2 Jul
2013
2 Jul
'13
9:26 p.m.
2013/7/2 Louigi Verona <louigi.verona(a)gmail.com>om>:
Hey Diego!
NON is generally a nice approach. The problem I had with it, as far as I
remember, is that it does not support MIDI. Which really kills the whole
deal for me, since the rest of Linux Audio apps are MIDI apps. Somewhere on
the NON site there was a lengthy instruction on how to setup a bridge
between MIDI and OSC, but that was not my cup of tea, that kind of tech
voodoo.
Yes I understand it.
In fact I kept thinking in how to control hydrogen or yoshimi from NON
for instance.
I can not see how to do this at the moment.
The power of Linux Audio - the diversity of solutions - is at the same time
its weakness, as typically your setup at any given time will reliably have
apps that fall out of your routine. Currently for me it is seq24 that does
not work with JACK Transport. If this is going to be fixed someday, by that
time some other app might have another problem. At the same time seq24 has
no reliable automation (I was told it is there, I found nothing, tbh).
I don't want to focus in seq24 since the topic is more general and
more important
but I remember this tutorial from Leigh Dyer showing MIDI CC automation in seq24
http://wootangent.net/2010/11/linux-music-tutorial-seq24-part-2/
And
also seq24 has weird volume editing.
As mentioned with NON, it does not support MIDI. Ardour 3 works great, but
does not support DSSI, so no WhySynth or Nekobee, for instance.
The list goes on. There is always a "but". And it is absolutely normal, as
each app is a project in of itself. Even if it is supposed to be a tool that
makes sense only with other applications, rarely apps are designed with the
whole environment and/or too much time and effort is required to accommodate
said environment. And so you end up with this shattered puzzle. You put one
piece in - another falls out.
This is why I believe a different approach would be great - basically, a
modular all-in-one system, meaning modules that are designed to speak to
each other.
How realistic is that to make? Don't know.
--
Louigi Verona
http://www.louigiverona.ru/