Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do*you* stand?

2006-02-21 Thread Pete Bessman
can't really be objectively determined. But I do like the cutting edge, and the fact that I can't make the kind of music I want to make with the tools at my disposal is maddening. -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net So this baby seal walks into a club.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do*you* stand?

2006-02-21 Thread Pete Bessman
to drive home the point that I did not misinterpret one iota of the Stallman verse --- I'm just tossing it in the trash bin along with my Torah. -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net So this baby seal walks into a club.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

2006-02-21 Thread Pete Bessman
Chris, pay no attention to Dave. That message was bloody brilliant! Very enlightening, head slapping Oh man! That's IT! read. You should really consider expanding that and putting it up somewhere in essay form, they're are a quintillion people who could benefit by reading it. -- Pete Bessman

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

2006-02-21 Thread Pete Bessman
place in the process. Last I checked, Microsoft wasn't bombing any subways. -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net So this baby seal walks into a club.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do*you* stand?

2006-02-21 Thread Pete Bessman
be on to something with it. I'll keep a lazy eye on it ;-) -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net So this baby seal walks into a club.

[linux-audio-dev] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

2006-02-20 Thread Pete Bessman
it! WHAT is your NAME? WHAT is your QUEST? WHAT is your FAVORITE ALBUM? -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net So this baby seal walks into a club.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [linux-audio-user] Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do*you* stand?

2006-02-20 Thread Pete Bessman
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:21:19 -0500, Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 14:55 -0500, Pete Bessman wrote: So let's hear it! WHAT is your NAME? WHAT is your QUEST? i can hack ardour part time while i work. i can hack ardour full time while i live the rest of my

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] No More Specimen

2006-02-19 Thread Pete Bessman
of work and school a week. Take care everybody, and may the funk be with you. -- Pete Bessman http://gazuga.net So this baby seal walks into a club.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] 2-D slider widget?

2005-07-28 Thread Pete Bessman
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 17:01 +0100, James McDermott wrote: Pete, You might like to look at a demo program I made as part of my GTK+ education - it's a functional xy-controller: http://www.skynet.ie/~jmmcd/software/xy-controller.tar.gz But I actually made the xy-controller directly from

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] 2-D slider widget?

2005-07-27 Thread Pete Bessman
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:00 +0100, James McDermott wrote: Has anyone written code for, or even just seen, a 2-D slider widget? What toolkit was it in? Do people around here prefer QT to GTK+, or vice versa, and does anyone use FLTK, or something else? Oh yeah... x-y controllers. Nice. I'll

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [a bit OT] scroll and zoom conventions

2005-07-27 Thread Pete Bessman
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 20:00 +0200, Richard Spindler wrote: I've started to use a Scalebar in my last project ( http://www.matthiasm.com/flScale.html ) And a believe it's an interface element that's quite useful, it works like a scrollbar, but has little buttons attached at the ends of the

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Specimen v0.5.0 and PHAT v0.3.0

2005-07-09 Thread Pete Bessman
Ladies, gents, and those in between, I got back into the hacking thing a couple days ago, and I'm pleased to announce new versions of both the Specimen sampler and the Phat Audio Toolkit. As always, the real tip can be had at www.gazuga.net. The stuff that I remember changing follows: Specimen

[linux-audio-dev] A Taste of Things to Come

2005-05-22 Thread Pete Bessman
Hello Lists, As some of you may know, I'm the guy who wrote Specimen. And as a tiny fraction of that some may know (or care), Specimen hasn't seen an update in an exceedingly long time. What, exactly, is going on? The answer, dear friends, is simple: music. My introduction to the art of

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [EMPLOYMENT] contractor sought for linux sample playback engine

2005-05-11 Thread Pete Bessman
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 00:04 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: but I've no desire to live in the US until at least the next regime change. Hmm... in that case, I'll vote Republican again the next election. Peace out, -Pete

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Specimen v0.4.4

2004-09-30 Thread Pete Bessman
Normally, I don't announce minor releases, but this is an exception. The latest Specimen has a completely redone GUI, which I hope will make using it suck a whole lot less. Downloads: www.gazuga.net/downloads.php Screenshots: www.gazuga.net/screenshots.php This version of Specimen also relies

Re: [linux-audio-dev] pkaudio/pksampler release

2004-09-20 Thread Pete Bessman
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 08:56, Patrick Stinson wrote: PKSampler is a DJ sampler intended for a touch screen. It uses python and qt to animate real 3D widgets created with PoVRay. Check out the screen shots! /me blinks Whoa! Eye candy! In a linux app! There's lots of directions for this app

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

2004-09-01 Thread Pete Bessman
At Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:49:36 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: Obejctive C is OK, it uses messages (smalltalk style) rather than method calls, and they have some performance limitations, but the class stuff is all sane. Good call, I forgot about it at the time of writing. It is quite nice, and I

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

2004-09-01 Thread Pete Bessman
At Wed, 1 Sep 2004 20:15:54 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:15:24 -0400 Pete Bessman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The D programming language looks very promising in this regard, but its newsgroup faces a daily battle with people who seem more interested in creating

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines

2004-08-23 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:18:52 +0200, Artem Baguinski wrote: people do not need consistent experience, people need to get the work done. consistency is one of the tools that make getting the work done easier, but it isn't a goal in itself. ++kudos; --Pete http://www.gazuga.net Nothing

Re: [linux-audio-dev] mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines

2004-08-21 Thread Pete Bessman
I never noticed the behavior of horizontal scrollbars in GTK because I've never encountered any. Just checked out the behavior of Rhthymbox's seek indicator, it's just as you described (i.e., dain bramaged). That's a bug, plain and simple. --Pete http://www.gazuga.net Nothing great was ever

Re: [linux-audio-dev] mouse wheel behavior and RFC: human interface guidelines

2004-08-21 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sat, 21 Aug 2004 18:35:44 +0200, Melanie wrote: Left is generally associated with up, right with down, as we read left to right, top to bottom. Therefore, up MUST map to left, down MUST map to right, otherwise, non-mathematically minded people get uttely confused. This is perhaps the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

2004-08-17 Thread Pete Bessman
At Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:25:41 +0200, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: Pete Bessman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ok, that function is new to gtk+-2.4. I modified the relevant code to omit that function call when on gtk+-2 systems 2.4, and it compiles fine on Fedora Core 1 with PlanetCCRMA now

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

2004-08-17 Thread Pete Bessman
At Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:15:30 -0400, Jesse Chappell wrote: In fact the sliderbutton really just seems to lack the visual indication of sliderness, and i think adding it as Dave suggested would be a good addition (or make a new widget). I have no idea what you mean by lacking a visual

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

2004-08-17 Thread Pete Bessman
At Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:11:07 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: Sorry about the flicker, it doesn't happen when dragging to the right or down; It doesn't flicker, but the rightmost edge is really jumpy and glitchy looking. Maybe add a bit of a horizontal threshold for resizing so it doesn't

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

2004-08-16 Thread Pete Bessman
At Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:47:53 +0200, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: Hi Pete, make stumbles over phatsliderbutton.c: In function `phat_slider_button_init': phatsliderbutton.c:638: warning: implicit declaration of function `gtk_entry_set_alignment' make[2]: *** [libphat_la-phatsliderbutton.lo] Error

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

2004-08-16 Thread Pete Bessman
Ok, that function is new to gtk+-2.4. I modified the relevant code to omit that function call when on gtk+-2 systems 2.4, and it compiles fine on Fedora Core 1 with PlanetCCRMA now. www.gazuga.net/phat-0.2.1.tar.gz Let me know if this works for you. -- Pete http://www.gazuga.net Nothing

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.2.0

2004-08-15 Thread Pete Bessman
Once again, I'm cross posting this to the users list in case anybody is interested in fooling around with the demo apps. I'm pleased to announce the release of PHAT, the Phat Audio Toolkit, version 0.2.0. PHAT is a collection of GTK+ widgets that may prove useful to audio applications. New to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

2004-08-02 Thread Pete Bessman
At Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:05:00 +0200 (CEST), Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote: There have been some drawing errors happening when moving the fan out to one side and then the other in one go. But they are actualy hard to trigger, so please stress test the demo and report to Pete, so

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

2004-08-01 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sun, 1 Aug 2004 13:54:50 +0200, Jan Weil wrote: On Sat Jul 31 21:39:51 2004 Pete Bessman wrote: I'm pleased to annouce, after a solid month of heated debate with X11, the initial public release of PHAT, the PHat Audio Toolkit. From the website (www.gazuga.net/phat.php): I tried

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

2004-07-31 Thread Pete Bessman
I'm pleased to annouce, after a solid month of heated debate with X11, the initial public release of PHAT, the PHat Audio Toolkit. From the website (www.gazuga.net/phat.php): PHAT is a collection of GTK+ widgets geared toward pro-audio apps. The goal is to eliminate duplication of effort and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

2004-07-31 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:14:18 -0400 (GMT-04:00), Taybin Rutkin wrote: Sounds neat. Are there any screenshots? Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.gazuga.net/fanslider.png John Check's message later on shows that the widgets are drawn thematically. -- Pete www.gazuga.net

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] PHAT version 0.1.0

2004-07-31 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:58:23 -0400, John Check wrote: Okay, the question is, does this exist on Windows or Mac? This would also be killer on a touch screen BTW. I dunno, I have neither. The only dependency is GTK+ and the a GNU build environment. Since GTK+ runs on Windows and Mac, I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Traps in floating point code

2004-06-30 Thread Pete Bessman
At Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:56:50 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: People who play around with floating point code (especially on x86) quickly learn about the evils of comparing the equality of one floating point value with another. I got my first lesson just a couple of days ago, in fact.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Traps in floating point code

2004-06-30 Thread Pete Bessman
At Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:37:59 +0100 (BST), Mike Rawes wrote: --- Pete Bessman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:56:50 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: double fractional = 0.0, increment = 0.1; int integer = 0

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design + some OT stuff

2004-06-28 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:03:15 -0400, Pete Bessman wrote: That's a straw man. The original point was something to the effect of a volume knob which can only be operated after studying a manual is an indication that the UI designer is a failure, although my rendition is probably more caustic

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design + some OT stuff

2004-06-27 Thread Pete Bessman
At Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:22:05 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: ... whenever we invite someone into the news studio, he has to make his point in 12 seconds. If I know he can't, I will not even consider him. Why not ? Beacause it's bad TV, and our market share will go down. Our viewers just don't

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

2004-06-26 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:41:17 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: I HAVE to understand everything about an interface in 5 SECONDS! attitude to gui design. People can learn things, it's part of playing music on real instruments - why can't it be part of playing computer instruments? I simply don't

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

2004-06-26 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:36:26 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: What is normal ? Why do you think I put it in quotes? I have an increasing difficulty in just understanding what you try to say. Could you explain the terms No. - crow-magnon (sic) music I'm amazed that your purportedly

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

2004-06-25 Thread Pete Bessman
At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:00:42 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 06:54:20PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Requiring the user to read documentation to learn about functionality he would not even expect is not an option. Have education levels gone down *that* far ? WTF?

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

2004-06-25 Thread Pete Bessman
At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:28:35 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: so that I can compare it against the mouth-breathing crow-magnon music created with shiny-quarter interfaces. I'm sure the results will speak for themselves. They do, but maybe not in the direction you imagined. And cro-magnon

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Spinboxes

2004-06-20 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:16:54 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: The usual spinboxes with their tiny up/down arrow buttons made me think about an alternative. Since using more height than a textfield has would make layout very troublesome, my solution is placing the buttons horizontaly. I think

Re: [linux-audio-dev] FYI (FW: [The end of an era])

2004-06-15 Thread Pete Bessman
At Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:43:33 +0200, Claudio Mettler wrote: I just released the source code to my plugins which I recently stopped developing: http://www.bioroid.com Grammercy! Leeched for future use, thanks for the contribution :-) -Pete

Re: [linux-audio-dev] GThread vs. pthread

2004-06-12 Thread Pete Bessman
At 12 Jun 2004 00:09:05 -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote: Pete Bessman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One more point in favor of GThread I just figured out is config testing for it. All you have to do is at a pkg-config check for gthread-2.0 and your set. Having glanced through other programs

Re: [linux-audio-dev] linux use (was [OT] marketing hype)

2004-06-12 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sat, 12 Jun 2004 17:20:27 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 07:21, Tim Orford wrote: me too, but i'm currently very motivated to code, _if_ i could find something to work on. [snip] I all seriousness though, maybe it would be a good idea to create a centralized list

[linux-audio-dev] GThread vs. pthread

2004-06-11 Thread Pete Bessman
Does anybody have any opinion on which threading system is superior? I've been using glib for a lot of things, but for whatever reason I'm hesitant about using it for threading if the only benefit it will provide is consistency (I'm guessing it's just a wrapper for pthread anyway). [pb]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] GThread vs. pthread

2004-06-11 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sat, 12 Jun 2004 00:10:17 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: Does anybody have any opinion on which threading system is superior? I've been using glib for a lot of things, but for whatever reason I'm hesitant about using it for threading if the only benefit it will provide is consistency (I'm

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Specimen 0.3.0 released

2004-06-11 Thread Pete Bessman
The latest release of Specimen, a midi controllable audio sampler for Linux, adds 4 LFOs which can modulate volume, panning, cutoff and resonance into mix. Additionally, the LFOs can be tempo synced to either midi or the jack-transport mechanism. Available for immediate leeching from

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Pete Bessman
At Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:50:19 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i dont see a problem. there is knob code for every toolkit on sourceforge. lets unify the gfx data have a widget for every toolkit. votes++ [pb]

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

2004-06-09 Thread Pete Bessman
At Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:10:22 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: Last time I checked, rivers flew from the top of the mountains, thru the valleys below, and out in the ocean. Even in China :) In Soviet Russia, river flows through YOU! [pb]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: UI stuff

2004-06-09 Thread Pete Bessman
At Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:50:40 -0500 CDT, Ben wrote: The app Soundplay for BeOS takes a novel approach ... the level is shown as a knob but when you grab it, a rectangular box appears behind the knob and you adust it like a fader. This is great because it gives you visual feedback of which

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

2004-06-09 Thread Pete Bessman
At Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:40:44 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: If you want a plug-in-and-drool computer, you're not running the right OS. /me scratches head if (plugin_and_drool == JUST_WORKS) buy (plugin_and_drool); Point being, just because something is hard to use doesn't mean it is

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Specimen 0.2.9 Released (I'm Not Dead Yet)

2004-05-29 Thread Pete Bessman
Howdy folks! The newest version of Specimen is available for immediate download from www.gazuga.net (direct: http://www.gazuga.net/specimen-0.2.9.tar.gz). Features include: * A piano for graphically asigning note ranges * A very happenin' bank building interface that uses an embedded File

Re: [linux-audio-dev] MuSE 0.9 codename COTURNIX - out now with documented API!

2004-04-19 Thread Pete Bessman
At Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:55:59 +0200, Robert Jonsson wrote: There is an unfortunate fact in that there are TWO muse projects, differing only in the use of capital letters. I was staring at the webpage for a full ten minutes before I realized what was going on. MusE with a GTK-2 interface?

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

2004-03-01 Thread Pete Bessman
At Tue, 2 Mar 2004 01:19:00 +0100, Peter Eschler wrote: And yes: I looked into hydrogen code. To learn. I looked into lot of little projects code. Dead projects. To learn. And IMHO they're not useless. Maybe my project will be dead at the end of the year. But then i made my experience and

[linux-audio-dev] ANN: Specimen v0.2.1 released

2004-02-22 Thread Pete Bessman
I almost wanted to call this 0.3.0, but it's not quite there. This release adds a filter with resonance, ADSR volume envelopes, independent direction and duration play mode configuration, and a highly optimized resampling routine that easily accomodates 64 note polyphony on my Athlon 1.33.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Some music made with Linux

2004-02-20 Thread Pete Bessman
At Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:23:52 +0100, David Olofson wrote: Tricky. To get crunchy hard-rock guitar sounds like Pete's (nice track pete!), you'll have to realistically emulate palm-muting, which I've never heard in a synth. And how would you control the amount of muting? Map it to a CC and

[linux-audio-dev] Some music made with Linux

2004-02-19 Thread Pete Bessman
Hi all, Check out http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/eastsidemilitiamusic.htm After getting Specimen to an acceptable state, I threw together this proper demo. It has no vocals since me and my larynx don't get along, but I encourage anyone who so desires to rectify that deficiency. I used Seq24

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Some music made with Linux

2004-02-19 Thread Pete Bessman
At Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:42:05 +0100, David Olofson wrote: Nice! Makes me wanna' play some violent first person shooter game or something, for some reason... ;-) I seem to recall seeing you on the libsdl lists back in the day (read: last year). If you're involved with a game that needs music,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Some music made with Linux

2004-02-19 Thread Pete Bessman
At Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:23:39 +0100, David Olofson wrote: That said, it might be an interesting excercise to remix your song using only or mostly script based sounds... (Modular synthesis, basically.) Dunno if there's much point it trying to synthesize the guitar riffs at this point, but I'll

[linux-audio-dev] ANN: Specimen Version 0.2.0 Released

2004-02-17 Thread Pete Bessman
The second major of version of Specimen has been released today. The main change is the new sample editor that allows you to fine tune the way your samples are being played. I've also created some documentation, and added ping-pong and reverse play modes. Download it from www.gazuga.net, and

[linux-audio-dev] Ann: Specimen v0.1.0 (the first beta release)

2004-01-31 Thread Pete Bessman
Too everyone who's waited with bated breath for this day to come (primarily me), rejoice in the first beta release of Specimen, a midi controlled audio sampler for GNU/Linux systems. Features as listed on the webpage: # ALSA sequencer interface support. # Audio output via ALSA or JACK. #

[linux-audio-dev] ANN: Specimen Version 0.0.3 Released

2004-01-22 Thread Pete Bessman
Guess what? ...*chirp*...*chirp*... Right, well... Specimen is midi controlled audio sampler for GNU/Linux systems, and this is a new release of it. I'm justifying this on the inclusion of velocity sensitivity, cuts, and proof-of-concept (read: crappy) pitch scaling. You can download the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New name for ladcca?

2004-01-20 Thread Pete Bessman
++LASH. It is a real word, short and sweet, with a meaning that is relevant to its purpose. I rather like it. [pb]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] New name for ladcca: LASH

2004-01-20 Thread Pete Bessman
At Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:54:41 +, Bob Ham wrote: Just to let you know I decided on LASH, which stands for 'LASH Audio w00t. I take all the credit, because I rule. /me hides Session Handler'. The recursive 'L' is because I've never felt particularly bound to linux *cough*hurd*cough*.