No sound when plugin is hidden....

[Lindon]

OK, so I think I have a pretty serious problem - unless I've made some silly mistake(always possible..).

I have a complied plugin that loads and works fine in a number of DAWS (FL Studio, Studio One, Reaper), it has a panel based timer that generates notes...

whilst the plugin interface is displayed all is good - but as soon as I hide the UI it stops working ... any one else getting this?

[d.healey]

@Lindon Panel timers run in the UI thread. Can you use the Synth timer instead?

[ustk]

@Lindon I think it's normal behaviour that panel-based timers are stopped when hidden. If you generate audio stuff a timer I think you should use a timer object instead.

[Lindon]

@ustk @d-healey -- OK I will try that...

[Lindon]

Yeah that fixed it -- a bit disappointed that I cant use the panel timer -- I sort of like its very slightly out-of-time timer -- but Im sure i will get over it...

[d.healey]

@Lindon Did you go with the timer object or the synth timer?

[Lindon]

@d-healey -

myTimer = Engine.createTimerObject();

[Christoph Hart]

I sort of like its very slightly out-of-time timer

There you go:

function onTimer()
{
    Synth.startTimer(average + Math.random() * funkyness);
}

[Lindon]

@Christoph-Hart - yes but then it plays strictly at this new defined time, so its a different time each time you start - but the panel based timer seems to drift a bit within itself, sure I could stop and start the timer within the call back - maybe I should just look at that...

[Christoph Hart]

@Lindon said in No sound when plugin is hidden....:

sure I could stop and start the timer within the call back

Yes, that's the idea, it's perfectly safe to restart the timer in its callback.