what if I made a little visual programming language for my synthesizer 🤔
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Also I'm annoyed that math words are all verbose. "term" and "sum" fit as alternatives for the inputs and outputs of the add node, but the vibes are off. "result" reads better than "sum" for the output. I don't like "term" because it's ambiguous. "summand" is too long. "addend" both is too long and it looks like it says "add end" which what. In the end I went with "+" for the operand end of the tile and "=" for the result end. (operand is also too long)
"input" and "output" could work, but I'm intentionally avoiding them so the output tile doesn't have an input named "output"
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"input" and "output" could work, but I'm intentionally avoiding them so the output tile doesn't have an input named "output"
idk what I'm going to do for the "min" and "max" tiles lol
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idk what I'm going to do for the "min" and "max" tiles lol
also I'm considering making the add tile effectively just a pass through and having the system add all wires connecting to the same input when the input doesn't have a special arithmetic meaning. eg draw two wires to the line out and it just adds them. or draw two hz values into a sine wave and it adds them. draw two values into a mul tile and it multiplies them instead.
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also I'm considering making the add tile effectively just a pass through and having the system add all wires connecting to the same input when the input doesn't have a special arithmetic meaning. eg draw two wires to the line out and it just adds them. or draw two hz values into a sine wave and it adds them. draw two values into a mul tile and it multiplies them instead.
The connect mode is fully functional now, and because I felt it added too much overhead, I also added a magic auto-connect/disconnect function to the selection mode since most pairs of tiles will have one obvious implicit connection anyway.
Here's a video demonstrating both:
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The connect mode is fully functional now, and because I felt it added too much overhead, I also added a magic auto-connect/disconnect function to the selection mode since most pairs of tiles will have one obvious implicit connection anyway.
Here's a video demonstrating both:
I figured maybe I'd have a go at porting over my synth pipeline tonight, but I also decided I wanted to rebuild it as a python C++ extension and then my attention span bounced violently off the python packaging documentation, soooo... I made the lines look more arrow-dynamic instead :3
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I figured maybe I'd have a go at porting over my synth pipeline tonight, but I also decided I wanted to rebuild it as a python C++ extension and then my attention span bounced violently off the python packaging documentation, soooo... I made the lines look more arrow-dynamic instead :3
Big progress today! I rewrote a bunch of stuff and now the program has exactly the same functionality as it did yesterday, except that some of it is written in C++ now instead of python 😎
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Big progress today! I rewrote a bunch of stuff and now the program has exactly the same functionality as it did yesterday, except that some of it is written in C++ now instead of python 😎
Now the tile objects are C++ classes that python thinks are python classes, instead of just being python classes. This will allow me to rebuild the C++ audio synthesis pipeline to use the tile graph directly instead of my earlier interpreter, and the tile graph will be constructed and manipulated by python.
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Now the tile objects are C++ classes that python thinks are python classes, instead of just being python classes. This will allow me to rebuild the C++ audio synthesis pipeline to use the tile graph directly instead of my earlier interpreter, and the tile graph will be constructed and manipulated by python.
and I wont have to worry about keeping two separate graph representations in sync, they'll just be the same graph.
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and I wont have to worry about keeping two separate graph representations in sync, they'll just be the same graph.
I made a compiler for my visual synthesizer language thingy today
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I made a compiler for my visual synthesizer language thingy today
The next main things to do are building out an audio subsystem for the program so you can hear the patch, and then there's some important stuff missing from the editor like being able to place new tiles.
One of the things I'm really excited about with the design of the compiler is if you modify a patch while it is running, the oscillators don't reset, so you should be able to make a program while performing it :3
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The next main things to do are building out an audio subsystem for the program so you can hear the patch, and then there's some important stuff missing from the editor like being able to place new tiles.
One of the things I'm really excited about with the design of the compiler is if you modify a patch while it is running, the oscillators don't reset, so you should be able to make a program while performing it :3
I got the audio hooked up to it and everything seems to work right :3
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I got the audio hooked up to it and everything seems to work right :3
I am now the operator, with my virtual calculator.
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I am now the operator, with my virtual calculator.
the screen shot doesn't show off how cool this is, because when you're using this to edit constants in the patch, it'll update their values as you input expressions (so, every time you press equals or input a second operator) and so you can hear the change to the patch as you are doing math
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the screen shot doesn't show off how cool this is, because when you're using this to edit constants in the patch, it'll update their values as you input expressions (so, every time you press equals or input a second operator) and so you can hear the change to the patch as you are doing math
I don't feel like being mad at linux right now, so I'm gonna figure out how to record this another time
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I don't feel like being mad at linux right now, so I'm gonna figure out how to record this another time
I've got this hooked up to my audio convolver (a simple slow morphing fm patch convolved with the sound of a metal water bottle with a little bit of water in it being perturbed) and it sounds mesmerizing. Mym described it as "birds in a pinball machine" :3
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I've got this hooked up to my audio convolver (a simple slow morphing fm patch convolved with the sound of a metal water bottle with a little bit of water in it being perturbed) and it sounds mesmerizing. Mym described it as "birds in a pinball machine" :3
I've been listening to it for like an hour and I'm so zoned out now 😎
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I've been listening to it for like an hour and I'm so zoned out now 😎
I made it so you can rearrange the nodes now :)
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I made it so you can rearrange the nodes now :)
I added a way to actually place tiles now instead of hard coding them!
finally, after five weeks and change of building a visual programming language from scratch, i can now build a working patch starting from nothing :D
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I added a way to actually place tiles now instead of hard coding them!
finally, after five weeks and change of building a visual programming language from scratch, i can now build a working patch starting from nothing :D
The natural thing to implement next would be save and load, but pygame doesn't provide anything for conjuring the system file io dialogue windows (SDL3 has it, but pygame is SDL2 under the hood iirc). I'll worry about that another time I guess.
I'm probably going to go with an xml format so it's easy to extend. I want it to be easy to make custom controls in other applications eg game engines, so this feels like the obvious choice also I'm one of the five people who likes xml.
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The natural thing to implement next would be save and load, but pygame doesn't provide anything for conjuring the system file io dialogue windows (SDL3 has it, but pygame is SDL2 under the hood iirc). I'll worry about that another time I guess.
I'm probably going to go with an xml format so it's easy to extend. I want it to be easy to make custom controls in other applications eg game engines, so this feels like the obvious choice also I'm one of the five people who likes xml.
i'll probably end up adding envelope generators and midi before i implement save and load since it's not really worth using without those but it really depends on which way the wind is blowing when i next work on this
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Il mercato giapponese dei titoli di stato attrae un crescente numero di investitori esteri ma questa non è una buona notizia, perché si è trasformato in un epicentro di volatilità e rischio
https://phastidio.net/2025/12/11/giappone-rischio-valanga-per-il-debito/
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@eniko I'm of two minds on this. I've come across too many people trying to take credit for an idea they actually got from someone else to not appreciate knowing what the actual original source is.
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requestPictureInPicture() (PiP / PinP) does not work in Home Screen Web Apps (PWA) on iOS/iPadOS. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303885 "Multiple developers have independently reported this issue over the past four years … This significantly degrades the value proposition of Home Screen web apps compared to:
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@elettrona suvvia, nessun luogo è un paradiso in terra, come peraltro la Svizzera sa bene dopo l'ultimo esperimento di "teocrazia diretta" (🤣) avvenuto proprio a Ginevra per la regia di Calvino...
Semmai i problemi della Svizzera sono altri: per dire, che l'Europa sia una grande Svizzera, è una provocazione ricca di spunti, ma deve continuare a essere vista solo come una provocazione: la UE ha un'eterogeneità sociale e una proiezione internazionale ben diverse
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Ok. Possiamo smettere di usare l’hashtag #mastoaiuto ?
Troppo legato ad un software specifico. Meglio #fediaiuto o semplicemente #aiuto ? Avete idee alternative?Poi ben vengano gli hashtag #aiutosegreto e #unoaiuto ma a mio parere limitano l’hashtag alle specifiche community
Se l’obbiettivo é quello di interagire solo con la community dell’istanza allora apposto. Ma d’altro canto usare questi hashtag é limitante.
#chiesebrutte funziona perché universale. É un hashtag che trascende le istanze
