Re: TamTam Mini Quirks In Build 56

2009-12-14 Thread James Cameron
it in TamTam Jam... no sound. I tried it in Speak... no sound. Rebooted... sound was fine! Okay, next time no sound happens, try Ctrl-Alt-Erase to restart Sugar ... before you try the reboot. Also check the volume control. And make sure nothing is plugged in to the green headphone socket. ;-) That's

TamTam Mini Quirks In Build 56

2009-12-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I have been playing with Tam Tam Mini in build 56. After playing for a while it will not allow the machine to go home! You can access the Journal and go to the Activities previously opened (including Tam Tam Mini) but there is no way to get back to the home screen. You have to do a

Re: TamTam Mini Quirks In Build 56

2009-12-13 Thread James Cameron
G'day Caryl, That problem sounded interesting, so I tested it myself. I couldn't get it to happen. I was using os60, and I don't think anything relevant was changed between os56 and os60. I wondered if I was trying to do the same thing you were. Could you tell me what action you do to go

RE: TamTam Mini Quirks In Build 56

2009-12-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
, 14 Dec 2009 14:55:43 +1100 From: qu...@laptop.org To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: devel@lists.laptop.org; support-g...@laptop.org Subject: Re: TamTam Mini Quirks In Build 56 G'day Caryl, That problem sounded interesting, so I tested it myself. I couldn't get it to happen. I was using os60

Re: TamTam Mini Quirks In Build 56

2009-12-13 Thread James Cameron
it will be applied. First I clicked on the stop sign icon. That took me to the Journal. I tried the F3 key to go home. It didn't work. From the Journal I was able to get back to TamTam and to the other Activities in the Journal, but when they were closed I ended up back in the Journal. I was locked

RE: TamTam Mini Quirks In Build 56

2009-12-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
OK. Tried it again with build 59. This time it was different. I played with it for about 40 mins with no problems until the sound quit! I tried it in TamTam Jam... no sound. I tried it in Speak... no sound. Rebooted... sound was fine! This is probably an interesting problem that isn't

Re: TamTam

2009-02-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
. I'm on version 50. Any ideas? This is not actually MiniTamTam, but TamTam before it was split into separate activities. A breakup from which it has not fully recovered, yet, since Sugar discourages close coupling between activities. - Bert

Re: TamTam

2009-02-26 Thread Wade Brainerd
This is a great demo! I'm trying it on Sugar on a Stick. It works well. Except I can't find a mic button nor can I see how to get to synth through an edit button as demonstrated in the video. I'm on version 50. Any ideas? This is not actually MiniTamTam, but TamTam before it was split

TamTam

2009-02-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Aaron and other music enthusiasts... Aaron asked for info on how to use TamTam. Here is the MiniTamTam information in Spanish. It has a link to a demo in English on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31L9qaxOrp0 Here is one for the synthLab: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

Re: TamTam

2009-02-25 Thread Andres Cabrera
Since TamTam uses Csound internally it is actually easier to use a MIDI keyboard than the QWERTY keyboard. It shouldn't be hard to add, but who is maintaining TamTam currently (and where?). I could help with this. Cheers, Andrés 2009/2/25 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com: Hi Aaron and other

Re: TamTam

2009-02-25 Thread Caroline Meeks
2009/2/25 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Hi Aaron and other music enthusiasts... Aaron asked for info on how to use TamTam. Here is the MiniTamTam information in Spanish. It has a link to a demo in English on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31L9qaxOrp0 This is a great

RE: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-12-09 Thread Caryl Bigenho
the real thing? You can download their guide here (see page 3 in the TamTamMini instructions): http://www.mochiladigitaltelmex.com.mx/olpc/index.php/Herramientas_pedag%C3%B3gicas As a former music major and the wife of a retired instrumental music teacher, I really would love to have TamTam

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-12-08 Thread Gary C Martin
discussion below, it looks like you did manage to get a midi keyboard to work with the XO, but with great difficulty. Some questions... Will it work with all of the TamTam Activities? It does not work with any of the TamTam activities yet, but I am digging through TamTamMini to see what's

RE: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-12-05 Thread Mr frÿffffffffffe9dÿffffffffffe9ric pouchal
://www.amazon.com/KORG-nanoKEY-25-Key-Controller-Keyboard/dp/B001H2X192/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8s=musical-instrumentsqid=1228472814sr=8-1 Fred --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Caryl Bigenho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Caryl Bigenho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Music Keyboard for TamTam? To: Edward

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-12-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
discussion below, it looks like you did manage to get a midi keyboard to work with the XO, but with great difficulty. Some questions... Will it work with all of the TamTam Activities? Is it likely that all midi keyboards would work? All MIDI *USB* keyboards. Not those with only the standard

RE: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-12-04 Thread Caryl Bigenho
to work with the XO, but with great difficulty. Some questions... Will it work with all of the TamTam Activities? Is it likely that all midi keyboards would work? Would it be possible to put the instructions into language that the less technically inclined could easily follow to get started

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-12-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
Martin wrote: On a more disappointing note I found this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10 months ago. Closed. Wont fix :-( https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6031 All wontfix means is that they're waiting for someone with a stronger itch to scratch it ;) i

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
2008/11/15 Caryl Bigenho [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I was wondering if there would be a way to connect a usb musical keyboard to the XO to use with the TamTam suite of Activities? The software would have to be able to recognize the input from the keyboard. A small 37-key midi keyboard by M

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-30 Thread Erik Garrison
this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10 months ago. Closed. Wont fix :-( https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6031 All wontfix means is that they're waiting for someone with a stronger itch to scratch it ;) i really have no idea how such devices are normally

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-30 Thread Gary C Martin
Martin wrote: On a more disappointing note I found this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10 months ago. Closed. Wont fix :-( https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6031 All wontfix means is that they're waiting for someone with a stronger itch to scratch

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-30 Thread Gary C Martin
: On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 04:24 +, Gary C Martin wrote: On a more disappointing note I found this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10 months ago. Closed. Wont fix :-( https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6031 All wontfix means is that they're waiting

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-29 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ignacio wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 04:24 +, Gary C Martin wrote: On a more disappointing note I found this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10 months ago. Closed. Wont fix

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 Nov 2008, at 01:29, Erik Garrison wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ignacio wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 04:24 +, Gary C Martin wrote: On a more disappointing note I found this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-17 Thread pgf
ignacio wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 04:24 +, Gary C Martin wrote: On a more disappointing note I found this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10 months ago. Closed. Wont fix :-( https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6031 All wontfix

RE: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-17 Thread Caryl Bigenho
and edit collaboratively (OLPC style!). I think the educational value is great. Children can be learning a standard keyboard as they play with the TamTam suite and it will transfer to other instruments they may want to try later in life...not just piano and organ, but mallet instruments like

Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-16 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi, I was wondering if there would be a way to connect a usb musical keyboard to the XO to use with the TamTam suite of Activities? The software would have to be able to recognize the input from the keyboard. A small 37-key midi keyboard by M-Audio costs about $50. http://www.fullcompass.com

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-16 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caryl, On 16 Nov 2008, at 04:54, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there would be a way to connect a usb musical keyboard to the XO to use with the TamTam suite of Activities? The software would have to be able to recognize the input from the keyboard. A small 37-key

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-16 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Nov 2008, at 04:06, Gary C Martin wrote: I was wondering if there would be a way to connect a usb musical keyboard to the XO to use with the TamTam suite of Activities? The software would have to be able to recognize the input from the keyboard. A small 37-key midi keyboard by M-Audio

Re: Music Keyboard for TamTam?

2008-11-16 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 04:24 +, Gary C Martin wrote: On a more disappointing note I found this ticket G1G1 tamtam suite should respond to MIDI keyboard input from 10 months ago. Closed. Wont fix :-( https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6031 All wontfix means is that they're waiting

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-06 Thread Simon Schampijer
C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:16 -0400, jean piche wrote: If you are interested in doing this yourself, here is my approximate plan of action: 1. Test all the builds on latest joyride by installing

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-06 Thread Simon Schampijer
jean piche wrote: TamTamJam v50 TamTamEdit v49 TamTamSynthLab v50 TamTamMin v48 I dont know why we even bother making new bundles with bug fixes that never get included into the builds. I mean the TamTam you are using is like 8 months old... Anyone care? Hi Jean, I understand

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:16 -0400, jean piche wrote: TamTamJam v50 TamTamEdit v49 TamTamSynthLab v50 TamTamMin v48 I dont know why we even bother making new bundles with bug fixes that never get included into the builds. I mean the TamTam you are using is like 8 months old... OK

Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-05 Thread jean piche
TamTamJam v50 TamTamEdit v49 TamTamSynthLab v50 TamTamMin v48 I dont know why we even bother making new bundles with bug fixes that never get included into the builds. I mean the TamTam you are using is like 8 months old... Anyone care? On 08-08-05, at 15:56, Christoph Derndorfer

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-05 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:16:32PM -0400, jean piche wrote: Anyone care? I care (random user here). They're cool. Martin pgpOu0r2oHyN4.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-05 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Where do I find the updated versions then? They're not listed on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TamTam http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Joyride http://tamtam4olpc.wordpress.com/ Thanks, Christoph On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:16 PM, jean piche [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-05 Thread victor
@lists.laptop.org ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:16 PM Subject: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam. TamTamJam v50 TamTamEdit v49 TamTamSynthLab v50 TamTamMin v48 I dont know why we even bother making new bundles with bug fixes that never get included

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-05 Thread victor
In fact, if I put some symlinks in /usr/share/Activities pointing to the installed TamTam, I get it to load and run. - Original Message - From: jean piche To: Christoph Derndorfer Cc: devel@lists.laptop.org ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:16 PM Subject

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-05 Thread Gary C Martin
of hacking***. Supporting it over time in the current environment... Now that's another mater entirely. Bit rot is a horrible thing when you are just a sad leaf node. *** I don't include TamTam here, it's clearly a much larger project. ___ Devel mailing

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Drake
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:16 -0400, jean piche wrote: I dont know why we even bother making new bundles with bug fixes that never get included into the builds. I mean the TamTam you are using is like 8 months old... Many thanks for producing the releases. Sorry for my slow response. I am

Re: Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-05 Thread C. Scott Ananian
. Look at the update_url information on [[Activity bundles]] for alternatives/more information. I believe that 6673 used to prevent TamTam from playing sounds (a five month old bug), but it looks like Nat finally fixed this in TamTam git 8 days ago? --scott -- ( http://cscott.net

Re: [sugar] TamTam is broken in jhbuild.

2008-05-31 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Right now there are several issues that makes it not work. So I removed it from the mod list for now... Marco On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get jhbuild setup on Ubuntu. I have everything working, but the tamtam module won't build

Re: TamTam packaging

2008-04-19 Thread Jani Monoses
I don't think using the aclient is the better way to make it work on Debian. This client was build very tight to save cpu cycles on the XO. The better way is to use the Python API for Csound... (with the API, don't forget to remove -n flag (no sound) in tamtamorc.csd). Maybe James can tell

Re: TamTam packaging

2008-04-19 Thread victor
. Examining the csd tamtam generated might give us a clue. Victor - Original Message - From: Jani Monoses [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:10 PM Subject: Re: TamTam packaging New packages have made into debian testing. You might want to try those

Re: TamTam packaging

2008-04-17 Thread Jani Monoses
-why are the cpp sources in the MANIFEST and consequently in the xo? At the beginning we TamTam was only one activity with a welcome screen to choose which component to play with. When we were aksed to spilt the activities it was the simplest way for us to manage all activities from

Re: TamTam packaging

2008-04-17 Thread Olivier Bélanger
Le 08-04-17 à 02:49, Jani Monoses a écrit : -why are the cpp sources in the MANIFEST and consequently in the xo? At the beginning we TamTam was only one activity with a welcome screen to choose which component to play with. When we were aksed to spilt the activities it was the simplest way

Re: TamTam packaging

2008-04-17 Thread Andres Cabrera
. oscil.csd), which are configured for realtime audio. If csound is producing output tamtam should too. I tried it some time ago on a debian machine, and it worked fine. csound is 5.08.0 do you know if that should be OK? yes, the current version of OLPCsound is a cvs version a little later than

Re: TamTam packaging

2008-04-17 Thread Jani Monoses
are configured for realtime audio. If csound is producing output tamtam should too. I tried it some time ago on a debian machine, and it worked fine. I tried a while ago and it worked and from pippy as well, but the latest package does not. So it is may not be a tamtam issue after all. csound

Re: TamTam packaging

2008-04-17 Thread Andres Cabrera
as all the build is the same precision. I tried a while ago and it worked and from pippy as well, but the latest package does not. So it is may not be a tamtam issue after all. New packages have made into debian testing. You might want to try those. Also remember you need to set the OPCODEDIR

TamTam packaging

2008-04-16 Thread Jani Monoses
Hi Olivier, I have a few questions regarding the .deb packaging of the four TamTam activities. -why are the cpp sources in the MANIFEST and consequently in the xo? -which versions do you recommend for packaging. Latest are 48 and 49 , depending on the activity I got them to build and start

Re: TamTam packaging

2008-04-16 Thread Olivier Bélanger
Hi Jani, First of all, our main goal is to make TamTam runs on the XO. We didn't think yet about porting it to others system... Le 08-04-16 à 17:44, Jani Monoses a écrit : Hi Olivier, I have a few questions regarding the .deb packaging of the four TamTam activities. -why are the cpp

Handling TamTam Resources...

2008-04-15 Thread Olivier Bélanger
Hi all, I'm working on sharing resources between our 4 activities with respect to the security policy. It will be very helpfull if you have time to give me your opinion on the problem... Here is the situation: TamTamJam and TamTamSynthLab produce sounds that we want usable by any TamTam

Re: Handling TamTam Resources...

2008-04-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olivier Bélanger wrote: | Is there a way to let all TamTam activities have access to a common | directory? No. Activities are untrusted code. The security design assumes that every Activity is a trojan horse, unless the user specifically requests

Re: Handling TamTam Resources...

2008-04-15 Thread Eben Eliason
Olivier Bélanger wrote: | Is there a way to let all TamTam activities have access to a common | directory? No. Activities are untrusted code. The security design assumes that every Activity is a trojan horse, unless the user specifically requests otherwise. | How do think

Re: Handling TamTam Resources...

2008-04-15 Thread Olivier Bélanger
Thanks for quick answers! Le 08-04-15 à 20:43, Eben Eliason a écrit : Olivier Bélanger wrote: | Is there a way to let all TamTam activities have access to a common | directory? No. Activities are untrusted code. The security design assumes that every Activity is a trojan horse

Correction: TamTam MUST be in /usr/share/activities to work.

2008-03-27 Thread Jean Piché
We are working on a fix to make it work in /home/olpc. The fix is almost ready but details remain. _ http://jeanpiche.com On 27-Mar-08, at 4:14 PM, Jean Piché wrote: Bryan, You need to use the latest verisons of TamTam found here: http://mock.laptop.org

Re: old tamtam in the wild?

2008-03-17 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 05:13:47PM -0400, Jean Piche wrote: On 15-Mar-08, at 3:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mock.laptop.org/repos/local.update1/XOS/index.html There are 5 TamTam activities in the update1 collection: TamTam, TamTamMini, TamTamEdit, TamTamJam, and TamTamSynthLab

Re: New update.1 build 694 (TamTam?)

2008-02-27 Thread Dennis Gilmore
their inclusion Please list in it exactly the files you want included and assign to ApprovalForUpdate Dennis On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Jean Piche wrote: Hello, Why are old TamTam builds still being used for update.1 builds, thereby not including current .po files? uptodate versions (and in curent

Re: new FRS blocker 4418 - no sound in tamtam

2007-11-17 Thread Andres Salomon
on).. However, tamtam still appears to be broken (and the MIC LED comes on when we start tamtam). ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: new FRS blocker 4418 - no sound in tamtam

2007-10-23 Thread Kim Quirk
to jg or cscott is appropriate. Thanks, Kim On 10/23/07, Jean Piché [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We develop almost entirely on the machine itself or in jhbuild. What does the joyride build entail and why would TamTam fail in it? Does sound work otherwise? Does csound work otherwise

Re: new FRS blocker 4418 - no sound in tamtam

2007-10-23 Thread Walter Bender
FYI, sound doesn't work for lots of activities on joyride-81 (pippy for example). I doubt the problem is TamTam specific. Note that the microphone is on (or at least the LED indicator) by default. This suggests that perhaps alsa is not being initialized properly in the build. -walter On 10/23/07

Re: new FRS blocker 4418 - no sound in tamtam

2007-10-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On 10/24/07, Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed this as well; note that the MIC LED comes on *after* X starts, while sugar is being initialized. We also see the following message on the console: [ 91.166430] snd-malloc: invalid device type 0 I'm not sure what userspace

Re: new FRS blocker 4418 - no sound in tamtam

2007-10-23 Thread Andres Salomon
unable to test on a XO right now but it should be easy to verify by deleting the sound file: /usr/share/sugar/data/startup.flac Marco Well, the sugar startup sound is what's triggering it (moving startup.flac out of the way causes the MIC LED to not come on).. However, tamtam still appears

Re: new FRS blocker 4418 - no sound in tamtam

2007-10-23 Thread Walter Bender
triggering it (moving startup.flac out of the way causes the MIC LED to not come on).. However, tamtam still appears to be broken (and the MIC LED comes on when we start tamtam). -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list

Re: #2633 NORM Trial-3: TamTam needs R/W access to home directory, not included in Rainbow

2007-08-16 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 20:28 -0400, Owen Williams wrote: What's the best way to implement this change and maintain compatibility? If SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT exists, use it, but if not, use HOME? Well, SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT should always exist when your activity is ran inside Sugar, regardless of

Re: #2633 NORM Trial-3: TamTam needs R/W access to home directory, not included in Rainbow

2007-08-15 Thread Owen Williams
What's the best way to implement this change and maintain compatibility? If SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT exists, use it, but if not, use HOME? owen On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 22:49 +, Zarro Boogs per Child wrote: #2633: TamTam needs R/W access to home directory, not included in Rainbow

Re: [sugar] TamTam for Trial-2

2007-07-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
functionality to save and load TamTam tunes Regarding the journal support, if you can write to and read from a file on the fs (from python), then adding journal support will be trivial. Thanks, Tomeu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http