On 31 Jul 2003 21:18:59 -0400 Francois wrote: > > Would someone have some experience about these two? Does Jack run on top > of ALSA, or OSS, or something else? What generality are we seeking here? > Is it theoretical? I mean, what would be the practical advantages of > using Jack over ALSA?
jMax is probably of no interest here (other than it speaks MIDI and one can program some algo processes and send them to rumor, for instance, to generate the score or generate .ly file altogether). Another example of the same paradigm (and a little less fussy) is pure-data: www.pure-data.org Jack is an audio layer, on top of ALSA, for real time audio applications. It offers low latency in real-time audio and allows multiple applications (jack clients) to operate at the same time and even send each other audio. But it is audio only, no MIDI functionnality whatsoever. Think ReWire (if you ever used Windose) but probably better (I never used ReWire). What is interesting (if one tries to bring the discussion on topic) is that fluid synth (formerly known as iiwu synth) which is mainly used to play soundfonts (as timidity does, among other things) is jack-aware. So, one could send the output of fluid synth to a multitrack (ecasound, ardour etc) and record it for further processing or simply send it through various effects (jackrack, freqtweak, ecamegapedal and other jackified apps). It would be nice, however, to have lily generate MIDI "intelligently" so that the playback would be real nice, following markup, dynamics and such. Anyone familiar with Igor Engraver (www.noteheads.com). Their MIDI playback is really superior to any notation sw I've ever tried (but some other aspects lack substance). I do like the ideas about emacs in this thread. I'm not a developer, but how about considering to use an existing sequencing library, like http://tse3.sourceforge.net/, rather than writing, from scratch, something that will communicate with ALSA sequencer... But I don't know, perhaps I'm just talking nonsense. And I haven't yet tried the existing implementation but it might be nice to allow the user to choose between using an external MIDI device or _any_ soft synth. But I'm sure someone has already thought about it... -- ./MiS _ __ __ (_)___ Michal Seta / \/ \ _/^ _| / V |_ \ @creazone.32k.org (___/V\___|_|___/ http://www.[creazone]|[noonereceiving].32k.org _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
