18 Sep
2002
18 Sep
'02
3:34 p.m.
On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 23:23, David Olofson wrote:
[snip]
Mmm, hadn't considered such an approach - I think I'd end up very confused. I
just about understand MIDI enough (thanks to
http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/midispec/*) to be able to see what you're
doing...
Yes, getting a MIDI device to account for itself would be nice...
One of the other things I'll end up doing with TiMidity++ is writing up what
it's currently capable of (I can't find a nice, straightforward list of its
MIDI capabilities anywhere).
All I can ever find is a page in Japanese (which I can't understand).
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 20.33, Peter L Jones
wrote:
[snip]
I was thinking it might be fun to have a midi
sequencer with a
rather large library of MIDI controllers. I was thinking of using
Non-Registered Parameters - one to select the LADSPA plug in (by
number), one to set its position in the plugin chain, and as many
more as is required to control it
That sounds a lot like what I'm doing right now, in what's to be
released as the *real* Audiality Engine (*). The "new" engine is
formerly known (or probably not!) as the "unnamed audio engine of
Kobo Deluxe", and is the reason why you get three songs with custom
sound for practically no increase in download size. (Oh, there are
some 100 instruments included in the package as an extra bonus.)
- unless someone fancies getting
the LADSPA plugins allocated numbers by the MIDI Manufacturers
Association...
Well, I think the time would be better spent working on a serious
control interface, for plugin APIs as well as various hardware links.
IMHO, MIDI's lack of feedback (you can't ask units about things,
unless you have two cables - and that's not really part of the
standard), low bandwidth in it's h/w form, limited resolution, the
per-channel note ID == note pitch restriction etc etc, makes it a
major PITA for this kind of stuff. I did an archive search on "timidity"
and found nothing -- is
software sequencing off topic or is there somewhere else I should
go to discuss changes to TiMidity++?
I would assume the timidity list is the right place for timidity
specific discussion. (Not on it, and I'm off-line, so I can't check
the info easilly. I'm a lazy bastard; sorry. ;-)
As to "software sequencing on LAD" in general though, I would believe
that's about as ON topic as it gets! :-)
That's alright then :-)
//David
Many thanks,
-- Peter