Re: [Vo]:Subject: off topic android
Steven Vincent Johnson Steve, I am getting way to ahead of myself and way too off topic. Once I get this simple MIDI input app working I can use a cheep MIDI controller for other purposes; like to provide hardwired inputs. Android is good at sending text messages, taking pictures and sending them, and sending emails. I can bring a few terminals out from a midi controller and use them as hard wired inputs. The app would read the bit on a MIDI OTG Cable input or bluetooth midi input and take an action. These actions include sending a user defined email, text message, or taking a picture and sending it. These kind of actions are pretty straight forward on Android and there are lots of apps that do just that. None, however, react to a hard wired input. To keep this thread on topic, it could send the user defined text message, "Your cold fusion cell is in a thermal runaway". Jed would like to get such a message. Google please get your driver MidiDriver working. Frank Znidarsic
RE: [Vo]:Subject: off topic android
Frank, I wouldn't get too concerned about OT issues clogging up the Vort Collective. As the presidential elections draw closer, based on the previous election cycles, one can imagine what will happen within the continuum. It will return to normalcy afterwards. I suspect the younger generation will be interested in your android app once it's more fully developed. If it can control MIDI devices, you are likely to have some interest there. OTOH, I suspect your app is not likely to pique the interest of the older generation, like me. A tablet/cell phone display window is just too small for 60+ year old eyes! However, there are always exceptions to the rule. Incidentally, my wife and I just purchased two new Samsung Android cell phones. Looks like we are joining the android crowd despite the fact that my wife uses the IPad 2 tablet. I personally use a Samsung Galaxy note 12 Inch tablet. We can make the letters & numbers larger on our androids. I mentioned my desktop Sonar Producer software application because I enjoy creating full-fledged compositions using all the s/w tools I can get my hands on, assuming I can afford them. I need all the desktop real estate I can get my hands on. I'm pretty comfortable using Microsoft's Visual Studio Professional edition. I'm using the VS package in my Kepler research efforts. I'm fluent in both VB and C#. I could probably handle C++ if forced to, but I'd rather not. Never learned JAVA. I programmed in C back in the 1980s when I was a troglodyte computer programmer for Space Astronomy Lab, Madison, Wisconsin. I wrote GSE (Ground Support Equipment) software. Programmed primarily in C and FORTH. FORTH is an interesting RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) programming language. Quite primitive, but deceptively powerful once you get a handle of it. Indeed, would suspect Jed would be interested in a thread discussing a CF thermal runway situation. Wouldn't we all. Wait a minute... didn't that happen to Rossi a couple of times when he first stumbled across the mysterious "Rossi Effect"? Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson OrionWorks.com zazzle.com/orionworks
RE: [Vo]:Subject: off topic android
From: Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 9:20 AM FORTH is an interesting RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) programming language. Quite primitive, but deceptively powerful once you get a handle of it. I already liked RPN from using and programming my HP 11c calculator, but when I started working on hardware design at Sun in the early 90’s I really fell in love with Forth, since their boot monitor was implemented with it. For hardware debug, this was great, because I could write all kinds of hardware diagnostics and stimulus loops with very little effort, and I didn’t need to boot the OS to get a lot of lab work done. Working on hardware without a decent, programmable boot monitor has never been the same for me since. -Bob
Re: [Vo]:Subject: off topic android
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Robert Ellefsonwrote: I already liked RPN from using and programming my HP 11c calculator ... > I learned to program on an HP calculator as well. It was great fun, and I enjoyed the Reverse Polish Notation. While you're in the zone, focusing on a problem, you can do some cool stuff with it. But in retrospect I suspect that if you stepped away from the program for two weeks and then came back to it, it might as well have been written in binary. Eric
RE: [Vo]:Subject: off topic android
Frank, I like the fact that you added note letters at both ends of the app. The video was however difficult to watch since I presume you used your cell phone to video it holding it in the traditional vertical position. When I watched it everything was sideways. I had to tilt my head. That was a pain in the neck! It looks like you are designing the app to use traditional musical score. I have more to say on that matter... I use a sophisticated MIDI music sequencer created by Cakewalk. It's called Sonar X3 - Producer edition. It's on par with Pro Tools except that it's much cheaper to purchase. It only runs on Windows platforms - no apple or android. I've created a lot of computer compositions with the application going all the way back to the 1990s. (As you wisely pointed out, it's important to take some breaks from CF work.) FWIW, I never compose music on my PC using traditional musical score notation. I tried to use traditional musical notation at first, but found it to be extremely limiting since you need to be able to place some notes out-of-sequence in order to generate a more human touch to one's music. This is especially the case if one is improvising or playing jazz. I don't know anybody who uses traditional musical notation when composing on a PC monitor screen. This is especially the case if one is using MIDI. With a piano role configuration you can still add note letters at both ends. You can also grey the horizontal "black" minor keys bands. The major horizontal bands can remain white. This is useful to help distinguish the horizontal minor and major notes from each other on the monitor screen. When composing I use three HD monitor screens, and yet, I still don't have enuf desktop space. I'm considering getting a ultra-high 4K monitor. That would be the equivalent of 4 HD monitors. 4K HD monitor prices are gradually coming down. I cannot imagine myself composing or playing music on an iPad or Android device. NTL, I know there are younger tykes who do just that. Guess I'm too much of an old fart at 63 years old. I need glasses too. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson OrionWorks.com zazzle.com/orionworks