Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Hello List again...

[Dave F. <da...@da...>]

On Sunday 07 November 2004 11:33 pm, Phuah Yee Keat wrote:
> Hey, I am still using the windows version of legacy Jazz++, coz I can't
> seem to get my cvs jazzplusplus working on my linux box.

Hmmm, did you try using the ./rebuild script?

> I started timidity, and then started Jazz, and timidity gives me this
> Requested buffer size 2048, fragment size 1024
> ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 2048, period size 1024 bytes
>
> So I assume Jazz made it there, but nothing's coming out of the speaker
> when I click on Play.

The way Jazz works right now, it doesn't use a softsynth.  I don't know if it 
used to be able to, but your best bet is to simplify and eliminate the 
softsynth, using Jazz's internal synth.

> PortMidi, is that an effort to abstract out all the platform specific
> midi functions? I have yet to really look into the codes yet, but
> looking at the build process, its not build together with Jazz, so I
> assume it haven't got into Jazz repository yet.

Yes.  The long-term goal is to pull the synth out of Jazz entirely and use an 
external softsynth.  There is a version of PortMidi sources in the 
repository, but it hasn't been brought into the build system yet, it's just 
in the repository.

> Anyone still working on this project? The mailing list is idle for a
> couple of months already. :)

As far as I know, we're all still working on it, just extraordinarily busy.  
Admittedly, if jazz was farther along and we had releases of it we'd probably 
be in more of a hurry to find time to work on it.  There is certainly a lot 
of interest in it, so if you want to bang on it, we're not the only ones 
who'll appreciate it.  There is a solid demand for a cross-platform MIDI 
sequencer, and we get regular inquiries (I get a few off-list a month from my 
website), so there are a lot of people besides us that want you to help 
us.  :)

So if you want to start hacking, I (and others here) can certainly point you 
in a useful direction.  There's theoretically not a lot left to get Jazz 
ported to wxWidgets 2.4, and then working on Windows, so that a release could 
be made which would attract users and developers, which would create the 
feedback loop necessary to get Jazz off the ground.  I'll help you any way 
that I can, but I'm in the middle of so much stuff right now, and getting 
enrolled into college (finally, after years of denial), and then that starts 
in january.  Oh boy.  But yeah, I'll help any way that I can, and I'm sure 
there are others here that will love to help too.

Dave

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