Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] a new application underway
From: David Slomin (dgslomin_AT_CS.Princeton.EDU)
Date: to loka 07 1999 - 14:52:08 EDT
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> pps. i suddenly saw a bright future this evening with
> Linux/ALSA. Imagine this beautifully modular system: an automated
> mixer like this one that writes Standard MIDI files as its automation
> session record, and can connect to the ALSA sequencer for automation
> playback. To automate a session, you fire up your preferred ALSA
> sequencer-compatible MIDI player, and dump the automation session into
> the sequencer. Presto - the mixer is automated. This is something that
> my studio friends would truly be impressed by. "Free automation ? Who
> are these Linux people ?" No, it probably would not be sample accurate
> (though who knows), but wow, would it be cool.
Yes, now you understand the second reason (other than just for composing)
that MIDI sequencers are my main area of focus. Think millisecond
accurate cron for automating just about anything!
Div.
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