Prynth

thetechnobear

I wonder if Bela could inherit/learn anything from Prynth?
https://prynth.github.io

bela already provides much of Prynth but I think looking at other projects can spark some good ideas

bela obviously provides lower latency/jitter ... as thats it goal 🙂
lots of analog inputs via multiplexing we get from the extra analog cape 🙂
supercollider already running and optimised for bela

the main difference seems to be the online editor, which is similar to bela - just it supports supercollier
so i guess the question is, could the bela code editor, potentially support supercollider?

not sure if there is anything else, prynth supplies, i found it a bit difficult to navigate the website, and not a huge amount of details. (perhaps I might build one, with a spare Pi2 I have , thats got a hifiberry on it)

giuliomoro

That's a great project, thanks for bringing it to our attention. It seems that it could be made to run just fine on Bela, without the need for the Teensy board, though it may require the multiplexer capelet, depending on the number of sensors you are interested in having.

Editing and running SuperCollider code in the Bela IDE is possible as of the latest release.
Just create a "SuperCollider" project and run it. There are a few examples available. Currently, we have to restart sclang and scsynth every time you hit "run", which is the same thing that the Prynth editor does, according to their docs.
We have been talking about implementing the facility of running code interactively, as in the SC IDE. While it would not be extremely difficult to implement, I am doubtful as to whether it is really useful to spend any amount of time on it. Even after implementing interactive execution of code blocks, the Bela IDE would miss some of the key features of the SC IDE, so that I see how users would quickly revert back to the SC IDE (which they already have installed on their machine) for anything but the very basic stuff.
Is it worth spending time in developing a feature that then would be massively underused?

thetechnobear

giuliomoro yeah, Ive been playing with the new SC code in bela... its fun 🙂
and yes, I scclient on macOS to connect to it, so I can see your point.

I think for live coding, it might be quite interesting... just using a web browser is very lightweight.

I guess, I also wondered if Prynth will make their editor open-source, in which case, presumably it could then run on Bela with little/no change, as presumably its just a SC client.

I wonder why they considered it better to have a web based SC client... !?