Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-05 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: - Direct access plugin/insert parameter changing tool-tip added. I'm not sure it makes a terrible sense to post this to LAD rather than to LAU, but I'd just like to notice that I'm not extremely happy with the current implementation of

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-05 Thread Stefan Kersten
On 3/5/12 2:16 AM, David Robillard wrote: I think a very simple stand-alone API to deal with OSC message would go a long way towards making OSC more feasible for plugins or Jack apps. there are at least two options: a header library i've been using in a couple of projects [1] and oscpack [2].

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-05 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 11:20:00PM +0100, Albert Graef wrote: I don't know if it's of practical use for anyone else, but time and again I would have had good use for this apparently simple feature. Same here. It would have immensely simplified some past projects, and some more the come.

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-05 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 05:29:14PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: this general language is the whole problem. you can't send OSC to an OSC capable plugin or an external OSC application in any generalized sense, because there is no shared format for the messages. the sequence of messages that

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-05 Thread Emanuel Rumpf
Am 5. März 2012 12:24 schrieb Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org: On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 12:55:39AM +0100, Albert Graef wrote: Well, what you see as a problem, I see as a virtue. It gives me the flexibility to just pick my own set of messages for the application at hand. The sequencer

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-05 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
On 03/05/2012 10:33 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: - Direct access plugin/insert parameter changing tool-tip added. I'm not sure it makes a terrible sense to post this to LAD rather than to LAU, but I'd just like to notice that I'm not

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-05 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: to tweak more than one parameter simultaneously, for what i'm curious on how you actually could do just that with one 1-dimensional slider What would I want that for? Just provide one slider per setting :) Works like a charm in A3 :)

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-05 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
On 03/05/2012 04:48 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: to tweak more than one parameter simultaneously, for what i'm curious on how you actually could do just that with one 1-dimensional slider What would I want that for? Just provide one

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-05 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
On 03/05/2012 05:15 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Rui Nuno Capelarn...@rncbc.org wrote: On 03/05/2012 04:48 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: to tweak more than one parameter simultaneously, for what i'm

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-05 Thread David Robillard
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 12:13 +0100, Stefan Kersten wrote: On 3/5/12 2:16 AM, David Robillard wrote: I think a very simple stand-alone API to deal with OSC message would go a long way towards making OSC more feasible for plugins or Jack apps. there are at least two options: a header library

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread J. Liles
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Emanuel Rumpf xb...@web.de wrote: Am 3. März 2012 23:29 schrieb Paul Davis p...@linuxaudiosystems.com: OSC this general language is the whole problem. you can't send OSC to an OSC capable plugin or an external OSC application in any generalized sense,

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread J. Liles
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Emanuel Rumpf xb...@web.de wrote: Am 4. März 2012 11:14 schrieb J. Liles malnour...@gmail.com: On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Emanuel Rumpf xb...@web.de wrote: There should at least be an accepted, standardized way for transmission of MIDI data over OSC !

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread Albert Graef
On 03/04/2012 03:31 AM, David Robillard wrote: However, I doubt Ardour ever will, nor do I think it even should, support sequencing of events that are transmitted by some mechanism other than Jack. That would be a gigantic inconsistent mess for more reasons than I feel like listing, and trying

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread Albert Graef
On 03/04/2012 03:47 AM, David Robillard wrote: I probably said this. Internally it's like Jack in most of the important places, i.e. the actual type of the event payload is pretty much irrelevant. The biggest problem to solve is the on-disk format. That shouldn't be a real problem. OSC is

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread Paul Davis
On 3/4/12, J. Liles malnour...@gmail.com wrote: I personally don't think that the way notes are encoded is the primary limitation imposed by MIDI. A note is a frequency, an attack/decay modulation, and a duration. apparently you're forgetting or have not been a part of the many debates with

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread Emanuel Rumpf
Am 4. März 2012 14:38 schrieb Paul Davis p...@linuxaudiosystems.com: ... the problem for users is that it leaves the mappings unspecified, and although there are some clever solutions for this (several of them), from a user's perspective it always adds an extra layer of complexity. contrast

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread David Robillard
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 14:14 +0100, Albert Graef wrote: On 03/04/2012 03:47 AM, David Robillard wrote: I probably said this. Internally it's like Jack in most of the important places, i.e. the actual type of the event payload is pretty much irrelevant. The biggest problem to solve is the

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread David Robillard
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 08:38 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: On 3/4/12, J. Liles malnour...@gmail.com wrote: I personally don't think that the way notes are encoded is the primary limitation imposed by MIDI. A note is a frequency, an attack/decay modulation, and a duration. apparently you're

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread Louigi Verona
Guys, can you explain to me, who is not very well aware of OSC and MIDI debates, why not come up with at least a Linux Audio OSC standard for notes and just use that? -- Louigi Verona http://www.louigiverona.ru/ ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out! (Emanuel

2012-03-04 Thread Jeff McClintock
The chance for MIDI to improve seems very low, due to its technical limits. HD-Protocol MIDI is coming, albeit with painfully slow progress. Best Regards, Jeff ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread Albert Graef
On 03/04/2012 06:32 PM, David Robillard wrote: What do you mean by pick the OSC addresses that I want? I mean those symbols with the slashes that are the first part of any atomic OSC message like /foo/bar 4711.0. Usually such a symbol would denote the particular control that the value

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread David Robillard
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 22:38 +0300, Louigi Verona wrote: Guys, can you explain to me, who is not very well aware of OSC and MIDI debates, why not come up with at least a Linux Audio OSC standard for notes and just use that? Chicken Egg problem. (Never trust a spec not actually used by anyone)

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread David Robillard
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 22:27 +0100, Albert Graef wrote: On 03/04/2012 06:32 PM, David Robillard wrote: What do you mean by pick the OSC addresses that I want? I mean those symbols with the slashes that are the first part of any atomic OSC message like /foo/bar 4711.0. Usually such a symbol

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
On 03/04/2012 09:27 PM, Albert Graef wrote: P.S.: Rui, apologies for hitchhiking your thread. I hope that you will forgive me over a glass of good Californian wine. ;-) no worries. given the length of the thread i think i'll take two please ;) cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread Albert Graef
On 03/04/2012 11:26 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: no worries. given the length of the thread i think i'll take two please ;) Ok, granted. I'd even make that two bottles if you implement OSC tracks in Qtractor. ;-) Albert -- Dr. Albert Graf Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz,

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread michael noble
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Albert Graef dr.gr...@t-online.de wrote: On 03/04/2012 11:26 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: no worries. given the length of the thread i think i'll take two please ;) Ok, granted. I'd even make that two bottles if you implement OSC tracks in Qtractor. ;-)

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread David Robillard
On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 09:40 +0900, michael noble wrote: [...] I'm chiming in late here, but it is a topic I've thought about a little having experimented in the domain. Given the open-endedness of OSC, I've always thought it makes more sense to implement some kind of plugin based translators,

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-04 Thread michael noble
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:16 AM, David Robillard d...@drobilla.net wrote: I don't really grasp what you're getting at here, or what MIDI has to do with it, etc.  However, using plugins to process/filter/whatever OSC messages is natural (same thing for Jack apps).  You can use any event types

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-03 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 03/03/2012 07:36 AM, Albert Graef wrote: I don't see why an OSC track should make any assumptions about the semantics of OSC messages. For optimized representation and editing. Avoiding artificial restrictions can give you both freedom and clumsiness ;) -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-03 Thread David Robillard
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 07:36 +0100, Albert Graef wrote: On 03/03/2012 06:50 AM, David Robillard wrote: There is also the chicken egg problem, last I checked there wasn't an OSC note standard in use anywhere to have Ardour send... I don't see why an OSC track should make any assumptions

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-03 Thread Albert Graef
On 03/03/2012 08:25 PM, David Robillard wrote: Sure, you could just implement dumb raw OSC recording and playback, but there's little point in using a DAW for that (not to mention little practical musical use) But that's exactly what I want. For starters, even just simple messages consisting

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-03 Thread Paul Davis
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Albert Graef dr.gr...@t-online.de wrote: On 03/03/2012 08:25 PM, David Robillard wrote: Sure, you could just implement dumb raw OSC recording and playback, but there's little point in using a DAW for that (not to mention little practical musical use) But

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-03 Thread Robin Gareus
On 03/03/2012 11:20 PM, Albert Graef wrote: On 03/03/2012 08:25 PM, David Robillard wrote: Sure, you could just implement dumb raw OSC recording and playback, but there's little point in using a DAW for that (not to mention little practical musical use) But that's exactly what I want. For

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-03 Thread Albert Graef
On 03/03/2012 11:29 PM, Paul Davis wrote: you can't send OSC to an OSC capable plugin or an external OSC application in any generalized sense, because there is no shared format for the messages. Yes, there is. It's the OSC format itself. If you want to keep it simple, you could boil it down

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-03 Thread Albert Graef
On 03/03/2012 11:36 PM, Robin Gareus wrote: I use Algoscore for sequencing OSC. http://kymatica.com/Software/AlgoScore Hi Robin, thanks for the pointers. Yes I know about AlgoScore and Iannix, but that's not quite what I had in mind. There was a presentation at Piksel a few years back

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-03 Thread David Robillard
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 23:20 +0100, Albert Graef wrote: On 03/03/2012 08:25 PM, David Robillard wrote: Sure, you could just implement dumb raw OSC recording and playback, but there's little point in using a DAW for that (not to mention little practical musical use) But that's exactly what

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-03 Thread Emanuel Rumpf
Am 3. März 2012 23:29 schrieb Paul Davis p...@linuxaudiosystems.com: OSC this general language is the whole problem. you can't send OSC to an OSC capable plugin or an external OSC application in any generalized sense, because there is no shared format for the messages. the sequence of

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-02 Thread Albert Graef
On 03/01/2012 07:40 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: So here it goes: Ardour is a full fledged, pro-level DAW and, for crying out loud on its own, the flagship of the free/open-source pro-audio fleet and movement, not only Linux anymore nowadays. It goes without saying that Ardour offers an

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-02 Thread Louigi Verona
Hey guys! I would have to respectfully disagree with Rui as to amateurishness of his sequencer. Having less features or being geared towards specific workflow or being more specialized rather than all in one hardly makes a tool a home studio tool. As for people comparing it to Ardour, I would

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-02 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
On 03/02/2012 05:41 PM, Albert Graef wrote: One thing I've been wondering about... Could you please elaborate on what exactly the --enable-lv2-state-files configure option is for? That was marked as experimental in previous svn revisions, and is one of the very few options which are disabled by

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-02 Thread David Robillard
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 18:41 +0100, Albert Graef wrote: On 03/01/2012 07:40 PM, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: So here it goes: Ardour is a full fledged, pro-level DAW and, for crying out loud on its own, the flagship of the free/open-source pro-audio fleet and movement, not only Linux anymore

Re: [LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-02 Thread Albert Graef
On 03/03/2012 06:50 AM, David Robillard wrote: There is also the chicken egg problem, last I checked there wasn't an OSC note standard in use anywhere to have Ardour send... I don't see why an OSC track should make any assumptions about the semantics of OSC messages. It should just treat it

[LAD] [ANN] Qtractor 0.5.4 - Echo Victor shouts out!

2012-03-01 Thread Rui Nuno Capela
Howdy, There's no victory over anything whatsoever. Read it again, it's just a codename. If that serves anything at all, to my own defense that is, Qtractor is still a pet project hobby of mine, as all things in Linux audio world for that matter. There's been too many saying and comparing