Re: [LAD] JACK Synthesizer Manager Proposal

Hi Thorsten, Hi Audun, Just a litte question to better understand your idea. How would a sequencer request a certain patch on a certain channel on a certain port? With plain MIDI the sequencer would just send the appropriate control change / program change values on the given channel and midi port. Without knowing which device would interpret the values in which way. How would that be different with an abstraction layer? How could an abstraction layer assure that a given PC/CC value pair would always refer to a certain kind of patch? Regardless of the system and synthesizer setup employed. Obviously there would be some kind of translation. But who would define the translation rules? Who would define what kind of patches JSM can handle and which not. The JSM developers might come up with a "snappy synth bass". All a user would have to do was to tell JSM how to select a "snappy synth bass" patch on a given synthesizer. But they might not come up with a "blurry sound from space which sounds like a cat screaming when its tail gets clamped by the door". The user wouldn't be able to reliably select such a patch. Simply because it wouldn't be offered to him. On the other hand he could extend the translation rules to offer such a patch. But than again it wouldn't work on a foreign setup. Thanks for your insight. Yours sincerely, Dennis Schulmeister -- Dennis Schulmeister - Schifferstr. 1 - 76189 Karlsruhe - Germany Tel: +49 721/5978883 - Mob: +49 152/01994400 - eMail: dennis(a)windows3.de Now moved to the corridor: Hermes! (http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net) (mostly German) http://www.windows3.de - http://www.denchris.de http://www.audiominds.com - http://www.motagator.net/bands/65