Re: [linux-audio-dev] promoting LAC 2007

2007-03-27 Thread Dave Griffiths
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:17:16PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > >> Maybe one day there will be a Linux version of Live, but it's >> not something I particularily look forward to, as I wouldn't >> use it anyways unless it gets opensource'd. > > There are probably many of us thinking the same wa

Re: [linux-audio-dev] best option for audiovisual synchrony

2006-10-20 Thread Dave Griffiths
> Hi all, > > We're in the process of porting an open source Matlab toolbox to Linux > called the Psychtoolbox. It's a piece of software that's widely used > within neuroscience and psychophysics, to display graphics and play > sounds in experiments. It uses OpenGl for its graphics backend, and > r

[linux-audio-dev] liblo: restarting the server thread

2006-04-06 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, I'm trying to restart a liblo thread with the same port, but something seems to being kept hold of, as it fails (this may be intentional though). I have a test case here - am I being daft, or should this work: ---8<--- #include #include void handler(int num, const char *msg, const cha

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Live music performing setup using VNC?

2006-01-16 Thread Dave Griffiths
> Hello! > > I'm not quite shure, if this belongs here, or to the LAU list, but I am > subscribed here, so this is why I post it here. First, let me explain: > I'm in an urgent need for a notebook, as I am a university student > (from Slovakia) working as a part time PHP programmer and playing in a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Proffessionals?

2005-07-14 Thread dave griffiths
pixar studios use sweep for sound editing I believe - or they did some time ago. film studios use free audio software quite a lot as linux is the norm in that industry. dave On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 22:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can anyone give me any examples of Free audio so

Re: [linux-audio-dev] more on damaging signals

2005-06-21 Thread Dave Griffiths
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:17:21PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > >> * high dc offset >> * very low frequency >> * very high frequency > > Add 'High level at higher frequencies'. In most speakers > systems, the HF unit will sustain considerably less

[linux-audio-dev] more on damaging signals

2005-06-21 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, I posted some questions a while back about signals that could potentially damage PA speakers, or equipment after amplification. I'm starting to look at using a genetic programming synthesiser I'm writing for live performance: http://www.pawfal.org/index.php?page=WigWamJam This synthesis

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA Issues

2005-05-20 Thread Dave Griffiths
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:19:50 +1000, Dave Robillard wrote: >> (I still think the central repository is a good idea anyway, FWIW) > > So do I, but its a hell of a lot of effort, and its unlikly to be kept > up to date. In the commercial world (of one application I develop for anyway) a number

Re: [linux-audio-dev] live pa questions

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:01:02 +0200, Pieter Palmers wrote > the following links provide quite some info regarding distortion, > clipping and DC offsets: > http://sound.westhost.com/clipping.htm > http://sound.westhost.com/tweeters.htm interesting articles > My recommendations: > - Be sure to do

[linux-audio-dev] live pa questions

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, Is there a chance that signals generated from software could damage live PA equipment? I'm guessing not, as there is obviously (I assume) some limiting built into soundcards, but I'm just wondering what applications do to, if anything, to help. It's just something that worries me sometime

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSC-Question

2005-03-15 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 20:12, Arnold Krille wrote: > Hi all, > > after some of the latest discussions about audio-apps without gui, my head is > filled with giving JackMix[1] OSC-Support and perhaps splitting it into a > text-based / osc-based server doing the mixing and a gui... > > So my quest

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Using ray tracing cpu for audio synthesis

2005-03-15 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:05:02 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote > Hi there, > > I think I am not the only one here to have heard about so called > '3d ray tracing cpu' (e.g: > http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/rtongfx/rtongfx.pdf, and a > recent news on /. about some demos at CeBit ). There al

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Developing a music editor/sequencer

2005-02-04 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:49:42 +, Chris Cannam wrote > On Wednesday 02 Feb 2005 19:02, Paul Davis wrote: > > I continue to think that this crazy. > > So do I. > > The design process at work here reminds me a lot of the way I > approached Rosegarden: look at how other applications work and what

Re: [linux-audio-dev] ssm2

2004-12-08 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:41:24 +0100, Mario Lang wrote > Steve Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm pretty sure someone else is working on something like this, OSC driven > > UI, modules as LADSPA plugins, cant remeber the name though. > > Its called Om, and AFAIK maintained by drobilla on

[linux-audio-dev] ssm2

2004-12-08 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, Just a quick note that we are currently considering starting a new version of spiralsynthmodular from scratch (well almost) that will at first take the form of a osc server/jack client that will load and connect ladspa plugins together. Just wondering if anyone has an idea of an osc prot

[linux-audio-dev] formant analysis lib

2004-11-17 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, Not an area I'm that familiar with, but are there any good libraries out there that can do formant analysis of speech? cheers, dave

[linux-audio-dev] calling open source artists/musicians (UK London area)

2004-11-02 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, A couple of us are thinking of putting together an open source focussed music and visual performance night in London (UK), with the aim of making it a semi regular event with a bit of a workshop feel to it - so people can share ideas and have some fun. We're just wondering what the inter

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: killer app idea

2004-10-19 Thread Dave Griffiths
Going slightly off topic, an idea I'd like to try is a hexagonal drum pattern sequencer. I got the idea from this: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/images/autechremax2.l.jpg I have no idea how it actually works, but from that patch I got thinking that you could get multiple loops from the sam

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Drum synth

2004-09-21 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:12:47 +0200, Joost Diepenmaat wrote > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 01:51:16AM +0400, Dmitry Baikov wrote: > > For me it would be better to have a separate drum-synth. So I can > > drive it with seq24. > > Could this not be accomplished using a LADSPA plugin? It's probably the > e

[linux-audio-dev] [OT] looking for a sourceforge replacement

2004-09-04 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, Just looking around for a replacement for souceforge - I'm quite keen on non company based, with alternatives to CVS. I've found the following so far: http://savannah.gnu.org/ http://savannah.nongnu.org/ http://www.tigris.org/ https://gna.org/ Does anyone have any additions to this list,

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

2004-09-01 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 05:48:15 -0600, martin rumori wrote > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:31:01AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:03:18 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > > so if I'm writing a osc sequencer, is the best plan to leave the > > > map

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

2004-09-01 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:43:31 -0600, martin rumori wrote > 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, the

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

2004-09-01 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:04:48 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote > 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 vo

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 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. >

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 ta

[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] Which audio lib?

2004-08-10 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:29:51 +0100, Steve Harris wrote > Depending on the application you may find jack appropriate. Is > easier to write code for than ALSA, in my experience. I'd agree with this - I jumped straight from oss to jack. Depending on what you're doing, it's usually better to use a ca

Re: [linux-audio-dev] noiseweapon 1.0

2004-07-28 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 00:33, Steve Harris wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 04:21:37PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 23:46, Steve Harris wrote: > > > Build error: > > > > > > g++ -pipe -Wall -O3 -ggdb -ffast-math -Wno-unused -fPIC -fPIC

Re: [linux-audio-dev] noiseweapon 1.0

2004-07-28 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 23:46, Steve Harris wrote: > Build error: > > g++ -pipe -Wall -O3 -ggdb -ffast-math -Wno-unused -fPIC -fPIC -c -o > src/AdditiveVoice.os src/AdditiveVoice.cpp > src/AdditiveVoice.cpp: In constructor > `tiny::AdditiveVoice::AdditiveVoice(int) >': > src/AdditiveVoice.cpp:27

[linux-audio-dev] noiseweapon 1.0

2004-07-28 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, Thought I'd better get round to releasing this at last: The noiseweapon is a multitimbral, polyphonic synth that I use for live performance: http://www.pawfal.org/Software/noiseweapon/ have fun, dave

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSC for GUI-Engine communication

2004-07-28 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:31:43 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote > Hello, > > I'm writing an audio engine that will communicate with the outside world > exclusively via OSC (and perhaps MIDI, but I digress..) It's much more > generic, but for the sake of argument let's say the engine is a synth > and it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSC for GUI-Engine communication

2004-07-28 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:33:56 -0400, Paul Davis wrote > the 2nd worst code i have ever read. use liblo. erm, and the worst award goes to...? :) dave

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 23:15, Pete Bessman wrote: > At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:00:42 +0200, > Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Dave Griffiths said something above about "hiding functionality for > the users to find." That, to, is just wrong. This isn't a videogame > or Wher

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-25 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 19:29, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > Besides, we were talking about widgets. When even single > widgets would require to RTFM, what would that mean > for a full app? I think there is a danger here of being too conservative - something I think existing commercial software does (in

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-25 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:54:20 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:22:55PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > > > I like your fan idea Thorsten, but I also think it could work invisibly - ie > > no need for the transparent overlay. This would take a bi

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-25 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:09 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:46:36AM +0200, Burkhard Woelfel wrote: > > > > Radial movement on control elements often confuses me. ... > Well, the scaling issue was not obvious to me, I needed to > read about it somewhere, but afterwards

[linux-audio-dev] another jack q

2004-06-24 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, Bit of a dumb question I think, but I'm running jack realtime in softmode, and I'm getting sporadic cases of this: delay of 557251.000 usecs exceeds estimated spare time of 21355.000; restart ... too many consecutive interrupt delays ... engine pausing cycle execution failure, exiting DRI

Re: [linux-audio-dev] swh plugins and fixing undenormalize

2004-06-24 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:03:34 +0200, Tim Blechmann wrote > > Since the problem is denormalised numbers, has anybody thought of > > adding a small DC offset (1e-15) or alternating the > > addition/subraction of a small value? > of course it is possible to add a small dc offset ... but what if we > a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] jack in a live situation

2004-06-17 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:12:26 -0400, Paul Davis wrote > >A question regarding jack use in a live setting. As far as I can tell > >the soft mode only works with non realtime jack. What should I do if I > > it should work with realtime mode too. this was specifically added > several (many?) months ag

[linux-audio-dev] jack in a live situation

2004-06-16 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, A question regarding jack use in a live setting. As far as I can tell the soft mode only works with non realtime jack. What should I do if I want realtime performance, but a really forgiving server, so dropouts never cause the server to timeout. It's more important to me to have continuous

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Project Ideas

2004-06-16 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:23:39 +0100, Steve Harris wrote > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 07:03:03 +0300, michael tewner wrote: > > 1- This should be run on any platform including PC platform. > > > and WIN-API with preprocessor commandsGrrr...> > > That will be hard. Though you could just make the DS

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:39:42 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 00:10, Michael Ost wrote: > > > > Should I drop off the list? I ain't the same 'we' you are, I guess. > > > > While it's true that the proprietary world has made lots of bad s/w, we > > in the biz have also made lot

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-09 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 21:11, Marek Peteraj wrote: > What linux audio offers is > technology. No comfort at all. Right now it's all just academic > software. This, and the lack of marketing departments is exactly why I am here. I don't want to see linux apps turning into slickly hyped lifestyle pr

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?

2004-06-09 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:44:53 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote > > There are various kinds of users of audio SW; their requirements > > and opinions will vary. In my experience, most serious and > > professional users prefer a UI that is first of all functional, > > Have you done a survey? Most music so

Re: [linux-audio-dev] compiling fluxus

2004-06-09 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:59:25 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote > Greetings: > > Sure, send the patches, I don't mind getting dirty. ;) > > PA 19 does JACK, but I'm not sure whether Csound5 does OSC yet. I've had quite big problems with PA19 - hence fluxus is still on 18. Mainly that OSS support is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Project ideas?

2004-06-09 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:02:22 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote > There's a /lot/ more information available in a MIDI performance, so > the potential to do interesting things is greater. Flash the screen > whenever the kick drum goes, have notes represented on screen as 3D > objects using frequency f

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Project ideas?

2004-06-08 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:32:18 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote > What I'd really like to see: > > a varispeed CD player with sectional looping capability (a huge > help for learning difficult passages)a true OpenGL realtime > waterfall spectral display a la Alan Peever's Spectrogram you might

Re: [linux-audio-dev] How hard is it to write a pitch shifter?

2004-04-07 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 09:46, Cournapeau David wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > >>But I cant find out how to deal with the missing data that is removed - to > >>keep the original length. > >> > >> > > > >Changing the pitch without changing the length is true pitch shifting. The > >code

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [announcement] kluppe 0.1

2004-03-20 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:49, d wrote: > hi everyone! > this is the announcement of my first standalone soundapp "kluppe". > it's a jackified gtk-based loopplayer for files and live-input, > supporting various playmodes. cool! I like it. another feature idea would be to add a loop time ratio so yo

Re: [linux-audio-dev] SpiralModular 0.2.2

2004-03-20 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 18:58, CK wrote: > hi dave, > > I read: > > The spiralmodular team bring you a new release of SpiralModular. Loads > > of fixes and features, most notably a new GUI design and improvements in > > LADSPA and ALSA support. > > now I got it to compile on my debianppc box, and i

[linux-audio-dev] SpiralModular 0.2.2

2004-03-14 Thread Dave Griffiths
The spiralmodular team bring you a new release of SpiralModular. Loads of fixes and features, most notably a new GUI design and improvements in LADSPA and ALSA support. A changelog is on the pawfal wiki here: http://www.pawfal.org/index.php/SpiralModular Download from sourceforge: http://sourcefo

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Mx4 updated (again)

2004-03-02 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:29:42 +0100, Jens M Andreasen wrote > Hi! > > I reorganized the Mx4 panel layout slightly to regain some screen > realestate. Great design! :) dave . www.pawfal.org/nebogeo

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] First public release of Lindrum v 0.5.1

2004-03-01 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:24:26 -0800, Tim Hockin wrote > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:55:14PM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 07:07, guenter geiger wrote: > > > Lack of collaboration is one of the weaknesses of the free software > > > development (peculiarly enough it is considere

[linux-audio-dev] wigwamjam : a genetic programming synthesiser

2004-02-16 Thread Dave Griffiths
wigwamjam grows sounds using your decisions to drive the evolution of genetically programmed synth functions. wigwamjam is proof of concept for the moment, and not a fully blown audio tool yet. http://www.pawfal.org/Software/wigwamjam/ cheers, dave . www.pawfal

Re: fluxus (was: Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?)

2004-02-10 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:45:30 +0100 (CET), CK wrote > hi dave, > > I read: > > I've had problems getting v19 to work, so I don't think the released fluxus > > version supports the new api yet - it's only a few small changes though. > > I think I sent you patches to make fluxus work with the new AP

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-10 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:21:08 +0100, Vincent Touquet wrote > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:58:49PM -0500, Dave Robillard wrote: > >I remember seeing that page a little while back, I'll definately look > >into it.. looks pretty crazy! > > It definitely looks great. > I want to test it too. > > >(If it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] DRI + Jack conflict?

2004-02-09 Thread Dave Griffiths
jack works with intel830 DRI see http://www.pawfal.org/Software/fluxus/ (you might be interested) - it used to have a native jack interface, but now works through portaudio. On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 23:26, Dave Robillard wrote: > Through a painful process I'd rather not go into, I discovered that J

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Software with source code?

2004-02-04 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:06:12 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote > (I'm moving this to linux-audio-user where the rest of this > discussion has been held. Please direct replies there) > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 07:17:45PM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > At the risk of being pedan

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Software with source code?

2004-02-03 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:05:35 -0500, Paul Winkler wrote > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:53:06PM +0100, Vincent Touquet wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:32:36PM +, Steve Harris wrote: > > >Er, yes. I think this can be left up to the submitters discression. > > >eg. http://freshmeat.net/projects/

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA + GUI?

2004-02-03 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 14:18:59 +, Steve Harris wrote > On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:49:49 -0500, Dave Robillard wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 03:38, Uwe Koloska wrote: > > > Dave Robillard wrote: > > > > If you really want to make a custom GUI for your plugin, nothing's > > > > stopping you from

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Project: modular synth editor

2004-01-17 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:52:18 +, Steve Harris wrote > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:49:48 +0100, Marcus Andersson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > IMHO, think less about GTK and more about designing a language that can > > be used to describe the GUI of a modular synthesizer. Why not for > > example use X

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Project: modular synth editor

2004-01-14 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:15:24 +0100, Alfons Adriaensen wrote > So any new design will either have only 'static' built-in modules, > or define its own plugin format. I'll probably go for the second > option, and will take the resulting flames with it. LAPSPA support > will remain, of course. One

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Project: modular synth editor

2004-01-13 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 18:09:56 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote > Hallo, > Dave Griffiths hat gesagt: // Dave Griffiths wrote: > > > I've been considering writing a modular gui in tk - PD style (but hopefully a > > bit prettier ;P ) > > Pd will probably not stay with

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Project: modular synth editor

2004-01-13 Thread Dave Griffiths
FWIW spiralsynth modular's main app is _just_ a GUI (with a plugin loader), it knows nothing about sound or anything else. The canvas and module widgets are normal fltk widgets. We've used it for video processing too. I don't know if I'd recommend it for anything else though... I've been consider

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Security Module for realtime audio

2003-12-10 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:45:16 -0500, Paul Davis wrote > >Updating 120 GTK+ sliders (as a consequence of a patch change) took > >several seconds before I made the gtk thread SCHED_RR. I would call that > >a missed visual deadline, No? > > no, i'd call it an error in the toolkit or your own code. i h

Re: [linux-audio-dev] modular synth GUI status?

2003-11-20 Thread Dave Griffiths
http://www.pawfal.org/Software/SSM/ the gui's changed quite a lot in cvs, but the modules and patching are the same pretty much... also check out galan : http://galan.sourceforge.net/ and ams http://alsamodular.sourceforge.net/ On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:03:06 +0200, Juhana Sadeharju wrote > Hello. W

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Cool Linux-based DJing tool

2003-07-31 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:21:33 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:14:08PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:32:56PM +0200, Frank Neumann wrote: > > > Homepage is at http://web.media.mit.edu/~jpatten/audiopad/ which also > > > has a very nice 20MB Quicktime

Re: [linux-audio-dev] gui chrome

2003-03-20 Thread Dave Griffiths
The interesting thing with "girl" is that it's programmed in MAX/MSP, there is an interview with the programmer here: http://www.creativesynth.com/interviews/PeterNyboer/pn_interview.html On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:31:25 -0500, Paul Davis wrote > y'all know i like chrome-y interfaces, and that i like

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Modular synths of the world, unite and take over :-)

2003-03-18 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:15:04 -0500, Paul Davis wrote > >I think the bulk of redundant work is on standard > >effects or modules. We don't want to define anything > >as to how the modules work with each other, but maybe > >draft some sort of a file that compliant programs > >either a) convert to cod

[linux-audio-dev] Spiralsynth Modular 0.2.1

2003-03-08 Thread Dave Griffiths
SpiralSynth Modular is an object orientated music studio with an emphasis on live use. http://www.pawfal.org/Software/SSM/ * New GUI - one window with minisable/maximisable modules, no more losing track of which module window is which. (as discussed on the LAU list) * NotesnapPlugin can now filte

Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles

2003-03-08 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:18:37 + Simon Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Output terminal modules (OSS,Jack,DiskWriter) > > > Hadn't run ssm (I have now) so didn't know if outputs on a terminal > were feedback from the graph outputs or if they were inputs, ie it was > an I/O module. > > > are

Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles

2003-03-03 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 11:00:52 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > // First add all children of this I think that will break the recursion, as they won't be iterated through later, but you may be on the right track. > what are your new features ? 16 (sixteen!) new plugins - mostly logic ones f

Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles

2003-03-02 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Sat, 01 Mar 2003 03:03:37 + Simon Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Griffiths wrote: > > >On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:05:19 +0100 > >David Olofson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Friday 28 February 2003 09.20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles

2003-03-01 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 12:13:21 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:01:21PM +0000, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:05:19 +0100 > > David Olofson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Friday 28 February

Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles

2003-02-28 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:05:19 +0100 David Olofson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 28 February 2003 09.20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > > random latency ? how do you mean that ? > > Latency depends on how you happen to construct the net (order of > instantiation, connections etc) and/

Re: [linux-audio-dev] While we're talking about lack of responses :-)

2003-02-12 Thread Dave Griffiths
I might be a bit OT here, but this is always interesting for interface design: http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/ Not saying I agree with it all, but details like the layout of buttons on dialog boxes on this page are interesting: http://developer.apple.com/tec

Re: denormal floats (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles)

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:15:46 +, Steve Harris wrote > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:46:10 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > Is this processor specific? I used to get it loads on my PII desktop, but I > > haven't noticed it as much my PIII machine (might just be because it&#

Re: denormal floats (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles)

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:28:00 +, Steve Harris wrote > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 03:59:31 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:07:06 +, Steve Harris wrote > > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:18:47 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > > > I had a vague a

Re: denormal floats (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles)

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Griffiths
perfect! On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:09:11 +0100, Laurent de Soras [Ohm Force] wrote > Dave Griffiths wrote: > > > > ahah, I was hoping for an explanation :) any ideas on how to combat this, what > > the squashing threshold should be? > > I wrote a paper on denormalized

denormal floats (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles)

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:07:06 +, Steve Harris wrote > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:18:47 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > I had a vague attempt at doing something like this (after noticing that > > filters filtering silence uses up a lot of cpu). Each sample buffer object > &g

Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP spec - early scribbles

2003-02-06 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:40:30 +, Steve Harris wrote > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:27:39 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > > >Again, I think we are speaking of slightly different things. I am talking > > >about the time when (for example) the synth at the head of the chain has > > >stopped playing notes.

[linux-audio-dev] calling snd_seq_open in dynamically linked code

2003-01-26 Thread Dave Griffiths
I'm getting errors when I call snd_seq_open in a plugin, which go away in a standalone test app: ALSA lib dlmisc.c:100:(snd_dlsym_verify) unable to verify version for symbol snd_config_hook_load ALSA lib conf.c:2655:(snd_config_hooks_call) symbol snd_config_hook_load is not defined inside (null

Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] sooperlooper goes PD

2003-01-23 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:52:18 +, Steve Harris wrote > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:28:32 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > > Spiral Loops is just the most natural way to work with synced loops. > > > > I can have a go at making them resizable if you like. I'm prob

Re: [linux-audio-dev] sooperlooper goes PD

2003-01-23 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:43:01 +, Steve Harris wrote > >It might be nice if this sort of functionality melded into ssm, where > >you could see the loop displayed around the circle... There would be a > >visual cue then for when the loop was about to repeat, which can be hard > >to find when the l

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: k_jack v0.0.0.5

2003-01-22 Thread Dave Griffiths
> >I thought I'd pipe up here, as I use jack on a totally unpatched, untuned > >system (with SCHED_FIFO) and get rock solid performance. > > > Hmmm, that's annoying, I've never had that happen to me >:-| > ;-) no, seriously, that's really great! Sadly this is not the case > for all of us... > >

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: k_jack v0.0.0.5

2003-01-22 Thread Dave Griffiths
> >I thought I'd pipe up here, as I use jack on a totally unpatched, untuned > >system (with SCHED_FIFO) and get rock solid performance. > > > Hmmm, that's annoying, I've never had that happen to me >:-| > ;-) no, seriously, that's really great! Sadly this is not the case > for all of us... > >

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: k_jack v0.0.0.5

2003-01-22 Thread Dave Griffiths
> > It shouldn't be a problem, iwht only a few apps running the overhead is > > very small. If by "isn't perfectly tuned" you mean not running SCHED_FIFO > > or a patched kernel that its not that supprising, the context switch will > > be causing big problems. But, at worst it should just make xrun

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA and Softsynths

2002-12-11 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:09:58 +, Steve Harris wrote > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 12:47:50 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > It also means getting midi signal routing working, as currently ssm has no > > polyphonic means of note signalling, but it's fairly trivial. The only thing

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA and Softsynths

2002-12-11 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:58:32 -0800, Paul Winkler wrote > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:18:53PM +, Steve Harris wrote: > > I'm not quite sure how either of them handle that newfangled poly-phoney > > that seems so popular these days ;) > > AFAICT, they both punt and do everything monophonic. Ther

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)

2002-12-05 Thread Dave Griffiths
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 12:07:35 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > > I'm not sure how this can be handled easily, there are lots of > > > things like loading samples that will be impossible to handle in an > > > RT way, but I'm not sure that something li

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)

2002-12-05 Thread Dave Griffiths
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:43:11 -0800, Tim Hockin wrote: > > So how do VST effects do it? I can increase the delay feedback all I like and > > it doesn't hiccup, stutter, or misbehave at all. You're saying that this is > > a non-rt control because it might have to realloc() buffers? > > Delay

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LADSPA output controller?

2002-11-12 Thread Dave Griffiths
Just got me thinking of LADSPA sequencers... Can you open files in a LADSPA plugin? I don't know if this is even remotely feasable, but I remember a tracker from ages ago (I can't remember if it was in linux, could have been dos) that was entirely command line driven and just read plain text file

Re: [linux-audio-dev] GUIless friendly applications

2002-11-06 Thread Dave Griffiths
> "Dave Griffiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mario, > > > > Could you give some descriptions of a text based interface you would like to > > use for realtime control of a modular synth? The building of patches seems > > fairly easy (v

Re: [linux-audio-dev] GUIless friendly applications

2002-11-06 Thread Dave Griffiths
Mario, Could you give some descriptions of a text based interface you would like to use for realtime control of a modular synth? The building of patches seems fairly easy (via a CLI), but I'm thinking you'd want a more direct control for actually playing the thing - mapping the parameters to diffe

Re: [linux-audio-dev] GUIless friendly applications

2002-11-05 Thread Dave Griffiths
> I agree with your stance about merging GUI and engine code: it is a > mess and often introduces many maintenance and performance problems. As someone who has just spent the best part of three months rewriting code - ohh I learnt the hard way ;) dave

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Help on threads needed

2002-11-04 Thread Dave Griffiths
> in the SCHED_OTHER class, its not possible to override the "fair > scheduling" characteristics of the kernel scheduler. you can > certainly use nice to adjust the relative priorities of the threads > (well, actually, sched_setparam()) and this will alter the way the threads > are scheduled. but

[linux-audio-dev] Help on threads needed

2002-11-04 Thread Dave Griffiths
Hi all, I'm just trying to tweak SpiralSynthModular's threads to be a bit more efficient, and I can't seem to find much info regarding thread priorities and such. I have two threads, a GUI one and an audio one. I can hand the audio thread over to Jack which works fine, but I'd also like to be abl

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: image problem [was Re: [Alsa-devel] help for a levelmeter]

2002-10-18 Thread Dave Griffiths
> Things like jack have to be graphically wrappered or hidden too, no > scrolling text windows of xruns. The occasionaly discussed jack session > saving gizmo would be a knock dead feature. mmm a jack controller app that you could configure (with a mouse) start jack and check the current state, us

Re: [linux-audio-dev] SpiralSynthModular now hosted on SourceForge

2002-10-03 Thread Dave Griffiths
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:32:47 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: > > > Does that mean there wil be a mailing list? > > > > Yeah I guess - I'll set one up, for developers or users? or both? > > Well, as a user, for users, you developers can do what

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