Il 21/feb/2017 18:58, "Alexandre DENIS" <contact(a)alexandredenis.net> ha scritto: Hi, That's great! I bought MonstrumFeld and was never able to make it work correctly. Your Biggleworth works fine here. I am looking forward for the modulation matrix support! (where the real strength of the Blofeld resides) Actually it's not a big deal to implement it, the only real problem I'm facing is the layout. I think I'll use a "stacked" mode (similarly to what MonstrumFeld uses) that will hide the effects and arpeggiator panels and show the matrix in their place. Just a few remarks. The display on top in Patch Editor is a little bit cropped. I can see only half of the "Status:" line. I am using a 120dpi display, if it helps. It happens even in full screen at 2560x1440, which should be enough. I was afraid of that. Could you please send me a screenshot, so I could better understand where the problem might occur? Second remark: why PyQt4 and Python 2.7? Wouldn't PyQt5 and Python 3.x be more future-proof? You are ideally right. But. Python 2 choice is just for laziness, I am not a programmer and I actually don't have much time to dedicate to it, so, even if I know that there's not so much difference (and, actually, a lot of advantages), I didn't find it so impelling.. I prefer to dedicate my time to a (yet still valid and supported enough) pair of language/toolkit I already know.. and play my music in the remaining time ;) About Qt5 the problem is that right now I don't have it and I can't install it, for various reasons I won't debate here. But anyway, even at this preliminary stage, it works better than MonstrumFeld. That's good to know.. I only could try its demo on VirtualBox, I was satisfied with the whole interface, but I felt it wasn't right for some things, and Ctrlr is a bit clumsy sometimes. Anyway, I'm glad you appreciate it, I'm really looking forward to finish it.. Cheers!

2017-02-21 23:57 GMT+01:00 Alexandre DENIS <contact(a)alexandredenis.net>et>: [...] Ok, I got this, thanks for the screenshots. I forgot to mention that I'm still using a font I've on my system, which might not be available everywhere else. That's your case, I suppose. I'm still looking for the right font which will grant good readability even on small size, once I'll have found it, I'll include it in the repository. I already do this for the display area, but not yet for the other widgets. Luckily I'm painting widgets and labels using the actual font size (to avoid layout problems), so it won't be a problem to fix sizes once I'll find the final font. I also have to take into account the DPI - I didn't think about that, actually. I'll add it to the to do list, thank you! -- È difficile avere una convinzione precisa quando si parla delle ragioni del cuore. - "Sostiene Pereira", Antonio Tabucchi http://www.jidesk.net

2017-02-21 21:43 GMT+01:00 Christopher Arndt <chris(a)chrisarndt.de>de>: I actually looked into rtmidi a couple of months ago, when I was working on a custom class for a couple of project I had in mind (an automatic midi recorder and a midi delay); the result is in the midiutils.py, which contains both classes for midi events and a Qt class which maps the whole MIDI graph for ALSA MIDI devices (and JACK in the future). After looking around for the existing modules, I realized that none of them was satisfying enough; if I recall correctly, one of the main issues with rtmidi was that its interface layer was too high for my needs: it doesn't provide client/port ids, nor port capabilities or port announcement, and it doesn't support ALSA's hidden/system ports; this can be a problem if you need callbacks for port creation/deletion. But I may be wrong, it was a long time ago and I might have not read deep enough in the documentation, so, please, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I know that this seriously limits the portability in other systems, but right now my priority is to provide the best "experience" on linux. On the other hand, my choice for PyQt was also inspired by the fact it's multiplatform (I used to write in Gtk, but after struggling with it for months I realized it's a mess), and when I started my work on the forementioned classes I did that with future portability in mind. So, who knows... Thanks anyway for your suggestion! Maurizio -- È difficile avere una convinzione precisa quando si parla delle ragioni del cuore. - "Sostiene Pereira", Antonio Tabucchi http://www.jidesk.net