Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do*you* stand?

d, but you may be on to something with it. I'll keep a lazy eye on it ;-) -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net "So this baby seal walks into a club."

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

e are better things to do than demonize proprietary software producers. Go kill a terrorist if you need somebody to beat up on, at least you'll be making the world a better place in the process. Last I checked, Microsoft wasn't bombing any subways. -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net "So this baby seal walks into a club."

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

Chris, pay no attention to Dave. That message was bloody brilliant! Very enlightening, head slapping "Oh man! That's IT!" read. You should really consider expanding that and putting it up somewhere in essay form, they're are a quintillion people who could benefit by r

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do*you* stand?

ale. BTW, this isn't meant to equate OSS with communism. I just want to drive home the point that I did not misinterpret one iota of the Stallman verse --- I'm just tossing it in the trash bin along with my Torah. -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net "So this baby seal walks into a club."

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do*you* stand?

ng bridges). I wouldn't say I necessarily aim to be the best musician, since that seems to be something which can't really be objectively determined. But I do like the cutting edge, and the fact that I can't make the kind of music I want to make with the tools at my disposal is maddening. -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net "So this baby seal walks into a club."

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do*you* stand?

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:21:19 -0500, "Paul Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:55 -0500, Pete Bessman wrote: > > So let's hear it! > > > > WHAT is your NAME? > > > > WHAT is your QUEST? > > i can hack ardour part t

[linux-audio-dev] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

o see anybody who's primary interest is making music --- although I'd love to be proved wrong, and I certainly think that things will be different in the future as the tools get better. So let's hear it! WHAT is your NAME? WHAT is your QUEST? WHAT is your FAVORITE ALBUM? -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net "So this baby seal walks into a club."

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] No More Specimen

o hardcore hacking in a few years, when I've got my life settled down and I'm not putting in 80 hours of work and school a week. Take care everybody, and may the funk be with you. -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net "So this baby seal walks into a club."

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] 2-D slider widget?

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 17:01 +0100, James McDermott wrote: > Pete, > > You might like to look at a demo program I made as part of my GTK+ > education - it's a functional xy-controller: > > http://www.skynet.ie/~jmmcd/software/xy-controller.tar.gz > > But I actually made the xy-controller directly

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [a bit OT] scroll and zoom conventions

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 20:00 +0200, Richard Spindler wrote: > I've started to use a "Scalebar" in my last project ( > http://www.matthiasm.com/flScale.html ) > And a believe it's an interface element that's quite useful, it works > like a scrollbar, but has little buttons attached at the ends of the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] 2-D slider widget?

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:00 +0100, James McDermott wrote: > Has anyone written code for, or even just seen, a 2-D slider widget? > What toolkit was it in? Do people around here prefer QT to GTK+, or > vice versa, and does anyone use FLTK, or something else? Oh yeah... x-y controllers. Nice. I'll

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Specimen v0.5.0 and PHAT v0.3.0

Ladies, gents, and those in between, I got back into the hacking thing a couple days ago, and I'm pleased to announce new versions of both the Specimen sampler and the Phat Audio Toolkit. As always, the real tip can be had at www.gazuga.net. The stuff that I remember changing follows: Specimen

[linux-audio-dev] A Taste of Things to Come

Hello Lists, As some of you may know, I'm the guy who wrote Specimen. And as a tiny fraction of that some may know (or care), Specimen hasn't seen an update in an exceedingly long time. What, exactly, is going on? The answer, dear friends, is simple: music. My introduction to the art of electr

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [EMPLOYMENT] contractor sought for linux sample playback engine

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 00:04 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > but I've no desire to live in the US > until at least the next regime change. Hmm... in that case, I'll vote Republican again the next election. Peace out, -Pete

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Specimen v0.4.4

Normally, I don't announce minor releases, but this is an exception. The latest Specimen has a completely redone GUI, which I hope will make using it suck a whole lot less. Downloads: www.gazuga.net/downloads.php Screenshots: www.gazuga.net/screenshots.php This version of Specimen also relies o

Re: [linux-audio-dev] pkaudio/pksampler release

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 08:56, Patrick Stinson wrote: > PKSampler is a DJ sampler intended for a touch screen. It uses python and qt > to animate real 3D widgets created with PoVRay. Check out the screen shots! /me blinks Whoa! Eye candy! In a linux app! > There's lots of directions for this a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSC vs MIDI

At Wed, 1 Sep 2004 20:15:54 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:15:24 -0400 > Pete Bessman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The D programming language looks very promising in this regard, but > > its newsgroup faces a daily battle with peopl

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSC vs MIDI

At Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:49:36 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > > Obejctive C is OK, it uses messages (smalltalk style) rather than method > calls, and they have some performance limitations, but the class stuff is > all sane. Good call, I forgot about it at the time of writing. It is quite nice, and I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSC vs MIDI

At Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:02:43 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > > I like the OO-in-C style of programming, its pretty much the best of both > worlds IMHO. C syntax, but no C++ 'features'. Seriously. You can easily do Real OOP in C; the only thing it lacks is syntactic sugar. I wish there was a real C

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines

At Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:18:52 +0200, Artem Baguinski wrote: > > people do not need consistent experience, people need to get the work > done. consistency is one of the tools that make getting the work done > easier, but it isn't a goal in itself. ++kudos; --Pete "Nothi

Re: [linux-audio-dev] mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines

At Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:35:44 +0200, Melanie wrote: > > Left is generally associated with up, right with down, as we read > left to right, top to bottom. Therefore, up MUST map to left, down > MUST map to right, otherwise, non-mathematically minded people get > uttely confused. This is perhaps the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines

I never noticed the behavior of horizontal scrollbars in GTK because I've never encountered any. Just checked out the behavior of Rhthymbox's seek indicator, it's just as you described (i.e., dain bramaged). That's a bug, plain and simple. --Pete "Nothing great was ever

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines

At Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:30:59 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > What is really needed is a set of human interface guidelines for Linux > audio apps. Better to do this now, while much of the code is not > mature, than later, and have a bunch of different apps which work, > except that the widgets work c

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

At Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:11:07 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: > > > Sorry about the flicker, it doesn't happen when > > dragging to the right or down; > > It doesn't flicker, but the rightmost edge is really jumpy and glitchy > looking. Maybe add a bit of a horizontal threshold for resizing so it >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

At Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:15:30 -0400, Jesse Chappell wrote: > > In fact the sliderbutton really just seems to lack the visual > indication of "sliderness", and i think adding it as Dave suggested > would be a good addition (or make a new widget). I have no idea what you mean by lacking a visual ind

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Read this after your first cup of coffee

votes++; Caveat: for purposes of discussing this article and all it entails, everybody falls into either the "I'm with it" or the "I don't care" group (tautological, I know, but bear with me). Both perspectives are equally valid, and since they aren't mututally exclusive, let's be nice to each ot

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

At Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:25:41 +0200, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: > > Pete Bessman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ok, that function is new to gtk+-2.4. I modified the relevant code > > to omit that function call when on gtk+-2 systems < 2.4, and it > > compiles fine on F

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

Ok, that function is new to gtk+-2.4. I modified the relevant code to omit that function call when on gtk+-2 systems < 2.4, and it compiles fine on Fedora Core 1 with PlanetCCRMA now. www.gazuga.net/phat-0.2.1.tar.gz Let me know if this works for you. -- Pete "Nothing

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

At Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:47:53 +0200, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: > > Hi Pete, make stumbles over > > phatsliderbutton.c: In function `phat_slider_button_init': > phatsliderbutton.c:638: warning: implicit declaration of function > `gtk_entry_set_alignment' > make[2]: *** [libphat_la-phatsliderbutton.lo]

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

Once again, I'm cross posting this to the users list in case anybody is interested in fooling around with the demo apps. I'm pleased to announce the release of PHAT, the Phat Audio Toolkit, version 0.2.0. PHAT is a collection of GTK+ widgets that may prove useful to audio applications. New to th

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

At Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:05:00 +0200 (CEST), Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote: > > > There have been some drawing errors happening > > when moving the fan out to one side and then > > the other in one go. But they are actualy hard > > to trigger, so please stress test the demo and > > report to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

At Sun, 1 Aug 2004 13:54:50 +0200, Jan Weil wrote: > > On Sat Jul 31 21:39:51 2004 Pete Bessman wrote: > > I'm pleased to annouce, after a solid month of heated debate with > > X11, the initial public release of PHAT, the PHat Audio Toolkit. > > From the website (www

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

At Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:58:23 -0400, John Check wrote: > > Okay, the question is, does this exist on Windows or Mac? > This would also be killer on a touch screen BTW. I dunno, I have neither. The only dependency is GTK+ and the a GNU build environment. Since GTK+ runs on Windows and Mac, I imag

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

At Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:14:18 -0400 (GMT-04:00), Taybin Rutkin wrote: > > Sounds neat. Are there any screenshots? Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.gazuga.net/fanslider.png John Check's message later on shows that the widgets are drawn thematically. -- Pete www.gazuga.net ===

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

I'm pleased to annouce, after a solid month of heated debate with X11, the initial public release of PHAT, the PHat Audio Toolkit. From the website (www.gazuga.net/phat.php): "PHAT is a collection of GTK+ widgets geared toward pro-audio apps. The goal is to eliminate duplication of effort and pro

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Traps in floating point code

At Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:37:59 +0100 (BST), Mike Rawes wrote: > > --- Pete Bessman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:56:50 +1000, > > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > > > > double fractional = 0.0, increment = 0.1; >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Traps in floating point code

At Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:56:50 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > People who play around with floating point code (especially on x86) > quickly learn about the evils of comparing the equality of one floating > point value with another. I got my first lesson just a couple of days ago, in fact

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design + some OT stuff

At Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:03:15 -0400, Pete Bessman wrote: > > That's a straw man. The original point was something to the effect > of "a volume knob which can only be operated after studying a manual > is an indication that the UI designer is a failure," although my &

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design + some OT stuff

At Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:22:05 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > "... whenever we invite someone into the news studio, he has to make > his point in 12 seconds. If I know he can't, I will not even > consider him." Why not ? "Beacause it's bad TV, and our market share > will go down. Our viewers just

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

At Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:36:26 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > What is "normal" ? Why do you think I put it in "quotes?" > I have an increasing difficulty in just understanding what you try > to say. Could you explain the terms No. > - crow-magnon (sic) music I'm amazed that your purportedly

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

At Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:41:17 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > "I HAVE to understand everything about an interface in 5 SECONDS!" > attitude to gui design. People can learn things, it's part of > playing music on real instruments - why can't it be part of playing > computer instruments? I simply d

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:28:35 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > > so that I can compare it against the mouth-breathing crow-magnon > > music created with shiny-quarter interfaces. I'm sure the results > > will speak for themselves. > > They do, but maybe not in the direction you imagined. And cro

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:00:42 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > > Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about > > functionality he would not even expect is not an option. > > Have education levels gone down *that* far

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Specimen 0.4.0 "Smooth"

Specimen is a MIDI controllable SoftSampler for GNU/Linux systems. Features added since 0.3.0 include: * Portamento * Per-parameter LFOs with delay and attack * LFOs may be "global" (voice independent) or per-voice * LFOs may be constrained to oscillate between 0 and 1 instead of -1 and 1 *

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Spinboxes

At Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:16:54 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > The usual spinboxes with their tiny up/down arrow buttons made me > think about an alternative. Since using more height than a > textfield has would make layout very troublesome, my solution is > placing the buttons horizontaly. I thi

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Multithreaded programming for a poll model?

At Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:50:06 +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > > I am currently trying to figure out how to restructure the code > of my little yatm tool to be flexible and extensible in the future. > Basically, I'd like to be able to become a JACK client at > some point in the future. Since JACK uses a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] FYI (FW: [The end of an era])

At Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:08:07 +0200, Claudio Mettler wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:26:05PM -0400, Pete Bessman wrote: > > At Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:43:33 +0200, > > Claudio Mettler wrote: > > UH! That wasn't me who wrote this. I didn't write this plugins

Re: [linux-audio-dev] FYI (FW: [The end of an era])

At Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:43:33 +0200, Claudio Mettler wrote: > > I just released the source code to my plugins which I recently stopped > developing: > > http://www.bioroid.com Grammercy! Leeched for future use, thanks for the contribution :-) -Pete

Re: [linux-audio-dev] linux use (was [OT] marketing hype)

At Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:20:27 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 07:21, Tim Orford wrote: > > me too, but i'm currently very motivated to code, _if_ i could find > > something to work on. [snip] > I all seriousness though, maybe it would be a good idea to create a > centralize

Re: [linux-audio-dev] GThread vs. pthread

At 12 Jun 2004 00:09:05 -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > Pete Bessman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One more point in favor of GThread I just figured out is config > > testing for it. All you have to do is at a pkg-config check for > > gthread-2.0 and y

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Specimen 0.3.0 released

The latest release of Specimen, a midi controllable audio sampler for Linux, adds 4 LFOs which can modulate volume, panning, cutoff and resonance into mix. Additionally, the LFOs can be tempo synced to either midi or the jack-transport mechanism. Available for immediate leeching from www.gazuga.n

Re: [linux-audio-dev] GThread vs. pthread

At Sat, 12 Jun 2004 00:10:17 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > >Does anybody have any opinion on which threading system is superior? > >I've been using glib for a lot of things, but for whatever reason I'm > >hesitant about using it for threading if the only benefit it will > >provide is consistency (I

[linux-audio-dev] GThread vs. pthread

Does anybody have any opinion on which threading system is superior? I've been using glib for a lot of things, but for whatever reason I'm hesitant about using it for threading if the only benefit it will provide is consistency (I'm guessing it's just a wrapper for pthread anyway). [pb]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

At Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:50:19 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i dont see a problem. there is knob code for every toolkit on > sourceforge. lets unify the gfx data have a widget for every toolkit. votes++ [pb]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

At Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:40:44 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: > > If you want a plug-in-and-drool computer, you're not running the > right OS. /me scratches head if (plugin_and_drool == JUST_WORKS) buy (plugin_and_drool); Point being, just because something is hard to use doesn't mean it is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

At Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:07:35 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: > > I also doubt if there is a single developer in the Linux Audio > Developer community who could accurately be described as inept. Good, so I haven't been found out yet. [pb]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: UI stuff

At Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:50:40 -0500 CDT, Ben wrote: > > The app "Soundplay" for BeOS takes a novel approach ... the level is > shown as a knob but when you grab it, a rectangular box appears > behind the knob and you adust it like a fader. This is great > because it gives you visual feedback of whi

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?

At Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:10:22 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > Last time I checked, rivers flew from the top of the mountains, thru the > valleys below, and out in the ocean. Even in China :) In Soviet Russia, river flows through YOU! [pb]

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Specimen 0.2.9 Released ("I'm Not Dead Yet")

Howdy folks! The newest version of Specimen is available for immediate download from www.gazuga.net (direct: http://www.gazuga.net/specimen-0.2.9.tar.gz). Features include: * A piano for graphically asigning note ranges * A very happenin' bank building interface that uses an embedded File Choo

Re: [linux-audio-dev] MuSE 0.9 codename "COTURNIX" - out now with documented API!

At Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:55:59 +0200, Robert Jonsson wrote: > > There is an unfortunate fact in that there are TWO muse projects, > differing only in the use of capital letters. I was staring at the webpage for a full ten minutes before I realized what was going on. MusE with a GTK-2 interface? W

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] First public release of Lindrum v 0.5.1

At Tue, 2 Mar 2004 01:19:00 +0100, Peter Eschler wrote: > And yes: I looked into hydrogen code. To learn. I looked into lot of > little projects code. Dead projects. To learn. And IMHO they're not > useless. Maybe my project will be dead at the end of the year. But > then i made my experience and s

[linux-audio-dev] ANN: Specimen v0.2.1 released

I almost wanted to call this 0.3.0, but it's not quite there. This release adds a filter with resonance, ADSR volume envelopes, independent direction and duration play mode configuration, and a highly optimized resampling routine that easily accomodates 64 note polyphony on my Athlon 1.33. www.g

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Some music made with Linux

At Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:23:52 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > > > Tricky. To get crunchy hard-rock guitar sounds like Pete's > > (nice track pete!), you'll have to realistically emulate > > palm-muting, which I've never heard in a synth. And how would you > > control the amount of muting? Map it to a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Some music made with Linux

At Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:23:39 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > > That said, it might be an interesting excercise to remix your song > using only or mostly script based sounds... (Modular synthesis, > basically.) Dunno if there's much point it trying to synthesize the > guitar riffs at this point, but

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Some music made with Linux

At Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:42:05 +0100, David Olofson wrote: > > Nice! Makes me wanna' play some violent first person shooter game or > something, for some reason... ;-) I seem to recall seeing you on the libsdl lists back in the day (read: last year). If you're involved with a game that needs music

[linux-audio-dev] Some music made with Linux

Hi all, Check out http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/eastsidemilitiamusic.htm After getting Specimen to an acceptable state, I threw together this proper demo. It has no vocals since me and my larynx don't get along, but I encourage anyone who so desires to rectify that deficiency. I used Seq24

[linux-audio-dev] ANN: Specimen Version 0.2.0 Released

The second major of version of Specimen has been released today. The main change is the new sample editor that allows you to fine tune the way your samples are being played. I've also created some documentation, and added ping-pong and reverse play modes. Download it from www.gazuga.net, and rea

[linux-audio-dev] Ann: Specimen v0.1.0 (the first beta release)

Too everyone who's waited with bated breath for this day to come (primarily me), rejoice in the first beta release of Specimen, a midi controlled audio sampler for GNU/Linux systems. Features as listed on the webpage: # ALSA sequencer interface support. # Audio output via ALSA or JACK. # Indivi

[linux-audio-dev] ANN: Specimen Version 0.0.3 Released

Guess what? ...*chirp*...*chirp*... Right, well... Specimen is midi controlled audio sampler for GNU/Linux systems, and this is a new release of it. I'm justifying this on the inclusion of velocity sensitivity, cuts, and proof-of-concept (read: crappy) pitch scaling. You can download the newe

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New name for ladcca: LASH

At Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:54:41 +, Bob Ham wrote: > Just to let you know I decided on LASH, which stands for 'LASH Audio w00t. I take all the credit, because I rule. /me hides > Session Handler'. The recursive 'L' is because I've never felt > particularly bound to linux *cough*hurd*cough*. A

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New name for ladcca?

++LASH. It is a real word, short and sweet, with a meaning that is relevant to its purpose. I rather like it. [pb]