28 Apr
2011
28 Apr
'11
10:03 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:23:42AM +1000, cal wrote:
On 28/04/11 07:08, Julien Claassen wrote:
Which is exactly what we need. A mechanism such as that
under discussion
will be useless if it isn't practical for developpers.
[ ... some more thought provoking stuff ... ]
Just a couple of thoughts from the perspective of the "bear of very little
brain" behind yoshimi:
- the FUSE idea isn't entirely without merit, but I really don't want to know
about it in terms of
implementing anything along those lines within the synth
I always thought of it as
more of a bridging daemon, so not part of any
synth engine. In any case, I think the idea of a "descriptive format"
has now superseeded the FUSE idea as being more feasible and practical.
- OSC is "loose" by definition. However desirable, the notion of "one spec
to bind them all"
is doomed to fail. Every second developer will encounter enough exceptions in their
particular
app to justify non-compliance.
Could you expand on that? The idea is to be able (as
much as possible)
to take whatever OSC structure/lexicon the developper sees fit to create
and build a useable interface out of it. What are the challenges you
think that would pose?
- one of the many links floating by in previous discussion was
<http://idmil.org/projects/mappingtools>.
I haven't looked into those tools closely yet, but just reading the blurb gives a
good idea of the problem
space in play here. There will always be a need for mapping the OSC control set of one
app or device
to the control set of the app or device being controlled.
But what if the app being
controlled defines the controling app?
- strictly speaking, RDF isn't an XML format. XML
is just one of a number of data formats supported by
the RDF libs. Last year I went through the tedious exercise of converting yoshimi to use
turtle format
fot it's data storage (via raptor) instead of xml. State of health plus the sheer
scope of the testing
exercise led me to put all of that on the "Not now!" shelf. Some of that work
looks like being
recyclable when it comes to putting OSC control into yoshimi.
In terms of
implementation, would midi be easier than OSC, or the same?
Cheers,
S.M.