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Re: KMid (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server)
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jimmy |
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Re: KMid (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server) |
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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:10:14 -0700 (PDT) |
--- On Wed, 10/21/09, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I used to use Kmid, but no one ported it to Qt4/Kde4
> yet, not sure how long
> > before it would be called an orphan.
>
> I'm already starting the adoption process.
Pedro,
Alright, good to know. You got SVN/CVS, discussion group for it somewhere?
Would it be better depending on just QT4, or QT4.5, instead of KDE. I prefer
lighter-weight apps that works well with simple interface, nothing fancy.
I just read a couple of articles on Slashdot about Pulse Audio. The project
lead, and some of their developers want it on every desktop and claimed that
"latency is good" (???, address@hidden(!^#!!!), that 20-second audio buffer
would help them make less interrupt calls to save power or so. Yeah, right...
Saving energy on a few lousy hardware interrupts and blast away on the
speakers, or their "continuous reconfiguration daemon". Their idea of "playing
music" is to use their couch-potato ears. No wonder the rap craps are
everywhere and they think they are great musicians, too.
> KMid is about 10 years old. It is time for a revamp. My
> plans for it are:
> * Remove the deprecated OSS /dev/sequencer interface
> support. It has been
> dropped from OSSv4, anyway.
> * A fair ALSA sequencer implementation: don't
> create/destroy the client and
> port instances on each play/pause/stop action. This would
> allow the usage of
> KMid with a MIDI patchbay application like qjackctl.
So you spent sometime with the adopted kid (uh... code) already :-)
> * MIDI Output implemented on pluggable backends. First one
> will be the ALSA
> sequencer backend, but I would like to develop win32 and
> Mac native backends
> some day.
Jack-midi could probably help on win32 and even Mac, I think???
> Also, a multiplatform backend based on
> libfluidsynth would be
> interesting for casual users, needing only to configure a
> SF2 file and the
> audio output. Some new features would be needed in
> libfluidsynth to create
> this backen>
> Regards,
> Pedro
d, for instance: parse and process the lyric and
> text SMF events.
That is if libfluidsynth care to spend time with lyrics and midi-text events at
all. Although, I think fluidsynth code is not pretty to add new functions to
it. Haven't looked at Gleamsynth (a sort-of Fluidsynth in C++) since the
Spring, but I think it did have some performance issues back then.
I think the new kmid (or whatever its new name maybe) could do what it always
does... send midi events to alsa-seq, or jack-midi, and also parse and display
lyrics/midi-text.
It may be interesting if it (or its library) also has a separate output port
(output-only ???) for lyrics/midi-text events separately from the normal midi
port. This way, people can make their own UI, or even network-UI if they want.
Jimmy
- [fluid-dev] lost connection to Jack server (svn Rev 243, over the weekend), jimmy, 2009/10/19
- Re: [fluid-dev] lost connection to Jack server (svn Rev 243, over the weekend), josh, 2009/10/19
- [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server (svn Rev 243, over the weekend), jimmy, 2009/10/19
- Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server (svn Rev 243, over the weekend), David Henningsson, 2009/10/19
- [fluid-dev] e: lost connection to Jack server (svn Rev 243, over the weekend), jimmy, 2009/10/20
- [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server (svn Rev 243, over the weekend), jimmy, 2009/10/20
- KMid (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server), Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, 2009/10/21
- Re: KMid (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server),
jimmy <=
- Re: KMid (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server), Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, 2009/10/22
- Re: KMid (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server), josh, 2009/10/22
- Re: KMid (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server), Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas, 2009/10/23
- Re: KMid (was Re: [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server), josh, 2009/10/23
- [fluid-dev] Re: lost connection to Jack server (svn Rev 243, over the weekend), josh, 2009/10/20