1. the hatred it inspires in your customer when some machine component dies and get replaced, making the software think it's now on a "new" machine, and/or

Sure. It is really bad customer side..

2. the further hatred it inspires in your customer when your validation server goes offline at some ...

One simple solution can be using openssl to encrypt wave files. (no matter if it's a bundle or not).

To protect the wave you'll have to:

[list=]
[*] encrypt wave files using a public key
[*] give user a key to de-encrypt the files (normally public key don't allow that)
[*] give user a key with a ...

tulamide wrote: I just can't read the regex itself. I guess that would reveal a rather simple thing like 'may not include mymethod=' or something similar?

Is more or like:
^set_ = begin with
(.*) = capture anything "." for unlimited repetitions "*" in a group ()

Not so familiar with Ruby but looks like it read all class public methods in the variable "klass" through reflection.
if method is a setter (using regex to the method name) and there's a condition not clear to me:
not names.include? "#{$1}=" and
klass.instance_method(name).arity == 1

Than eval the ...

i've already made the second option and works very well.
http://synthmakers.eu/downloads/viewdow ... kins-tools

I'ts made with SM way, no ruby. Use a txt to create skin file list and load them.

Why not making ourself a little open source thing like this, joining forces? would be a really teachy experience

(* since FS anyway looks like a walking dead )

Thank you. Code is clear, oop and the synth is very cool
Would be cool to make something similar in a small team. i'm actually good in OOP programming but i'm quite reluctant to DSP

I found really interesting Ror (Ruby on rails) framework as a web ruby implementation. But i think Java is much better for making desktop apps and learning since the JVW is very powerful and the language itself its strictly OOP. for a learning purpose, i'll go to Java. It's really easy then to ...

I think Flowstone to be not the best way to learn Ruby. FS just use ruby in a "script", "no-paradigm" way that no one would recommend. Just my 2cents

Nope sorry. And I don't think they would do so also to well known members..