JSL 1.0 and 2.0 (Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Anyone here ever used any other librarian programs?)

[Hiroo H. <hir...@co...>]

Hi,

I've run over this discussion.  I could not read one word by one word,
so I may misunderstand something.

In this mail I'd like to propose two things.
        1. Let's complete JSynthLib 1.0.
        2. Then start for JSynthLib 2.0 with big changes (User I/F, file
           format, etc.)

First I thank you Brain for his starting this great project.  It's much
more easy to improve existing code or to comment (or criticize) it than
to create it from scratch.  It learned a lot from your program.  There
are many good ideas (ParamModel is one of them).

I have no experience of commercial librarians.  But I guess they cannot
support all of MIDI devices.  They probably have a feature to support
any MIDI device for some degree by letting user set up something, but
there are limit without full programming language.  By having this GPLed
librarian, anyone who can do programming can have librarian for any MIDI
device.

Of course, as anyone including Brian agree, there are lots of things to
be improved.  (I've been doing my best to improve JSL as far as I can.)
As we discussed before, once we will done for the package structure
change, JSL can be version 1.0.

Although Rib and Joe taught me how to change package by Eclipse, it's
not still clear for me.  And they wrote it would be easy, but I'm still
afraid once I start it, it will take lots of time.  I'll move my home
over Pacific Ocean soon. (I'll go back to Japan with my family.)  I will
not be able to spend my time for this project as I did for a couple of
months at least.  So, don't rely on me for the package restructuring work. 
Joe, could you drive this issue? You were pushing this issue very hard,
weren't you?


I agree with Joe on the point there are room to improve the user
interface.  The current UI allow user to put any kind of patch in a
library.  This gives us some freedom.  But I don't think it is worth to
let users select driver (MIDI device) every time they do something. 
(For example, new patch dialog does not have to have Device combo box if
a frame is dedicated for a MIDI device.) And I think we also need to
change the file format.  By having function to import or convert the
current format file, we can change it and go forward.  The combination
of an XML file and binary Sysex files is my proposal.

Again we have to release 1.0 before the big changes.

Regards,
-- 
Hiroo Hayashi