On 09/01/2009 09:34 AM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> Sorry for not being clear enough. It's hard to express these abstract >> thoughts sometimes. >> > Thanks! I think I understand what you mean a lot better, now. > > >>>> Exactly. The sample button is the item in the grid on the sampler >>>> interface. ie the red square. >>>> >>>> >>> So, the mock-up UI that you posted... are these what you are calling >>> "sample buttons?" >>> >> Yep. >> > Yes, Sebastian was right. We need to define some terms, first. :-) > > What you're calling sample buttons sounds more like a "trigger" to me. > And what you're calling "samples" is something like an audio "object" > where an object can be: > > * A short MIDI sequence (like a pattern in H2) > * An audio sample, such as: > + An instrument voice > + An audio clip (like a famous speech) > + An audio loop > * A "song"-like aggregation of all these above. > * A control command (e.g. send a MIDI message, > OSC message, or run a script) > > Is this sort of what you are describing? > >
Yes, that's a clearer definition. IIUC, there is a lot of this functionality already in place. I think it would be good to decouple the main pattern player engine from the main audio engine so that multiple instances of the patterns could be triggered at the same time. I don't think the ui needs any specific changes. It already supports loading songs on the fly. However it would be good to be able to decouple the songs code from the main window so that there could be a sampler interface with multiple songs associated to it and on the fly switching between songs in the song editor interface would be possible. Load time is a seperate issue at this point. I am going to look into this today and see if I can spot a way to do it relatively quickly. My idea is to wrap the pattern player engine to allow multiple instances and then send each stream to the main player engine. ATM, I'm not sure how tied to the gui these classes are. Cheers. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list Hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
