Re: [kln2-devel] tune + amo

[Carlo <si...@bl...>]

Hi,

Il sab, 2004-08-07 alle 00:38, Marek Wieckowski ha scritto:

> As far as I understand, from user's point of view what fluidsynth does is
> exactly what timidity++ does: it takes midi data, reads wave patches from
> a soundfont file and sends appropriate patches to an audio device

Exactly. Well, I used timidity to play midi files without having to load
soundfont file, so... I don't know how it works. My problem was that
kln2 starts timidity as a server. It assumes that timidity has been
compiled with the server option enabled, wich isn't the case in many rpm
and even deb packages. (the user should recompile timidity)
As far as I could notice timidity eat far more cpu resources than
fluidsynth, ...but maybe I'm wrong...


> Oh, and it seems that fluidsynth also support more sound environments
> (JACK etc.) than timidity.

btw: it also runs on mac and win (and other platforms)

> How big will be the sound font bank?
Vintage Dreams has >100 instruments and is 307.3 KB :)

> The kln2 system of saving settings has to be rebuild (for example, because
> of settings for new exercises).

Yup, as you requested some mails ago, I was thinking about rewriting it.
What about a text file config?? like the apache's one, not xml,
something like:

SECTION
  OPTION value
  OPTION2 value
ENDSECTION

where sections could be midi, exercises, notes ranges,...
I know, this requires a parser. Harder to code and slower to run.
But changing version would simply mean inserting a new line.
I know this seems not to make sense since the user doesn't need to
change anything in this file, so I'm ansking everybody for their
opinion.


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Now about pitch input
ex.: say you're playing kln2's game answearing with a piano, and the
note shown is C. Now, I want to answear the same question (to show that
I'm faster :P) but playing another instrument, say in Bb (B flat).
If you play a C you answear right.
If I play a C my answear is wrong! (I should play a Bb)

kln2 should manage this "transposition"
Another option to add to pitch input setup...


Regards,
Carlo