[linux-audio-dev] Anyone wanna take over Shelljam?

[Carlo Capocasa]

Well, I went down and write the kind of software only a musician could 
write, perfectly adapted to a musican's needs because the author is, 
himself, a musician.

Unfortunately, those needs dwindled, as I spent so much time writing 
software I didn't have any time to make music anymore.

So here's a brillintly conceived and hitherto well-executed program (I 
spend nights figuring out the simplest way to accomplish the task at 
hand, meticulously making use of advanced C++ features, and carefully 
selecting only the best and most-updated of libraries).

Now I know this is some stuff people will want to use. Unfortunately, 
using the thing's a little like eating fried zucchini only half fried, 
of having a rare steak when all you can take is well done.

(Not a bad joke for a vegan, huh?)

I have to offer:

* A convenient framework that is tested and works. It tickles high 
fidelity performance that I would not hesitate to use in professional 
production out of your cheap old $10 computer keyboard through the use 
of a smart little filtering algorithm. Using it, I have created the most 
amazing sounds with ZynAddSubFX that I have heard to date, with 
extremely little overhead. (Credit goes to Paul of course, I just the 
thing a little I/O voodoo and dynamics)
* Using an input library platfrom that ALREADY HAS implementations for 
all major windowing systems (including X11, native Mac, DirectFB for the 
handheld people as well as some direct palm support). With this thing 
eventually we will be using our our old palm pilots (or some version 
thereof that includes WLAN) to remotely control our synths. Also, if 
your inclination is to write something low level, thousands of users 
will benefit from your work because you will code it not only for an 
obscure music program but for a true Swiss Army Knife of I/O. Very 
friendly developers and excellent recency of files.
* Using THE very best real-time cross-platform MIDI library. Very easy 
to use, much easier than native ALSA and just as fast. Very portable, al 
through!
* Ready road map adjusted perfectly to a real musician's needs in 
professional production and performance. Be the man who made the star!

Features:
* Extremely accurate (<15 CPU cycles) response keyboard stroke to MIDI 
converter
* Even more accurate Mouse to MIDI controller message converter
* Cheap keyboard support through elegant filter
* Extremely portable
* Very easy-to-use and widely supported hardware abstraction layer used
* Excellent portable real time MIDI library used from the famous STK 
audio toolkit from the University of Columbia
* Rock solid stable
* Keyboard layout geared towards live performance
* Project page set up and ready to use, account data waiting for transfer
* Keystrokes read directly from hardware, no complexity through keymap 
localization
* Support for text mode

Possibilitites for extension:
* XML based custom keymaps
* keymap creation and loading GUI
* friendly, untuitive libggi based GUI during play
* 'non-blocking' libgii keyboard driver for testing a synth while 
manipulating parameters

I have a clear vision of this project and remain available for consultation.

Have fun with it guys! Eat up!

Carlo