On Tuesday 20 July 2004 06:58, Silvan wrote: > > Visual metronome: I guess that a external program, as an ALSA client with > > a writeable port should be a better and more flexible solution. The big > > time window could be also an external program, but an internal one has > > some sense, too. > > Interesting idea. > > The specific userland problem I need to solve is being unable to play along > with anything while I'm recording with a microphone. I don't have any way > to hook up headphones to monitor the output of a metronome or backing > track. It's fiddly. A visual metronome might be just the ticket. > > Would it be easier to do as a free-standing application? Could that be > useful in of itself in other ways? Is there any way to involve the JACK > transport with this so it could be a universal visual metronome that > everything with some kind of transport could make use of?
The visual metronome as a slave MIDI device is a problem that can be solved even as a hardware hack, like this one: http://www.maxmidi.com/diy/metro/ The same design, using MIDI clock and realtime events can also be used by an ALSA client, and RG as a tempo master can produce those events already. The advantage of using standards is that it can be useful in other ways, too. There was a software based, visual metronome for Linux: gMetronome, with GTK GUI interface. It is lost in the cyberspace now, except for some few references: http://www.salmar.com/marcel/cooking/Jan2001/ I would like to start a Qmetronome or Kmetronome project. You already know my ametro project, right? http://perso.wanadoo.es/plcl/ametro/ametro-en.html Regards, Pedro ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
