Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Where's UIRefactor

[<chr...@ch...>]

wrz...@po... wrote:
> Speaking of community, our local hero claimed he'd make a concerted effort
> to finish UIRefactor.  Is it done?  Can we get one more burst of activity
> before summer vacation?  =^)
> 
> -Bill Zwicky
> 

I can't speak for other refactoring efforts, but mine has ground to a halt. Not
to sound too negative, but the JSynthLib codebase is a complete mess. Broken
encapsulation, a lack of anything approaching a genuine API for implementing a
synth driver and - most fundamentally - the object model for patches, banks and
so forth is wrong. It's been a useful learning exercise to poke through the
code, but I'm at the point where I feel it would be best to take the lessons
learnt and start from scratch. This is not something I have the time to do, so
like the MIDIBox guy, I'm taking a closing look at alternatives that will
hopefully have a better foundation for just adding a new synth driver than
JSynthLib currently does.

Regards,

Chris