Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Status ?

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From: "Pete Stieber" <                                                   >
To: <jaz...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Status ?


> BV = Bob Vogel
> BV>>> Haven't heard anything on this list for a while.
>
> PS = Pete Stieber
> PS>> I've been distracted by work and I've started
> PS>> giving drum lessons on Saturday mornings.
>
> BV>>> Is it near operable?
>
> PS>> I managed to get it recording MIDI from my
> PS>> Roland drum kit.
>
> BV>>> How much more needs to be done?
>
> PS>> I would like to remove all of the deprecated
> PS>> wxWidgets code.  This means I need to convert
> PS>> several dialog boxes to modern wxWidgets.
> PS>>
> PS>> What functionality were you looking for?
>
> BV> I have a copy of Dave Phillips book, Linux
> BV> Music & Sound, from 2000 which describes
> BV> jazz++ this way:
> BV>
> BV> "...Jazz++ is a professional grade tools for
> BV> recording, editing, and playing midi data and
> BV> has the distinction of being the first Linux
> BV> sequencer with integrated MIDI and digital
> BV> audio sequencing. It provides a wide
> BV> assortment of tools for the manipulation of
> BV> recorded MIDI data, including a full
> BV> complement of the basic tools (cut, copy,
> BV> paste, mute/solo, track quantization and
> BV> transposition, and so on), a variety of
> BV> interesting and useful MIDI event generators
> BV> and modifiers, and an editor and other tools
> BV> for digital audio tracks."
> BV>
> BV> It goes on for a few more pages with more
> BV> detail. There is also a CD included with the
> BV> book that has a 386 rpm, some documentation,
> BV> and other material that is likely outdated by
> BV> now.
> BV>
> BV> Since it is all under the GPL, I could send
> BV> you copies of those files if they are of any
> BV> use to you.
>
> I didn't even know this book existed.  If you browse the SVN repository
> I inherited you will notice some old branches
>
> http://jazzplusplus.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jazzplusplus/branches/
>
> Do you happen to know the version of Jazz++ that was included on the CD?
>
> BV> I was hoping that it could get back to its
> BV> original functionality with a nice new wx gui.
> BV>
> BV> What are the chances?
>
> It's functional.  IIRC you are a Debian user.  Is that still true?
>
> What distribution/hardware are you using?
>
> Would you be willing to try and build version 2.8.10 of wxWidgets and
> the current Jazz++ code in subversion?
>
> It might take some effort, but I promise to help.
>
> Pete


Hi Pete,

Dave Phillips did not include actual source code for Jazz++ on his CD. One 
file is labeled jazz4.0.0-1.386.rpm. I sent a file to your gmail address 
that contains some useful looking html.
Dave's book also has a number of screenshots. A good library could probably 
get it for you.

It might not have been a good move. I have changed from Debian to Ubuntu 
9.04 on a quad core AMD64 machine.
Actually it has been much more difficult to configure audio because Ubuntu 
uses Pulseaudio. It's also that I have a cheap soundcard that turns out
not to be supported by ALSA. I'm thinking I need to replace the sound card 
soon. Which one do you think would be best ?

Aside from that, I have compiled 2.8.10 of wxWidgets. Seems to be ok.

Sure...I can try building it. Do you still have instructions to do it ? (I 
did do it a year ago or more when I was running Debian.)

Bob


Bob