Re: JavaSound status

2007-08-06 Thread Florian Bomers
That's great news! thank you, Alex. Florian On 8/6/2007 11:28 AM, Alex Menkov wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm glad to inform you that we are close to have most of JavaSound > implementation code opened. > There are some steps that are required for the changes became available > in openJDK repository, a

JavaSound status

2007-08-06 Thread Alex Menkov
Hi all, I'm glad to inform you that we are close to have most of JavaSound implementation code opened. There are some steps that are required for the changes became available in openJDK repository, as I see in the schedule it should happen at August, 17-20. Regards Alex

Re: JavaSound status

2007-05-22 Thread Peter Salomonsen
Hi, The soundfont synth built into Frinika is fully my own code. The drawback with this code is that it doesn't implement the full soundfont spec - e.g. it reads soundfonts on the instrument level and not presets. Should be possible to finish it completely, but I've only made this to meet my ow

Re: JavaSound status

2007-05-22 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno mar, 22/05/2007 alle 21.57 +0400, Alex Menkov ha scritto: > Hi Mario, > Big problem with mp3 is license - if you add mp3 support to your product, you > have to ask user to accept separate agreement (during installation). > I believe jdk7 will have ogg support, but it will be implemented

Re: JavaSound status

2007-05-22 Thread Alex Menkov
Hi Mario, But it is a good starting point and provides some more features like mp3 and ogg vorbis support, though the former will be surely removed from linux distributions like fedora, so we end to the same point. Big problem with mp3 is license - if you add mp3 support to your product, you

Re: JavaSound status

2007-05-22 Thread Alex Menkov
Peter, As far as I understand the process, it's no so easy to integrate other open-source code to OpenJDK. Code author needs to sign up SCA before the code can be integrated (otherwise it will be impossible to port the change into SunJDK). In most of open-source projects it's difficult to dete

Re: JavaSound status

2007-05-21 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno lun, 21/05/2007 alle 20.13 +0200, Florian Bomers ha scritto: > Tritonus is still maintained by Matthias and me. We have 100% rights > to most of the code, so we could easily double-license the code for > inclusion in openjdk, of course subject to mutual agreement of > Matthias and me. C

Re: JavaSound status

2007-05-21 Thread Florian Bomers
Hi Alex, thanks for the status overview. > Closed part will include all Beatnik code Simple dropping this > code will cause too much feature decline, so we have to make > alternative implementation of some features before dropping old > one. I believe that it would only remove the software synth

Re: JavaSound status

2007-05-21 Thread Florian Bomers
> There is also Tritonus that needs some love, but should work. > It's LGPL though, but it is almost two years no one is updating > it, maybe we can take care of the project? Tritonus is still maintained by Matthias and me. We have 100% rights to most of the code, so we could easily double-license

Re: JavaSound status

2007-05-21 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno lun, 21/05/2007 alle 19.01 +0200, Peter Salomonsen ha scritto: > Hi, > > On Monday 21 May 2007 18:18:54 Alex Menkov wrote: > > 1) Software synthesizer. > >Current one support only .gm soundbanks (beatnik proprietary format) and > > does not support "industry standards" like .sf2. Thi

Re: JavaSound status

2007-05-21 Thread Peter Salomonsen
Hi, On Monday 21 May 2007 18:18:54 Alex Menkov wrote: > 1) Software synthesizer. >Current one support only .gm soundbanks (beatnik proprietary format) and > does not support "industry standards" like .sf2. This task is big enough > (in addition to Synthesyzer implementation it requires to impl

JavaSound status

2007-05-21 Thread Alex Menkov
Hi all, I'm glad to welcome the list members and hope that our joint work will be interesting and useful for both Sun and open-source community. Let me overview current status of JavaSound. As you know currently whole JavaSound implementation is closed. Unfortunately it was late decision (to