Re: [softwerk-dev] new release, plus "manual"

[Josh G. <jg...@us...>]

Paul Barton-Davis wrote:

> I put a new tarball release (1.99.2) on sourceforge with fixes for
> that egregious bug in all the library version-sanity checking code,
> plus a smaller minimum window size.
>
> I also put in place a version of the docs from an older version of
> softwerk. they are not totally current, but they will help you to
> understand what the program can do. see the "manual" link from the
> home page.
>
> schlaf gut,
>

Killer, I just got the first peep out of Softwerk. And I'm happy to say
its also the first time I've had the Smurf Sound Font Editor and a
sequencer program working at the same time! I just recently added
ALSA sequencer support. Its rad I can set up a sequence in Softwerk and
then just change my patches on the fly while its playing! Cool. I
recorded my first pattern that I created and encoded it into MP3. Check
it out if you want:
http://resonance.org/~josh/softwerk_and_smurf.mp3

Its a little distorted and patch changes aren't the smoothest (patch
data gets uploaded each time I change it with Smurf, will change in
future). The patches are a sound font created by Smurf from various
generated samples (Smurf's sample generator) and a recording of a kazoo
(I will be releasing a sound font in the future, rather un-professional
though :).

I hope to compose music more now, program less :) Must read Softwerk
manual.. Lates..
    Josh

P.S. I got the virtual MIDI stuff working with my AWE 32 as was
discussed on ALSA devel (I used /dev/snd/midiC0D2 and alsa/raw). I was
getting a mysterious seg fault with softwerk on startup though. For some
reason the "mode" variable in the softwerkrc.scm won't accept "output",
so I set it to "duplex".