4 Jan
2007
4 Jan
'07
10:49 a.m.
On Thursday 04 January 2007 00:32, kind king knight wrote:
[...]
Well, either way, DT-42 uses the SDL audio API. (Which is a lot easier
to deal with than OSS or ALSA.) Like JACK and any other serious audio
API, this API is callback based.
There are some remaining, interesting issues that need fixing.
For example, quantization during real time recording (which has to
deal with arbitrary audio latency) doesn't really do what it's
supposed to. It always rounds down, because the looping
implementation isn't safe with recording with "negative delays". (To
push a note forward, you'd have to run ahead of the sequencer,
looking for loop commands and stuff, or you could end up putting the
note some place the sequencer will actually never go.)
Another issue is the locking of the sequencer that is done when the
GUI messes with things. To make it totaly real time safe, one has to
use a different approach. As it is, you might end up with the GUI
having a "hickup" while holding the lock that prevents the real time
thread from running...
Figuring out how to do these things properly might be a good
exercise. ;-)
Those programs are to complicated. I need a toy to
learn from it (it
should be simple, but written using good techniques). I tough more
about something like Hammerhead (
http://www.threechords.com/hammerhead/ ), or
even something easier (no gui, one soucefile).
Well, it's not a single file, it's got a very minimalistic tracker
style GUI, and it's using SDL, but it does what it does in about the
simplest but (hopefully) correct way:
http://olofson.net/mixed.html (DT-42)
http://olofson.net/download/DT-42-0.1.0.tar.gz
/dev/dsp
represents a deprecated interface.
moreover, what happens when someone wants to route
the output of
your
cool, modified mod player through FreqTweak or jack_convolve?
Like I said, want to learn from it, so I don't need a complicated
soundserver support (but I don't say that I won't ever use it). If there isn't such program, then maybe someone
could write it for
me :D.
Way ahead of you...! :-D I wrote DT-42 almost exactly a year ago.
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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