Re: [Denemo-devel] Questions and Comments on Denemo

[N. Gey]

Having an ALSA client is a great thing. You can send your midi data 
right from Denemo to a synth or sampler like zynsubfx or even 
linuxsampler, so that is possible to make great music with notes and 
staffnotation, not with tracker and pianoroll.

Even more, having an JACK client offers the possibility to sync denemo 
with other programs. You could easily make a convert from 
denemo-midiplayback to wave, meaning rendering through a synth/sampler. 
This is possible because JACK transport can start and stop all connected 
clients at once, so that recording a synced midiprogramm is no problem 
anymore.

Finally if you have made a complex setup of routing from denemo (or even 
more than one denemo instance at once) to any other programms you could 
save this all by LASH so that restoring a certain state is avaible at 
any time, and its possible to transfer this session to other computers.

Like I've said. For me these three things are the fundamentel difference 
between linux and win/mac. As we all know there is no complete 
noteeditor for linux so giving these possibilities would surely get 
users to use denemo.


Nils

Richard Shann schrieb:
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:33 +0200, N. Gey wrote:
>   
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I am not sure if I understood right.
> >
> > Don't you know the concepts of JACK, LASH and ALSA or don't you know how 
> > to programm/integrating them.
> >     
> The former - I just have some hazy notions. Are you thinking it would be
> nice to be able to play individual notes via midi without the delay of
> creating a file and starting an external midi player? - yes, that would
> be good. If we can get enough people using Denemo I'm sure someone will
> take it up. It may have been done already and just not be working (there
> is a file called alsaplayback.c!).
> Richard
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