Mostly smooth, some issues

default · Joined: Apr 02, 2008 Posts: 1 Location: berlin

hi there,

first of all: a huge thank you to you guys for your great efforts in putting together this app. despite some shortcomings it is fantastic and great step forward form the original editor. i didnt encounter any problems in making the editor talk to the nord and the connection is stable.

these are some little bugs/gui glitches i noted ..

* noteseqA, is a step behind, visually
* levadd, UNI switch does work, but the value readout doesnt switch
* phaser, Centerfreq knob does work, but the value readout doesnt change
* adsr env, envelope display not changing
* eqmid, curve display is flipped vertically
* digitzer, is instantiated with "Bits" set to 1 (=noisy surprises) and Quant active despite the button reading "Off". also, quantizing is turned on when the button is pushed "out", and off when pushed in. it seems the reverse of that would make more sense.
* keyquant (and others), integer values display with a ".0"
* ptterngen, has no value readout for "steps"
* noteseqA, a tooltip with a value readout when dragging the sliders would be cool
* oscslavefm, being able to switch to a display of ratios instead of "0-127" would be cool

as for usability ..
* vertical dragging for knobmovement would be great, in addition to horizontal
* a shortcut like alt-clcik to disconnect a cable, but keeping the "loose end" while the mouse button is pressed to be able to reconnect it somewhere else
* a shortcut to send patches from the browser straight to a slot. right now, i have to doubleclick to open in the editor, select "save in synth" with the mouse and hit OK to transfer. would be great if i could audition through a pile of patches just using one action each time. i noticed i can also drag the name on an open tab to the slots on the bottom left .. still, thats a lot of moving around.

last not least, i do get lockups, meaning the nord says "error" and nomad wont respond either. i couldnt find a pattern to this. i attached a patch that uses a digitzer. the patch was doing fine until i put in that digitzer and the lockup occured, here are the details:

net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.SynthException: net.sf.nmedit.jnmprotocol2.MidiException: Communication timed out: 1205888500463 [error=-1001]
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.clavia.nordmodular.NordModular.connect(NordModular.java:411)
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.clavia.nordmodular.NordModular.setConnected(NordModular.java:881)
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.nomad.forms.SynthObjectForm.trySetConnectedState(SynthObjectForm.java:958)
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.nomad.forms.SynthObjectForm$1$1.run(SynthObjectForm.java:599)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:461)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:176)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:110)
Caused by: net.sf.nmedit.jnmprotocol2.MidiException: Communication timed out: 1205888500463 [error=-1001]
at net.sf.nmedit.jnmprotocol2.NmProtocol.heartbeatImpl(NmProtocol.java:5 Cool

at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.clavia.nordmodular.NordModular$SchedulingProtocol.heartbeatImpl(NordModular.java:252)
at net.sf.nmedit.jnmprotocol2.AbstractNmProtocol.heartbeat(AbstractNmProtocol.java:154)
at net.sf.nmedit.jnmprotocol2.NmMessageAcceptor.waitForReply(NmMessageAcceptor.java:114)
at net.sf.nmedit.jsynth.clavia.nordmodular.NordModular.connect(NordModular.java:358)
... 10 more

oddly enough, opening it again today didnt seem to be problem and i could use the digitzer without a problem.

anyways, thanks again for all your hard work, i hope these infos help you alittle in ironing out the remaining issues.

cheers

digitizer=error.zip

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A patch that caused a lockup once a digitzer was instatiated ..

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chresan · Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:05 am Post subject:

Hi default,

many many thanks for the detailed feedback. I promise to look at all the mentioned issues. We are planning to release more often (~each 2-4 months) from now on so you won't have to wait too long until the problems are fixed.

Regards

Christian

mrpv · Joined: Aug 06, 2007 Posts: 8 Location: montreal

two little things to add:

- the ClkGen has the same inverted button (depressed=ON pressed=OFF)
- no preset in the DrumSynth (okay, maybe not essential)

I love this version so much compared to the older release. Also, being able to switch module from one to another (by cliking the arrow in the top left corner) and keeping the same connection is absolutly fantastic.

awesome program!