2018-05-25¶
Members present: Brian, Nathan, Patrick, Scott Carver
Recent work:
Nathan wrote NHHall UGen -> sc3-plugins, wrote a spec for antialiasing UGens
Scott has been working with pattern library and thinking about improving consistency w/ multichannel expansion
Patrick has submitted some small and helpful PRs
Brian has reviewed some PRs and has ported SerialPort to Windows
Topics:
Denormals - we want them to be always flushed, but it sounds like on ARM (and sometimes on x86) they aren’t (reported by Nathan)
HOAUGens - Patrick will help move this PR through
need to remove the units that don’t build on other platforms
Scott has been working with ATK members on their HOA generators - may be a better HOA implementation for SC project
3.10:
Target goals: Qt update, Qt Menu support, SerialPort port, UnitTest/Quarks issue, LinkClock
Release mode when?: will revisit soon
3.9.4:
discussed possibility. Nathan is unconvinced of the need for this, will possibly revisit.
Norns/Embedded:
recent popularity bump. Should work on improving tutorials
interest in SC on embedded devices may be ramping up
consider focusing on improving RPi-SC experience for 3.11 (in the same way 3.9/3.10 were about improving Windows experience)
Documentation:
Brian has an “edit this doc on GitHub” button
Bela: Bela has a remedy (not a complete fix) for this nasty issue when building without Qt: https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/issues/2144. This is a pretty bad issue especially as SC finds use in embedded systems like the Norns. Maybe the Bela team’s patch should be merged in?
Another important performance issue for embedded SC: https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/issues/3524
Scott offered to reach out to the Monome, TidalCycles, and Sonic Pi teams via email and improve communication with big commercial and open-source projects.
Pushed 3.10 milestone due date to June 30th