Hey!

I'm getting the following error on glicol-cli launch:

Then my terminal gets corrupted.

It points to this line (131):

https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli/blob/c5f6493a6dac0f9ff65b59179f6c7c5b65fa4fce/src/main.rs#L127-L133

Not sure why it happens but is it related to my audio device? Any help is appreciated.

P.S. I'm using test.glicol from this repository.

Hey, nice project! 🐻

I would like to package it for the AUR but there is no releases available on GitHub. Are you planning to push tags anytime soon?

In the meantime, I created the following VCS package:

• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/glicol-cli-git

Fresh clone, just a bare cargo run at head panics:

% cargo run -- 1.glicol
warning: unused import: `Sample`
  --> src/main.rs:10:17
   |
10 |     FromSample, Sample, SizedSample,
   |                 ^^^^^^
   |
   = note: `#[warn(unused_imports)]` on by default

warning: `glicol-cli` (bin "glicol-cli") generated 1 warning
    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.05s
     Running `target/debug/glicol-cli 1.glicol`
thread 'main' panicked at 'Argument 'file' is a positional argument and can't have short or long name versions', /Users/rich/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/clap-4.1.8/src/builder/debug_asserts.rs:731:9
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

Looks like this is in dev mode only -- cargo run --release works fine.

stack backtrace:
   0: rust_begin_unwind
             at /rustc/d5a82bbd26e1ad8b7401f6a718a9c57c96905483/library/std/src/panicking.rs:575:5
   1: core::panicking::panic_fmt
             at /rustc/d5a82bbd26e1ad8b7401f6a718a9c57c96905483/library/core/src/panicking.rs:64:14
   2: clap::builder::debug_asserts::assert_arg
             at /Users/rich/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/clap-4.1.8/src/builder/debug_asserts.rs:731:9
   3: clap::builder::debug_asserts::assert_app
             at /Users/rich/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/clap-4.1.8/src/builder/debug_asserts.rs:61:9
   4: clap::builder::command::Command::_build_self
             at /Users/rich/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/clap-4.1.8/src/builder/command.rs:3920:13
   5: clap::builder::command::Command::_do_parse
             at /Users/rich/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/clap-4.1.8/src/builder/command.rs:3790:9
   6: clap::builder::command::Command::try_get_matches_from_mut
             at /Users/rich/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/clap-4.1.8/src/builder/command.rs:708:9
   7: clap::builder::command::Command::get_matches_from
             at /Users/rich/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/clap-4.1.8/src/builder/command.rs:578:9
   8: clap::builder::command::Command::get_matches
             at /Users/rich/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/clap-4.1.8/src/builder/command.rs:490:9
   9: clap::derive::Parser::parse
             at /Users/rich/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/clap-4.1.8/src/derive.rs:82:27
  10: glicol_cli::main
             at ./src/main.rs:53:16
  11: core::ops::function::FnOnce::call_once
             at /rustc/d5a82bbd26e1ad8b7401f6a718a9c57c96905483/library/core/src/ops/function.rs:507:5

Hi!

I just tried to install glicol-cli, with the command in the README:

cargo install --git https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli.git

and was greeted with this error:

    Updating git repository `https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli.git`
error: failed to parse manifest at `/home/XXXXX/.cargo/git/checkouts/glicol-cli-b10f0cfdae7f5c00/d3f80b8/Cargo.toml`

Caused by:
  optional dependency `jack` is not included in any feature
  Make sure that `dep:jack` is included in one of features in the [features] table.

I noticed there was a commit 13 hours ago adding jack as an optional dependency. Maybe it was related?

Ableton Link is an open protocol for time synchronization, so that multiple disparate programs, devices, or instruments can sync up over the network to a common session that synchronizes musical time, so each connection knows the bpm and the exact moment to start the next measure, so everyone starts or stops at the correct time.

I have been interested in the glicol VST for syncing time in my DAW, but I think it would be more powerful for glicol-cli to have ableton link support, then you could sync with pretty much anything, not just a DAW.

Heres how I imagine it would work:

glicol-cli --link --sync-start 4 --file test.glicol

That would start the glicol engine loading the file, it would connect to ableton link, and then it would wait until the current beat is a modulus of 4, before starting. glicol wouldn't necessarily need to track time internally, and you would still use whatever speed parameters in your code, etc. But glicol would only respect the link time for the transport, to start and stop the DSP graph engine.

You could even trap the SIGINT (Ctrl-C) signal of glicl-cli, to tell it to stop playback at the next --sync-start bar and then quit, so that way you could start and stop glicol-cli in time with your other music.

I think this would be great for live music, but I am mostly interested in this for recording stems of several tracks in my DAW (my DAW controls the transport through Ableton Link), and by manually muting things in glicol code. So I can record the process N times for N tracks (unmuting each track), and have each recording start and stop in the same time frame (unless glicol can already map to multiple sound devices?)

References:

• https://ableton.github.io/link/
• https://docs.rs/ableton-link/latest/ableton_link/
• https://github.com/Deep-Symmetry/carabiner