Re: Synthmaker forum DB?
Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2019 5:55 pm
Gee ... did my post take down the forum ??!?
if so ...... sorry
if so ...... sorry
DSP Robotics and FlowStone Graphical Programming Software Support and Forums
http://www.dsprobotics.com/support/
http://www.dsprobotics.com/support/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15768
RJHollins wrote:Gee ... did my post take down the forum ??!?
RJHollins wrote:What just wonder why 3.07 is being ignored/avoided ?
trogluddite wrote:RJHollins wrote:Gee ... did my post take down the forum ??!?
Oh, it was you was it, was it? Phew - I thought it might have been me!RJHollins wrote:What just wonder why 3.07 is being ignored/avoided ?
I just went with what Spogg and co. suggested, so I'm kinda curious myself.
tulamide wrote:trogluddite wrote:RJHollins wrote:Gee ... did my post take down the forum ??!?
Oh, it was you was it, was it? Phew - I thought it might have been me!RJHollins wrote:What just wonder why 3.07 is being ignored/avoided ?
I just went with what Spogg and co. suggested, so I'm kinda curious myself.
At least it wasn't me this time! -phew-
3.0.7 and 3.0.8 introduced a lot of bugs, including frequent crashings without noticable reason. On top of it 3.0.6 is the last version where Ruby runs in its own thread without interfewrence. 3.0.7+ introduced a timeout detection that runs in Ruby's main thread, making Ruby effectively only half as fast. This comes especially into play when constantly drawing, for example a scope fed from blue streams, and overall the responsiveness of 3.0.6 in the editor is noticably better.
RJHollins wrote:
I only hope that my current project [from 3.07] will load up into 3.06.
adamszabo wrote:Here are all the old attachments from the SM forum
http://www.naiant.com/SM/index.php
trogluddite wrote:Spogg wrote:Trog, thank you so much for that historical background.
I still have a certain nostalgia for the SM days. The move into a new market was seen as a death-knell for the DSP/VST side of things by a lot of the old SM regulars, and was the impetus for many of them to move on to new pastures. We lost a lot of the SM gurus who taught me my chops and that I later collaborated with on optimisations, tutorials, and filling the gaps in the official documentation. I have nothing but gratitude for the members who salvaged and made available so much of the work from those days.Spogg wrote:I do think it was the wrong decision.
There was a lot of talk about trying to maintain some kind of continuity - even if only by continuing the name as a specialist bundle of FS with VST export and audio DSP module included. Whatever might be said, my years of regularly corresponding with Malc always led me to believe that, if he could set aside commercial considerations, he does have a genuine passion for music-making tools.
In a way, I almost see the move to the educational market as underselling FlowStone. I used to work for a company in that market and, if you can get a toe in the door, it's a large reservoir of users who, for the most part, will have little need for the kind of advanced features that we hanker for (and as with the customers of the company that I worked for, they rarely seem to join in with user forums.) I've always thought that with the right investment, FS could become a class-leading general purpose programming platform, because it's interface is still by far the best graphical coding environment that I've found. It could be so much more - a creator of mobile-phone apps, website scripter, Arduino programmer, etc.; and of course, a specialist version for us DSP freaks! Sadly, it's all down to the numbers; making plugins is just too niche an application to be a big money-spinner, I think.
trogluddite wrote:RJHollins wrote:My reasoning was due to mention of some RUBY 'fix' [?}
Hi there! Yes, it's a problem that was introduced with 3.0.8, when Ruby "time-outs" were changed to be per-RubyEdit. You can read all about it on this thread - in summary, it makes Ruby events create lots of new threads which then leak memory when Ruby doesn't clean them up properly. As Spogg and others have pointed out, going back to 3.0.6 has definitely made FS feel more responsive, too.
MichaelBenjamin wrote:wow n1 thx guys! and especially thx Youlean for still hosting this!
didn't know that dump existed...