Linux 1394 A+M (was: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..)

2002-07-24 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:42:25 -0700, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: one as I just noticed last week that in 2.4.19-rc2 there is now an option to compile a IEC61883-6 protocol stack module for ieee1394 so I'll ask the question again... Yes, theres a mail refering to it here:

Re: Linux 1394 A+M (was: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..)

2002-07-24 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 08:05 am, Paul Davis wrote: i'm hoping takashi will jump on this the way he did USB audio and get this merged/extended into alsa. *REWIND* What ALSA USB audio? Owning a UA-100 I got off eBay cheap, it would be nice to see good USB ALSA support. The existing UA-100

Re: Linux 1394 A+M (was: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..)

2002-07-24 Thread Paul Winkler
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 03:13:45PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday 24 July 2002 08:05 am, Paul Davis wrote: i'm hoping takashi will jump on this the way he did USB audio and get this merged/extended into alsa. *REWIND* What ALSA USB audio? Owning a UA-100 I got off eBay cheap,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Juan Linietsky
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 03:14:56 -0400 Paul Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:43:36AM +0200, n++k wrote: Just a comment on the metadata persistence: Why not use an SQL database for storing session/project metadata? (configuration and such) We have the benefit of

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:30:22AM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: ok, but the question is, what for? What else do you need other than start/stop/seek ? doesnt midi proovide that already? then why something else? Also using midi you make sure that what you do is synced to external devices... You

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 08:43:36AM +0200, n++k wrote: Why not use an SQL database for storing session/project metadata? (configuration and such) We have the benefit of having a few quite stable free software SQL databases. (mysql, postgresql, sapdb) so requiring one wouldn't be too much to ask..

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 04:56:06AM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: And also you cant do the neat thing of asking all your apps to save all their data to a directory so you can create a targzip with the project :) That point is irrelevant, you can extract everything from the database and tar gzip.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Martijn Sipkema
Yep, think of 0-127 ranges for controller data :( That is too coarse; MIDI provides 14bit controller resolution by having controller pairs. That should be enough for controller since most sliders/knobs on hardware have much less than that. Pitch bend is 14bit also, allthough there is a lot of

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 11:24:03AM +0200, Vincent Touquet wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 01:17:53AM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: actually zipi and skini. tooskini has something to do with perry cook's STK. I though skini is just readable MIDI ? Hit me if I'm wrong though. it's mostly

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Juan Linietsky
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:28:01 +0200 Vincent Touquet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:30:22AM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: ok, but the question is, what for? What else do you need other than start/stop/seek ? doesnt midi proovide that already? then why something else? Also

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:00:15PM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: Yes, I agree that midi sucks. I'm wondering why dont we have a newer protocol by now, but we dont. So there's nothing else than having to stick to that archaic crap :) Because the hardware music device market moves a lot more

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:00:15PM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: (cut) Yes, I agree that midi sucks. I'm wondering why dont we have a newer protocol by now, but we dont. So there's nothing else than having to stick to that archaic crap :) (cut) What about Yamaha's mLan ? I thought that was some

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Sebastien Metrot
They don't even touch the idea of changing midi. (i'm registered with them as an mLan Licensee). Sebastien - Original Message - From: Vincent Touquet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:30 PM Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Sebastien Metrot
23, 2002 9:52 PM Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol.. On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:00:15PM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: (cut) Yes, I agree that midi sucks. I'm wondering why dont we have a newer protocol by now, but we dont. So there's nothing else than

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
What about Yamaha's mLan ? I thought that was some kind of midi over firewire, but maybe they didn't grab it as an opportunity to improve on midi ... It's midi and audio over firewire. I think it's plain vanilla midi messages, though. not sure. mLAN is built on top of the public

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Touquet
Yamaha has a large NDA tradition, making lots of things impossible. As another example: the filesystem format of their A series samples storage. It would be so nice if you could mount these disks in Linux too, but yammy refuses without an NDA ... Ask them the question though :) They have to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-22 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Vincent Touquet wrote: Is this XML based protocol restricted to state accounting only or would it be used for control interconnection protocol too (like midi + some bracket bloat ;) ? It might be useful to look at how gnome-session does things. Heck, maybe

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-22 Thread Juan Linietsky
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:39:54 +0200 Vincent Touquet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 07:17:27PM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote: (cut) How do you think the implementation should be? I cant think of much, but i think even a simple communication protocol that can send

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-22 Thread Arthur Peters
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 17:39, Vincent Touquet wrote: So we have: - audio interconnection - JACK - control interconnection - ? (alsa ?) - state saving protocol - some XML based protocol Is this XML based protocol restricted to state accounting only or would it be used for control

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-22 Thread Paul Winkler
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:56PM -0500, Arthur Peters wrote: The main reason I think we need such a protocol is for MIDI-like data that is outside the constraints of the MIDI protocol (floating point data or other complex info). MIDI is very powerful, but it is also very restrictive in some

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-22 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 12:32:59AM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: names I recall: zippi, tooskini. actually zipi and skini. tooskini has something to do with perry cook's STK. -- Paul Winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!

Re: [linux-audio-dev] App metadata intercomunication protocol..

2002-07-22 Thread Juan Linietsky
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:32:59 -0400 Paul Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:21:56PM -0500, Arthur Peters wrote: The main reason I think we need such a protocol is for MIDI-like data that is outside the constraints of the MIDI protocol (floating point data or other