Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Got something going but...

[Peter G. <pet...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Daniel Rosenstark wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> 1) three hours of tinkering is either not mentioned or called, "a bit of
> tinkering" when you develop software. Plan to lose many more.


IMHO That's where the introduction in the programmer's guide is pretty
misleading:
III.a.1. How hard is it to add support for a new synthesizer to JSynthLib? The
hardest part is simply becoming familiar with how JSynthLib works and how
it's laid out internally. Spend some time looking through the driver code
for other synthesizers and you'll basically pick it up by osmosis. Once your
familiar with what you have to do, actually doing it shouldn't take too
long. I've gotten librarian (not editing) support for synthesizers hacked up
in under two hours. It depends of course, on the complexity of the
synthesizer and the quality of the sysex specification. Adding editing
support can be a little more time consuming, but is probably even more fun
than writing librarian support. I've spent anywhere between 3 or 4 hours
(working on the DR660 Editor) up to 5 days (working on the Matrix 1000
editor). If you run into any trouble, you can email JSynthLib mailing
list<jsy...@li...>for help.
 If we're writing this to an audience of musicians, better add that knowing
how to program in general and in Java is required. Then it's possible to
'pick it up by osmosis'. Else, we should provide a much more detailed guide.


> 2) I did give up on JSynthLib (resulting in
> www.confusionists.com/handsonic),
> but there was a LOT of help on the list. I ditched it because what I needed
> to do was not really a librarian.


There WAS a lot of help, but the information is hard to find now.


>
> 3) My guess: it's August, they're Europeans, and so you have to wait until
> September when they are actually working.


That's true, in September, the rainy days come again. (At least in Belgium
and most countries up north, yes, Belgium is a country, Brussels is a city,
where it's raining today ;-)


> 4) Sounds like your problems are outside of JSynthlib anyway, but I'm not
> sure. Use JSynthlib if you are going to be making that kind of
> functionality
> anyway.


I guess 'your problems' refers to Mikes previous mails, and troubles with
the Java installation ?
I'm having similar problems ... see my previous
mail<http://www.mail-archive.com/jsy...@li.../msg00140.html>

Would it be better if we go to a java-forum to ask for help with these
problems ?

Cheers,
Peter