Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [CUD] What do we need now ?
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp_AT_ulster.net)
Date: ti heinä 27 1999 - 23:35:01 EDT
Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> I have set up GNU Audio Software Project (GASP) webpages at
> "http://www.funet.fi/~kouhia/gasp/". Any matter related to audio software
> writing should be documented there: designs, implementation issues,
> example codes.
> Software writers then could look at there and, for example,
> take ideas there and save development and/or programming time.
This is a very nice idea. Perhaps people on the list would consider
placing things they're already working on there, so novice developers
could more easily see what sort of code is available to look at?
I've been looking at your overview at
http://www.funet.fi/~kouhia/gasp/overview.html
...and this is a nice introduction to the main tools needed for a decent
music/audio workstation.
If anyone on the list hasn't seen Protools but was intrigued by my
description, the interface is not (in principle) all that different from
the screenshot of Steinberg Nuendo. So, in Juhana's terminology, what
I'm talking about is basically a "multitrack sequencer". Except that
protools DOES "store...the audio signal as does the wave editor".
Protools looks different superficially (it looks more like NoTAM's Mix,
with a lot more tools and controls) but I can see at a glance that the
same interface ideas are there, with one notable exception: volume (or
other) envelopes in Protools are visualized much like those in Mix, as
thin colored lines right on top of the tracks they effect, rather than
in a separate track.
The volume envelopes can also be recorded from realtime control of an
external (proprietary, expensive) interface, but there's no reason we
couldn't do essentially the same thing with one of the midi fader-boxes
on the market (e.g. the one by Peavey). Protools volume envelopes can
also be recorded onscreen with mouse scrollbars, so it is in that sense
a "multitrack mixing desk", though it's not laid out like one. In
principle we can already do this kind of thing onscreen with pbd's
slider-box application (I forget the name of it, sorry).
> To get an idea about commercial softwares, I have provided there an extensive
> listing of software manuals available on the net. If you're interested in
> to design GUIs and features, you could download a few best manuals for
> getting ideas.
One worth looking at is the Ensoniq PARIS manual-- I knew the guy who
re-wrote it, and he seemed to know his stuff. PARIS seemed to be well
designed.
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