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FlowStone "Visual Programming"

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  • BeaverBeaver

    http://www.dsprobotics.com/

    Someone has just made me aware. At work and am stealing some time to post this in hopes that when I get done you will have already done all the homework.

    DISCUSS!

  • GreaterThanZeroGreaterThanZero

    Looks nice enough. No free runtime, though. And no talk of exporting your apps to an executable. They're playing in max's sandbox, so those are pretty big omissions.

    More telling; I don't see a forum on their site. Nor any attempt to draw and maintain a community of artists and developers together. It's like they've built an artist-friendly tool, but don't understand what that means.

    My gut instinct is that this is going to be a very closed ecosystem, and I sort of lose interest at that realization. It feels like a dead end.


    EDIT:
    Hold up, I'm completely wrong. But only about that first part -- it exports .VST plugins and .EXE files. Way cool. But are the .VSTs cross-platform? OSX support is a must...

  • monoauralmonoaural

    @beaver
    funny, obviously you where reading my thoughts. i had an idea yesterday, and this is could be the key. no OSX support, yet?. damn :-(

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  • visininvisinin

    so formerly flowstone also made a product called "synthmaker".

    http://synthmaker.co.uk/

    you may have heard of it, it's flowstone now.

  • deandean

    I can't see this kicking off...at all.

  • GreaterThanZeroGreaterThanZero

    Well, synthmaker did have a user community.
    http://synthmaker.co.uk/forum/

    Since FlowStone doesn't have one, I sort of think they merged in the wrong direction.


    Note: searching the forums for "OSX" reveals that compatibility is a long-term goal, but not currently in the works.

    This may or may not mean that their VST files are Windows-only. (It could only be referring to .AU export, to tasks like automatically copying the exported files into your VST directory upon export, and of course to running the editor itself)

  • chrisbob12chrisbob12

    It looks very interesting. I agree it looks somewhat Max-like (and having shelled out for Max and upgrades since 4.6 that makes me somewhat queasy).
    One of the things I promised myself to do in Max was to migrate a robot into Max (lots of good reasons to do so). Flowstone looks even better for what I want, on cursory inspection; the 5-axis arm I use was made by Lynxmotion, one of the FlowStone partners.

    I downloaded it and hit the first 'gotcha' - it looks like it wants MS .NET Framework - not a showstopper, but a royal PITA - I run multiple boot systems and have .net on a couple, but not mixed with my music software, or the techie stuff. Obviously that only affects wintel users. .NET has an unreasonably large footprint IMHO, and the updating is a little chaotic.

    So I may get round to looking at it on a .NET system...