Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:41:10 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: If you can't code, and can't help out in more concrete ways (testing and documentation etc.), but still want to help, by all means go out there and promote, organize, help out in other ways, that's great. But don't expect

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:10:35 -0700, Michael Ost wrote: I'm with a company trying to make money off of linux audio. While I enjoy the technical/academic discursion (though lots get the subject-line only review! %), I'd like to think this list could support those who mix the market with

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:22:12 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:18:57PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: I think at this point all we need is a mechanism for a host to say plugin, show your GUI now. (Incidentally what DSSI does as far as I know, which isn't very much yet).

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Robert Jonsson
On Thursday 10 June 2004 02.53, Tim Hockin wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:39:15PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: But then you either have to click and drag up, click and drag up, click and drag up and so on because the motion is too slow, or you can't make no, I click and hold as long as I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Claudio Mettler
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:33:19AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: It seems like there are as many preferences as users. How about ~/.knobrc ;) Or how about libknob? I know, this sounds silly, but if we extend that Idea, we have libladstandards. Things like dB-level-color mappings,

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] Project ideas?

2004-06-10 Thread michael tewner
I like this idea; Adding an OpenGL spectrogram to Meterbridge... ...By the way, are there any 31-band EQ's for JACK... That also sounds like a cool idea... -tewner On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:29:08 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Jussi Laako wrote: a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Uwe Koloska
Dave Robillard wrote: I think we've (perhaps?) finally figured out that we can't really have a standard-LAD-GUI-elements-set. It will just turn into another LADSPA-GUI war, nothing will get decided, and nothing will get done. But as far as I understand, it's not about GUI-elemt toolkits but

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Uwe Koloska
Thorsten Wilms wrote: SVG vector graphics (prefered by Peter and me) http://wrstud.uni-wuppertal.de/~ka0394/forum/04-05-02_knobs_02.png 3d rendering variatios http://wrstud.uni-wuppertal.de/~ka0394/forum/04-05-02_knob_3d_1-2-3.jpg very nice! I most like the svg ones for the cleaner look. But

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:11:33PM +0200, Marek Peteraj wrote: Just as if i said: There something magical about the sound of pipe organs. No wonder they're called the kings of all musical instruments. We have tried to model one such pipe organ as close as possible so that you can enjoy

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:57:09AM +0200, Uwe Koloska wrote: But there comes another handling problem: some people have opted for linear movement (I too think radial movement is intuitive but mostly unusable -- normal mouse movement is linear) but then I think we need both directions: -

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] Ultramaster Juno6, anyone?

2004-06-10 Thread will
That's cool and all, but what about the RS-101? What happened to Ultramaster? They had some cool looking stuff that I never got a chance to use. On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:59:29AM +0200, Frank NEUMANN wrote: Hi all, some might remember that two years ago (or so) there was a nice (though

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] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread torbenh
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:27:03AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:41:10 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: Heck, I write programs I don't even release because I'm too lazy (ie this: http://chat.carleton.ca/~drobilla/patchbay.png).. PR isn't even on the radar screen.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Ladspa Gui's (Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a?)

2004-06-10 Thread torbenh
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:56:13PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 02:06:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe. I have no particular objections, but the UI should be free to ignore it I think. The old-school X11 -geometry seems like a good starting place. e.g.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: UI stuff

2004-06-10 Thread torbenh
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:02:30PM +0100, Mike Rawes wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:20:41 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:21:25AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 05:06:16 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: This is exactly the point I was trying

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread torbenh
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:41:47PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 20:22, Paul Davis wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:18:57PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: I see what you're saying, and don't get me wrong - I didn't mean to imply it's an easy thing to do. But it is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread eviltwin69
On 09 Jun 2004 21:10 , Michael Ost [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:56, Dave Robillard wrote: I don't think I could possibly care less who uses 'linux audio'. I don't really think anyone else here should either - we should be aiming to build the best system possible, period.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Paul Davis
There is chasm both broad and deep between plugin, show your GUI now and an actual implementation of such functionality. Yeah osc.udp://localhost:2134/ui/show ;) I'm very much in favour of simple, UNDERcomplicated solutions. If you make its easy to do almost everything and possible

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Martin Habets
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:18:57PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:56, Arnold Krille wrote: Still the question is: What toolkit to use for a standard-LAD-Gui-elements-set? Or just define the graphics and the handling and then let everyone implement it in his/her

[linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Oh well, just read through the more than 30 mails ... Thanks to Arnold, Marek, Tim Hockin, Benno, Uwe, Tim Orford for the nice words. Thanks to everyone for the interest. About a standard toolkit: The general desktop toolkits do not adress some special needs of audio apps, that's clear.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread RTaylor
On Wednesday 09 June 2004 21:54, Dave Robillard wrote: } On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:25, Dan Harper wrote: } Also, it's just not natural for me to move my mouse in a circle, the } natural movement of my hand is not a circle, try to draw a perfect } circle in the Gimp sometime by mouse! This

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] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread RTaylor
{Sgi... digital performer} Maybe } you could use both color and space. I guess that's OpenGL Performer now. -- If I had saxophones / Big baritone, cleanin' up the muddy breaks If I had Saxophones / I could get some recognition from that Mobile Alabama DJ{J.Buffet}

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 00:10, Michael Ost wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:56, Dave Robillard wrote: I don't think I could possibly care less who uses 'linux audio'. I don't really think anyone else here should either - we should be aiming to build the best system possible, period. Not

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 02:27, Steve Harris wrote: If John Q. Hacker cared about PR, he wouldn't be that much of a hacker would he? :) Heh. Lazyness, Imapatience and Hubris. Guilty as charged. More like riled up by Marek and spouting his mouth off though. :) Heck, I write programs I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread torbenh
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:49:57AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: Its out of process. Sounds like torben wants to swallow the plugin UI, thats kinda neat, didn't think anyone would bother, but we should take that into account. why do you think no one would bother ? there is XEMBED and if if the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: UI stuff

2004-06-10 Thread Mike Rawes
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:02:30PM +0100, Mike Rawes wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:20:41 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: galan has: left click - up down movement right click - knob points to mouse middle click is still undefined ... what shall i

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Ben
At Harrison we decided to avoid knobs altogether. Instead we use short, fat faders (OK there are a few knob things just to look different) That worked out pretty well. My preferences are: left-click for linear (up down) adjustment right-click for fine adjust middle-click to return to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread torbenh
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:25:15PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:56:59PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: Still the question is: What toolkit to use for a standard-LAD-Gui-elements-set? Or just define the graphics and the handling and then let everyone implement it in

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] Re: UI stuff

2004-06-10 Thread torbenh
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:19:44PM +0100, Mike Rawes wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:02:30PM +0100, Mike Rawes wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:20:41 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: galan has: left click - up down movement right click - knob points

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Michael Ost
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 06:39, Dave Robillard wrote: On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 00:10, Michael Ost wrote: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:56, Dave Robillard wrote: I don't think I could possibly care less who uses 'linux audio'. I don't really think anyone else here should either - we should be aiming

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 05:33, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:57:09AM +0200, Uwe Koloska wrote: But there comes another handling problem: some people have opted for linear movement (I too think radial movement is intuitive but mostly unusable -- normal mouse movement

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 06:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:27:03AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 08:41:10 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: Heck, I write programs I don't even release because I'm too lazy (ie this:

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] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 07:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09 Jun 2004 21:10 , Michael Ost [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:56, Dave Robillard wrote: I don't think I could possibly care less who uses 'linux audio'. I don't really think anyone else here should either - we

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 07:28, Paul Davis wrote: There is chasm both broad and deep between plugin, show your GUI now and an actual implementation of such functionality. Yeah osc.udp://localhost:2134/ui/show ;) I'm very much in favour of simple, UNDERcomplicated solutions. If

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:25:15PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:56:59PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: Still the question is: What toolkit to use for a standard-LAD-Gui-elements-set? Or just define the graphics and

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Pete Bessman
At Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:50:19 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i dont see a problem. there is knob code for every toolkit on sourceforge. lets unify the gfx data have a widget for every toolkit. votes++ [pb]

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:54, Michael Ost wrote: On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 06:39, Dave Robillard wrote: That nice you think I should want proprietary software to get developed for linux. Well, I don't. IMHO that amounts to throwing away the single advantage we have, which sounds pretty stupid

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Orford
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:22:55PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: That was exactly Dave's point. Marek wants some kind of we thing going on. He wants us all to march off in solidarity in the direction he chooses and it just doesn't work that way. You want to make money, I don't care,

[linux-audio-dev] Sliders

2004-06-10 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hello again! The discussion about linear or radial mouse movement for knobs finaly got me to mockup an idea i had in my mind for sometime already. For now I call it fan sliders: http://wrstud.urz.uni-wuppertal.de/~ka0394/forum/04-06-10_fan_slider_01.png It's all about concept, not style. The

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
Marek Peteraj: Personally speaking, as a free software developer I don't care if my programs are deemed as sucessful, they work for me, and handful of other people - this makes me happy :) I'd like to see what other developers of the most popular linux audio projects think. Because if

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Hockin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:09:08PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Tim Hockin: please elaborate about velocity sensitve knobs like used by OhmForce. When you move the mouse slowly, you get very fine control. When you move it faster, the control gets coarser. So you can move a knob from 0.0 to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Hockin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:40:33PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: Not that I wasn't being truthful though - I really don't want proprietary software anywhere around here (freedom's pretty much all we have), but that's just one man's opinion, take it or leave it. I'm happy to have the freedom to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Orford
And no, linux audio is definitely not perfectly unusable for me. Quite the contrary; pd, supercollider, snd, ladspa, alsa, jack and the very low-latish kernel make it to be a very usable platform for creative work you can't do in other OS's. i would seriously be interested to know what those

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
Tim Hockin: I know Linux people love to claim how choice is our strength, but I think it's bunk. Linux needs a single GUI environment that has a lot of deep flexibility Yes! I completely agree with this. (and I don't mean Scheme config files :) Oh... :) --

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Sliders

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 13:03, Thorsten Wilms wrote: Hello again! The discussion about linear or radial mouse movement for knobs finaly got me to mockup an idea i had in my mind for sometime already. For now I call it fan sliders:

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Hockin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:50:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why dont we specify behaviour and a gfx format for control animations and then implement the widgets for gtk and qt ? Brilliant, but get every aspect of the behavior down. For example, something that no one has discussed yet:

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:19:10AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: When you move the mouse slowly, you get very fine control. When you move it faster, the control gets coarser. So you can move a knob from 0.0 to 1.0 quickly with a fast mouse gesture, or you can move it from 0.5 to 0.6 very

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Sliders

2004-06-10 Thread Paul Davis
The discussion about linear or radial mouse movement for knobs finaly got me to mockup an idea i had in my mind for sometime already. For now I call it fan sliders: http://wrstud.urz.uni-wuppertal.de/~ka0394/forum/04-06-10_fan_slider_01.png [ ... ] I think that's a really good idea..

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Paul Davis
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:40:33PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: Not that I wasn't being truthful though - I really don't want proprietary software anywhere around here (freedom's pretty much all we have), but that's just one man's opinion, take it or leave it. I'm happy to have the freedom to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Hockin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:02:48PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: When you move the mouse slowly, you get very fine control. When you move it faster, the control gets coarser. So you can move a knob from 0.0 to 1.0 quickly with a fast mouse gesture, or you can move it from 0.5 to 0.6 very

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Hockin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:26:44PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: I'm happy to have the freedom to know what my OS is *really* doing. I'd buy Cubase for Linux. you don't care as much about the freedom to know what your DAW is *really* doing? if you're a musician or an audio engineer, you will be

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Paul Winkler
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:28:01AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:02:48PM +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: No, I did not mean 2 axes for one widget. Only that a linear widget has to indicate it's direction even before interaction happens, and that it makes sense to use

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Mike Rawes
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:02:48 +0200 Thorsten Wilms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:19:10AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: Oh, and about linear needing 2 directions, up/down for gain and right left for pan (Uwe): Sure. And the widget has to be clear about that in advance.

[linux-audio-dev] TiMidity as a CPU hog

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings: Can someone explain why TiMidity eventually hogs the CPU at 95% or more after running for a while (like 12 hours or more) ? I'm talking about hogging the chip while TiMidity is idling, not playing. I'm using it as a softsynth, it works well, but even in the latest version its CPU

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: In case anybody here is using evolution to post on lad. Since 1.2 it was the most stable and perfect application i've ever seen. Evolution seems to have one big problem: It seems to make it hard to edit and shorten replies, or what's

Re: [linux-audio-dev] TiMidity as a CPU hog

2004-06-10 Thread Greg Lee
Dave Phillips wrote: Greetings: Can someone explain why TiMidity eventually hogs the CPU at 95% or more after running for a while (like 12 hours or more) ? I'm talking about hogging the chip while TiMidity is idling, not playing. I'd guess that it is actually playing -- busy running through

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Hockin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 02:53:56PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: No, I did not mean 2 axes for one widget. Only that a linear widget has to indicate it's direction even before interaction happens, and that it makes sense to use vertical for volume and horizonal for pan in the same

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] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:15:56 +0200, Tim Orford wrote: And no, linux audio is definitely not perfectly unusable for me. Quite the contrary; pd, supercollider, snd, ladspa, alsa, jack and the very low-latish kernel make it to be a very usable platform for creative work you can't do in

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:26:54 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Marek Peteraj hat gesagt: // Marek Peteraj wrote: In case anybody here is using evolution to post on lad. Since 1.2 it was the most stable and perfect application i've ever seen. Evolution seems to have one big

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Sliders

2004-06-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Thorsten Wilms hat gesagt: // Thorsten Wilms wrote: The discussion about linear or radial mouse movement for knobs finaly got me to mockup an idea i had in my mind for sometime already. For now I call it fan sliders:

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype [was: Is ladspa actually la-dsp-a? Is JACK the ultimate solution?}

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:22:55 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: That said, the existance of the list should be more well-known. There's far too much audio stuff going on that isn't even aware of LAD, which can't be good. Er, actually thats not neccesarily true. Some people prefer to actually

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] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:28:17 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: There is chasm both broad and deep between plugin, show your GUI now and an actual implementation of such functionality. Yeah osc.udp://localhost:2134/ui/show ;) I'm very much in favour of simple, UNDERcomplicated

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:25:46 -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: That reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask (after actually reading the DSSI RFC) Is there anything really soft synth specific about DSSI? Should it be DAPI (disposable audio plugin interface). You have to care about

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:01:25 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 07:49:57AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: Its out of process. Sounds like torben wants to swallow the plugin UI, thats kinda neat, didn't think anyone would bother, but we should take that into account.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

2004-06-10 Thread Jan Depner
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 17:00, Steve Harris wrote: Yup, but I dont think we got consensus on the metadata format, which is kinda fundamnetal. For the record, I (still) think we should use a restricted subset of RDF/N3. As long as you never, ever have to look at it. I could actually

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Steve Harris hat gesagt: // Steve Harris wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:26:54 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Better use Mutt, it sucks less. In all seriousness, all the non elm/mutt apps I've used dont let me go though my mail quickly enough. The ability to switch inboxes, delete

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:28:01 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: I think that your frontal lobe is saying knobs are round, move the mouse around them but I still believe that your hand will find it more intuitive and correct to move the mouse in one direction - up and down. Hmm... I've just realised

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:37:12 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: Not if the pan sliders are laid out horizontally :-) I was speaking of knobs. A horizontal slider is obviously visually different from a vertical one. A horizontally-linear knob is not obviously different from a vertically-linear

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Tim Hockin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:56:30PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: I was speaking of knobs. A horizontal slider is obviously visually different from a vertical one. A horizontally-linear knob is not obviously different from a vertically-linear knob :) I dont think theres any reason to

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Dave Robillard
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 19:10, Tim Hockin wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:56:30PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: I was speaking of knobs. A horizontal slider is obviously visually different from a vertical one. A horizontally-linear knob is not obviously different from a vertically-linear

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] marketing hype

2004-06-10 Thread Paul Davis
Hallo, Steve Harris hat gesagt: // Steve Harris wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 09:26:54 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Better use Mutt, it sucks less. In all seriousness, all the non elm/mutt apps I've used dont let me go though my mail quickly enough. The ability to switch inboxes, delete

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Sliders

2004-06-10 Thread Paul Davis
Hallo, Thorsten Wilms hat gesagt: // Thorsten Wilms wrote: The discussion about linear or radial mouse movement for knobs finaly got me to mockup an idea i had in my mind for sometime already. For now I call it fan sliders:

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] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Paul Winkler
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:55:32PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 11:28:01 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: I think that your frontal lobe is saying knobs are round, move the mouse around them but I still believe that your hand will find it more intuitive and correct to move the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Sliders

2004-06-10 Thread Florian Schmidt
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:23:52 -0400 Dave Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that's a really good idea.. the 'base' slider could be really small (ie the size of a knob), but the movement would be linear, and with variable precision.. and it seems like it would be immediately obvious how

[linux-audio-dev] Buffer size settings - Mac/Windows

2004-06-10 Thread Michael Ost
Hi. Does anyone out there know what the audio buffer size settings in Windows and MacOS really mean? If you say 128 samples does that translate to 2 buffers of 128 samples --- one buffer playing, one buffer filling --- or 2 buffers of 64 samples? Is it 256 samples of latency or 128? I realize

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs, the reply

2004-06-10 Thread Paul Winkler
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:42:42PM -0400, Dave Robillard wrote: Speaking of touchpads, does anyone know of a (usb) touchpad that works with your finger, not just a pen? (The only ones I've seen just work with the stylus, which is no good) I'm guessing you mean a big one, like 15 or 20 cm on a