[linux-audio-dev] Midi/OSC help - Continuous controllers

[Olivier Guilyardi]

Hi Paul,

Paul Davis wrote:
>>See:  Mouse/keyboard/hw controller ----> Gui <----> Engine
> 
> 
> and then day, someone says "Can we control this with OSC?" and your
> second diagram becomes a curse rather than a blessing.
> 
> the people who came up with MVC were not gods, but they were
> smart. MVC is the way it is for a reason, or for several reasons.

I proposed an idea, Paul Coccoli discussed it, so I developed.. But I must 
confess I like to consider a hardware midi controller as a standalone UI, rather 
than plug it into the GUI.

Actually, I just started from the following assumption : a midi hardware 
controller is a input device, among keyboard, mouse and others.

The idea would be to "abstract" this input device from the developer point of 
view, just as the keyboard and mouse. I developed this idea into one direction, 
which may be wrong, but I still believe my assumption to be right.

>>I recognize that sticking the midi layer into gtk would forbid to run the app 
>>headless (you can still switch your monitor off ;-), or do some other ui, with
>>curses, etc... But sometime, one prefer to go straight to the point, and anyway 
>>gtk is portable.
> 
> portable to what? OS X ... i think not, at least not for the better
> definitions of portable.

That was not my main point. Sorry if I wrote an error here. I just know that GTK 
runs on windows and OSX. I don't know the limitations of this portability.

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   og