http://buzztrax.org/ found this link from that Wikipedia page you posted.... Is this what everyone has been thinking of, for an SDK for instrument creation?
On 01/16/2014 09:13 PM, Rob Kudla wrote: > On 01/16/2014 02:09 AM, Vesa wrote: >> The idea is: a declarative interpreted modular synthesis plugin >> framework (DIMSPF for short). > It kind of sounds like you're looking for something like pd or csound. I > like the idea because, as I mentioned in one of my earlier posts, I used to > love Buzz on Windows, and what you're asking for is essentially that. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeskola_Buzz > > In the case of LMMS, I think the idea would work better as strictly an > instrument and/or effect (or an audio routing system) than going so far as > to have the score be just another node as it was in Buzz. (Note entry in > Buzz was pretty sucky unless you were comfortable with trackers, too.) > > That said, we already have Zyn embedded in LMMS. I could see embedding > something like Pd in the same way for something more modular. It would make > LMMS more of a Swiss army knife than it already is, with all the good and > bad that entails, but rather than making yet another plugin SDK that's > incompatible with all the other plugin SDKs, either finding a way to turn > Pd into an LV2 instrument, or more ambitiously, implement some native > modular routing in LMMS that can use any kind of audio source that LMMS > itself can handle (including builtins, VSTs, LV2 instruments, etc.), would > accomplish more or less the same thing without introducing another layer of > incompatibility into the Linux/free software audio scene. > > I also think that setting sights too high is a recipe for burnout followed > by stagnation. LMMS has been dormant before, but many, many other free > software projects whose developers decide to make radical changes have died > when the time and effort required to follow through on planned major > changes turns out to be too much. Just updating the toolkit and deciding to > restructure the code can have disastrous effects, as anyone who's tried to > get XMMS2 working acceptably or used features in GQview that are still > missing almost a decade later from its successor Geeqie knows. > > So, I'd love to see a powerful modular synth available as part of LMMS, > whether it's Pd, or something lightweight and homegrown that depends on > existing instruments for sound generation, or something else entirely, but > I don't think we need another instrument plugin SDK. And whatever happens, > I hope it's not at the cost of LMMS' momentum. > > Rob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > LMMS-devel mailing list > LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel -- Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
