SNEX For dummies 2

[hisefilo]

Hi guys. A few questions about SNEX (I know is being re-written but I want to move on meanwhile)

1. What HISE api things are available on SNEX? I've just found this and e.getNoteNumber(); works

    /*
    NODE_JIT_ADD_C_FUNCTION_1(int, Wrapper::getNoteNumber, HiseEvent, "getNoteNumber");
	HNODE_JIT_ADD_C_FUNCTION_1(int, Wrapper::getVelocity, HiseEvent, "getVelocity");
	HNODE_JIT_ADD_C_FUNCTION_1(int, Wrapper::getChannel, HiseEvent, "getChannel");
	HNODE_JIT_ADD_C_FUNCTION_1(double, Wrapper::getFrequency, HiseEvent, "getFrequency");
    */

2. How to print messages on console?? Like Console.pint("Something");
3. Anyone can tell me what does "possible lost of data" means here?? Is this the MATRIX??? :P

[d.healey]

@hisefilo

2. How to print messages on console?? Like Console.pint("Something");

https://docs.hise.audio/scriptnode/manual/snex.html#variable-visibility

3. Anyone can tell me what does "possible lost of data" means here?? Is this the MATRIX??? :P

This is where it appears in the source code, so all the answers must be here :p Looks like a loss can occur when converting between data types (perhaps).

void Operations::Expression::checkAndSetType(int offset /*= 0*/, Types::ID expectedType)
{
	Types::ID exprType = expectedType;

	for (int i = offset; i < getNumChildStatements(); i++)
	{
		auto e = getSubExpr(i);

		if (auto v = dynamic_cast<VariableReference*>(e.get()))
		{
			if (!v->functionClassConstant.isVoid())
			{
				v->type = expectedType;
				continue;
			}
		}

		auto thisType = e->getType();

		if (!Types::Helpers::matchesTypeStrict(thisType, exprType))
		{
			logWarning("Implicit cast, possible lost of data");

			if (e->isConstExpr())
			{
				replaceChildStatement(i, ConstExprEvaluator::evalCast(e.get(), exprType).get());
			}
			else
			{
				Ptr implCast = new Operations::Cast(e->location, e, exprType);
				implCast->attachAsmComment("Implicit cast");

				replaceChildStatement(i, implCast);
			}
		}
		else
			exprType = Types::Helpers::getMoreRestrictiveType(exprType, thisType);
	}

	type = exprType;
}

[hisefilo]

@d-healey said in SNEX For dummies 2:

matchesTypeStrict

:O that's new for me. like everything in these last few days! thanks David

[Christoph Hart]

@hisefilo said in SNEX For dummies 2:

What HISE api things are available on SNEX

The MIDI message API will be almost identical to the HiseScript Message class - with the sole difference that you call the methods on the object itself:

// HiseScript:
function onNoteOn()
{
    Console.print(Message.getNoteNumber());
}

// SNEX:
void onHiseEvent(HiseEvent e)
{
    Console.print(e.getNoteNumber());
}

Right now I just added a few methods to make sure it works, but I'll add the rest of them when it's actually useable (it might be possible that I have to change things under the hood, so I don't want to edit all 30ish methods for event manipulation)

As you can see, the Console.print methods works in SNEX too, but it's limited to printing out numbers so you can't do concatened String messages like in HISE script. However there is a Console.pause() method that acts as breakpoint and allows variable inspection at runtime, so this might be a better debugging tool.

Same with the Math class. There won't be a Synth class though and most probably no Engine class - I'll think about the latter, but SNEX has to be useable in multiple spots where the access to the "global engine" might not be available.

Anyone can tell me what does "possible lost of data" means here??

"Possible lost of data" is compiler speak for a numeric conversion that is not lossless. The easiest example would be a float to int conversion where the lost data is simply the fractional part, but there are more complicated issues that arise (AFAIK if you convert a really big integer number to a single precision float number, it might get truncated too). Bottomline is: whenever you see that warning, you need to cast the expression to the desired type. BTW in the new SNEX version you'll see the warning directly in place like this:

If you write this the problem goes away:

int x = (int)12.0f; 

Although it's stupid to cast a numeric literal when you can just write int x = 12; but for the sake of the example...

[hisefilo]

@Christoph-Hart said in SNEX For dummies 2:

Same with the Math class. There won't be a Synth class though and most probably no Engine class - I'll think about the latter, but SNEX has to be useable in multiple spots where the access to the "global engine" might not be available.

Thanks mate!
My goal is to build a synth capable to generate multiple sine waves using data frames like this one below . I'm in the right place (SNEX) for my future devs???

[#sine osc: freq, amplitude, phase]

1TRC	1	0	0.0249887
  1TRC	0x0004	26	4
	0	4720.89	0.000139671	-0.806801
	1	4450.89	0.000184206	0.256434
	2	3970.74	0.000126725	-0.242524
	3	3735.95	0.000125689	1.58192
	4	3510.61	0.000173862	0.272434
	5	3342.09	0.000151657	0.521128
	6	3000.99	0.000464915	-2.15388
	7	518.579	0.0129921	0.942587
	8	659.448	0.0225252	-0.377563
	9	785.758	0.00866297	1.20015
	10	926.962	0.0124319	-0.55132
	11	1057.06	0.00364636	0.910611
	12	1438.79	0.00743512	1.2696
	13	1699.71	0.00493992	-2.72891
	14	1834.94	0.00237093	-2.24004
	15	1961.01	0.00362062	-0.517616
	17	2223.36	0.00232627	1.38036
	18	2362.46	0.00196192	0.670547
	19	2483.28	0.00127425	-2.12119
	20	2623.2	0.00156323	3.03368
	21	2742.53	0.00078575	0.680789
	22	2883.19	0.00119679	-0.48985
	23	3144.71	0.000859497	1.47357
	24	269.348	0.021707	1.14387
	25	130.604	0.00496798	2.30956
	26	390.77	0.0226341	-0.0619304

1TRC	1	0	0.0499773
  1TRC	0x0004	27	4
	0	4719.22	0.00041282	-0.68785
	1	4451.15	0.000578673	1.61273
	2	3977.44	0.000254083	0.174588
	3	3738.57	0.000309721	-2.88493