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

2004-08-31 Thread martin rumori
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:46:13PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: > I was wondering about this the other day - is there no OSC 'standard' > for how to declare note-ons, offs, etc? > > If OSC really is to become a MIDI replacement, there's needs to be an > explicitly defined standard that says "this

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

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Robillard
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 14:44, Robert Jonsson wrote: > > Getting off topic here, but there's a little more to it than that. 1 > > Syntactic sugared implementation is much much more preferable to 101 > > conventions for doing OOP with void pointers. > > Things like typesafety, getting rid of macros in

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

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Robillard
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 09:28, Steve Harris wrote: > The obvious problem you're likly to hit is that you still need to speak > alsa-sequencer or something in order to get events from controllers. You > can go pure-OSC by accepting OSC 'm' types or occam format OSC messages > and writing a simple, ext

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

2004-08-31 Thread Robert Jonsson
> Getting off topic here, but there's a little more to it than that. 1 > Syntactic sugared implementation is much much more preferable to 101 > conventions for doing OOP with void pointers. > Things like typesafety, getting rid of macros in favour of inline > functions. The STL is another real rea

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

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:15:24 -0400, Pete Bessman wrote > 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; t

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

2004-08-31 Thread Pete Bessman
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] OSC vs MIDI

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 16:02:43 +0100, Steve Harris wrote > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:48:46PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > > BTW, if you have reasonable OSC covereage I'd be very interested in > > > compatibility tests between whatever you're using and liblo. > > > > Very early days, I've only i

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

2004-08-31 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:48:46PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > BTW, if you have reasonable OSC covereage I'd be very interested in > > compatibility tests between whatever you're using and liblo. > > Very early days, I've only implemented simple messages so far - but I'm using > liblo for my

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

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:28:50 +0100, Steve Harris wrote > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:43:16AM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Ok, so I'm playing with osc (currently doing gui->app communication with it) > > but all my individual apps still talk midi between them. This is quite > > c

Re: [linux-audio-dev] libsndfile: type combinations and string data

2004-08-31 Thread martin rumori
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:33:44PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > yields me both an error. is that supposed to return true? > > For sf_format_check() to return TRUE, you MUST also set the sample > rate, channel count and number of channels. i see. thank you. missed that in the test case.

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

2004-08-31 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:43:16AM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > Hi all, > > Ok, so I'm playing with osc (currently doing gui->app communication with it) > but all my individual apps still talk midi between them. This is quite > cumbersome, as I want to start having lots of controls that midi doe

[linux-audio-dev] wikipedia entries for Linux audio ?

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: While doing some research on VST/VSTi technology I checked the Wikipedia page for "VST". It's a good informative page, and there's even an entry regarding the fst/libfst project. However, there was no mention of Kjetil's vstserver and its clients. There is now. It occurred to me th

Re: [linux-audio-dev] libsndfile: type combinations and string data

2004-08-31 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:30:41 -0600 martin rumori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but, with 1.0.10 and 1.0.11pre4, > > SF_INFO info; > > info.format = SF_FORMAT_AIFF | SF_FORMAT_PCM_16 | SF_ENDIAN_LITTLE; > if (! sf_format_check(&info)) > { > printf("AIFF | LITTLE invalid\n"); >

[linux-audio-dev] OSC vs MIDI

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, Ok, so I'm playing with osc (currently doing gui->app communication with it) but all my individual apps still talk midi between them. This is quite cumbersome, as I want to start having lots of controls that midi doesn't support - and I don't really "think" in midi these days anyway. Is t

Re: [linux-audio-dev] libsndfile: type combinations and string data

2004-08-31 Thread martin rumori
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:54:58AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > SF_ENDIAN_CPU really only makes sense when the file format allows > bot endian-nesses. ahh, i see, the SF_ENDIAN_* format parameters are meant to FORCE to a specific endian-ness, and with formats supporting just one endian-ness