9 Mar
2006
9 Mar
'06
3:01 p.m.
Got a demo n a new release for ya! Check it out!
/* http://shelljam.sourceforge.net */
Hi, thanks for reading. Your host-to-brand-new-overrated software, Carlo
Capocasa, has his pleasure welcoming you to this group of pixels that
mysteriously enough makes sense to you (ask a fly what he has to say of
this message).
Bzzzz
Thought so.
/* http://shelljam.sourceforge.net */
In any case, there have been program updates (touchpad controlled Saw
Wave Overtones! Ohboyohboyohboy this is great! Couple it with Zyn and...
MAAAAAN! This is so awsome :) And, it actually gives you more control
than the purchasable hardware bug-prone heavy-to-carry
performance-latency-issue knob controlled MIDI hardware out there,
because you can control _two MIDI controllers with just one finger_. The
world seriously needs laptops with more than one touchpad :
Also, on the web site is a little bit of my famous irrevent humor as a
goodie (except when you are the target), a brand new mug shot (yes, I do
actually look that way, and I have been boxing but I wasn't serious
enough about it for it to change my appearence), and a brand new demo of
the brand new touchpad controlled overtones saw-wave goodie feature,
complete with Zyn patch and S24 live recording. Of course, directly
listenable in your beloved OGG Vorbis.
/* http://shelljam.sourceforge.net */
Oh yeah and everything in my last smackdown release is fixed, the new
MIDI system is really fantastico, and the UI is still nonexistent. DUH.
It works though. And the thing looks really great in my mind... cross
graphics mode user interface!
All this, and of course the program pre-compiled and
partly-statically-linked and hence probably readily to use, or also as
spiffy simplified source text files if you so prefer, at the same
location as always,
-> http://shelljam.sourceforge.net
Enjoy!
Carlo
/* http://shelljam.sourceforge.net */
/* Yeah, I really MEAN it! ;) */
9 Mar
9 Mar
3:45 p.m.
On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 20:00:30 +0100
Carlo Capocasa <capocasa(a)gmx.net> wrote:
Gnah, the 0.0.4 tarball seems to be broken:
~/source/build_stuff/shelljam-0.0.4$ ls -la
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 2 tapas tapas 4096 Mar 9 12:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 81 tapas tapas 4096 Mar 9 20:35 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 tapas tapas 378 Mar 9 12:46 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 tapas tapas 17976 Mar 9 12:46 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 tapas tapas 1238 Mar 9 12:46 INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- 1 tapas tapas 4308 Mar 9 12:46 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 tapas tapas 416 Mar 9 12:46 SConstruct
-rw-r--r-- 1 tapas tapas 142 Mar 9 12:46 TODO
-rw-r--r-- 1 tapas tapas 473 Mar 9 12:46 changelog
scons rightously complains:
~/source/build_stuff/shelljam-0.0.4$ scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
scons: *** Source `shelljam.cpp' not found, needed by target `shelljam.o'. Stop.
scons: building terminated because of errors.
Anyways,i almost started writing a software just like yours as i was
inspired by SC3's MouseX and MouseY UGens. But you were quicker :) As i
cannot test your app atm, i just leave some random ideas here which you
maybe consider worth integrating into your app (maybe you already
implemented some of them).
- Read the mouse and keyboard regardless of the window focus. This
enables twiddling with other knobs in other apps without having to
switch focus all the time (of course twiddling other knobs will also
generate midi events then, but often this is done in a fiddling phase
anyways, so it doesn't hurt.
- use a bunch of shortcuts to do certain stuff (again regardless of
window focus)
- read/ignore mouse/keyboard
- grab/ungrab mouse/keyboard (if ungrabbed, but reading is on,
the mouse/keys will be free to do other stuff while still generating midi
events. I know this is possible as SC3's MouseX and MouseY do it
- toggle configurable midi setups (as to which controllers are mapped
to the mouse axes, midi channel, etc)
- use the scrollwheel, too
Have fun,
Flo
--
Palimm Palimm!
http://tapas.affenbande.org
3:47 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:45:30 +0100
Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas(a)gmx.net> wrote:
[snip]
And oh yeah, i forgot, a GUI to setup all these nicely and easily ;)
Flo
--
Palimm Palimm!
http://tapas.affenbande.org
5:05 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: [ANN] Shelljam 0.0.4 Overtones Edition! ;)
Fixed. Had switched my file extensions from .cxx to .cpp and forgot to
update my trusty build script...
Thanks for letting me know.
Carlo
5:28 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: [ANN] Shelljam 0.0.4 Overtones Edition! ;)
Sup Flo!
Anyways,i almost started writing a software just like
yours as i was
inspired by SC3's MouseX and MouseY UGens. But you were quicker :) As i
cannot test your app atm, i just leave some random ideas here which you
maybe consider worth integrating into your app (maybe you already
implemented some of them).
Appreciate it! :) didn't know about SC3 gotta give it a shot...
Oh... and patches are ALWAYS welcome :)
- Read the mouse and keyboard regardless of the window
focus. This
enables twiddling with other knobs in other apps without having to
switch focus all the time (of course twiddling other knobs will also
generate midi events then, but often this is done in a fiddling phase
anyways, so it doesn't hurt.
That's a good one :) I have a suspicion however that one would need to
somehow have kernel space access to the keyboard driver for this one to
work... Have a look here:
http://www.ggi-project.org/documentation/libgii/current/
index.html#libgii-libraries-and-utilities
These are the input devices libgii supports... If you can find one that
works regardless of window focus we're on :) Perhaps the linux event
interface. Right now I use input-x under X.
input-x simply locks the keyboard. Actually that works pretty darn well,
since all patchable synths (ams, Om, spiralmodular probably too) and
also amSynth support arbitrary assignment of controllers to their
parameters. The hard-coded controllers of right now are made with Zyn's
fixed controllers in mind. So you just assign the controllers to 71 for
sound timbre and 74 for sound brightness do some pretty cool controller
stuff (see demo)... I'd say it's already good for live performing :)
- use a bunch of shortcuts to do certain stuff (again
regardless of
window focus)
Planned :)
- read/ignore mouse/keyboard
- grab/ungrab mouse/keyboard (if ungrabbed, but reading is on,
the mouse/keys will be free to do other stuff while still generating midi
events. I know this is possible as SC3's MouseX and MouseY do it
That's really nice :) Type a letter to Mom and send her the Midi :) LOL
- toggle configurable midi setups (as to which
controllers are mapped
to the mouse axes, midi channel, etc)
- use the scrollwheel, too
They'll be XML based assignment of any key/axis/button to any MIDI
event... Also right in the GUI and savable, in time.
Feel free to hack something up :) (code, that is)
Great you were thinking about the same thing :) I can already play one
handed with chords and two controllers on my laptop with touchpad...
Great for scratching yourself while playing.
Carlo
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