https://docs.juce.com/master/tutorial_simd_register_optimisation.html
After seeing someone else here struggling with this tutorial, I decided to try it myself. Just downloaded and ran the code and already noticed various workflow problems:
- The interface says you can drag n drop a file, but you can’t.
- Reopening the window makes the application forget what file you included and the parameter values. That’s pretty annoying when trying to focus on code changes or bugs.
- Maybe it would be cool to make an alternative version of this tutorial as a console application, so that the code base doesn’t require all this GUI code and we can focus on what’s important. Maybe even a pre-included and imported and auto-looped sound.
- It’s not very helpful that the tutorial reinvents what a parameter is. Gives it an unfamiliar interface.
- some class has this-> everywhere despite not being a templated class. idk yet if this is for a good reason, but i’ll investigate that.
Whenever I have fixed one of the remaining problems I put the solution here:
This term from the tutorial was confusing. I wasn’t familiar with the ~ operator yet but it stood out to me that ~mask was wrapped in brackets despite being basically just a single variable:
auto z = ((x + (y * 2.0f)) & mask) + (y & (~mask));
I used an endless while loop and randomized values to test if there are ever different results if ~mask is not in brackets and that doesn’t seem to be the case. I propose the following change, because finding brackets without a function can be distracting, especially when already having to deal with unfamiliar symbols:
auto z = ((x + (y * 2.0f)) & mask) + (y & ~mask);
by setting loopState in AudioFileReaderComponent to true by default and adding
play();
after init(); in the loadFile function the debugging workflow can be significantly improved by 2 clicks per build. no one will ever actively load a file but then not want to play it