Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Hi - Very quiet list - my first post

[David O. <da...@ol...>]

On Monday 20 January 2003 22.52, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
> I don't know much of anything about Audiality, except for I have a
> hard time spelling it! ;-)

Yeah - weird name, isn't it? :-)


> Really, the web page looks interesting, but I've never tried to use
> it.

Well, if you're command line challenged, as you say, you should=20
probably wait 'till there's a GUI for it. ;-)


> My focus (in this specific conversation) really initiated from
> the idea that linux would benefit from have a simple app that
> starts from a base of audio samples, as opposed to a synth of some
> type, and knows enough about MIDI, envelopes and processing to be
> interesting and useful.

I see. Reading your other post, it seems like most of what you've=20
mentioned is either implemented or high on the TODO list for=20
Audiality (obviously, since I'm actually going to *use* this myself=20
:-) - but I don't know when I'll get around to hack some form of GUI.=20
It's not a top priority for me, since creating sounds from scratch is=20
workable with a text editor, and loading WAVs is one trivial line of=20
script per file.


> This is where I'm coming from on this specific day, which is not to
> say I'm not interested in other things, but this is a
> linux-sampler, after all. ;-)

Yes - and it seems like "Battery emulation" would be a rather useful=20
starting point that still isn't way beyond reach. I'm afraid most of=20
the work is in the GUI programming domain, though. The parts that=20
deal with what you mentioned are really the trivial parts in=20
Audiality, and that's the case with most audio applications. Most of=20
the complexity in Audiality is stuff that synths generally don't=20
have; such as the fully configurable mixer, the off-line synth and=20
the script interpreter that drives it.


//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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