[L2Ork-dev] GSOC - Audio Plugins

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 12:42 PM Gabriela Bittencourt <
gabrielabittencourt00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know if the image I sent in the last e-mail could be seen, if it
> could, please ignore this e-mail
> On 26/03/2021 17:27, Gabriela Bittencourt wrote:
>
> On 26/03/2021 15:04, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 5:36 AM Gabriela Bittencourt
> <gabrielabittencourt00 at gmail.com> <gabrielabittencourt00 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Gabriela and I'm super interested in an old proposal of Purr
> data for GSOC, the Interaction with Audio Plugins. Is the proposal still
> up?
>
> I've found a lot from vst and ladspa in the purr data tree and not so
> much from lv2, so I imagine that's still an open task haha :D
>
> I'm very familiarized with Pure Data - I've used it in a project and I
> amuse myself with some experimental music, and I would love to see some
> of my patches as plugins. Most recently I've started playing with Purr
> Data and Cycling74’s Max (to see their features and what could be
> brought to Purr Data). As a free software enthusiast and a pd lover I
> would love to contribute to this project.
>
> I'll start to make some small contributions to warm up with the code, if
> anyone has suggestions to study or more complex contributions related to
> audio plugins, let me know
>
> PS: I've found this similar project for pd that may relate to our goals:
> https://github.com/pierreguillot/Camomile (and could possibly be a
> baseline for part of my contribution. What do you think?).
>
> Hello Gabriela,
>
> Welcome!
>
> I would check prior art for the plugin project idea. For example, it
> appears that
> Camomile fits your use case of turning your patches into plugins. There is
> probably an external library in Pd Vanilla dealing with lv2 plugins.
>
>
> Hey, I've found this external for pd:
> https://bitbucket.org/agraef/pd-lv2plugin.git I'm still working on the
> installation, so I haven't test it yet, but I think this would be more
> related to instantiating lv2 plugins inside purr-data (while Camomile would
> be more useful to transform the purr-data into a plugin).
>
> Is the pd-lv2plugin a good start for this task?
>
>
Yes. Perhaps Albert can provide some more information on it.

>
>
> What kind of features did you find in Max/MSP that would be useful in Purr
> Data?
>
>
> For me the feature that would most improve the workflow of coding in
> purr-data is the autocomplete when creating new objects (list of fuzzy
> suggestions with quick description).
>
>
> Max autocompletion
>
> The engine of the search could be done using a fuzzy finder (like this
> project: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf).
>
> That's an optional project that I would also be willing to do. Do you
> think that it would be interesting to the community and feasible?
>
> (Is it the elasticlunr -
> https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/-/blob/master/pd/nw/elasticlunr.js
> - an attempt for this or did I completely misunderstood here?)
>
>
Elasticlunr is currently leveraged to build an index for the `<ctrl-b>`
documentation browser. That index is cached across runs, *but* the default
doesn't include external docs to build the index. That's good for
performance of the index builder, but unfortunate because there's still a
lot of knowledge buried in the external library docs.

Anyhow, I think that index could be a good source for the autocomplete
strings (as well as a good source for implementing tooltips).

So perhaps there's a project idea here related to a) doing some
improvements to the doc indexing system so that it can include all docs by
default, and b) leveraging that for a nice autocomplete feature.

Best,
Jonathan


> Best,
> Jonathan
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gabriela
>
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