[Saolsound-user] sfront 0.85 10/13/02 released

[John L. <lazzaro@CS.Berkeley.EDU>]

Pick up sfront 0.85 -- 10/13/02 at:

  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html

   [1] Mac OS X support for
       real-time MIDI control, 
       using the -cin coremidi
       control driver. Up to four
       external MIDI sources are
       recognized. Virtual sources
       are ignored; expect virtual
       source support in a future 
       release.

   [2] Mac OS X memory locking
       now works in normal user 
       processes, and is no longer 
       limited to root.

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With this release, all of the real-time
examples in the sfront distribution run 
under Mac OS X. Specifically, its now
it's possible to use OS X as a Structured 
Audio softsynth -- I've been running my 
PowerBook this way with 2ms CoreAudio buffers,
with MIDI input from my controller via an 
Edirol UM-1S USB MIDI interface, and audio
output via the headphone jack on the Powerbook,
and things work glitch-free (try the linbuzz 
example in the release). 

Also, because audio and MIDI are both 
virtualized under OS X, its possible to run 
multiple ./sa softsynths in parallel (i.e. from
different Terminal windows) and get useable
layering ... although in most cases, you'd
be better off doing your layering inside a
single SA engine.

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John Lazzaro -- CS Division -- EECS -- UC Berkeley
    lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu 
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