Noob questions about scripting / audio loop player
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Hi, have some basic things I'm still trying to figure out.
I have a AudioLoopPlayer which I am trying to click a button, and have it set a file on the AudioLoopPlayer, that part is working now. I will attach a screenshot for reference below, but questions are:
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When I play the loaded file back by clicking on my keyboard, I get a horrible 8bit ish screeching noise rather than the actual sample I loaded. any idea why that would be? (update, HISE crashed so I reloaded it, and it's now playing back fine. but any idea what would have caused that? I am also seeing like 70-80% CPU usage by hise, even while idle as I type this, is that normal?) (update 2, I removed some code in my onInit, that was looping through Synths doing something like Synth.getIdBy when trying to (or something I don't remember exactly, guessing that was the issue?))
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I don't use xcode much, but I built HISE through xcode - everytime I want to run it, I open up xcode and click "Start the active scheme" - Is this the correct thing to be doing? I am getting quite a few crashes (seemingly randomly, or maybe from my computer sleeping or something, IDK), but, when it does that, xcode catches the error, and I have to click stop and play again to restart it. I'm assuming even if I was running a compiled binary version of it or whatever, HISE would have crashed, but ya is this the correct way to be running HISE after building?
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I see you can use CSS to some degree to style components. Are you able to style parts of individual controls and things, and if so, is there a reference as to what the structure of each control looks like for the sake of styling? can you do things like #some-control-id Slider (like target slider like an html element, and or child parts of the slider, knob or whatever, to style the individual parts)
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Regarding q3 above, can you style the default controls on the modules and things? Like, can I style my AudioLoopPlayer differently than the default styles? (and again, is there documentation referencing the structure of the elements if so)
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in the screenshot, I still don't understand the lifecycle functions, except onInit - are they linked together, (can onControl for example, reference variables defined in the onInit script). And also, I tried putting code into onControl and onController thinking that any time any control was clicked in my ui, it would fire at least one of those callbacks, but that didn't seem to happen. how are those used?
Any help much appreciated in advance!
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Also one more question, how do I insert the actual AudioLoopPlayer into the main ui? Do I need to create a panel (or floating tile) and insert it somehow in the onInit, because I don't see how to do it via the UI.
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You just need the executable (app) that will be somewhere in the
HISE Source/projects/standalone/Builds/MacOSX/folder. -
Start with Look and Feel - https://docs.hise.audio/glossary/custom_lookandfeel.html then go to CSS - https://docs.hise.dev/glossary/css.html
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The audio loop player won't be visible to the end user. The only thing they see is what you add to your user interface.
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Yes it's all one big script file, the options from the drop down menu are just a convenience. You should pretty much never use onControl, it only exists for backwards compatibility with really ancient scripts from HISE's early days. Check out my Scripting 101 video if you haven't already:
@thrice801 said in Noob questions about scripting / audio loop player:
Also one more question, how do I insert the actual AudioLoopPlayer into the main ui?
You can't insert it as a single unit. You can add (I think) a waveform control (might be a floating tile, I can't remember) and you can add knobs and buttons, then link them up to the backend module.
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ah thanks! was looking for answers earlier and skimmed through it but skipped the callbacks at the beginning.
-- ah ok, so the main module UI stuff I see in hise, is just hise editor specific UI stuff then?
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@thrice801 said in Noob questions about scripting / audio loop player:
-- ah ok, so the main module UI stuff I see in hise, is just hise editor specific UI stuff then?
Yes
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@d-healey makes more sense now thanks!
