[Lmuse-developer] MusE cvs experiments 20040207

[Robert J. <rob...@da...>]

Hi guys,

Been doing some more mixer experiments. Though there where some bugs in the 
way I did get to do some test recordings to test my new Variax :-).

Some quick bugs of the top of my head. (Hopefully my photagrapphic memoreee 
didn't screw up the details)
* Route windows don't update when they are open, have to reopen to see 
  changes.
  * Sometimes the routewindows doesn't seem to update even then...
* In general buggy behaviour when connecting several ins and outs.
* Meters stopped working on a track when doing playback
* erroneous behaviour after renaming input and output tracks, didn't propagate 
  to mixer
* is there only one output allowed from a track?
* Aux strips doesn't seem to do anything... I can't connect them
* sometime during the routing, probably after adding the second output, the 
  console spews "FIFO 0x8405114 underrun..." messages until doomsday.

What I tried was to connect the guitar to one input and a microphone to 
another input. And then trying to record both to different tracks. This 
worked, zippydidoodaah, except for the underrun business which didn't seem to 
cause any harm.
After recording this I could easily route it to a master-out and listen to it. 
Presumably I could add ladspa effects but I didn't try.
Instead I wanted to exercise MusE's new routing capabilities and route the 
signal through BruteFIR adding some real room acoustics... I think I 
succeeded with this once but after a while MusE crashed... subsequent tests I 
wasn't even able to connect the outputs to Brutefir. they meters on the 
second output pair never came alive.
The path I tried to achieve was.

Track 1 -> Output 2 -> Jack/BruteFir/Jack -> Input 1 -> Output 1 (master)
        \---------------------------------------------> Output 1 (master)

Thus being able to vary the amount of effect by changing Output 2

I was originally trying to use the Aux strip for this but I discovered that I 
couldn't even connect it to the outs. It also misses the "auxillary" 
connections, with the current functionality it seems to be just a group track 
with a different name. To be of use it should/must have an internal jack-out 
and jack-in available in the routing dialog.

Then I would do:
Track 1 -> Aux1 -> Jack/BruteFir/Jack -> Aux1 -> Output 1 (master)
        \--------------------------------------> Output 1 (master)


I don't think the routing changes discussed earlier where implemented, unless 
it's the Viev->Routes, which is quite possible. It does only seem to handle 
jack at the moment though so it isn't usable internally in the mixer.

All for now, I'm happy to announce that RT behaviour seems extremely stable, 
very impressive. Functionality wise it's not really top notch yet... I 
reallize this is a huge undertaking and it's gonna be a while before 
everything is working as planned, even if I get my ass out of the wagon and 
manage to help... But I can wait, when this stuff gets working it'll be a 
truck load of fun, that I'm sure of :) 
Heck I'm having lots of fun already. :-)))

Regards,
Robert