries, abstractions, patches, > etc., intelligently dealing with the search path seems important. For > example, automatically adding directories to the search path if any file > has been loaded out of that directory, allowing for a .novarc and/or > environment variables. Allowing for run-time additions to the search > path... Mostly basic stuff. This is all done easily in python, but I > was recently frustrated with PD so I wanted to mention it. i see ... at the moment, nova just needs to know, where the py_nova module is located ... the search patchs for abstractions and externals are stored in .novarc ... there are also local search paths (properties patches) implemented, but this feature is currently not exposed to the gui ... cheers, tim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 96771783 http://tim.klingt.org Linux is like a wigwam: no windows, no gates, apache inside, stable.
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