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

2004-06-10 Thread Lee Revell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aarggg - knobs. One of my pet peeves. Knobs make absolutely no sense in a GUI. There is no easy (or standard) way to control them. Note that there are no knobs in JAMin. The parametric controls aren't even knobs. I think this was the point he was

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

2004-06-10 Thread torbenh
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:16:00AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:44:49 +0200, Robert Jonsson wrote: if i try out a new VST plug i open its GUI. with the GUI i get a nice and compact look of all its controls. If i want to use the plugin i resort to rebuilding

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

2004-06-10 Thread torbenh
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:35:38PM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 11:04, Pelle Nilsson wrote: Marek Peteraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Second thing is that the way you percieve them shouldn't change as you switch applications. Which is what VST perfectly

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

2004-06-10 Thread RTaylor
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 16:12, Jan Depner wrote: } } I think you're only considering red/green colorblindness. I've been } doing GUIs for 26 years and boy do I get bitches about color. It's } their favorite whine. I've been doing color since '77.. If you ever need assistance... -- If

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

2004-06-10 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:22:24 +0100 Chris Cannam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 7:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right click on any slider in JAMin and it immediately goes to the default position, whether center or zero. Ah, now I looked for that feature but didn't

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

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 06:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:35:38PM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 11:04, Pelle Nilsson wrote: Marek Peteraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Second thing is that the way you percieve them shouldn't change as

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

2004-06-10 Thread Jan Depner
I like this idea, however, in JAMin, we were trying to save real estate. The status bar is used for JACK status. It would be very easy to implement this since I've already built focus change detection in for context sensitive help (shift-F1 over any widget). I don't think I have enough room to

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

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:57:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Automation in VST is pretty much broken AFAICT. It relys on explicit support from the plugins to work. i am tempted to say not true but i may miss something. - there is a setParameter() call on the plugin (so i can automate

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

2004-06-10 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:57:14 -0500 Jan Depner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like this idea, however, in JAMin, we were trying to save real estate. The status bar is used for JACK status. It would be very easy to implement this since I've already built focus change detection in for context

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

2004-06-09 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:15, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:54:58PM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: Fons' Moog HP filter is a complex piece of DSP i suspect. No, it's actually quite simple :-) The most complex one is the four-band parametric filter I released recently, and

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

2004-06-09 Thread Richard Bown
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 20:22, Chris Cannam wrote: On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 7:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right click on any slider in JAMin and it immediately goes to the default position, whether center or zero. Ah, now I looked for that feature but didn't find it. In Rosegarden

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

2004-06-09 Thread torbenh
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:53:43PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Steve Harris hat gesagt: // Steve Harris wrote: What I meant with nice is more in the vein of this here: http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/img/closeup/redrum/closeup-redrum450.jpg I mean, it looks like a

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

2004-06-09 Thread torbenh
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:12:07PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: But then, even the GUI gurus at Apple were forced to show a photorealistic hard disk on the OS-X desktop. Why they did, fails me... has the avarage mac user ever seen a HardDisk ? :)) -- torben Hohn

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

2004-06-09 Thread torbenh
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:51:19PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:12, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: Second thing is that the way you percieve them shouldn't change as you switch applications. Which is what VST

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

2004-06-09 Thread torbenh
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:16:16PM -0700, Jos Laake wrote: Just some thoughts... As one who tends to use more than build these things, I can see the pros and cons of the photorealistic GUI. For one thing, if it's simulating a piece of equipment I once used (many years ago ;-) ) having the

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

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Cannam
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 7:30 am, Richard Bown wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 20:22, Chris Cannam wrote: On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 7:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right click on any slider in JAMin and it immediately goes to the default position, whether center or zero. Ah, now I

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

2004-06-09 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On tis, 2004-06-08 at 20:12, Frank Barknecht wrote: But then, even the GUI gurus at Apple were forced to show a photorealistic hard disk on the OS-X desktop. Why they did, fails me... ... and it is even weirder when you consider that most Apple consumers never open their boxes and have no

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

2004-06-09 Thread Robert Jonsson
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 08.53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:53:43PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Steve Harris hat gesagt: // Steve Harris wrote: What I meant with nice is more in the vein of this here:

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

2004-06-09 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On tis, 2004-06-08 at 20:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colors must always be configurable. The percentage of color blind people is much higher than most people think. I think the percentage of colorblind males are about 10% If you use the green/red metaphore (as in walk/stop) they will be

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

2004-06-09 Thread Robert Jonsson
if i try out a new VST plug i open its GUI. with the GUI i get a nice and compact look of all its controls. If i want to use the plugin i resort to rebuilding the GUI with galan controls (they have better functionality). its all there and its your choice. but there are of course several

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

2004-06-09 Thread Pelle Nilsson
Marek Peteraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Second thing is that the way you percieve them shouldn't change as you switch applications. Which is what VST perfectly fulfills - it provides its own UI. If I have 100 LADSPA plug-ins installed and 3 LADSPA hosts, I'd rather spend my time learning

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:03:10 +0100, Chris Cannam wrote: On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 7:16 pm, Frank Barknecht wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aarggg - knobs. One of my pet peeves. I actually wrote a knob GUI element for Pd, which normally

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:12:07 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: Second thing is that the way you percieve them shouldn't change as you switch applications. Which is what VST perfectly fulfills - it provides its own UI. True

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:38:04 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:12, Frank Barknecht wrote: True somehow but then also not: If I don't like a UI I'd like to be able to change it. That's something valueable that

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:10:43 +0100, Steve Harris wrote: open hte UI for the first time - it could eg. be a scrit that spawns Pd and then uses a Pdpatch to control the host via OS ;) OSC of course.

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:44:49 +0200, Robert Jonsson wrote: if i try out a new VST plug i open its GUI. with the GUI i get a nice and compact look of all its controls. If i want to use the plugin i resort to rebuilding the GUI with galan controls (they have better functionality).

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:04:09 +0200, Pelle Nilsson wrote: If I have 100 LADSPA plug-ins installed and 3 LADSPA hosts, I'd rather spend my time learning the guis of the 3 host-applications than learning the different guis of 100 plug-ins. That a plug-in then has three different interfaces

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:15:13 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: No, it's actually quite simple :-) The most complex one is the four-band parametric filter I released recently, and that's also the only one that is not intended as an AMS plugin. And it will reappear in some time as a JACK

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:06:00 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: But if you let JAMin run as the only client, you'll see it makes no sense, since it needs audio input to be useful. Actually some people do - audio can come from outside PCs ;) - Steve

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

2004-06-09 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:06:00AM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:15, Fons Adriaensen wrote: - When I saw the collection of VST plugins that Paul Davis used to show his VST hosting in Karlsruhe, I asked myself My god, do they all look that childish ?. Ask win32

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

2004-06-09 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:10:22AM +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 :) Even in countries that are upside down, such as Australia :-) -- FA

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

2004-06-09 Thread Paul Davis
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 20:22, Chris Cannam wrote: On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 7:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right click on any slider in JAMin and it immediately goes to the default position, whether center or zero. Ah, now I looked for that feature but didn't find it. In Rosegarden

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

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Cannam
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 12:04 pm, Paul Davis wrote: JAMin: default value = button3 click context menu = ?? Rosegarden: default value = button3 click context menu = ?? Rosegarden is internally inconsistent, because button3 click is for context menu

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:31:05PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 12:04 pm, Paul Davis wrote: JAMin: default value = button3 click context menu = ?? Rosegarden: default value = button3 click context menu = ?? Rosegarden is

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

2004-06-09 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 11:49, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:06:00AM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:15, Fons Adriaensen wrote: - When I saw the collection of VST plugins that Paul Davis used to show his VST hosting in Karlsruhe, I asked myself

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

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Cannam
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 12:30 pm, Steve Harris wrote: Middle button seems both reasonably logical and not used for anyting else in this context (pasting into a slider?!). Dunno about other people but I find middle-click quite hard work with a wheely mouse, at least without wheeling the wheel

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

2004-06-09 Thread Paul Davis
Ardour: default value ctrl-button2 click context menu = button3 click chris - heh, i am as bad as you! i got ardour's wrong :) default value is shift-button1. ctrl-button2 initiate MIDI binding.

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 software

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

2004-06-09 Thread eviltwin69
No, I didn't dream it, I wrote it. I may have missed a slider or two but I think I got most of them. Of course I am talking about the latest CVS not 0.8.0. Jan On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:30 , Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 20:22, Chris Cannam wrote: On Tuesday 08

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

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Cannam
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 12:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I didn't dream it, I wrote it. He meant I dreamt what I said about Rosegarden. Not quite true either, but closer. Chris

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

2004-06-09 Thread eviltwin69
Sorry, you are correct. In JAMin it's center click. Jeez, I wrote it, I should know these things :-\ Jan On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:32 , Chris Cannam [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 7:30 am, Richard Bown wrote: On Tuesday 08 June 2004 20:22, Chris Cannam wrote: On Tuesday 08

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

2004-06-09 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:05, Dave Griffiths wrote: 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

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:42:32PM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: I can give you a perfect example - a *reference* DAW system - ProTools. Which, in ver. 6, has gone eye-candy. Guess why. The core app is still pretty plain (apart from a bit a 3d-ish shading), its the bundled plugins that are

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

2004-06-09 Thread Marek Peteraj
If developers don't know how to operate their own apps then we have a serious problem :) Marek On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, you are correct. In JAMin it's center click. Jeez, I wrote it, I should know these things :-\ Jan On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:32 ,

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:13:18AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, you are correct. In JAMin it's center click. Jeez, I wrote it, I should know these things :-\ Heh, seems that noone knows how thier app works :) Seems like a good time to decide an Linux Audio Developer HIG extension.

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

2004-06-09 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:46, Steve Harris wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:42:32PM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: I can give you a perfect example - a *reference* DAW system - ProTools. Which, in ver. 6, has gone eye-candy. Guess why. The core app is still pretty plain (apart from a bit a

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

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Cannam
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 1:50 pm, Steve Harris wrote: A little bit of meter standardisation wouldn't hurt - eg. the point at which people show red seems to vary a lot, which has been confusing for users. Also is there a common convention for how dB levels map to positions on a fader or meter?

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

2004-06-09 Thread Tim Orford
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:46:36PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:42:32PM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: I can give you a perfect example - a *reference* DAW system - ProTools. Which, in ver. 6, has gone eye-candy. Guess why. The core app is still pretty plain (apart

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:35:56PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 1:50 pm, Steve Harris wrote: A little bit of meter standardisation wouldn't hurt - eg. the point at which people show red seems to vary a lot, which has been confusing for users. Also is there a common

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

2004-06-09 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:15, Tim Orford wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:46:36PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:42:32PM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: I can give you a perfect example - a *reference* DAW system - ProTools. Which, in ver. 6, has gone eye-candy.

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

2004-06-09 Thread Chris Cannam
On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 2:37 pm, Steve Harris wrote: Yes, IEC-268: [...] I think you may have just revealed about 20 quid's worth of standards publication material, judging from the pricing on the IEC website. It also defines which points you should mark on your scale. And can I see what

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

2004-06-09 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:15:12PM +0200, Tim Orford wrote: One struggles to find pro music software in the same way that you get in say the 3d industry. While i am not very familiar with them, i think the Neve and SSL offerings are much more practical - not that they are good examples to

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

2004-06-09 Thread Tim Orford
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:13:21PM +0200, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: One struggles to find pro music software in the same way that you get in say the 3d industry. While i am not very familiar with them, i think the Neve and SSL offerings are much more practical - not that they are good

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

2004-06-09 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:10:30PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jun 2004 2:37 pm, Steve Harris wrote: Yes, IEC-268: [...] I think you may have just revealed about 20 quid's worth of standards publication material, judging from the pricing on the IEC website. You can get

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

2004-06-09 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:37:31PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: Yes, IEC-268: ... It also defines which points you should mark on your scale. Does it also define the 'ballistics' ? ISTR this is a very fast rise time 'absolute peak' type of meter. Depending on the job at hand, a user may prefer

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] Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?

2004-06-09 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 11:04, Pelle Nilsson wrote: Marek Peteraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Second thing is that the way you percieve them shouldn't change as you switch applications. Which is what VST perfectly fulfills - it provides its own UI. If I have 100 LADSPA plug-ins

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

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 03:10, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On tis, 2004-06-08 at 20:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colors must always be configurable. The percentage of color blind people is much higher than most people think. I think the percentage of colorblind males are about 10%

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

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 04:49, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:06:00AM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:15, Fons Adriaensen wrote: - When I saw the collection of VST plugins that Paul Davis used to show his VST hosting in Karlsruhe, I asked myself

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

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
Don't feel bad. I got mine right and then thought it was wrong :) Go figure. Jan On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 06:52, Paul Davis wrote: Ardour: default value ctrl-button2 click context menu = button3 click chris - heh, i am as bad as you! i got ardour's wrong :) default value

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

2004-06-09 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 23:21, Jan Depner wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 04:49, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:06:00AM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 21:15, Fons Adriaensen wrote: - When I saw the collection of VST plugins that Paul Davis used

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

2004-06-09 Thread Jan Depner
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 07:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, you are correct. In JAMin it's center click. Jeez, I wrote it, I should know these things :-\ Jan But obviously I don't...Doh! It's right click to go to default in all sliders that have a default. The compressors, crossovers,

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

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:45:53 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: VST plugins tend to be rather complex, offering tons of features and eyecandish GUIs, while LADSPAs usually offer limited functionality, no GUI at all(hosts usually provide simple ones to control the parameters). But what's

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

2004-06-08 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 10:18, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:45:53 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: VST plugins tend to be rather complex, offering tons of features and eyecandish GUIs, while LADSPAs usually offer limited functionality, no GUI at all(hosts usually provide simple

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

2004-06-08 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:18:58 +0100 Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [OOT] I used to think that a UI spec for LADSPA (to make it competetive with VST) was a technological problem. I now thinks its a manpower issue (I think Paul Davis pointed this out a couple of years ago :). Games

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

2004-06-08 Thread Marek Peteraj
Forgot to add... snip ... infact if you look in many LADSPA plugins you will see theres really more going on than there appears to be. True that you can't have an ideal isolation of all DSP techniques, whether simple of complex ones. But still, LADSPAs are simple plugins as the name itself

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

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 06:54:32 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:18:58 +0100 Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [OOT] I used to think that a UI spec for LADSPA (to make it competetive with VST) was a technological problem. I now thinks its a manpower issue (I

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

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Harris
I wasn't particularly disagreeing with your proposal BTW, I was just rambling on my pet topic :) On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:50:36 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: I think thats down to two factors (and its not a good thing) 1) LADSPA developers are few in number and short in time. The basics

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

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:17:25 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: Forgot to add... snip ... infact if you look in many LADSPA plugins you will see theres really more going on than there appears to be. True that you can't have an ideal isolation of all DSP techniques, whether simple of

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

2004-06-08 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:17, Steve Harris wrote: I wasn't particularly disagreeing with your proposal BTW, I was just rambling on my pet topic :) NP, just trying to make you completely agree :) On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:50:36 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: I think thats down to two factors

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

2004-06-08 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 11:20, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:17:25 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: Forgot to add... snip ... infact if you look in many LADSPA plugins you will see theres really more going on than there appears to be. True that you can't have an ideal

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

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:52:02 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: JAMin is not a plugin. Its an app. Think about it. A typical fx plugin takes audio as input does DSProcessing to the audio and outputs that. What does JAMin do? The whole purpose of JAMin is to do DSP. And if you make a send in

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

2004-06-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: Usability - as each host provides it's own UI for the same plugins, there's really no usability at all. The true beauty about VSTs is that they have the same visual appearance no matter which application you're using. That's rule #1 for

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

2004-06-08 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:51, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: Usability - as each host provides it's own UI for the same plugins, there's really no usability at all. The true beauty about VSTs is that they have the same visual appearance no

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

2004-06-08 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:11, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:52:02 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: JAMin is not a plugin. Its an app. Think about it. A typical fx plugin takes audio as input does DSProcessing to the audio and outputs that. What does JAMin do? The whole

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

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:24:05 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:11, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:52:02 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: JAMin is not a plugin. Its an app. Think about it. A typical fx plugin takes audio as input does DSProcessing

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

2004-06-08 Thread eviltwin69
Hey, I wouldn't mind working on the graphics, I just don't know where to start or who else is working on it. Jan On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:18 , Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:45:53 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: VST plugins tend to be rather complex, offering tons of

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

2004-06-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: Judging from the current situation of the audio market that includes proprietary app/plugins, the popularity thereof, from the numerous reviews i've seen and from the numerous forum threads i've read... You're representing a very

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

2004-06-08 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:43, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:24:05 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:11, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:52:02 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: JAMin is not a plugin. Its an app. Think about it. A

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

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 05:50:42 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: But I intended to point out two other things: * First is, that usability has nothing to do with nice looks. I truely believe - and given some research time, I'm sure I could prove it as well - that photorealistic graphical user

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

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:03:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I wouldn't mind working on the graphics, I just don't know where to start or who else is working on it. Ah, well, thats back to problem A, the technical problem. ;) I lent the DSSI specification

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

2004-06-08 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:40:54 +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: The point I didnt make is that JAMin /cannot/ be implemented efficiently as a set of plugins. The (majority, non-ladspa) DSP code is very intermingled, to make it run in realtime. How much DSP code is non-ladspa in

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

2004-06-08 Thread Marek Peteraj
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 17:50, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: Judging from the current situation of the audio market that includes proprietary app/plugins, the popularity thereof, from the numerous reviews i've seen and from the numerous

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

2004-06-08 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:55:16PM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: Virtual 3d guis copy the real world. Try to do it the other way around, with widget sliders and one color for both sliders and background(most cases). Imagine a hw which would look like that. I agree with your point here. I used

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

2004-06-08 Thread eviltwin69
On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:55 , Marek Peteraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: It all depends on how you perceive different controls (different knobs in different sections etc) and how you learn ot perceive them, i.e. how you get to know them and how you get used to them. Aarggg - knobs.

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

2004-06-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: Second thing is that the way you percieve them shouldn't change as you switch applications. Which is what VST perfectly fulfills - it provides its own UI. True somehow but then also not: If I don't like a UI I'd like to be able to

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

2004-06-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aarggg - knobs. One of my pet peeves. Knobs make absolutely no sense in a GUI. There is no easy (or standard) way to control them. Note that there are no knobs in JAMin. The parametric controls aren't even

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

2004-06-08 Thread martin rumori
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 08:12:07PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: But then, even the GUI gurus at Apple were forced to show a photorealistic hard disk on the OS-X desktop. Why they did, fails me... surprisingly, each single partition is shown with a photorealistic hard disk. surprisingly, if

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

2004-06-08 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:54:58PM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: Fons' Moog HP filter is a complex piece of DSP i suspect. No, it's actually quite simple :-) The most complex one is the four-band parametric filter I released recently, and that's also the only one that is not intended as an AMS

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

2004-06-08 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:12, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: Second thing is that the way you percieve them shouldn't change as you switch applications. Which is what VST perfectly fulfills - it provides its own UI. True somehow but then

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

2004-06-08 Thread eviltwin69
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:03 , Chris Cannam [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 7:16 pm, Frank Barknecht wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aarggg - knobs. One of my pet peeves. I actually wrote a knob GUI element for Pd, which

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

2004-06-08 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 7:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right click on any slider in JAMin and it immediately goes to the default position, whether center or zero. Ah, now I looked for that feature but didn't find it. In Rosegarden you double-click to zero a fader. I didn't think of

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

2004-06-08 Thread eviltwin69
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 21:15 , Fons Adriaensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: - When I saw the collection of VST plugins that Paul Davis used to show his VST hosting in Karlsruhe, I asked myself My god, do they all look that childish ?. This is just to say I terribly dislike this eye-candy style, and

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

2004-06-08 Thread Jos Laake
Just some thoughts... As one who tends to use more than build these things, I can see the pros and cons of the photorealistic GUI. For one thing, if it's simulating a piece of equipment I once used (many years ago ;-) ) having the GUI mirror the original HW device makes a lot of sense because I

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

2004-06-08 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 8:15 pm, Fons Adriaensen wrote: - When I saw the collection of VST plugins that Paul Davis used to show his VST hosting in Karlsruhe, I asked myself My god, do they all look that childish ?. I only saw this by webcam (and 'scuse me if I just digress to say how much I

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

2004-06-08 Thread Jos Laake
Frank Barknecht wrote: LADSPA combined with Jack is of course a good example of this philosophy. Look e.g. at Jackrack: it does provide a consistent GUI for LADSPA plugins, that you could use just fine with every other jack-enabled application, and one will get a very usable and consistent

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

2004-06-08 Thread Joost Diepenmaat
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 05:50:42PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: * First is, that usability has nothing to do with nice looks. I truely believe - and given some research time, I'm sure I could prove it as well - that photorealistic graphical user interfaces modelled after hardware when shown

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

2004-06-08 Thread Dave Robillard
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:51, Joost Diepenmaat wrote: There is just one problem with this approach; that once you have seperate apps for different parts of your composition, it's usually a lot more hassle to set up than a big giant app when you want to work on it again. I vaguely remember a

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

2004-06-08 Thread Jan Depner
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:22, Chris Cannam wrote: On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 7:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right click on any slider in JAMin and it immediately goes to the default position, whether center or zero. Ah, now I looked for that feature but didn't find it. In Rosegarden

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

2004-06-08 Thread Albert Graef
Dave Robillard wrote: Yep, that's LADCCA, now renamed LASH (LASH Audio Session Handler). http://lash-audio-session-handler.org/ For me the new page takes ages to load. Anyone else experiencing this? Albert -- Dr. Albert Graf Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany Email: [EMAIL

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