Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] GUIless friendly applications
From: Bill Allen (ballen_AT_mail.serve.com)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 20:53:51 EET
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> > "Dave Griffiths" <dave_AT_pawfal.org> writes:
> >
> > > Mario,
> > >
> > > Could you give some descriptions of a text based interface you would like
> to
> > > use for realtime control of a modular synth? The building of patches seems
> > > fairly easy (via a CLI), but I'm thinking you'd want a more direct
> control for
> > > actually playing the thing - mapping the parameters to different keys
> maybe?
> >
> > Let me explain. The building of patches is what currently
> > doesnt work at all, so if a cli is easy to write for that, that
> > would help ALOT!
>
> Ok, I'll have a look at doing this.
>
> > P.S.: The CLI is not only good for us blind people,
> > there are alot of benefits for such an interface, think
> > scripting.
>
> Also load/save files can simply become a list of commands for building the
> patch. I believe this is how PD works, so maybe that has some potential too.
>
> dave
>
I think ecasound has provided a perfectly good example to follow. The
engine should be runnable as a daemon and there needs to be a real-time
control syntax. That way, any number of scripts or guis can be built for
special or general purposes.
Bill
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