From: Richard B. <bo...@bo...> - 2002-04-09 08:01:26
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Jonathan Stark wrote: > (Mostly miss, actually. Perhaps one in 10 processMappedEvent() calls > actually produces an audible tone.) Are you using an aRts synth instrument or a real external MIDI instrument? If the former then I'm not surprised. > Ahh... sounds like the abstraction you're working on for ALSA is exactly > what I'm looking for. Csound could become one of the drivers that you speak > of. Yeah, again I'm not quite sure how csound becomes the actual driver. By driver we mean something that translates the abstract Instrument into something that talks to the sound hardware - I thought csound was just a way of representing MIDI and audio (and various affects on the audio) ? The ALSA driver now supports a multitude of plugins (LADSPA and I think even DirextX) which will enable some of the transforms that csound implements. > > I dunno how this will all integrate with these "real time csound adaptations" [..] > I'm not sure how it will all fit together either, but like the idea of having > fairly complicated and yet customizable instruments availabe within the constructs > of a nice notation and composition tool like Rosegarden. Still much learning > to do... There's still much work to do with our Instrument and Studio abstraction to. It would appear though initially that the csound work would complement this pretty well. Having a better idea of what csound can do though is definitely the first step. R |