Re: [Bluemusic-users] Render Time Showing
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From: t g. <tg...@gm...> - 2006-01-21 18:31:15
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Wow, this sounds really cool. I wish I had more time to play with csound s= o I can test this... I can't wait. gj Steven ;) On 1/21/06, Steven Yi <ste...@gm...> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Over the past couple days I put together some code to show the current > render time when rendering in realtime (moving line). This has been > requested a number of times over the past years and it was something i > tried to implement once before. Now, as far as I remember, I gave up > on it a while back due to csound buffering output, but that was > something I changed sometime ago. Also, I think most versions of > Csound at the time did not have that code change except the ones from > CVS. I think it is the case now that most csound versions do not > buffer output when outputing to a pipe, so I think this should now > work. > > I have placed a new blue.jar at: > > http://www.kunstmusik.com/blue.jar > > If you all could download and test this feature I would really > appreciate it. I'm concerned with a few things: > > -Does the time pointer scroll smoothly or does it stuttter? If it > stutters, what version of Csound are you using? > > -Does this cause more breakups of realtime audio for you than you had > before? Is it worth it? > > -Is the color orange work well for showing the render time? > > > Some thoughts: > > -Right now it is configured to create a csound instrument that tells > blue the current time 20 times a second, so that the animation is > 20fps for the time pointer. Do you think the update rate should be > optionally set to different values? (so if you're getting bad > performance you can scale back how often it updates) > > -Would it be useful to optionally not use the render time pointer? If > so, do you think it should be a program option or a per project option > (say, a checkbox or icon you can select next to the loop checkbox?) > > -And on the above, as a side note, do you think the loop checkbox > would be well served with being replaced with some sort of loop icon? > > My initial experiences are that it works rather well for me here on > Linux without much affect on playback of audio in realtime, but on > windows there seemed to be a little more stuttering. (I find that the > case with Csound in general though, so not sure if it's related to > blue or not). > > Any help with testing and feedback on this feature would be greatly > appreciated! > > Thanks, > steven > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmdlnk&kid=103432&bid#0486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Bluemusic-users mailing list > Blu...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluemusic-users > |