Floris 1) [91mError[0m pd2hv: trill in "main.pd/trill" @ (x:20, y:2): Don't know how to parse object "list". Is it an object supported by Heavy? Is it an abstraction? Have the search paths been correctly configured?
2) [91mError[0m pd2hv: trill in "main.pd/trill" @ (x:20, y:2): There was an error while connecting two objects. Have all objects been correctly instantiated? Have all inlets and outlets been declared?
3) [91mError[0m pd2hv: [comment text] in "main.pd/trill" @ (x:0, y:0): Connection made to non-existent inlet at [comment {u'text': 'null object placeholder (list)'}]:0.

these are because you have the [list] object in your patch, which is unsupported by hvcc.

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You can simply remove those objects as they are not doing anything there.

The other patch has some more issues:

  • it uses that same [list] which you can similarly delete
  • it uses [vline~] and [expr~ $v1 > $v2]. These can be replaced by heavylib's [hv.vline] and [hv.gt], respectively.

The recommended workflow to build a program with heavy/hvcc is:

  • install this version of hvcc on your computer https://github.com/giuliomoro/hvcc/ (requires git, python 3.7 and pip3). From a terminal run:
    git clone https://github.com/giuliomoro/hvcc.git
    cd hvcc/
    pip3 install -e .
  • then get a copy of the Bela repository (dev branch) on your computer and update the code on Bela:
    git clone https://github.com/BelaPlatform/Bela.git
    cd Bela
    git checkout dev
    ./scripts/update_board -y
  • once the above is done you can run the following script to build Pd patches into a Bela project. From within the Bela folder, run:
    scripts/build_pd_hvcc.sh  path/to/your/vocoder_main.pd -c "-p64" -p PROJECTNAME

Update instructions: in case you already have done the above but want to update to the latest hvcc and Bela support for hvcc:

  • get into your local hvcc folder and do:
    git fetch
    git reset --hard origin/master-Bela
    pip3 install -e .
  • get into your local Bela folder and do:
    git pull
    ./scripts/update_board -y

NOTE: after updating the Bela core code (as done above when running update_board), the next time you build any project may take a long time.
ANOTHER NOTE: the first time you build a project created with hvcc, it will take a long time to build. Successive builds will be faster, but still take around 30-40 seconds.

However, currently there is no Trill support on Bela+hvcc. Let me add it right now and get back to you.

Hi! thanks for the help. The last script gets this error :

1) Error hvcc: Unknown input path /Users/Floris/hvcc/Bela/desktop/_main.pd
MacBook-Pro-van-Floris:Bela Floris$

is the path correct? The "desktop" in there is suspicious...

What does

ls /Users/Floris/hvcc/Bela/desktop/_main.pd

return?

ls: /Users/Floris/hvcc/Bela/desktop/_main.pd: No such file or directory
MacBook-Pro-van-Floris:~ Floris$

yup, then the path is wrong. Where is the file located? If it is on your desktop, then path would be something like: /Users/Floris/Desktop/_main.pd

no idea what I'm doing wrong:

MacBook-Pro-van-Floris:~ Floris$ scripts/build_pd_hvcc.sh /Users/Floris/Desktop/_main.pd -c "-p64" -p PROJECTNAME
-bash: scripts/build_pd_hvcc.sh: No such file or directory
MacBook-Pro-van-Floris:~ Floris$

Thanks for the help, I would love to learn compiling, but as I leave for the first conczrt tomorrow, I'd better go practice my music with a simplified Pd patch (just a few vocoder bands to get the CPU% down)

But now, after the terminal stuff, when I try to load a simple patch into the Bela IDE, it takes ages. (still not ready)
Here's a part of the report. What's happening?
Building Mmap.cpp...
...done
Building RTAudio.cpp...
...done
Building pru/pru_rtaudio.p...
...done
Building pru/pru_rtaudio_irq.p...
...done
Building PruBinary.cpp...
...done
Building RTAudioCommandLine.cpp...
...done
Building Mcasp.cpp...
...done
Building AuxTaskNonRT.cpp...
...done
Building JSONValue.cpp...
...done
Building board_detect.cpp...
...done
Building WSServer.cpp...
...done
Building AuxiliaryTasks.cpp...
...done

    I made the Pd patches simpler, between 60 and 70% CPU usage, to run uncompiled.
    Still the patches won't start when the IDE is disconnected.
    here's the error:
    Makefile:612: recipe for target 'runonly' failed
    Aug 09 20:54:03 bela stdbuf[242]: make: *** [runonly] Error 127
    Aug 09 20:54:03 bela stdbuf[242]: make: Leaving directory '/root/Bela'

    After making the patches even lighter, they work in loop : )

    Floris -bash: scripts/build_pd_hvcc.sh: No such file or directory

    you need to run this from within the Bela folder on your computer.

    Floris Here's a part of the report. What's happening?

    It is rebuilding the Bela core code after the update. This is expected and it's a one-off event after the update. Successive builds will go back to the regular build times.

    Still the patches won't start when the IDE is disconnected.

    OK that's weird.

    here's the error:
    Makefile:612: recipe for target 'runonly' failed
    Aug 09 20:54:03 bela stdbuf[242]: make: *** [runonly] Error 127
    Aug 09 20:54:03 bela stdbuf[242]: make: Leaving directory '/root/Bela'

    Is there anything above those lines? These don't all us much.

    OK, I added support for Trill when building Pd patches with hvcc following the workflow above. I also amended the instructions above to explain how to update your current copies of the repos in order to use my latest changes.

    Now, building your patches should require the changes mentioned above and in addition you need to change

    [s bela_setTrill]

    to

    [s bela_setTrill @hv_param] 

    When building a patch that requires heavylib (as your grain patch does with the changes listed above), you further need to clone heavylib and pass it as the first option to build_pd_hvcc.sh. E.g.:

    ./scripts/build_pd_hvcc.sh -p path/to/heavylib path/to/file.pd -c "-p64" -p PROJECTNAME
    6 months later

    Floris Or will there ever be a Bela shield for a board with more processing power?

    giuliomoro Hopefully soon!

    Very interesting! Do we have some news about it?