Do you also have clojars access?

Not that I am aware of, I would try to contact Sam, but I see that Iain (soulflyer) is already trying it \o/

I see that it was Sam who gave me commit access, https://github.com/overtone/overtone/pull/489#issuecomment-1250854161, so he seems to be the right person 🙏

If no communication channel works, we can open an issue in the sonic-pi repo lol

Agree o/

But I guess first step would be to get clojars access and put out a SNAPSHOT to test the release process, and to give people a chance to test what's on master.

(I also wouldn't mind renaming master to main)

Yeah much of my past overtone experiments have involved trying to build an akai mpc style sequencer, and then I get bogged down in that and forget to actually make music. I've been meaning to make time to play with Orca for ages, so happy to use it now and actually get some sound out of it

I did build a really cool drum sequencer a few years back, which I hope to make more generally consumable in the near future. I've never actually released or announced it.

There’s been some good learnings on the live coding community with regards to API design in the past few years. Not sure if overtone should handle that anymore, of it should be a more of a basis to build higher level apis

Have you tried TouchOSC? Seems like what you are looking for. On another note quil is a great candidate for that. Recently I’ve started using it for visualizing JI lattices and for getting insights into compositions and it’s very nice to not need OSC or MIDI communication.

yeah I'm using quil for my drum sequencer

touchosc looks great, shame it's not open source though

true

Using Open Stage Control, a bit more complex than necessary but pretty sweet

In particular if I create a definst with an env-gen with :gate gate :action FREE, and a (ctl ... :gate 0), does that free it?

yeah, it should

I’d suggest connecting to an external SC server

does that help with stability?

the server UI is pretty good at telling you if your ugens are being freed

also you may need to configure the memory allocation

For example I have this in one of my init files:

(
// Server.default.options.inDevice_("Scarlett 18i20 USB");
// Server.default.options.outDevice_("Scarlett 18i20 USB");
o = Server.default.options;
o.memSize= 512000*20;
o.maxNodes=128*1024;
s.options.maxLogins = 8;
o.numInputBusChannels = 32;
o.numOutputBusChannels = 58;
s.latency = 0.01;
s.waitForBoot({
	().play;
	s.makeGui; // `l` to show meter 
    // TODO figure out a way to mix in all outs for the spectrogram... or something
//    {(0)}.spectrogram;
});
)

I often just run it from the command line

If you do that then you’ll see something like this:

Now if you run and free a synth, then you would see the ugens and synths values come up and down

in the IDE you’ll see this which is a little less readable

But I don’t know much about definst, I use defsynth

oh IIRC definst micromanages some stuff for you and defsynth is more barebones, so perhaps the gate is not necessary in your case and maybe it’s interfering

ok, gonna need to revisit this. running supercollider separately is adding a lot of stuff to manage.

> For example I have this in one of my init files: Where do you put this? > the server UI is this different from the IDE? what's the command name to start this? > I often just run it from the command line what invocation do you use?

If you have sclang installed (it comes with an normal installation of SC), the you can put it anywhere, I do this to initialize on bash: sclang ~/Music/code/tieminos/src/tieminos/habitat/sc-init.sc The server UI is created by s.makeGui .

But tbh, I think your issue is with the use of definst you may want to try making a defsynth and see if the issue persists

syntax is a little different but not much

Here’s one that works well for me:

(o/defsynth soft-saw2
  [freq 200
   amp 0.5
   pan 0
   atk 0.01
   dcy 1
   sust 0.3
   rel 0.5
   gate 1
   out 0]
  (o/out out
         (-> (o/saw freq)
             (o/lpf 2000)
             (o/pan2 pan)
             (* (o/env-gen (o/env-adsr atk dcy sust rel)
                               :gate gate :action o/FREE))
             (* amp (o/amp-comp-a freq)))))

Orca just sends midi events