Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] orphans
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp23_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 21:09:43 EEST
Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
> Paul Winkler wrote:
> > BTW, although the interface is somewhat weird (way too many
> > windows!),
>
> I'm always open to better ideas -- send me some sketch of
> what you think the interface should be. (I am not married
> to the current GUI -- I was just re-implementing my old
> DpySnd, an editor written back before there were windows;
> pointing devices were shaped like pens).
Bill, while I appreciate your openness, I was talking about DAP.
When using DAP it's easy to end up with 5 or 6 windows all over the
screen just for doing pretty simple stuff.
Screenshot for example at:
http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~richardk/DAP.gif
In particular I can't figure out why "Zoom" and "Play" get separate
windows. I think they'd be better handled by menu items with
keyboard shortcuts.
But I still use DAP for three things I haven't found in Snd:
1) Comprehensive loop editing
2) Some nice DSP effects (although some interfaces are weird - I
hate trying to set a filter at 60 Hz when there's only a linear
slider from 0 to 20Khz!) There are some not-bad reverbs in there,
which seem to be hard to find in Linux apps.
3) Edit "pencil" for hand-drawing waveforms. Sometimes this is a fun
gimmick, occasionally it's a lifesaver. I would love it if Snd had
this.
In regard to swiping DSP effects from DAP: Dave remembered correctly
that
> DAP's DSP functions were lifted from another DSP toolkit, I'll try to
> locate that package for you (or anyone else wanting to use it).
I looked at the THANKS file that comes with DAP, and it says the DSP
stuff is based on
"...SPKit, an object-oriented class
library for signal processing. The DSP operations within
DAP were heavily based on this toolkit although I have
developed the DAP SPKit extensively beyond that provided
by the original SPKit.
Browse to http://www.music.helsinki.fi/research/spkit/index.html "
So it looks like it's C++.
................ paul winkler ..................
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