[E-devel] Simple sound effects

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We don´t use a direct call to Jack and Alsa ?? 

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João Martins 

> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:58:45 +0900
> From: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ra...@ra...>
> To: Bart Elberg <be...@id...>
> Cc: enl...@li...
> Subject: Re: [E-devel] Simple sound effects
> Organization: You expect me to be organized? 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:06:24 -0400 Bart Elberg <be...@id...> babbled: 
> 
>> I am looking to add sound effects to an Edje-based application and
>> noticed a lack of support in EFL for playing audio clips - other than
>> Emotion. There are obviously many ways to do this and I have no problem
>> implementing a solution. My question is whether anyone is working on a
>> simple audio library for EFL or planning on integrating sound effects
>> into Edje, EWL, etc.?
> 
> at this stage i know of no-one working on something. there's 3 parts of an audio
> "engine" to look at. 1. loading of formats (eg, mp3, ogg, wav, etc.) in such a
> way that its fairly abstract and the code doesn't care how its really encoded.
> 2. is the audio device output handler - feeding the audio device cleanly,
> handling multiple audio devices, perhaps multiple opens for mixing etc. 3. is
> the audio mixing and control engine. EG: you want to play a sample but have it
> start fast and slow down in speed (and thus lower pitch) with a given envelope.
> you may want to string a sequence of samples together. basically programmatic
> sequencer or tracker (remember fasttracker2, protracker, soundtracker, etc.) 
> 
> http://www.metadecks.org/software/remix/ 
> 
> kind of solves these. it looks a it complex - that's because it can do a lot.
> imho with a bit of wrapping into EFL it should solve it entirely. the problem is
> no-one has done anything to do stuff with sound yet. so for now it's a DIY area
> that we haven't covered :( 
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