Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:59:40AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > A sequencer is a device for recording and playback of signals > > with the possibility to arrange several recordings. > > One important feature still missing might be the "edit operation". > ... Dang! Thanks. I do it all the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] CSound usability (was: Common synthesizer, interface...)

2005-05-03 Thread steven yi
Hi Toby and All, But from my (limited) experience I see that not only does writing a CSound instrument require knowledge of the CSound language and of its architecture (that's obvious), but that *incorporating* an existing CSound instrument into a new composition requires almost the same skills. A

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Thorsten Wilms hat gesagt: // Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:57:43PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > That's actually quite a curious sentence! People have very different > > conceptions about what a sequencer is or what it should be. > > As I work on the design of a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] timesetevent alternative

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Davis
>I would probably lock on to the audio clock, in jack or otherwise, since >this is were it all ends up ultimately. > >When the jack_process() gets called, count down the time to wait untill >time is zero or less, in which case you do your midi thing and pick the >next event. that depends. is this

Re: [linux-audio-dev] timesetevent alternative

2005-05-03 Thread Jens M Andreasen
I would probably lock on to the audio clock, in jack or otherwise, since this is were it all ends up ultimately. When the jack_process() gets called, count down the time to wait untill time is zero or less, in which case you do your midi thing and pick the next event. On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:33

Re: [linux-audio-dev] CSound usability

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Phillips
Toby wrote: I'm still studying the solutions you people kindly gave me in my other thread, but I thought I'd post this slightly OT spinoff in the meantime! Dave Phillips wrote: From the original post: The problem is that I don't know of any software synthesizer that is: [snip] 2. easy

[linux-audio-dev] timesetevent alternative

2005-05-03 Thread Garett Shulman
Hello, About 5 years ago I hacked together a nice midi looper app. The only problem is that it was for Windows. Anyway... I'm working towards reimplamenting the app in linux. Basically, I have a circular linked list of midi events. Each node has the event and the time to the next event. In Wind

[linux-audio-dev] CSound usability (was: Common synthesizer interface...)

2005-05-03 Thread Toby
Hi all I'm still studying the solutions you people kindly gave me in my other thread, but I thought I'd post this slightly OT spinoff in the meantime! :-) Dave Phillips wrote: > > From the original post: > > > > The problem is that I don't know of any software synthesizer that is: [snip] > > 2

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or-, microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread steven yi
Hi All, Just thought I'd mention that my software blue (http://www.csounds.com/stevenyi/blue) supports tuning systems with a microtonal piano roll that reads in Scala files(http://csounds.com/stevenyi/blue/blueDocs/html/pianoRoll.html), and is somewhat like a sequencer application (mixing of SC

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:57:43PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > My sequencer is going to be just that: a sequencer. > > That's actually quite a curious sentence! People have very different > conceptions about what a sequencer is or what it should be. As I work on the design of a hardware

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Sorry, I can't resist: Toby hat gesagt: // Toby wrote: > My sequencer is going to be just that: a sequencer. That's actually quite a curious sentence! People have very different conceptions about what a sequencer is or what it should be. Dave Griffiths' performance at LAC2005 is just

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: ZynAddSubFX 2.2.1 released

2005-05-03 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 18:42 +0300, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > >From: Jens M Andreasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Suggestion for running headless: > > > > if(getenv("DISPLAY")) > >isGraphic = TRUE; > > else > >isGraphic = FALSE; > > I hope there is a command line option for turning the > G

Re: [linux-audio-dev] jack.el -- Run and monitor JACK from within Emacs

2005-05-03 Thread Arnold Krille
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 13:55, James McDermott wrote: > There is a theory which states that if anyone ever learns how to use > all of emacs, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something > even more bizarre and inexplicable. > There is another theory which states that that's how vi was in

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: GTK performance?

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:42:29 +0300, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > >From: Jens M Andreasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Is it gtk then? Or the pixmap engine? > > I don't use pixmap decorations in my application, but > only one pixmap of size 800x600 was too slow. I used > the preferred pixmap functio

[linux-audio-dev] Re: GTK performance?

2005-05-03 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
>From: Jens M Andreasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Is it gtk then? Or the pixmap engine? I don't use pixmap decorations in my application, but only one pixmap of size 800x600 was too slow. I used the preferred pixmap functions of GTK2. The expose of the whole 800x600 pixmap took 120 ms (8 fps). That w

[linux-audio-dev] Re: ZynAddSubFX 2.2.1 released

2005-05-03 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
>From: Jens M Andreasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Suggestion for running headless: > > if(getenv("DISPLAY")) >isGraphic = TRUE; > else >isGraphic = FALSE; I hope there is a command line option for turning the GUI off. Otherwise I would always get the GUI. Juhana -- http://music.columbia

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 09:37 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:14:46PM +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:55 +0300, michael tewner wrote: > > > > > > > > > > To my awareness, the hardware synths that do microtuning can be set up > > > > any twisted ima

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Davis
>On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:57:56AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >> >To add my 0.02 Euro : I'm sure that OSC is the way to go for this project. >> >And I'd love to have an 'OSC sequencer' -- something that allows you to >> >schedule / edit / manipulate arbitrary OSC events, and with a non-destructi >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] list removal

2005-05-03 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
El lun, 02-05-2005 a las 14:20, Robert Jonsson escribió: > Hi David, > > I think this is best handled by each individual. it's also easier on the > admins. > > Try visiting this page: > http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribelad.php > > There's a link for unsubscription if you scroll down. >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 02:14:46PM +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:55 +0300, michael tewner wrote: > > > > > > > To my awareness, the hardware synths that do microtuning can be set up > > > any twisted imaginable way. You might have to look one page further down > > > tho

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Phillips
Alfons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:36:29AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Considering its suitability for microtonality, why not design something around Csound ? From the origianl post: The problem is that I don't know of any software synthesizer that is: 1. good enough f

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:57:56AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >To add my 0.02 Euro : I'm sure that OSC is the way to go for this project. > >And I'd love to have an 'OSC sequencer' -- something that allows you to > >schedule / edit / manipulate arbitrary OSC events, and with a non-destructive > >r

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:00:03AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > To add my 0.02 Euro : I'm sure that OSC is the way to go for this project. > > And I'd love to have an 'OSC sequencer' -- something that allows you to > > schedule / edit / manipulate arbitrary OSC events, and with a > > non-des

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread dave
> The problem is that I don't know of any software synthesizer that is: > 1. good enough for decent music production; > 2. easy to use by non-experts (this is a direct stab at CSound, or >better at its lack of a decent GUI, of a standard instrument exchange >file format and of a decent, ce

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread dave
> To add my 0.02 Euro : I'm sure that OSC is the way to go for this project. > And I'd love to have an 'OSC sequencer' -- something that allows you to > schedule / edit / manipulate arbitrary OSC events, and with a > non-destructive > region editor similar to Ardour's. An OSC sequencer would have

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Davis
>To add my 0.02 Euro : I'm sure that OSC is the way to go for this project. >And I'd love to have an 'OSC sequencer' -- something that allows you to >schedule / edit / manipulate arbitrary OSC events, and with a non-destructive >region editor similar to Ardour's. Ardour v2.3 ...

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread dave
> Greetings: > > Considering its suitability for microtonality, why not design > something around Csound ? The best solution is to remove the mapping from note number to frequency, and directly send the frequency to the synth. I use OSC messages to do this (my sequencer uses the scala tuning for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:36:29AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > Considering its suitability for microtonality, why not design > something around Csound ? >From the origianl post: > The problem is that I don't know of any software synthesizer that is: > > 1. good enough for decent music produc

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: Considering its suitability for microtonality, why not design something around Csound ? Best, dp

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Mx44 update

2005-05-03 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 08:18 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > Hi Jens: > > What version of GTK2 does Mx44 need ? My attempt at compiling results > in this error: > > gcc -c -O3 -Wall -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT `pkg-config > --cflags gtk+-2.0` interface2.c > interface2.c:148: parse

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:55 +0300, michael tewner wrote: > > > > To my awareness, the hardware synths that do microtuning can be set up > > any twisted imaginable way. You might have to look one page further down > > though, to get past the 12 note/octave convenience setup. > > THere was a piece

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Mx44 update

2005-05-03 Thread Dave Phillips
Hi Jens: What version of GTK2 does Mx44 need ? My attempt at compiling results in this error: gcc -c -O3 -Wall -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` interface2.c interface2.c:148: parse error before '*' token interface2.c:148: warning: type defaults to `int'

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

2005-05-03 Thread michael tewner
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 23:01 +0200, Toby wrote: > > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong: MIDI doesn't allow for microtonal notes. > > The best next things MIDI has to offer are Custom Scales and Pitch Bend. > > > > Custom Scales is not a feature of MIDI, it'smore like a reinterpreta- > > tion of t

Re: [linux-audio-dev] jack.el -- Run and monitor JACK from within Emacs

2005-05-03 Thread James McDermott
> There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the > Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be > replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. > > There is another theory which states that this has already happened. > > -- Dou

[linux-audio-dev] Mx44 update

2005-05-03 Thread Jens M Andreasen
Hi! As you might know, the initial phase relation between oscillators in an FM synth is quite important for the resulting sound. Not least when you are dealing with feedback loops. I have had velocity sensitivity on phase for ages, but came to think of that keyfollow on phase might be more usefu