[jazzplusplus-devel] Embedded linux Jazz++ -- anyone interested?

[D.B. M. <db...@ho...>]

Greetings,

This'll be aways down the track, but if I raise this here
and now so I've got plenty of time to succumb under my
own workload.... ;-) This sort of posting from myself, should
always start with the words.... "And I was thinking.."

Essentially, there are two ways to use Jazz++ with Linux.

1. As a desktop application -- this is how most people will use it

2. As a dedicated DAW and part of a performer's working 'kit'.

....I mean, it's -possible-, right? Probably nobody is doing it,
they're buying dedicated DAW hardwares if they want this
sort of thing today - and they're expensive MIDI boxes as
well I might add. It just occurs to me that ix86 hardware has
come a long way, and now that SSD technology is going
ahead, a truly 'portable' construct is even more realistic.

Form a mental picture -- let's say mini-ITX mainboard @ 1.5gHz
with 1gb+ of RAM and one kind or another MIDI/synth sound
card in the slot (there is only one slot). The OS is optimized to
the existent hardware makeup, and made as latency low as
possible. You would use a solid-state harddrive if you could,
but anything will do for now...

Jazz++ is not desktop app here - so you don't get a traditional
window-manager facade. I would probably choose 'PicoGUI'
with a customized configuration to fit the purpose. If the fbdev
proved to be quicker at this than a video xserver, I'd use fb.
The navigation would be by hotkeys linked to F1--F12, for instance
the Jazz++ GUI would be fullscreen at F1, F2 might hold JACK
panels, F3 qsynth panels, F4 perhaps AMS panels....and so on.
You still of course have keybd&mouse to do stuff with on each
screen. The way things are with this hardware, it might prove to
be a lot less costly, and just as performant as professional MIDI
equipment of the same capabilities...IMHO anyway..

Like I say though, this would be on the>> other>> side of the
immediate happy future, but I'm interested to know what people
think about the idea -now-, so I can plan time for this in the
future....(if anyone's interested of course ;-).


Regards,


Donald B







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