should clearing the script always stop the engine?

[catfact]

suggest addresing this user-surprising discrepancy in behaviors:

(https://llllllll.co/t/norns-studies/14109/231)

[quote]
Is there a specific reason why maiden “stop” behaves like this? I would expect the “stop” button to be identical to K1 + K3.
[/quote]

there is no specific reason. the K1+K3 behavior was hacked in at some point, directly to the menu input code:

https://github.com/monome/norns/blob/main/lua/core/menu/home.lua#L25-L26

this is clearly not architecturally sound. maiden calls norns.script.clear(), which is in like the "public API." the "private API" call _norns.free_engine() should just be added to norns.script.clear() if the desired behavior is for clearing the script to always stop the running audio engine. otherwise it won't be freed until a new engine is requested.

[catfact]

... i haven't checked: maybe there are times that we do in fact want to run the script cleanup without affecting supercollider. but it seems unlikely, right?

[tehn]

i am pretty certain script clear infers that we want to cleanup supercollider as well. i can PR a fix.

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[tehn]

month late but i'm scheduling time next week for this, along with a new norns software release