Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] 10th anniversary

[Joe E. <jo...@em...>]

On 9/23/2011 11:50 AM, William Zwicky wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Joe Emenaker<jo...@em...>  wrote:
>
>>   - Going further with the "sync" notion, we could have JSL deal, in a
>> smart way, with changed patches it sees from the synth. For example,
>> suppose I've got a patch called "Swoopy" in my library, and I send it to
>> my synth. Then, I modify the patch on the synth (during a performance,
>> say). And then, afterward, I sync a Scene with my synth and JSL would
>> notice that there's a patch called "Swoopy" on the synth which doesn't
>> match the "Swoopy" in the Library. I could be given a choice of: 1)
>> Overwrite the one in the Library, 2) Overwrite the one on the synth, or
>> 3) Make a new "Swoopy-2" in the library to hold the new one found on the
>> synth.
>>
> I think I have to disagree .. Scenes are meant for live performance.  The
> time required to detect this would probably be excessive, but more
> importantly we can't bug the user with dialogs in this situation.  We need
> to transmit the patches as quickly and cleanly as possible.

Well, I didn't say that we should get rid of the "send" command. There'd 
be the option to send a Scene to a synth and over-write it completely. 
But my reason for wanting to add a "sync" is that there have been times 
where I made a patch at home, with a patch editor and sent it to my 
device. Then, in performance or rehearsal, it turned out that it needed 
tweaking, so I tweaked it. Let's say that happened with a half-dozen 
patches. Then, I got it home and didn't remember which patches I had 
tweaked. Now, I guess I could have just downloaded the whole Scene from 
the device again, but then what? Do I overwrite my previous Scene in JSL 
and then lose any changes I made to the Scene since I last dumped it to 
the device? Or, I could download it to a *new* Scene and then I'll have 
a bunch of duplicate-named patches in two different Scenes and the 
"latest" versions of each will be distributed among them.

So, I still maintain that, if there isn't a time constraint, then 
there's some benefit to JSL being able to detect that certain patches 
are just "modified" versions of previous ones.

- Joe