Re: [seq24-users] A few random questions

[Ken R. <ke...@re...>]

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:52:20PM +0200, Malte Steiner wrote:
> Hello
> > I've been using seq24 for a few weeks now, and I like it. I'll be using it for a liveset on Saturday.
> > 
> > A few questions still remain after using it and reading docs, searching on the internets, etc:
> > 
> > 	1) How can I get seq24 to save and restore the BPM setting for a song?
> You are using a 64 bit system, right? Same problem bothers me on 64 
> Studio, in 32 bit Ubuntu it works alright.

Yes, I'm on 64-bit. Gah, looks like it's a bug then. I'll bet it's in lurking somewhere in the bit-shifting of the tempo byte of the Format 1 MIDI file.

> 
> Is seq24 maintained anymore or abandoned? I am thinking to jump on board 
> and help with coding. Would love to see a sceneswitch so that many 
> patterns can be activated at once.

That would be much more useful to me than song mode. 

I was going to hack my own "scene mode" together in PD, by having it send MIDI events to seq24 to trigger groups of loops. But it'd be nicer if it was in seq24.

> 
> > 	4) I'd be really neat if seq24 was OSC-ified. It's such a nice GUI for loop entering/editing; it'd be great if I could just use it as a front-end to other programs written in PD/ChucK/SuperCollider/etc.
> 
> We discussed OSC sequencers on LAU recently, but not many are available now.

Or even if its parameters were OSC-controlled. Or, perhaps even more promising, dbus-enabled.

Also, seq24 doesn't actually support the ALSA sequencer interface; it seems like it uses raw MIDI. Its connections don't show up in aconnect.

Finally, if there's a wishlist somewhere: I'd be nice if it could support JACK MIDI, for sample-accurate MIDI framing and integration into JACK. Also, if it supports JACK MIDI, it would automatically obtain cross-platform connectivity: since JACK now runs on Linux, OSX, and now Windoze too.

- -ken
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