Re: big picture stuff (was re: widget)

[Danny P.]

> It sounds like what we're looking for is some way for the machines > to
> communicate groups of parameters. As in,
>
> Params 0-3 are in group "foo"
> Params 4-7 in group "bar"


Frikken good idea! Collapsable frames that host music-centered UI controls 
will kick ass.


> I'm thinking of the machine repository being something like CTAN or > CPAN:
> decentralized, ensuring that when you create a song with a released
> machine, the source to create that machine again will always be available
> somewhere on the web.
> In the long term I see OCTAL becoming something rather like TeX. A free,
> compact, well-understood, well-documented program and platform for doing
> plugin-based music on computers. The host can grow, evolve, change,
> improve, etc, while the file format and the machines will always remain
> backward compatible at the source level. Meaning that, like TeX, your
> work will be safe for a long time.


This has got to be done!!!


> (I am already looking into details on Windows 2000 ports.)


You can't lose...

This is going to be good :)

I was wondering if other people had the same problem as me with buzz. I 
often find buzz's GUI controls and tracking-like editor for effects to be 
extremely restrictive. If there were areas in the app to provide 
scripting-like functionality (like a text editor to write a python script to 
control an effect depending on timing or other events), that would seriously 
rock!

I've been playing with python for a while and it is an extremely cool 
scripting language. It would be possible to access the OX_API and some 
timing/control functions to python by swigging the c code (which allows it 
to access the c library as if it were a native python module). You could 
then embed python into octal and be able to script triggers and other things 
like that.

Swig also supports perl, ruby and more. I'm extremely exhausted and cannot 
provide a lot more examples of the uses of this, but I'm sure others can.

Even if you guys do not agree, I will do it anyways :) Free software is 
funky ;)

Dan
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