[LAU] Linux Audio podcast, episode001

[Diego Simak]

2013/7/2 Louigi Verona <louigi.verona at gmail.com>:
> 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/