On Friday 10 October 2008, Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva wrote: > The main idea is to have a widget to control plugin parameters > automatically, drawing a line in an associated track, something like the > timer rule. 'Cause I want to control not only the tempo, but things like > an oscillator frequency, filter cut frequencies, etc
This sounds seriously cool, though I can't be much of any real help with getting it done. I don't know how the mechanics would be different internally, but if you could do this on a ruler, I'll bet you could also rewire things to make it possible to use this mechanism to manipulate our native audio controls too. We only have a few audio controls, and just being able to manipulate volume and pan would probably be sufficient. It's currently impossible to do anything as simple as an automatic fade-out in a mixed composition that uses both MIDI and audio instruments, because the audio volume controls have to be manipulated by hand in real time. Having the ability to pan mono audio tracks around in real time automatically would have interesting possibilities too. Perhaps we could get to the same destination using LADSPA plugins on these rulers, but a ruler to manipulate the native, internal audio controllers we already have seems like the most intuitive approach from a user perspective. Having to set up plugins for this would be kind of hacky, but if that's the only way to get there, our philosophy around here for the last couple of years has been to settle for hacky solutions as better than something being utterly impossible. If you're of a mind to tinker with the rulers, there are all kinds of other things you could do too. They work, but they're clunky. Somebody was supposed to be looking at some tweaks, but I don't think anything ever came out of that. We could start on that just by having a good discussion about why the current rulers need help, and the best plan to get there. And somebody really should fix our oldest bug, which has been assigned to Chris for five years almost to the day. https://sourceforge.net/tracker2/?func=detail&aid=827664&group_id=4932&atid=104932 -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list Rosegarden-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
