Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Taybin Rutkin wrote: I believe that studies have been done with dynamic menus. They found that it was confusing to have the menus rearrange. Humans get used to looking for the same thing in one place, and if the place changes and we have to look for it, it is an

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread mlewis
How bout xpatch (as in cross) or npatch (as in multiple)

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Maarten de Boer
Why change? Personally I like LAAGA. But maybe that's for being dutch, and used to the double-A. mAArten

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread Nick Bailey
ljp wrote: 7/26/2001 23:30:38, Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't I make my libraries available as RPMs or debian packages? Because I have better things to do with my development time than rebuilding, reuploading, re-doing a web page every time I fix a bug in a library. Thats

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread Vincent Touquet
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:37:18AM +0100, Nick Bailey wrote: (cut) time now. I've even just bought some hardware (a twin K7 1.2GHz with an RME soundcard amongst other things) to run it on! If it was a higher-level library than (cut) Hi, I'm about to buy a new computer too and i was thinking

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Harris
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:54:09AM +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Richard Dobson said: and, wherever possible, ensure that the most frequently performed tasks (which may be the most argued-over parameter, of course) require the least number of steps. A sub-menu requires at least four,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:24:30PM -0400, Taybin Rutkin wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Richard C. Burnett wrote: Not Another Wire (NAW) :) (Hook your DAW with NAW) YAAF (BBTM) Yet Another Audio Framework (But Better Than Most) Yard, Yet Anther Rewire Duplicate ;) Plug, Plug Links User

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread Iain Sandoe
User interfaces need to be intuitive. #1 priority - preferably with: the main (if not all) tasks right in front of you. well-designed icons that lead you to the task directly. For linux applications it is better to satisfy the 90 percentile. Bells and whistles should be left to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Abramo Bagnara
Steve Harris wrote: Alba, Audio Linking By Alba Wow!!! This is wonderful. Alba is the italian word for dawn. It seems good wishing My vote is for ALBA (Audio Linking by Alba) -- Abramo Bagnara mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Opera Unica Phone:

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Richard Guenther wrote: Well, people dont stop development on their apps they worked on for one and a half year - this will not happen. Both you and Paul feel the same way on that topic. I don't hold it against you either. I would like to add that I feel it is the ideas that are more

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Abramo Bagnara wrote: Steve Harris wrote: Alba, Audio Linking By Alba Wow!!! This is wonderful. Alba is the italian word for dawn. It seems good wishing My vote is for ALBA (Audio Linking by Alba) Isn't also a quote from Napoleon? Also I think you are biased because it rhymes with

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread Paul Davis
I would like to add that I feel it is the ideas that are more important than the individual apps. Each one has different strong points. Things progress so much faster with the sound editors if we combined these ideas. That is where the true value of the Gimp lies. It's not the useful gui design

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Paul Davis wrote: POSA Paul's Own Sound Architecture now *that* made me laugh ... true, but i wonder if taybin has any idea of quite why, since i think i do (given your understanding of the cortina mk.III situation) ... Err, (Paul) Newmann's Own Salad Dressing?

RE: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Richard C. Burnett wrote: The next best alternative is code that statistacally keeps track of how often commands etc are used, then its sent back so people can see what the most frequent operations are and how they distribute between different users. Seems uncomfortably

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread Paul Davis
The library of useful ideas for each project are reasonably sized but nothing as extensive as the code base for win or mac editors. But if we had combined them all from the start then we would already have a very strong editing suite. How unrealistic is it? Is that posibility just too fantastic?

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Taybin Rutkin wrote: I believe that studies have been done with dynamic menus. They found that it was confusing to have the menus rearrange. Humans get used to looking for the same thing in one place, and if the place

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread Iain Sandoe
Richard Dobson wrote: [lots of reasonable stuff snipped...] 'Intuitive' is a wonderfully useless (and much abused) (non-)technical term, as it invariably means different things to different people, because, strangely enough, people learn to wotk (and think) in different ways. Nothing is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Harris
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:08:12PM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote: order. [Iain rates the probability approx. = 0.5 * sqrt(bugger all) ] Possibly a bit of a high estimate ;) an Audio HIG? I would be nice, but even getting people to agree on simple things, is hard in the UNIX world. eg. what the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Harris
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:57:01AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: Now, if someone produced a library that supported playlist editing in C in a way that could be easily integrated into (1) other languages (2) programs with different goals, there would be chance at cooperation, since we'd stand more

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Err, (Paul) Newmann's Own Salad Dressing? Now I'm confused, why does Paul Newmann have salad dressing. Isn't he an actor? He put a bunch of his money into a salad dressing company; the profits all go to the Scott Newmann foundation (in memory of his son, who died very young -- I think

[linux-audio-dev] Wrappers and LAAGA

2001-07-27 Thread Ellis Breen
I was wondering whether it was possible to implement LADSPA on non-Linux OSes, and if so, whether it has been done? For example, without breaking any licenses (by clever dynamic linking if necessary) could a DirectX, VST, MAS or TDM wrapper/adapter be written for it (if any of these provide a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Wrappers and LAAGA

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Harris
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:40:24PM +0100, Ellis Breen wrote: I was wondering whether it was possible to implement LADSPA on non-Linux OSes, and if so, whether it has been done? For example, without breaking any licenses (by clever dynamic linking if necessary) could a DirectX, VST, MAS or TDM

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread Richard Guenther
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Paul Davis wrote: I would point out here that snd has had the same kind of capabilities as the GIMP in the realm of audio for many years now. One might argue even more power, given that it uses Guile for the scripting language. Yet nobody (well, OK, very few people)

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread Richard Guenther
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Richard Guenther wrote: Well, people dont stop development on their apps they worked on for one and a half year - this will not happen. Both you and Paul feel the same way on that topic. I don't hold it against you either. I would like

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread Alexander Ehlert
Hi, I would like to add that I feel it is the ideas that are more important than the individual apps. Each one has different strong points. Things progress so much faster with the sound editors if we combined these ideas. Yeah thats it and sometimes two different philosophies can't be just

[linux-audio-dev] Re: ALBA

2001-07-27 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: Someone mentioned that 'alba' is Italian for 'dawn'. Just FYI, the alba (or aubade) was a troubadour or trouvere song form used by a look-out to awaken lovers before the dawn, i.e., before their spouses could figure out what they were up to. Ah, the Middle Ages, how I miss 'em...

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread Paul Winkler
Richard Guenther wrote: Well, people dont stop development on their apps they worked on for one and a half year - this will not happen. I think it does happen... AFAICT, Boris Nagels disappeared off the 'net sometime after promising to open-source Multitrack, but before actually doing so. You

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: ALBA

2001-07-27 Thread Steve Harris
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:42:48AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Greetings: Someone mentioned that 'alba' is Italian for 'dawn'. Just FYI, the alba (or aubade) was a troubadour or trouvere song form used by a look-out to awaken lovers before the dawn, i.e., before their spouses could

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Paul Winkler
Steve Harris wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:24:30PM -0400, Taybin Rutkin wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Richard C. Burnett wrote: Not Another Wire (NAW) :) (Hook your DAW with NAW) YAAF (BBTM) Yet Another Audio Framework (But Better Than Most) Yard, Yet Anther Rewire Duplicate

Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface

2001-07-27 Thread delire
- Original Message - From: Paul Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 10:57 Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] User Interface jesus man you're hilarious ; ) When its easy, I get a nice warm feeling all over. When its difficult, I end up being

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread delire
- Original Message - From: Taybin Rutkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 10:51 Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Taybin Rutkin wrote: I believe that

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Taybin wrote: But that menu would be rearranging, so it would be slower to use it. Now, I would suggest connecting the redo, or some do again command to the last action taken. The user always knows what he did, and always knows where the do again command is located. This would be most helpful

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Patrick Shirkey
British humour tends to be very dry, but I don't think much of it gets exported, when it is, its usually misunderstood (I should know). It is proper that one should refrain from talking of which cultures of our world don't quite un_der_stand. -- Patrick Shirkey - Manager Boost Hardware.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Wrappers and LAAGA

2001-07-27 Thread Karl MacMillan
On Friday 27 July 2001 11:37, you wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:40:24PM +0100, Ellis Breen wrote: I was wondering whether it was possible to implement LADSPA on non-Linux OSes, and if so, whether it has been done? For example, without breaking any licenses (by clever dynamic linking if

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Sébastien Métrot
JACK - Jack Audio Connection Kit. Just wait till version 6.35 :-) Sebastien - Original Message - From: Paul Winkler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name Steve Harris wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at

RE: [linux-audio-dev] Wrappers and LAAGA

2001-07-27 Thread Richard W.E. Furse
A few people have got LADSPA support working on Windows already. After all, it's all ANSI C except for the dlopen() mechanism which can be replaced trivially with the DLL mechanism. The suggestion to drop the L has been made, but I think it should stay. However, some might see it a bit rude to

[linux-audio-dev] FW: Kudos to the CoreAudio team

2001-07-27 Thread Iain Sandoe
This was just posted on the OS-X core audio list Kudos to who ? I just came across a paper detailing audio latency on various desktop operating systems. MacOS X was second best without load and the best performing system with load. 2.83 ms under load is very impressive. The link is:

[linux-audio-dev] Re:User Interface - An idea about presets for ladspa plugins

2001-07-27 Thread Linium
Le Fri, 27 Jul 2001, vous avez écrit : Yup, that seems to be a part audacity needs to be extended - ladspa support is quite important these days. Hello, I would like to take the occasion to talk about something I feel is needed. One cruel thing is that there is no inter-applications presets

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Wrappers and LAAGA

2001-07-27 Thread Sébastien Métrot
- Original Message - From: Richard W.E. Furse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 8:19 PM Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] Wrappers and LAAGA However, some might see it a bit rude to take their Linux plugins and compile them for Windows and because of

Re: [linux-audio-dev] FW: Kudos to the CoreAudio team

2001-07-27 Thread Karl MacMillan
On Friday 27 July 2001 14:07, you wrote: This was just posted on the OS-X core audio list Kudos to who ? I just came across a paper detailing audio latency on various desktop operating systems. MacOS X was second best without load and the best performing system with load. 2.83

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread ccb
so why don't we use the ALT key as the copy/cut/paste modifier? What's wrong with C-w, M-w and C-y? ;-). ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513

Re: [linux-audio-dev] modifiers was - what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread Iain Sandoe
Look this may have got out-of-hand (it was meant to be an illustration of a point rather than a Very Important Thing). so why don't we use the ALT key as the copy/cut/paste modifier? What's wrong with C-w, M-w and C-y? ;-). the same argument about stretching applies (at least on the kbds I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Wrappers and LAAGA

2001-07-27 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Sébastien Métrot wrote: However, some might see it a bit rude to take their Linux plugins and compile them for Windows and because of this I've not encouraged spread to other platforms. What do folk think? I wouldn't mind for my CMT plugins. I think

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re:User Interface - An idea about presets for ladspa plugins

2001-07-27 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Linium wrote: One cruel thing is that there is no inter-applications presets system for the ladspa plugins. Presets are quite usefull for all sort of reasons: -They are nice starting points for further tweakings. -It's immediate, you don't want to adjust all the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Richard C. Burnett
Hehe, I can see it know 'You haven't used pro-audio tools on linux, well let me tell you buddy, you don't know JACK :) Rick On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Sébastien Métrot wrote: JACK - Jack Audio Connection Kit. Just wait till version 6.35 :-) Sebastien - Original Message

Re: [linux-audio-dev] modifiers was - what's wrong with glame

2001-07-27 Thread Iain Sandoe
Sébastien Métrot wrote: Isn't it exactely the job of the main X Desktop providers to reach an agreement about where such specs should be placed in the users directory and what format it should be? (I'm becoming a big fan of xml for such kind of settings files but wahtever will do as long as

[linux-audio-dev] Cross application ladspa settings

2001-07-27 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Taybin Rutkin wrote: It's important to also save mulitple plugins. Save the order of a chain. And some programs also support networks where the plugin's aren't necessarily connected in a linear a-b-c manner. Maybe $LADSPA_PATH/networks/? This might not be practical

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA name

2001-07-27 Thread Paul Davis
On the subject of: JACK - Jack Audio Connection Kit. Rick writes: Hehe, I can see it know 'You haven't used pro-audio tools on linux, well let me tell you buddy, you don't know JACK :) this is so good, so very, very good it almost makes me want to run: sed -e 's/laaga/jack/g' -e

[linux-audio-dev] linux-kernel info: 2.4 Performance bug in read ahead

2001-07-27 Thread Roger Larsson
Hi, I have for some time wondered why reading two big (and identical) files takes the double time of comparing them... today I found the cause :-) Linux limits the read ahead to 1+31 pages (á 4096 bytes = 128 kB) with modern HD this is read quickly (4.3 ms, with 30 MB/s) then the head has to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Wrappers and LAAGA

2001-07-27 Thread Paul Davis
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:40:24PM +0100, Ellis Breen wrote: Another couple of questions regarding LAAGA.Would this allow softsynths to be synchronised with audio to sample accuracy? And how would one go about bouncing their output to a hard disk recorder such as Ardour? What tools are

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LAAGA app client question

2001-07-27 Thread Paul Davis
Maarten had written an FLTK client for LAAGA: It is a very simple example, it's your ae_client.c with a slider to control the gain. I just added it to the laaga source base. It seems to work flawlessly here. So I suspect some library issues, or something like that. Very strange.. Which