Thread: [Bluemusic-users] cecilia and others
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From: na b. <nab...@ya...> - 2005-01-12 19:01:47
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Hello Steven, i haven't been using active in soundgenerating for a while. I have a daughter now (9 months) and a new computer (Windows XP pro, P4 3.2, 2 monitors) and now I am ready to continue with music and "blueing in realtime". As a user I would appriciate some answers to the following questions. Here we go: - will Blue Live ever be avilable for Windows XP users? - what about the developpement of the Ceciliamodules. Some modules work but trying a lot of other modules gives me errors. Is this still in betafase. Do you need a list of these errors? - example of the use of the Line Object; is it implemented yet? - instrumentnames disappear when they are coverted to Sound Object Libray things. Sometimes they are visible, but most of the time the names are gone. The parts itself however do have a different appeareance, their leftuppercorner have been cut. - Can the Sound Object library be used to exchange instruments between different projects? I'm sure there are more bugs and questions to come, because Blue ìs an important program for me to use Csound. Menno the Netherlands __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com |
From: steven yi <ste...@cs...> - 2005-01-12 20:36:51
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Hi Menno, Congratulations on having a daughter! I hope that everything has been going well for you and your family. ^_^ > - will Blue Live ever be avilable for Windows XP > users? Unfortunately, I don't believe so. Windows apparently implements pipes different than Linux, and in such a way that line events through stdin does not work. The only way to circumvent this is to use csound as a library and use the CsoundAPI, but I don't want to go this route as it sort of limits blue to using a particular version of csound. I guess I could have that as an option though... maybe it's not so hard to implement... but either way, probably not anytime soon. =( > - what about the developpement of the Ceciliamodules. > Some modules work but trying a lot of other modules > gives me errors. Is this still in betafase. Do you > need a list of these errors? Cecilia Module was put down temporarily; I had planned to get to it this past holiday but I ended up spending a lot of time with friends and family instead, and building the Microtonal PianoRoll soundObject. The CeciliaModule is still beta. It's the main reason why I keep labeling new releases as 0.94.0 beta x, as 0.94.0 in my mind is to be when the CeciliaModule is done. After this next release, I will pretty much focus only on CeciliaModule and will try to get it finished. Any list of errors would be great as I've lost track of where I was in developing it and knowing what I need to fix is very helpful and would be very much appreciated! > - example of the use of the Line Object; is it > implemented yet? The Line Object is implemented, but it has not been released yet. It is currently available in CVS only, but will be available in the next release. (I am currently documenting new changes and doing tests and bug fixes of new features now, should be another day or two.) > - instrumentnames disappear when they are coverted to > Sound Object Libray things. Sometimes they are > visible, but most of the time the names are gone. The > parts itself however do have a different appeareance, > their leftuppercorner have been cut. I'm confused, the Sound Object library only holds SoundObjects, not instruments. I tested with a couple of soundObjects, adding them to the library, and they do not seem to lose their names. The behavior in older versions of blue was to add "Instance: " to the name of the soundObject when converted to an Instance, but I changed that to now only be expressed with the different rendering of the object witht he left corner notched out. If that isn't visually enough to distinguish the objects and you have any recommendations, I'd be happy to consider them. > - Can the Sound Object library be used to exchange > instruments between different projects? No, each projects' library is only available to it, but you are able to share soundObjects and instruments between projects by cutting/copying/pasting them. If you want to grab a soundObject from the SoundObject Library to put into a different project, you can open up the library, then use the copy button (and not the copy instance button), then go to the next project and paste it in (with ctrl-click, or right click and choosing paste from the menu). > I'm sure there are more bugs and questions to come, > because Blue ìs an important program for me to use > Csound. > Any bug reports are very much appreciated! And feel free to ask any questions here. Glad blue can help you with your work! steven |