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Hello, I have a new plugin to release and I would ask this community to test it before I submit it to VCV to be included in the library. It’s a simple idea: generate triggers from LFO intersections to generate patterns and CV that is organic to the pattern generation. I called them cross sequencers: 2 LFOs (XSeq2) and 3LFOs (XSeq3). There are also a couple of ancillary objects. See details in the README. I compiled it for Windows. I tried compiling it for Mac but I am getting error messages (*** multiple target patterns. Stop). If anyone has a clue about how to fix that please let me know.

Here it is: NLS

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Manually delete the build and dist directories before running make. make clean will work after.

Ran into another error:

/usr/bin/clang++ -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++  -fPIC -I/Users/dbrooks/Applications/Rack-SDK/include -I/Users/username/Applications/Rack-SDK/dep/include -MMD -MP -g -O3 -funsafe-math-optimizations -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -DARCH_X64 -march=nehalem -DARCH_MAC -mmacosx-version-min=10.9  -c -o build/src/CrossSeq2Module.cpp.o src/CrossSeq2Module.cpp
src/CrossSeq2Module.cpp:81:2: error: C++ requires a type specifier for all declarations

Hope this helps.

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Thanks! I did what you said and run make clean

I probably fixed the error as well (though I am not sure since I was not getting that on my end)

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I can’t see a win binary on your github
that I can download to test it,
as I don’t compile myself the modules

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Still getting the error here. I’m using 10.15.6

Something to do with this line: CrossSeq2_process_init();

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I commented that line out temporarily, it might make the module unstable, see if you still get the error. Thanks!

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Still getting the error.

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Ok, this time it should definitely give you a different error. If you could copy paste it that would be great. Thanks for your patience (it’s frustrating not to be able to reproduce the bug…)

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Are you building manually for each change? Why not just add the github action to rebuild on push? (there is a thread in this forum that shows how to do it)

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src/CrossSeq2Module.cpp:80:2: error: C++ requires a type specifier for all declarations
        CrossSeq2_default();
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The CPU usage seems pretty high. Might that come down in the future?

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Right now knob params are checked at every sample. I will add a change () function to make them run smoother. Other than that they should be pretty efficient but I will double check all the code. Thanks for checking! Other than CPU usage do they work for you?

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I built on windows, no obvious problems. You now, if it’s an LFO you don’t really need to generate a sample at full audio sample rate. I think my LFN runs internally at 400 Hz sample rate, and it has a multi band equalizer in it.

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Thanks for this suggestion! I am now down-sampling LFOs by a factor of 8 which makes the modules much more efficient. Maybe I can do even more, I’ll keep testing. Still working on the param update but it’s sensibly better now.

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Nice! Make sure you don’t get little stair steps on the output. I run it through a one pole low pass at full audio rate to avoid that.

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As an ignorant, now I’m curious Bruce. Is that economic because the simple filter is much cheaper to calculate than the LFO?

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I can’t find the thread you mentioned :face_with_monocle:

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Thanks. I spent a couple of hours trying to run git push from the terminal but the authentication process on Windows seems very buggy. I was using GitHub desktop for my commits, but for the automated building that is not an option. I have installed the credential-manager app but I still get this

git: 'credential-manager-core' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

Extensive stackoverflow research has not solved the issue.