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

2005-04-28 Thread Billy Biggs
Jens M Andreasen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 12:46 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > > What is even "funnier" is that mouse behaviour seems to take a > > different route with next to no overhead. > > Correction: > > Mouse-wheeling shows a similar (over-the-top cycle consuming)

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tracker

2003-11-28 Thread Billy Biggs
Benjamin Flaming ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Friday 28 November 2003 11:54 am, David Olofson wrote: > > On Friday 28 November 2003 15.07, Stonekeeper wrote: > > [...] > > > However, I think the proper solution is to install things so that > > you never have dependencies in the wrong direction. It

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tracker

2003-11-26 Thread Billy Biggs
Thomas Webb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > --Lea: > > Generally, musicians don't give a toss whether something is > > free(Opensource) or not (let the flaming begin). > > Exactly. I think programmers need to stop being elitists. It is > hurting the adoption of Linux. Is it elitist for a programmer to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tracker

2003-11-26 Thread Billy Biggs
Benjamin Flaming ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Because I agree that these politics make Linux awkward for a new > > developer who may be wary or unable to release source code. I am > > not sure how best to approach this. > > [...] but I'm puzzled by your mention of authors being "unable" to > release

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Tracker

2003-11-26 Thread Billy Biggs
Hi Lea, Stonekeeper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 19:01, Juan Linietsky wrote: > > It's not bad, but it's not really free (OpenSource), > > Generally, musicians don't give a toss whether something is > free(Opensource) or not (let the flaming begin). Seriously, I've not > met a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] FLTK/X11 question

2002-09-25 Thread Billy Biggs
ver tears like mad even fullscreen. Michel Danzer has just donne a patch to export an ioctl for the retrace interrupt on the Radeons though, but that's a new development. For video overlay surfaces it's a bit easier: most cards can page flip their overlay surfaces easily. So, you won&#

Re: [linux-audio-dev] midi events in jack callback (was: Reborn)

2002-08-16 Thread Billy Biggs
I have to trust the MIDI clock for audio too, or my drumroll will stutter when I turn the tempo knob while playing. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] midi events in jack callback (was: Reborn)

2002-08-16 Thread Billy Biggs
output correct on both MIDI and audio in sync with constant latency, using my drum machine or hard disk recorder as the clock source. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] What I think about reborn.

2002-08-15 Thread Billy Biggs
velopment community has an obligation to write any software beyond what we feel like at the time. Suggesting reasons why people should work on an app is fine, but implying that if we don't we'll all be burned at the stake ... -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] What I think about reborn.

2002-08-15 Thread Billy Biggs
h. I'm on his side against open source bigotry. One last thought, I bet his 'kickass app' will still include the 303 emulation and the drum machines, so you need not worry so much about losing all those precious lines of source code. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] reborn aborted

2002-08-15 Thread Billy Biggs
Bob Ham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 12:48, Billy Biggs wrote: > > > We still don't know if he's using gsynth code under a different > > license. > > He is. Woohoo, so we have no right to complain every post about not releasing source. I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] reborn aborted

2002-08-15 Thread Billy Biggs
alf of one remaining ear could do a better > 303 emulation given the Gsynth code. Please send me your attempt then, I'd like to hear it. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Reborn

2002-08-12 Thread Billy Biggs
h engine use that. Filter still sounds sterile though. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Reborn

2002-08-12 Thread Billy Biggs
Frank Barknecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > A good start though. My biggest complaint is totally on getting the > > 303 to sound authentic. > > [...] > > OTOH the 303 code is based on gsynth, [...] Ah ok, I'll take my snobby ain't-no-303 comments over there. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Reborn

2002-08-12 Thread Billy Biggs
rt though. My biggest complaint is totally on getting the 303 to sound authentic. Oh, and then the whole licensing thing. Clearly the author has no intention of releasing this under a free license, as commercial reselling is denied explicitly even for this binary release. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-06-13 Thread Billy Biggs
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Fred Gleason wrote: > On Wednesday 12 June 2002 16:37, Billy Biggs wrote: > > > I see only two options: Go all the way, ask all users to pay, lose > > personal ownership of the project and turn it into a product, or ask > > nothing and expect nothi

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

2002-06-12 Thread Billy Biggs
obligated to contribute even though they have no guarentee of getting anything for it, or the author might feel obligated to continue working even though the financial reward is insufficient and charity rather than market driven. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.div8.net/billy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-06-12 Thread Billy Biggs
't see the large number of hobbyist programmers becoming product manager hobbyists any time soon, despite how badly the linux userbase wants that. :) -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.div8.net/billy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-06-12 Thread Billy Biggs
al_ that I be able to edit the music as it's playing: start looping one pattern and tweak it until I like it. Different styles for different types of music really. I also think it's because when I started writing music, it was using either a tracker or a hardware sequencer (at the time

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

2002-06-11 Thread Billy Biggs
e to hear that, many thanks!! -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.div8.net/billy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-06-11 Thread Billy Biggs
self), and pretty much no interest from the open-source community, the project hasn't gone anywhere else. But I'm quite happy with it. :) -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.div8.net/billy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNOW

2002-02-18 Thread Billy Biggs
d written, and the documentation seems to indicate that too. It's also not too difficult once you get the hang of it. :) But having compilers that can use it where appropriate (like icc can) can also be helpful. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.div8.net

Re: [linux-audio-dev] MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3DNOW

2002-02-17 Thread Billy Biggs
chine was a P3. There's lots of code floating around to detect cpu type in the code. See mm_accel() and friends, and ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his work on speciallib. Plugins shouldn't be any different than programs, they can just as easily determine CPU type. -- Billy Biggs

Re: [linux-audio-dev] tracker with midi input

2002-02-09 Thread Billy Biggs
coding other projects though. Right now I do all my sweeps live since, well, it makes a cool show. :) I totally agree with your rant about interfaces. I wanted a sequencer as reliable and simple as a hardware sequencer. -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www

Re: [linux-audio-dev] tracker with midi input

2002-02-09 Thread Billy Biggs
rk? I don't get much comments on it. I should probably put it on sourceforge or something. Do you know of any bugs? -- Billy Biggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.div8.net/billy [EMAIL PROTECTED]