[LAU] Beatrix in the house

[rosea grammostola]

Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 05:40:20PM +0100, rosea grammostola wrote:
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>> Martin Homuth-Rosemann wrote:
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>>> Am Donnerstag, 24. Dezember 2009 schrieb Ken Restivo:
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>>>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:41:28AM +0100, rosea grammostola wrote:
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>>>>> Ken Restivo wrote:
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>>>>>> I somehow seem to have acquired a non-context sort-of-patch to add JACK
>>>>>> audio and ALSA MIDI support to the orphaned last release of Beatrix.
>>>>>> Many thanks to whomever did that!
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>>>>> How do we get that patch somehow?
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>>>>>           
>>>> Dig through the list archives.
>>>>
>>>> I tried, and found some mention of it, but not the actual email. The patch
>>>>  didn't get posted to the list, but I'm pretty sure the author of the
>>>>  non-patch patch offered it to anyone who asked.
>>>>
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>>> I searched my bookmarks and found this:	
>>> http://rg42.org/wiki/beatrix
>>>       
>> thanks,
>>
>> Ken could you be a bit more specific about how to solve this?
>>
>> " The denormal bug in the Leslie simulator that was causing it to suck 
>> up 90% CPU usage. After some experimentation, adding 1e-10 to the input 
>> to the Leslie simulator function solved that problem (whew)."
>>
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>>     
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> It's literally adding "+ 1e-10" to the end of one line, in the function that does the Leslie processing (takes an input buffer, and outputs an output buffer).
>
> The place to do that is pretty obvious if you are familiar with C programming, and using a for loop to iterate a pointer through a buffer. Otherwise, I don't think any explanation I'd give would make any sense anyway. 
Right, I'm not an C programmer...
And it doesn't look like it violates the license to release context free 
patches or (detailed) explanations how to fix an issue. How would you 
otherwise be possible to use Bea yourself with jack? Is this 
hypocritical or just the way it is (I'm wondering about this)...

Ok, the main problem is that is isn't GPL, I agree for 100%. But why is 
there a beatrix website if he doesn't want anyone to use it? And why 
offer an app which is not very useful atm? Isn't he 1) more concerned 
about not using the code in other software or having different versions 
of bea around the internet? Does he really care about 2) these little 
fixes which makes it able to use the same app with jack? To me it sounds 
like he is more concerned about the first...


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