[linux-audio-user] multiband compression with ecasound and ladspa

[Jack O'Quin]

Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> writes:

> Jack O'Quin writes:
>> Julien Claassen <julien at c-lab.de> writes:
>> 
>> > It would work with ecasound in the same way, very perfectly!  BUT: I
>> > am blind! So I can't use jamin, if jamin doesn't have the ncurses
>> > interface the Jamin people where thinking about. Does it have that?
>> 
>> Sorry for misunderstanding, Julien.
>> 
>> No, JAMin has a purely visual GTK-2 graphical interface.
>
> So, all may not be lost in terms of an "eyes-free" interface.
>
> Julien: Have you tried with Gnopernicus? Or with Orca?
>
> I would try this myself, but I'm about to leave for a conference. I'll
> see if I can get one of the handful of folks who've gotten comfortable
> with Gnopernicus to take a look. It would be cool if Jammin turns out to
> be accessible, without anyone knowing it. That is possible because of
> the use of GTK2. If the widgets used are standard GTK2 it either already
> is, or could easily be made so by providing object properties data.

> Actually, by using--if you have stuck with--stock GTK2 widgets, you may
> have already achieved this. Wouldn't that be something?

Yes, it would.  

I know we have at least a couple of custom widgets, one for meters and
one for the hand-drawn graphical EQ.

Jan Depner (who wrote most of our GUI interface) made the same point
to me off-list.  We would certainly like to see this happen.

> Certainly, the accessibility requirements pretty much require this kind
> of decoupling. Output and input requirements both should be supported by
> virtue of the abstracted support provided via gtk2.
>
> Of mainstream musician interest would be alternative controls mapped via
> Gok, the Gnome Onscreen Keyboard. It would be worthwhile to check this
> out--and I'll do what I can, but it will take a few days.

Thanks for the offer.

With testing and knowledgeable consulting assistance, it looks like
this could be done more easily than I had realized.
-- 
  joq