# Narrow test: load ONLY ch=5 Nexus -> open GUI ch=5. Is multi-instance the trigger? import ctypes, ctypes.wintypes as w, struct, subprocess, sys, os, time sys.stdout.reconfigure(encoding='utf-8', errors='replace') SHM_NAME = "SonicForge_DAW_IPC_NARROW" SIZE = 32768 BRIDGE = r"C:\Users\locpham\SonicForgeStudio\native_bridge\build\Release\daw_vst_bridge.exe" LOG = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "narrow_bridge.log") NEXUS = r"C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Nexus.vst3" kernel32 = ctypes.windll.kernel32 kernel32.CreateFileMappingA.argtypes = [ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD, ctypes.c_char_p] kernel32.CreateFileMappingA.restype = ctypes.c_void_p kernel32.MapViewOfFile.argtypes = [ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD, ctypes.c_size_t] kernel32.MapViewOfFile.restype = ctypes.c_void_p INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = ctypes.c_void_p(-1).value PAGE_READWRITE = 0x04 FILE_MAP_ALL_ACCESS = 0xF001F hMap = kernel32.CreateFileMappingA(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE, None, PAGE_READWRITE, 0, SIZE, SHM_NAME.encode()) if not hMap: print("CreateFileMapping failed", ctypes.get_last_error()); sys.exit(1) ptr = kernel32.MapViewOfFile(hMap, FILE_MAP_ALL_ACCESS, 0, 0, 0) if not ptr: print("MapViewOfFile failed", ctypes.get_last_error()); sys.exit(1) def w32(off, fmt, *args): ctypes.memmove(ptr + off, struct.pack(fmt, *args), struct.calcsize(fmt)) def write_control(type_, arg0, arg1, ch, path): for i in range(8): off = 2836 + i * 1040 t = ctypes.c_uint32.from_address(ptr + off).value if t == 0: w32(off, 'IIII', type_, arg0, arg1, ch) if path: b = path.encode('utf-8')[:1023] + b'\x00' ctypes.memmove(ptr + off + 16, b, len(b)) return i raise RuntimeError("control queue full") def push_controls(events): for i in range(8): w32(2836 + i * 1040, 'I', 0) w32(11156, 'I', 0) n = 0 for (type_, arg0, arg1, ch, path) in events: write_control(type_, arg0, arg1, ch, path) n += 1 w32(11156, 'I', n) def wait_log(pattern, timeout, since=0): end = time.time() + timeout lines = [] try: with open(LOG, 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='replace') as f: lines = f.readlines() except FileNotFoundError: pass last = max(0, len(lines) - since) while time.time() < end: try: with open(LOG, 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='replace') as f: lines = f.readlines() except FileNotFoundError: lines = [] for i in range(last, len(lines)): if pattern in lines[i]: return lines[i].strip() last = max(0, len(lines)) time.sleep(0.2) return None proc = subprocess.Popen( [BRIDGE, "--shm", SHM_NAME], env={**os.environ, "SF_SHM_NAME": SHM_NAME, "SF_PARENT_PID": str(os.getpid()), "SF_SAMPLE_RATE": "48000", "SF_BLOCK_SIZE": "256"}, stdout=open(LOG, 'wb'), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, ) time.sleep(1.5) print("bridge pid", proc.pid, "poll", proc.poll()) print("[1] load ch=5 Nexus only...") push_controls([(2, 0, 0, 5, NEXUS)]) r = wait_log("instrument loaded ch=5", 60) print(" ", r) print("[2] open GUI ch=5...") push_controls([(4, 0, 0, 5, "nexus")]) r = wait_log("GUI attached", 30) print(" ", r) time.sleep(2) print("alive:", proc.poll() is None) print("--- last 20 log lines ---") with open(LOG, 'r', encoding='utf-8', errors='replace') as f: for l in f.readlines()[-20:]: print(l.rstrip()) kernel32.UnmapViewOfFile(ptr) kernel32.CloseHandle(hMap) try: proc.terminate() except Exception: pass print("done")