@Christoph-Hart I tried to, but all works well when I try to reproduce a minimal example.

This uses the old sample mapping system, and the bug has been present for a couple of months at least. I even tried building with a version from last summer and (after fixing all the errors that popped up) it was still happening.

The instrument has a pretty complex on note function where it determines which sample from which group to play, and it's here somewhere that shit goes wrong, but I cannot possibly imagine why. How would a host hiccup mess up the way samples are picked?

@Christoph-Hart Yes.

If you do something like add a stereo track while it's playing, it'll just start doing weird stuff like picking wrong samples from wrong velocities or even wrong groups.

I'm circling back around to this as I'm seeing some Cubase-specific fixes being pushed.

So far I haven't been able to reproduce this in a minimal example, but I found the trigger.

In older versions of Cubase (sub-12) it happens whenever Cubase has to switch focus which causes a jump in its audio engine. Like switching to another window for a minute, then switching back to Cubase. Suspend settings do nothing here: you can leave the playback of the plugin going and it plays perfectly until you switch back to Cubase, it hicks up for a second and then it starts picking the wrong samples.

@d-healey said in HEADS UP: Server.downloadFile() issue on macOS Sequoia - and a solution:

I bet ChatGPT knows the magic spell for Windows too, I'll ask it tomorrow if you don't get there first :)

Hah, sure, but I'm too lazy to go test it right now.

So here's the reply :

One-shot check (returns Boolean, no packets sent)

$nlm = [Activator]::CreateInstance([type]'Microsoft.Windows.NetworkList.NetworkListManager')
$nlm.IsConnectedToInternet   # $true = online, $false = offline

Continuous monitoring (no polling)

$nlm  = [Activator]::CreateInstance([type]'Microsoft.Windows.NetworkList.NetworkListManager')

Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $nlm `
                     -EventName   'ConnectivityChanged' `
                     -SourceIdentifier NLM `
                     -Action { 
                         if ($Event.SourceEventArgs.IsConnectedToInternet) {
                             Write-Host 'online'
                         } else {
                             Write-Host 'offline'
                         }
                     }

# keep the session alive
while ($true) { Start-Sleep -Seconds 3600 }

HISE-native integration of this might be better than manually launching Background Task as then it can just start a process and every instance of the plugin can read from the process instead of having every plugin instance start its own monitoring process through BackgroundTask (as I don't think BackgroundTask can connect to an existing one?)

@d-healey Ah I see your point. Also I figured if you're making a channel strip plugin or something and a user just happens to have 100 instances in a project, it could get interesting on load.

I did some more digging. On macOS, it appears that

/usr/sbin/scutil -r $? 

will check your internet connection without sending any packets. It returns "Reachable" or "Not Reachable".

If you call

/usr/sbin/scutil -r -W $? 

the task will run until terminated and will respond with Reachable or Not Reachable whenever the network status changes (I just tested it), which is pretty much like a broadcaster.

@Christoph-Hart you can implement this instead of having to clean room that module. I'm sure Windows has a similar mechanism.

@d-healey that's true, but how do you think the OS does the check? I would bet it's something like this. Maybe macOS is calling www.apple.com and Windows is calling microsoft.com, as that also confirms DNS resolution and HTTPS working.

@d-healey It's not really, but how would you check if you're online if not by connecting to another server? 1.1.1.1 is a CloudFlare IP which uses AnyCast, so it automatically connects to the nearest operational server, vastly reducing a chance that you're making a call when the server appears to be down.

I Imagine that's why Google was picked: the chance of downtime being so rare.

This is supposed to be even more robust, with the benefit of the latency being almost non-existent in most countries where people buy audio plugins.

@d-healey said in HEADS UP: Server.downloadFile() issue on macOS Sequoia - and a solution:

I made a feature request back in January to add proper network detection in HISE by getting the status from the operating system. Someone else has already done the work to implement it as a JUCE module, it just needs integrating into HISE.

Background Task

ping -c 1 1.1.1.1 >/dev/null
echo $?

If it returns 0, you're online.

@Christoph-Hart That's the whole point, because your shell says xattr -cr mypackagesinstaller and then runs it, which just tells the gatekeeper that the file is fine.

@Christoph-Hart it doest need to, it just needs to run the packages installer you ship with it.

This is an attempt to simplify the process for everyone. But the mac version won't load the payload.

@bendurso yes.

Keep in mind that every time you build a new installer, you'll have to upload it again and wait 3 weeks.

@ustk if enough people start your exe, defender will eventually stop throwing a warning. That's why I suggested an installer app for HISE where devs would just attach a payload. That way once it eventually got past the defender smart screen, it would stay so.

And it exists, check the Payload Installer in the tools directory of HISE. The windows one works, the one for Mac not so much. I'll probably be pesting Chris about it soon.

Also, you can just upload your exe files to the defender whitelist on the microsoft page (you gotta be logged into your Microsoft account), select that you're a developer uploading an app for whitelisting, and after 3 weeks it'll be whitelisted and smart screen shouldn't pop anymore. But 3 weeks is a lot, almost feels like shipping for PlayStation.

@d-healey Yeah, it's an all in one, but the fees are a lot lower than their competitors.

You could also just serve your US customers with the Polar checkout.

@d-healey David, did you talk about tax collection issues and MoR pricing? I recently found out about www.polar.sh and they seem to be a good new deal.

Plus the open source angle.

@tomekslesicki did you try the Amazon AWS email service? It's literally pennies.

@DanH said in Formant Filters - Anyone made one with Hise yet?:

// #### Usage
//
// // _ : formantFilterFofSmooth(voiceType,vowel,nFormants,i,freq) : _ //

This is your clue.

Did you use Faust at all before?

You can host the docs online on the website, and use a webview to just open that website. You can also cache the site in appdata (have it check to pull updates weekly or whenever the version changes) and load that in the webview.

You're probably doing the docs for the web anyway, this just lets you use it inside your plugin.

@d-healey the new o3 model is wild for talking about UI. It'll draw an ascii wireframe and discuss strengths and weaknesses at length as you prompt it about your current UI situation and desires.

Then it'll generate an an image of that same ascii writeframe in any style you want.

@hisefilo said in Just dreaming. Any plans for adding Tensorflow lite?:

.tflite

to do what?

Rule of thumb is that for realtime, you either try to get Chris to implement it or try to do it yourself as a custom c++ node.

For non-realtime, you can do it right away with BackgroundTask as long as you can ship everything along with your plugin. Or download it on the spot first, but I guess that's a bit less reliable.