Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Steve Harris
On 2010-06-13, at 21:50, James Morris wrote: > A tool to auto generate the rdf from a basic template would be nice. My LV2 plugins are generated from XML. Someone else has a system that builds them from C++ classes. - Steve ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing

Re: [LAD] Jack buffer management for block convolution

2010-06-13 Thread Damien Zammit
>> I have written a FFTW based block convolution jack client, but I am >> having difficulty processing the last jackframes%L samples of the jack >> buffer. I have read that it might be an idea to collect the samples > > What do you mean by "the last jackframes%L samples" ?? The algorithm I am usi

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Geoff Beasley
On 06/14/2010 10:23 AM, Jeremy wrote: They already have a well established and universally recognized use, and this use doesn't fall under that category. ...and in that one line you have explained the entire basis of this discussion. well done you ;) will it change anything?? who knows, but

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Jeremy
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Paul Davis wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 4:17 PM, wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:58:11PM -0400, Jeremy wrote: > > > >> I would like to add that as a beginner to LV2 plugins, I found the use > of > >> urls to be *extremely* confusing. > > > > Glad to kno

Re: [LAD] meta issue tracker idea

2010-06-13 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On Sun, June 13, 2010 5:14 am, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 06/10/2010 04:11 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >> >> On Tue, June 8, 2010 1:35 pm, Robin Gareus wrote: >>> On 06/08/2010 10:31 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On Mon, June 7, 2010 8:09 am, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 06/07/2010 05:26 AM, P

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/14/2010 12:02 AM, Paul Davis wrote: > how do you describe that a plugin can use extension X? what is the > name of extension X? how do you describe the fact that a plugin is > considered by its author to belong to a particular category within a > particular categorization of plugins? what is

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Paul Davis
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:35 PM, wrote: > So what purpose do these things have if they are not meant for a > human reader and irrelevant to any software ? "There are only two really hard problems in computer science: naming things and cache invalidation" - Phil Karlton In this case, its about n

Re: [LAD] Calf Monosynth

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Vitek
Sustain Controller would be nice too. Fixed at CC64 or added to the mod matrix. :) On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > are the coders of Calf Monosynth at that list? > > Before I read "maximize flexibility while minimizing the number of > controls. Useful for synt

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread fons
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 05:08:55PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > people who don't understand any field of formal jargon say the same > thing about that jargon. these descriptions are formal jargon. you're > not meant to "just get them" by just looking at them. they are also > not there to convey mean

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Paul Davis
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 4:17 PM, wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:58:11PM -0400, Jeremy wrote: > >> I would like to add that as a beginner to LV2 plugins, I found the use of >> urls to be *extremely* confusing. > > Glad to know I'm not the only one. i think that the problem here is not an unu

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread James Morris
On 13 June 2010 21:17, wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:58:11PM -0400, Jeremy wrote: > >> I would like to add that as a beginner to LV2 plugins, I found the use of >> urls to be *extremely* confusing. > > Glad to know I'm not the only one. > >> If your goal is to have documentation easily acce

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread fons
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:58:11PM -0400, Jeremy wrote: > I would like to add that as a beginner to LV2 plugins, I found the use of > urls to be *extremely* confusing. Glad to know I'm not the only one. > If your goal is to have documentation easily accessible, then a line > http://blah> would s

Re: [LAD] Need some _basic_ help...

2010-06-13 Thread Dan Mills
On Sun, 2010-06-13 at 12:14 -0700, Rory Filer wrote: > * What's the general flow of the data from the disk file (or > streaming audio source) to the device driver? Is it: MP3file > -> streaming software -> codec -> driver or// MP3file -> > streaming software -> Codec

[LAD] Need some _basic_ help...

2010-06-13 Thread Rory Filer
Hello Everyone, In my new job I've been assigned to create a proof of concept "mp3 player" using an existing product from our company. Trouble is, I've not done anything with audio before and the timeframe is tight. I guess my new boss thinks it's a piece of cake - "it's only software, after all,

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Jeremy
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Steve Harris wrote: > On 2010-06-13, at 00:20, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:09:12AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > > > >> On 2010-06-13, at 00:00, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > >> > >>> Half of the URLs quoted above refer to inexisten

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Gabriel M. Beddingfield
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: would be to create an empty run() method and have your subversive sub-plugin API define an alternate one. There's nothing subversive about it. It was just a good-natured jab. Given some of your past comments about this aspect of LV2, I've

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/13/2010 01:13 AM, Igor Brkic wrote: > On 13.06.2010 00:20, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: >> I've been reading the LV2 docs for the N-th time, as well >> as lots of examples, and it all remains complete completely >> incomprehensible to my problably too primitive mind. >> >> So I have a simple q

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread alex stone
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:38 PM, wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:11:24AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > >> its difficult to see why you wouldn't simply define your own plugin >> API. the discovery process has to be one of the least interesting >> parts of LV2 (or any plugin API that i can think o

Re: [LAD] Playing notes with a

2010-06-13 Thread Mike Cookson
It seems, that Jack Keyboard handle clicks instead key presses/releases. I also have this problem, but only with Jack Keyboard. VMPK and vkeybd work well. Jack Keyboard has also grab mode, but I could not enable it due to error: "jack-keyboard: XKeysymToKeycode failed. Please report this to the

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread fons
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 09:11:24AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > its difficult to see why you wouldn't simply define your own plugin > API. the discovery process has to be one of the least interesting > parts of LV2 (or any plugin API that i can think of) and co-opting it > appears to me to save ones

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Paul Davis
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:59 AM, wrote: > In fact, I don't see how something like automation 'touch' > can be provided without race conditions just by letting the > host intercepting the DSP - GUI communication consisting of > get/set messages for control port values. Specific support > is requi

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread fons
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:08:59PM -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > However, I don't see many options for redefining how > LV2_Descriptor::run is called. About the only way to redefine this > would be to create an empty run() method and have your subversive > sub-plugin API define an alter

[LAD] Posting troubles

2010-06-13 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
Hi, I'm having troubles posting to the list. Hopefully this mail will make it through but I can never be sure. Switching SMTP server sometimes help, sometimes not. Some days it works, some days it doesn't. Yesterday, I tried several times to answer to Geoff on the "pulsating noises" thread, but i

Re: [LAD] meta issue tracker idea

2010-06-13 Thread Robin Gareus
On 06/10/2010 04:11 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > On Tue, June 8, 2010 1:35 pm, Robin Gareus wrote: >> On 06/08/2010 10:31 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, June 7, 2010 8:09 am, Robin Gareus wrote: On 06/07/2010 05:26 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >>> > But that is > rea

Re: [LAD] meta issue tracker idea

2010-06-13 Thread Robin Gareus
On 06/13/2010 12:42 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from Philipp's message of 2010-06-05 13:18:02 +0200: >> Hi, >> this is all about making Linux Audio more useful. >> The idea came about because on the one hand there are parts of Linux >> audio that really need some coders attention and o

Re: [LAD] minimal LV2

2010-06-13 Thread Steve Harris
On 2010-06-13, at 00:20, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 12:09:12AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > >> On 2010-06-13, at 00:00, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: >> >>> Half of the URLs quoted above refer to inexistent pages. >> >> That's bad karma, but not essential. >> >>> What

Re: [LAD] meta issue tracker idea

2010-06-13 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Philipp's message of 2010-06-05 13:18:02 +0200: > Hi, > this is all about making Linux Audio more useful. > The idea came about because on the one hand there are parts of Linux > audio that really need some coders attention and on the other hand there > are coders who don't know where

Re: [LAD] Does noiseshaping affect quantisation noise?

2010-06-13 Thread Jussi Laako
On 06/07/2010 11:41 PM, Philipp wrote: > My guess is that quantisation noise is only something present between > the input signal and its digital representation, and hence no change of > the digital representations can do anything about it. It also applies always when the change in digital represe

Re: [LAD] Looking for the cause of pulsating noises

2010-06-13 Thread Olivier Guilyardi
On 06/12/2010 12:10 AM, Geoff Beasley wrote: > Olivier, > hard to tell from such a small fragment if it's regular or random. > it maybe irq swapping, or overload compression built into the card or... > what card is it? describe the signal chain. I don't know which sound card/chip it is. It's runni

Re: [LAD] Does noiseshaping affect quantisation noise?

2010-06-13 Thread Jussi Laako
On 06/08/2010 12:10 AM, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > quantisation noise, making the latter irrelevant. If your A/D > converter is 24 bit, then analog noise will always dominate, > so again quantisation noise is irrelevant. IMO, the important part is that practically none of the modern converters,