Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread Abramo Bagnara
Paul Davis wrote: Kidding aside, this may prove to be so ubiquitous that it will quickly overshadow all other implementations. It's the MAS audio server that is going to be implemented into the X server itself and will be network-transparent. Slashdot just posted a news blurb on it:

[linux-audio-dev] Addition to the Usb-midi problem (Midisport 2x2)

2003-02-04 Thread Ivica Bukvic
Forgot to mention that I blacklisted usb-midi and audio drivers in the /etc/hotplug/blacklist. The computer tried also to load snd-usb-audio (why?), so I blacklisted that one as well. Btw, using Alsa 9.0.rc5. Finally, even though the /var/log/messages mentions creating two pairs I/O ports (since

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Laurent de Soras [Ohm Force]
Steve Harris wrote: PTAF uses float, subdivided in four ranges; [0,.25], [.25,.5], [.5,.75] and [.75,1], where the lower two ranges are for real time use, and the higher two are for off-line use. This doesn't make snese to me, off-line and wuality should be independent. Plugins should

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:55:10 +0100, Laurent de Soras [Ohm Force] wrote: Steve Harris wrote: PTAF uses float, subdivided in four ranges; [0,.25], [.25,.5], [.5,.75] and [.75,1], where the lower two ranges are for real time use, and the higher two are for off-line use. This

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:04:09 +0100, Laurent de Soras [Ohm Force] wrote: * GUI code in the same binaries is not even possible on some platforms. (At least not with standard toolkits.) I'm presonally not familiar with Linux GUI toolkits (I'm confused with Gnome, KDE, X, Berlin, etc,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Harris
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:22:26 -0500, Ivica Bukvic wrote: Kidding aside, this may prove to be so ubiquitous that it will quickly overshadow all other implementations. It's the MAS audio server that is going to be implemented into the X server itself and will be network-transparent. I spoke

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread Taybin Rutkin
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Abramo Bagnara wrote: Despite that I strongly think that an audio server that not permit in native way the traditional approach (what you call blocking approach) will never achieve the driving role we'd need. Well, given that Ardour, amsynth, alsaplayer, and freqtweak all

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Question regarding Usb-midi and Midisport 2x2

2003-02-04 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Ivica Bukvic wrote: I am running MDK 9.0 and am trying to get Midisport 2x2 to hotplug. The problem is that if I use the ezusbmidi script (obviously coupled with the right firmware and hotplug stuff) the /var/log/messages definitely notes its successful recognition of the device and announces

[linux-audio-dev] watchdog timeout on realtime operation

2003-02-04 Thread Son of Zev
Hi On loading MusE with the -R option I get this error after a few seconds allan@littlewolf2 allan]$ muse -R Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 no locale muse_en_GB//usr/share/muse/locale ALSA port add: MIDI 0-0, 64:0 flags 3 0x7f Track: unknown tag record at line 236

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:15:07 -0500, Taybin Rutkin wrote: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Steve Harris wrote: MAS itsself its not suitable for RT audio*, but I suggested that we might want some MAS-JACK interfaces for network transparent audio, and left a bussiness card, they seemed enthusiastic,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Harris
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:10:39 -0500, Taybin Rutkin wrote: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Abramo Bagnara wrote: Despite that I strongly think that an audio server that not permit in native way the traditional approach (what you call blocking approach) will never achieve the driving role we'd need.

[linux-audio-dev] PTAF Specs

2003-02-04 Thread Steve Harris
OK, I've read the more thoroughly now. On page 23 you have a list of properties (ie. metadata), some of these should be per-port, and the generic ones (name, authors etc.) should probably follow the qualified dublin core standard. http://dublincore.org/ It makes sense to me that versions should

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread Paul Davis
Despite that I strongly think that an audio server that not permit in native way the traditional approach (what you call blocking approach) will never achieve the driving role we'd need. if linux developers continue to work with this traditional model, then yes, i think you are right and its a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 08.54, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:11:22 +0100, David Olofson wrote: PTAF uses float, subdivided in four ranges; [0,.25], [.25,.5], [.5,.75] and [.75,1], where the lower two ranges are for real time use, and the higher two are for off-line use.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread Mike Andrews
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Paul Davis wrote: no sign of that. this is the same old design. sigh. no sample sync, the whole thing is still based on the idea of applications deciding what and when to do their stuff. sigh, sigh, sigh. it looks like a decent thing for network-based apps, but nothing

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Laurent de Soras [Ohm Force]
David Olofson wrote: As long as you connect ins and outs of the same type, they'll generally have compatible ranges. If not (say, your filter can't handle more than Nyqvist/4, but the PITCH output that controls it has no absolute limits), you most probably want *clamping* rather than

RE: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread Mark Knecht
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Andrews Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 8:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another) SNIP I'm the lead developer on the MAS

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
[Oops. Now I've done it all - this one was originally slightly over the 40 kB limit. *hehe*] On Tuesday 04 February 2003 03.04, Laurent de Soras [Ohm Force] wrote: Hello everybody, I'm one of the PTAF authors and I've just subscribed to this list, seeing the standard is discussed here. I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Paul Davis
However, namespaces don't really solve this; they just give it a different syntax and some type checking. The latter is nice, of course, but writing SomeNamespace::SomeSymbol instead of SomeNamespace_SomeSymbol... well, what's the point, really? because ... using namespace

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Tim Hockin
Hello everybody, I'm one of the PTAF authors and I've just subscribed to this list, seeing the standard is discussed here. I will try to answer your questions and to collect feedback. I apologize for this long mail. WELCOME! I'm excited to see one of the more well-known plugin companies

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Bandlimited LADSPA Oscillator Plugins ('BLOP') v0.2.6

2003-02-04 Thread Mike Rawes
BLOP is a set of LADSPA plugins - after way too long, it's up to v0.2.6 Website: http://blop.sf.net This release includes: * Full RDF metadata, for use with liblrdf * Bandlimited oscillators (no aliasing noise) Sawtooth Square Variable width pulse Variable slope triangle

[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] JACK Rack 1.2.0

2003-02-04 Thread Bob Ham
Hi all, No response to the beta testing request, so I'll have to subject you all to a likely hairy release :) Arbitrary channels are the biggest thing. Also, previous save files will no longer work as the save files use XML now. Sorry, but it's better to change it now instead of later as

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Tim Hockin
Yeah, but is it really that useful? Ok, VST seems to survive with the same restriction, but I'm not sure if it actually solves more problems than it creates. Agreed, in practice you can connect things together if you allow arbitrary ranges. Well, at some point we talked about

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF Specs

2003-02-04 Thread Tim Hockin
Overall PTAF is supprisingly similar to XAP (which is encouraging), there are just some differences in emphasis. Us LAD people tend to be simplecity freaks. I think its one of the really good things about LADSPA. I think that if we can reach common ground, we can all benefit. I'd love to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yetanother)

2003-02-04 Thread Josh Haberman
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 06:03, Paul Davis wrote: Despite that I strongly think that an audio server that not permit in native way the traditional approach (what you call blocking approach) will never achieve the driving role we'd need. if linux developers continue to work with this traditional

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 20.12, Paul Davis wrote: However, namespaces don't really solve this; they just give it a different syntax and some type checking. The latter is nice, of course, but writing SomeNamespace::SomeSymbol instead of SomeNamespace_SomeSymbol... well, what's the point,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet

2003-02-04 Thread Tim Hockin
I am interested to hear responses to this. Once PortAudio v19 is released, would you all as application authors be willing to adopt it in your programs? If so, why not? In my opinion, the only group of PortAudio is the only solution I was looking at for output. It just seems right.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Bandlimited LADSPA Oscillator Plugins ('BLOP') v0.2.6

2003-02-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Mike Rawes hat gesagt: // Mike Rawes wrote: BLOP is a set of LADSPA plugins - after way too long, it's up to v0.2.6 I get a strange error: || gcc -DPACKAGE=\blop\ -DVERSION=\0.2.6\ -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_STRDUP=1 |-DHAVE_LIBM=1 -I. -I. -I/usr/include -Iinclude -I.-pipe -Wall

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Bandlimited LADSPA Oscillator Plugins ('BLOP') v0.2.6

2003-02-04 Thread Tim Hockin
The code snippet looks okay to my eyes: loop_index = loop_index == 0 ? 1 : loop_index; loop_index = loop_index 64 ? 64 : loop_index; int rst = f_round_i(reset); int i; Where's the error? you can't declare a variable except at the top of a block. Newer compilers let

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Bandlimited LADSPA Oscillator Plugins('BLOP') v0.2.6

2003-02-04 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 22:22, Frank Barknecht wrote: src/sequencer64_1675.so.c loop_index = loop_index == 0 ? 1 : loop_index; loop_index = loop_index 64 ? 64 : loop_index; int rst = f_round_i(reset); int i; Where's the error? With C, you can only (or at least you're

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread David Gerard Matthews
Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:10:39 -0500, Taybin Rutkin wrote: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Abramo Bagnara wrote: Despite that I strongly think that an audio server that not permit in native way the traditional approach (what you call blocking approach) will never achieve the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Bandlimited LADSPA Oscillator Plugins ('BLOP') v0.2.6

2003-02-04 Thread Mike Rawes
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:51:41 -0800 (PST) Tim Hockin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code snippet looks okay to my eyes: loop_index = loop_index == 0 ? 1 : loop_index; loop_index = loop_index 64 ? 64 : loop_index; int rst = f_round_i(reset); int i; Where's the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 20.56, Tim Hockin wrote: Hello everybody, I'm one of the PTAF authors and I've just subscribed to this list, seeing the standard is discussed here. I will try to answer your questions and to collect feedback. I apologize for this long mail. WELCOME! I'm

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 21.12, Tim Hockin wrote: [...] Well, there also needs to be a way for a plugin to wrap other formats, and change all it's metadata. I imagined that a plugin couls tell the host that it needs to be re-examined - XAP_EV_GESTALT - or something. Yeah.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF Specs

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 21.17, Tim Hockin wrote: Overall PTAF is supprisingly similar to XAP (which is encouraging), there are just some differences in emphasis. Us LAD people tend to be simplecity freaks. I think its one of the really good things about LADSPA. I think that if we can

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Tim Hockin
What I'm saying is basically that it's not a goal in itself to create our own standard here. If we can get along with the GMPI group and something useful gets out of it, things will be better for everyone. What this would mean to XAP as such is uncertain, of course - but I think we will

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Tim Hockin
Add a flag that says they are a wrapper, and a flag on the control that changes the universe? What if it is multiple controls? *Now* I actually get what you're talking about. ;-) Audiality running as a XAP plugin would be a typical example, as it Anyway, it's even more hairy than it

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 21.47, Josh Haberman wrote: [...] Right now the only ways to choose a callback model in Linux audio applications are: * use JACK. Using JACK directly only makes sense for: 1. applications whose only possible use in in a JACK graph (jackrack) 2. applications

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 01.58, Tim Hockin wrote: What I'm saying is basically that it's not a goal in itself to create our own standard here. If we can get along with the GMPI group and something useful gets out of it, things will be better for everyone. What this would mean to XAP

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 02.06, Tim Hockin wrote: [...wrappers; transforming plugins...] It's not pretty, but it is useful. LADSPA plugins in a XAP-LADPSA wrapper. VST plugins in a XAP-LADSPA wrapper. XAP subnets in a XAP-XAP wrapper. Yeah, I can't deny that - but I can't think of any

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Tim Hockin
Any suggestions for scripting language? Python, Lua, Java...? (Though TCL? easy, cross platform.. Maybe Perl? But this goes beyond what I was suggesting. I meant to suggest something like: UI name=timsynth image=tim_bg.xpm KNOB x=15 y=15 image=tim_knob.xpm width=50 height=50 CUT

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread Tim Hockin
Oh, there's one thing to keep in mind: You need one gain control (or pair of them) per output, or it won't be all that cool in real life... really? I don't know. I still don't even really see where it will be used at all except on returns from sends.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yetanother)

2003-02-04 Thread Josh Haberman
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 18:03, David Olofson wrote: Would be cool if even more platforms were supported, but OTOH, in the case of Audiality, that's mostly for games that use it as a sound engine - and SDL works fine for that. What platforms are not supported that you would like to see? There

Re: [linux-audio-dev] PTAF link and comments

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 04.38, Tim Hockin wrote: Any suggestions for scripting language? Python, Lua, Java...? (Though TCL? easy, cross platform.. Maybe Perl? Dunno... Both seem to be rather messy for non-programmers to get into - and by all means, I expect most serious GUI

Re: [linux-audio-dev] newest audio server for Linux (yep, yet another)

2003-02-04 Thread David Olofson
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05.21, Josh Haberman wrote: [...] What platforms are not supported that you would like to see? There is a list of currently supported platforms at http://www.portaudio.com/status.html Well, that covers it, basically. I bet a few users of PDAs, consoles, various