26 Oct
2010
26 Oct
'10
12:21 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 06:08:58PM +0400, alex stone wrote:
Joel, off and running smoothly, with the git build of
Nama (no, i'm
not getting cocky, i got lucky)
It's only difficult when it's broken. :-)
I wrote my own limited tool to preprocess the source,
patching in automatically generated parts of the grammar,
inserting files, etc. Otherwise Nama's build process can
hardly compare to the complexity of compiled code.
A quick note for you, the SPACE bar doesn't work
when the GUI is open.
I can run the transport in GUI mode with weird stuff like CTRL+ALT,
and CTRL+SHIFT though, although this clashes with my much loved and
cared for Fluxbox keybinding set.
I thought maybe Ctrl-Space, but I don't remember exactly.
There was some reason that (I thought) I couldn't use space
by itself under Tk.
The text mode is good, and well laid out in terms of
usability. (i.e.
i'm in qwerty heaven here) Lots of user mistakes, but the momentum is
forward at least. I'm still getting my head around recording multiple
wavs in a track (positioning the rec start time, etc) but that will
come.
I assume that any editing of a wav should occur in an external wav
editor like Rezound, but i ask if there's any non destructive
functions in Nama to add fade ins and outs, etc...
nama> h fade
This also begs the next question, is there a means to
create
automation for tracks as yet?
Beyond simple fades, you can manually create envelopes,
using Ecasound's controllers.
In future we expect to be able to capture MIDI control
inputs and play them back with track.
Some way tools for defining envelopes will be helpful, too
I'm off to explore some more, but this is very
interesting to use, and
quite fast with a little practise.
Who needs X. Or a mouse....:)
They have their place, but can be fiddly, and it's easy
to accidentally click stuff that you don't understand.
It's amazing to me that no one has tried to write text-based
DAW (unless there is one for Emacs that we don't know about
:-)
Alex.
p.s. You're right. Ecasound is very stable. No problems here at all
once it was installed properly.
It's one of Nama's killer features. A very powerful stable
engine, and one we don't have to maintain. (Thanks Kai!)
--
Joel Roth