[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] slat 0.4b and a plea for help

[james at dis-dot-dat.net]

On Tue, 27 Sep, 2005 at 01:27PM -0500, Jan Depner spake thus:
> On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:00, james at dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
> > Slat Sounds Like A Theremin
> > 
> > Slat 0.4b is up now.  It no longer requires ClanLib and the images get
> > installed properly with make install.
> > 
> > The "b for beta" is there because I've had to leave out the extra
> > cursor - the one that shows the rotating point.
> > 
> > I'm pretty new to X/imlib programming, and I've run into problems
> > using imlib_paste_image.
> > 
> > More detail is at
> > http://blog.dis-dot-dat.net/2005/09/slat-without-clanlib-kde-without.html
> > 
> > There's a commented line that kind of puts the cursor back, but it
> > behaves strangely.  
> > 
> > Everything works without it, so Slat should be perfectly usable.
> > 
> > If anyone has a clue about this, or can spare a few minutes to see if
> > the same thing happens to them with the extra line in place, I'd be
> > grateful.
> > 
> > James
> 
>     I just downloaded it and tried it on FC1/Planet CCRMA and it works
> fine.  The only criticism I have is that the bands are a bit too
> coarse.  If you move the cursor with any speed in the vertical direction
> it loses the nice smooth transition and you hear each discrete band
> change.  Pretty cool though ;-) 

Can you do me a favour and record this behaviour?  It really shouldn't
step at all - the bands are purely visual, with frequency being
calculated continuously.

I think maybe there could be some difference in compilers and/or
libraries that might be causing something to be an integer that
shouldn't.


> I had seen an announcement for a
> theremin type app when I was on the run from Katrina but I lost the
> emails (stupid web mail interface).

I think that counts as exceptional circumstances.

James
 

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