Any chance, your experimental editor would work on osx? i have been looking for ages to get following cursors on the patterns, would great to have this with atom !
It is possible, but would take some fiddling about, I donāt have a mac myself. Perhaps there is someone else here who has managed it. Hereās the source: https://github.com/yaxu/feedforward
Looks like its being installed, but i am not sure i follow how to run it tho, i followed the supercollider stuff but then i hit a wall 
err.txt dumps
feedforward: sigaction
it looks like the keys doesnt work as expected
i can't evaluate for example...
That looks good! alt-enter to evaluateā¦
(moved to its own topic)
thank you, make sense.
what could i do to try to help make it running on mac?
It looks like it is working, to me. Does alt-enter not work?
nope it doesnāt.
i replaced alt-enter by option-return on mac ( option is usually used instead of alt)
here is what i do and what i see
- start supercollider
- evaluate s.options.maxLogins = 8;
- evaluate (
s.waitForBoot {
s.options.numBuffers = 1024 * 256; // increase this if you need to load more samples
s.options.memSize = 8192 * 32 * 64; // increase this if you get āalloc failedā messages
s.options.maxNodes = 1024 * 32; //
~dirt = SuperDirt(2, s); // two output channels
//~dirt.loadSoundFiles("/Users/freeka/Dropbox/Desktop/audioCoding/TIdal/MYDIRTS/"); // specify sample folder to load
~dirt.loadSoundFiles("/Users/freeka/Dropbox/Desktop/audioCoding/TIdal/Dirt-Samples/"); // specify sample folder to load
s.sync; // wait for supercollider to finish booting up
~dirt.start(57120, [0, 0]); // start superdirt, listening on port 57120, create two orbits each sending audio to channel 0
s.meter;
//~numWireBufs = 128;
};
); - evaluate ~dirt.startSendRMS; ( supercollider start to dump: exception in real time: alloc failed, increase serverās memory allocation (e.g. via ServerOptions) )
which i tried to change in my server options but still the same problem. - start feedforward 2> err.txt in my terminal
- try a pattern: s ābdā
- evaluate with (option+return, cmd+return, shift etc any combination possible) no sounds, or anything happening, trying to evaluate those ways just make a carriage return
- trying to delete the carriage return or any characters using the delete key add ^? instead of deleting.
i tried to leave superdirt + feedforward open and send a pattern from atom which return
Control listen failed. Perhaps thereās already another tidal instance listening on that port?
which means feedforward is actually doing something
i feel feedforward doesnt understand the keyboard mapping of the mac, would it make sense?
Itās possible @freeka.freeka , although I thought another mac user had it workingā¦
Looking at the code I remember that āctrl-xā also evaluates, so you could try that.
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cool it did the trick, ctrl-x evaluate, got the cursor following, and the vu-meter, i guess now i need to figure out the other commands or how to change them on mac. any idea where i could start?
i looked a bit in Edit.hs for the part with the commands, its a bit unclear for me why only
keyCtrl mvS 'x' = eval mvS would work and not the rest...
ps: hush doesn't work but ctrl+h act as the delete key instead, how odd!
THANK YOU!
Iām also interested in trying the feedforward editor and am seeing similar problems to those described by @freeka.freeka. Iām using Fedora 32 and compiled/installed following the instructions for Arch after installing a couple of extra packages;
$ sudo dnf install alex happy ncurses-devel
Alt-Enter works OK but F10 doesnāt seem to have any effect, so Iām unable to stop the program; is there an alternative key combination that I can use? If I just close the terminal window and supercollider, top reports feedforwardās cpu usage as close to 100% - Iām also unable to stop the process with the kill command.
Is there a key-binding that can be used to evaluate a single line instead of the whole file?
Jim
Itās really just a working prototype and isnāt supported in any wayā¦ You could look into the source code for adjusting key combos etc. killall -9 feedforward or similar should force quit processes.
Hi @yaxu on your github page you mention it is probably very difficult to get it installed on windows. Do you know if thereās someone who has managed to get it up and running?
I really like the performative feel of the feedforward editor, however Iām not much of a programmer so donāt think Iād be able to make it work without some directions.
Is this something you know someone has been working on. Or if thereās the intention and time to develop the editor for other platforms? I guess otherwise I could always run it in a vm
Long term Iād like to make a cross-platform gui based on the same principles. I canāt help with compiling ffwd under windows, but hopefully someone else can help.
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Thanks @yaxu, I modified the quit key combo to use the F8 key and everything works fine now. I canāt find anything in my settings that uses or intercepts the F10 key so have no idea why the F10 wasnāt working. I understand that itās not supported and probably not in your intended syllabus so am very grateful for you getting back to me.
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Hey @jimwatson,
would you mind sharing how you changed the key? i presume its in the edit.hs?
Its weirdly hard to find keycommand for haskell on macā¦
thanks!
Hello @freeka.freeka, I changed line 705 in Edit.hs from;
Just (EventSpecialKey (KeyFunction 10)) -> unlessKiosk quit
to;
Just (EventSpecialKey (KeyFunction 8)) -> unlessKiosk quit
This moved the quit function from F10 to F8. Thereās something strange about the behaviour of F10 on my laptop but I canāt find anything to explain why.
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thanks!
yes same here, canāt really understand whats going on. atleast you lucky its one, on mac only one is working heheheh
Feedforward runs in a terminal window, maybe the terminal application youāre using blocks F10. I would have used ctrl-enter / shift-enter like in atom etc, but unfortunately it seems that itās just not possible to get those key combos for such console applications. I will reimplement it as a gui somedayā¦