ProffieOS Documentation (POD)

ProffieOS
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I have moved all the documentation from the ProffieOS wiki to a new site:

https://pod.hubbe.net/

(POD stands for ProffieOS Documentation)
The new site looks nicer, has better access control and should be properly indexed by google. win-win-win.

Please take a look, if you find problems, either report it here or use the issue tracker.

The new site isn’t exactly a wiki, but it’s very easy to edit. Anybody who wants to help can do so, either by becoming a collaborator, or by submitting pull requests to the github repository.

Unless we find something wrong with the new site, I will be re-pointing any links I can find to the new site soon, and eventually shutting down the github wiki.

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I’ve updated the links on my site(s) to point to the POD.

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Just in case people want to help, but don’t know what to do, I added a few TODOs to the issue tracker.

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Sorry! I attempted my first edit, but because it was in the title, it renamed the file and I think I broke something, sorry. Can’t see how to revert it.

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I think you must have edited the filename directly, which is why it renamed it.
The lower-case problem seems to have been caused by a colon in the title. Apparently that’s not really allowed by Jekyll, at least not without some sort of quoting. Either way, it’s fixed now.

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Btw, this github repository is “protected” which means that force commits are not allowed, so if you want to undo a change you have to use “git revert” to do it. “git revert” creates a change that is exactly opposite of a previous change, and then you can commit and push that change.

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So I’ve been trying to find/create a favicon for the POD site.
Staying with the Star Wars theme, I was thinking that I could use a pod-racer inspired icon.
Like maybe just a picture of the coupling arc(s). I’ve been googling for a good picture that I could use, but haven’t found anything so far, but maybe someone else out there knows where to find one?

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Well, I found something that might work, It’s not fantastic though, so if someone finds something better, let me know.

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I’ll look around. Sounds like maybe an arc from high-tension wires being disconnected and a little image editing may give you what you’re thinking?

ie: Electric Wire Spark Stock Photos, Pictures & Royalty-Free Images - iStock

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Any of these good? (not sure why thumbnails are broken, but click image to view)



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Only the first image works.
Not sure if it’s any better than the one I used.

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I’ve changed all CONFIG_TOP / CONFIG_PRESETS / CONFIG_BUTTONS / CONFIG_PROP links from the crucible to point to the pod.

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Also starting to link some defines, like DISABLE_DIAGNOSTIC_COMMANDS, and KEEP_SAVEFILES_WHEN_PROGRAMMING.

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Fixed the links, but yeah, the one you have is essentially it.

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I tried cropping and scaling it to a favicon-size, but because of the lighter background, the arcs don’t show up very well.

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For this page: ProffieOS Documentation: Sound Font config.ini configuration (hubbe.net)

Can someone please update and re-write some of this stuff? Every time is mentioning the word “Swing”, it gets so confusing if it’s referring to a smoothing file, or an accent swing file.

Example:

# How fast (degrees per second) we have to swing before a swing effect is
# triggered. Default 250.
ProffieOSSwingSpeedThreshold=250

# How much to bend the response curve between swing speed and swing volume.
# Can be 0.01 - 2.0, where value of 1.0 will result in no bending. Default 0.5
ProffieOSSwingVolumeSharpness=0.5

in these instances above does the word “swing” mean this parameter alters the accent swing,… or is it referring to a smoothswing? This page seems to have a lot of vague descriptions like this that could be easily cleared up by clearly explaining things a bit better to avoid confusion of what these parameters are altering (swng.wav or swingh/l.wav)

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EDIT this needs clarification, because below is not correct.
There was NEC and Plecter compatibility at the time of writing, so “swing” kindof was accent swings?
I think it mostly refers to monophonic fonts. There have been discussions on this in the past on TRA, I’d just need to find some of them.

  • pre edit post follows -
    At the time of initial writing, accent swings didn’t exist. Therefore any reference to “swing” means smoothswings.
    Accent swings are specified as “accent” .
    I suppose we could add “smooth” to the descriptions to help clarify, if @profezzorn approves.
    Such as:
# How fast (degrees per second) we have to swing before 
# a smoothswing effect is triggered.

Although that’s incorrect because there’s both ProffieOSMaxSwingVolume in config.ini, and then there’s MaxSwingVolume in smoothsw.ini.
Hold on…

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ok, if thats the case…so heres where the confusion is…

SMOOTHSWING.INI:

# Non-linear swing response (higher values make it more non-linear)
# Values greater than 1 will result in the Smoothswing sound staying quieter 
# at lower speeds and then ramping up quickly to full volume a higher speeds. 
# Values less than 1 will result in the Smoothswing volume ramping up quickly 
# at lower speeds and then staying there as you approach full speed. 
# the default is 1.75 (any value)
SwingSharpness=1.75

The above is clearly speaking about smoothswing files

SOUNDFONT CONFIG.INI:

# How much to bend the response curve between swing speed and swing volume.
# Can be 0.01 - 2.0, where value of 1.0 will result in no bending. Default 0.5
ProffieOSSwingVolumeSharpness=0.5

If this is also talking about smoothswing (it doesnt mention accent swing)…how are these 2 parameters in 2 different files be talking about the same sharpness thing for the same wav file (smoothswing)?

There just seems to be a lot of overlap between the parameters in these 2 files that could easily be cleared up if someone just went in and clearly defined the words ‘accent swing’ and/or ‘smoothswing’ for each parameter…

Im probably over thinking it, but even to this day of using proffie for 3+ years…the definitions in these 2 files still confuse me to this day of what wav files they are actually altering…

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Check my post’s edits.

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Thank you for confirming im not crazy…lol