Hi Junichi, thanks for your interest.
> I might be missing something but is there something that shelljam does
> that vkeybd cannot do?
Yes.
* Shelljam is designed from the ground up to be a full-fledged musical
instrument that can be used for professional live performance.
-Safe, locks keyboard
-Uses a compiled language
-Performance is measured as latency and jitter
* Shelljam is portable, flexible and extensible
-The I/O library supports, additionally to the keyboard under X,
console keyboards, mice, joysticks, touchscreens, Sharp Zaurus
and iPaq input, and all PC operating systems.
-The MIDI library supports all PC operating systems
-Instruments can be created as run-time libraries
* Shelljam has bold plans for the future:
-Create a tool that can be used by a whole movement of kids,
designed from the ground up to use the computers they have in
their homes as full-fledged, highly tuned musical instruments.
-Shelljam will support not only keyboards but mice, joysticks, and
linux handheld devices to make music in genuinely new ways
-The author intends to make a living by being a singer/computer
peripheral player
Shelljam has a slightly higher learning curve and currently the UI looks
like you just crashed your computer so if you just want to test your
synth by all means use vkeybd.
Carlo
Received on Mon Mar 6 16:15:06 2006
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