Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread David Olofson
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 04.19, Juan Linietsky wrote: > > That's basically why I think inventing Yet Another, Although Much > > Cooler Looking GUI Toolkit would be worth the effort, if it could > > help cutting GUI development time without dropping chrome and/or > > features. (Whether or not it's p

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread David Olofson
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 04.09, Taybin Rutkin wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, David Olofson wrote: > > That's basically why I think inventing Yet Another, Although Much > > Cooler Looking GUI Toolkit would be worth the effort, if it could > > help cutting GUI development time without dropping chrome

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread David Olofson
On Monday 10 June 2002 18.52, Alexander Ehlert wrote: > Hi, > > > Why we dont have apps such as Reason, Reaktor, Sonar, Sound > > Forge, etc? I dont mean full apps, but at least projects aiming > > for that kind of thing. > > Because only 2% of the linux audio programmers try to make a living > of

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, David Olofson wrote: > That's basically why I think inventing Yet Another, Although Much > Cooler Looking GUI Toolkit would be worth the effort, if it could > help cutting GUI development time without dropping chrome and/or > features. (Whether or not it's possibly is anot

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread Juan Linietsky
> That's basically why I think inventing Yet Another, Although Much > Cooler Looking GUI Toolkit would be worth the effort, if it could > help cutting GUI development time without dropping chrome and/or > features. (Whether or not it's possibly is another issue. Guess I'll > > just have to tr

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread David Olofson
On Monday 10 June 2002 07.46, Paul Davis wrote: > >I think this raises some questions.. My feeling is that most > > people aiming to write music on this OS is expecting to have apps > > with super easy and intuitive interfaces, where you only go > > trough displays, knobs, sliders and paintabe are

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread David Olofson
On Monday 10 June 2002 07.45, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > However, forgot to mention, that it would be still nice to see > user-friendliness become a standard in Linux ;-) Yes - although one should keep in mind that *user* friendliness is not the same thing as *beginner* friendliness. (I've had it wit

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread David Olofson
On Monday 10 June 2002 07.41, Ivica Bukvic wrote: > What I think is that this is great since there is less likelihood > that someone else will be using the same tools I do and hence less > likely will my music sound like thousands of others :-) Yeah... :-) That's pretty much the reason why there

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread David Olofson
On Monday 10 June 2002 07.10, Juan Linietsky wrote: > I thought this may be of interest to the list. > In a k5 poll about usability of linux audio apps, > ( http://www.kuro5hin.org/poll/1023512126_OSelOkZS ) > So far, out of 38 answers the results are: > > -How do you like music software for Linux

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] A novel approach to real-time free software

2002-06-10 Thread David Olofson
On Saturday 08 June 2002 12.32, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 01:11:10AM +0200, David Olofson wrote: > > (Software patents should be invalidated and made illegal world > > wide, IMHO. They serve only the interests of the biggest > > companies.) > > Nod, partially. Just invalidate aft

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] A novel approach to real-time free software

2002-06-10 Thread David Olofson
On Saturday 08 June 2002 09.28, Vincent Touquet wrote: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 01:11:10AM +0200, David Olofson wrote: > (cut) > > >>From the application POV, both approaches give the same result: > >> Two > > > >"worlds" with different schedulers and services - and > > unfortunately, different d

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:09:01PM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: (cut) >I think Kai Vehmanen did a much better job explaining this than >myself, since I dont know the internals of alsalib. I'll just repost >what he said: (cut) Ok :) If you want what Kai and Taybin are referring to, its doable, it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Juan Linietsky
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:49:01 +0200 Vincent Touquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (cut) > >I'm afraid i didnt make myself clear. I tried to expain this in > >previous mails, but I think i'm failing so far. > >I perfectly understand what JACK is, but as I said before, > >it's primarily meant for lo

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Juan Linietsky wrote: > Yes! This is super just exactly accuratedly the point of what I was > proposing. My point is simply that not all apps you'd like to > route/interconnect need low latency, thus there is no need to use JACK > natively on them. When the app tries to open

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Juan Linietsky
Great! of all people I think you understood what my point was with this proposal. I really have to work on improving my engish grammar. > > 3-You may also want to put just any program that uses native > > OSS/ALSA through this. Imagine running xmms and wanting to put the > > sound thru a better

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
(cut) >I'm afraid i didnt make myself clear. I tried to expain this in >previous mails, but I think i'm failing so far. >I perfectly understand what JACK is, but as I said before, >it's primarily meant for low latency stuff. >So my proposal consisted in two things. >1-The first one is to proovid

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issuesfor linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Juan Linietsky wrote: > Also I find the whole idea redundant. If JACK is easier and faster to > integrate then it should replace the ALSA api on that matter. > Developers, and specialy new ones, will allways support the official > api FIRST. One important thing to remember i

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Kai Vehmanen
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Juan Linietsky wrote: > Here's a problem I commonly find in existing audio apps or in > programming audio apps: Audio routing. Over a year ago (Sat May 05 2001) I wrote the following message: http://www.eca.cx/lad/2001/May/0071.html ... pretty close isn't it? The next step

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Juan Linietsky
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:36:30 -0400 Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yeah, but what I mean is 2 things, first that you should be able to > >change transparently where the app is sending the data, without the > >app noticing, and second that such configuration shouldnt be stored > >by the a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linuxtag video

2002-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 04:56:32 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: > And for those of us labouring under dial-up perhaps an annotated png or two? Frank took some digital photos which will be much better than the webcam jpegs. > So far the only show I'm planning on attending is Linux Expo UK > (http://

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: How to "connect" two audio devices with alsa?

2002-06-10 Thread Mark Rages
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 05:05:59PM +0200, Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: < added to alsa.opensrc.org > Regards, Mark mark.rages.net

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread Alexander Ehlert
Hi, > something like that, forgot the name), Eyesweb, Glame, pd, jmax, Visual cglame even compiles on MacOSX, the problem is that mmap doesn't work the same way as it does in Linux and so our swapfile backend doesn't work. As richi and I are proud owners of iBooks we might resolve that problem. A

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread Alexander Ehlert
Hi, > Why we dont have apps such as Reason, Reaktor, Sonar, Sound Forge, > etc? I dont mean full apps, but at least projects aiming for that kind > of thing. Because only 2% of the linux audio programmers try to make a living of that. I personally dislike GUI programming, programming soundfx is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread David Gerard Matthews
Mac-Only apps: Max/MSP (yes I know PD runs on Windows and Linux, and jMax may be running on on Windows by now) Metasynth Several Ircam pacakages: Super Phase Vocoder, Modalys SoundHack SuperCollider (for the time being) Many ProTools plugins Still a pretty substantial list, don't you think? L

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:30:36AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: (cut) >Read the archives. We've been through this before. I'm not going >through it again. (cut) ACK ! Every once in a while people bring up the same questions people in this list thought long and hard about and solved. Before you st

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linuxtag video

2002-06-10 Thread Richard Bown
Taybin Rutkin wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Steve Harris wrote: > > > I have made some timelapse video of Linuxtag from saturday and sunday, > > right up to the point when I had to shove everything in my bag and dash > > for the train (which I just caught, thanks Frank!). > > > > http://inanna.e

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread Ivica Bukvic
>I read: >> >> What tools are you talking about? I mean, I own both PCs and Macs, and >> except Digital Performer I don't know about any other major package >> that only exists on the Mac. > >max/msp >supercollider > >regards, > >x Except that max/msp is coming to Win platform this fall (and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
Juan Linietsky wrote: > > I thought this may be of interest to the list. > In a k5 poll about usability of linux audio apps, > ( http://www.kuro5hin.org/poll/1023512126_OSelOkZS ) > So far, out of 38 answers the results are: ^ anyone home ? while it never hurts to discus

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread Ivica Bukvic
>In reply to the 'not having the same sound as >everybody else', I think this is a question of how you >use software and not what you use. You can play a >million things/styles etc on a guitar. The same goes >for software synths etc. Yes, but guitar still sounds like a guitar (with the exception

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linuxtag video

2002-06-10 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Steve Harris wrote: > I have made some timelapse video of Linuxtag from saturday and sunday, > right up to the point when I had to shove everything in my bag and dash > for the train (which I just caught, thanks Frank!). > > http://inanna.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/linuxtag/ Look

share/smix pcm plugin [was [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..]

2002-06-10 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
hi ! in reply to a posting by juan linietsky, Paul Davis wrote: > [allowing multiple apps to play at the same time (esound-style) on hardware that does not support multi-open] > > * ALSA already has the "share" PCM device type which allows > multiple access to the same underlying hardware

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread CK
I read: > What about jMax and Reactor? I'm not sure what you mean reaktor runs on win and mac and jmax runs on linux,osx,win32,irix but max/msp != jmax and certainly not reaktor supercollider is totally different from all the above hmm.. x -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Postmodernism is german

[linux-audio-dev] Linuxtag video

2002-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
I have made some timelapse video of Linuxtag from saturday and sunday, right up to the point when I had to shove everything in my bag and dash for the train (which I just caught, thanks Frank!). http://inanna.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/linuxtag/ I had a great time at the tag, but haven't had time to m

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread Sebastien Metrot
What about jMax and Reactor? Sebastien Original Message - From: "CK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability > I read: > > > > What tools are you talking about? I mean, I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread CK
I read: > > What tools are you talking about? I mean, I own both PCs and Macs, and > except Digital Performer I don't know about any other major package that > only exists on the Mac. max/msp supercollider regards, x -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]Postmodernism is german romanticism with bet

[linux-audio-dev] Re: How to "connect" two audio devices with alsa?

2002-06-10 Thread Joern Nettingsmeier
[cc:ing alsa-dev and lau] Richard Guenther wrote: > > Hi! > > I'd like to create a virtual 2-(stereo)-channel alsa device from one > ISA SB AWE and one on-board VIA alsa device. Has anyone figured out > how to do this using .asoundrc magic? [I know Jaroslav knows and told > Joern, but I think t

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread Sebastien Metrot
What tools are you talking about? I mean, I own both PCs and Macs, and except Digital Performer I don't know about any other major package that only exists on the Mac. They all have at least a Win32 version. I think it even now the other way around: the Mac platform is really missing tools as powe

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Juan Linietsky wrote: > I think this raises some questions.. My feeling is that most people > aiming to write music on this OS is expecting to have apps with super > easy and intuitive interfaces, where you only go trough displays, > knobs, sliders and paintabe areas. > Why w

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Paul Davis
>Since I have hardly looked at Jack, and definately not tried to use it (as a >developer) I can't really comment on the design. but you still say: >- harder to understand "what" goes "where", Jörn has made some >nice schemantics but the design is rather complex, a novice would not >understand i

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Paul Davis
>Yeah, but what I mean is 2 things, first that you should be able to >change transparently where the app is sending the data, without the >app noticing, and second that such configuration shouldnt be stored by >the app but from an abstracted app/interface that handles connections. You're asking f

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Paul Davis
>> Mostly because to do it correctly he argued that it has to be based >> on a callback design and that is not part of the alsa-lib. Hence >> JACK. >> > >Sorry, obligatory question, what's wrong with blocking calls? :) Read the archives. We've been through this before. I'm not going through it a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Paul Davis
>1-It's not a standard. ALSA/OSS are. If i want to write a driver, i >will do for those. JACK has nothing to do with device drivers. Its a layer that hides even the existence of physical audio interfaces from applications. Right now, there is a dynamically loaded client/clock client that uses ALS

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Juan Linietsky wrote: > 1-It's not a standard. ALSA/OSS are. If i want to write a driver, i > will do for those. In the open-source world, standards are defined by consensus. How do you think gtk+ became a standard? People started using it. ALSA isn't in POSIX either. >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability

2002-06-10 Thread Kevin Hremeviuc
Hi All, It's obvious that we don't have all the programs that are available for windows. Nor do we have the same level of ui design/sophistication. On the subject of ui s. I think the most important thing about making music is a fluid work flow. If you don't have that then things just end up be

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Richard Bown
Juan Linietsky wrote: > No, allow me to explain better why I think supporting JACK is > pointless and why I wouldnt do it. I'll give you all the reasons I can > think of. [a bunch of pretty useless reasons] > For these reasons, I will not support or use JACK until something like > it becomes pa

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Robert Jonsson
Hi guys, being mainly a lurker (and (potentially) a user) I may not have a say, but anyway... > > No, allow me to explain better why I think supporting JACK is > pointless and why I wouldnt do it. I'll give you all the reasons I can > think of. > > 1-It's not a standard. ALSA/OSS are. If i wan

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Martijn Sipkema
> No, allow me to explain better why I think supporting JACK is > pointless and why I wouldnt do it. I'll give you all the reasons I can > think of. > > 1-It's not a standard. ALSA/OSS are. If i want to write a driver, i > will do for those. define standard. > 3-Device sharing is pointless for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Juan Linietsky
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:52:10 +0100 Richard Bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Juan Linietsky wrote: > > [developers choosing JACK over ALSA audio] > > > Not to be pessimistic, but I think such thing is not going to > > happen. Also I find the whole idea redundant. If JACK is easier > > and faste

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Richard Bown
Juan Linietsky wrote: [developers choosing JACK over ALSA audio] > Not to be pessimistic, but I think such thing is not going to happen. > Also I find the whole idea redundant. If JACK is easier and faster to > integrate then it should replace the ALSA api on that matter. > Developers, and speci

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Juan Linietsky
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:37:42 +0900 Patrick Shirkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Juan Linietsky wrote: > > > Probably the easier and more natural approach to this is just > > integrating JACK to ALSA in some way. > > > > What do you think? > > > > Your idea has been discussed in length by Abra

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Audio routing issues for linux..

2002-06-10 Thread Juan Linietsky
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 01:38:10 -0400 Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Here's a problem I commonly find in existing audio apps or in > >programming audio apps: Audio routing. > > > >The way things work now, it's hard for apps to implement a standard > >way of: > > First, you can't do any be