Re: [linux-audio-user] Complete Transition

New Message Reply About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Other groups

Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Complete Transition
From: Dave Phillips (dlphilp_AT_bright.net)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 15:50:59 EEST


Hi, Frank:

  I feel your pain... ;)

  I apologize for not posting anything yet. The additions are fairly
extensive, and I still have work to do. I need to learn how to create
submenus in the menu structures (there are too many DSP and other
effects now), and I want to present the material in such a way that
you'll simply have to follow my directions, load up the new Scheme
files, and away you'll go.

  We just recently reached the point where we can start applying the
effects to selection areas, not just whole files, simply by clicking on
a button in a widget. I'm really trying to make more of Snd's power
available via the mouse and the GUI, minimizing the need for learning
Guile/Scheme. Some things (like working in CLM with Snd) will likely
remain text-oriented, but I'm digging into the program to find just how
much can be made more visible and more easily accessed and controlled.

  Here's a precis of what's been done so far:

    1) Added graphic control widgets for the following effects:

        Gain
        Normalize
        Gate
        Add silence
        Adaptive saturation
        Amplitude modulation
        Time/pitch scaling
        McNabb reverb
        Chowning reverb
        Convolution
        Echo
        Filtered echo
        Modulated echo
        Flange
        Contrast
        Band-pass/reject Butterworth filters
        High/low-pass Butterworth filters
        Moog filter
        Comb filter
        Comb chord filter
        Robotize
        Wobble
        Cross synthesis

    2) Added menus and widgets for more control of marks and marked
areas

    3) Added popup menus for selected area, whole file, the FFT display,
and the Listener

    4) Some adds & ends things for my own use (SBLive recording input
channel control, panic buttons, and so forth)

  The integration of selection area and marked areas has been greatly
enhanced, and we're still adding to that aspect of Snd control.
  
  Finally a caveat: my version requires Motif, and I'm recommending
OpenMotif's 2.1 package. Sorry, but GTK cannot yet do what Motif can, at
least not very easily in Snd.

  Btw, Snd's file support is terrific. I created 4-channel and 8-channel
files in Csound and loaded them without problems into Snd. Playback was
transparently folded into a stereo output through my SBLive. Perhaps
with ALSA stabilization I'll be able to achieve true multi-channel
playback ? 32-bit files can also be loaded, but I'm still working on
some display problems (my bad, I just haven't figured it out yet).

  I've probably just made your anxiety much worse... ;)

Best regards,

== Dave Phillips

        The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
        The Linux Soundapps Site at http://sound.condorow.net

Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
> Dave Phillips hat gesagt: // Dave Phillips wrote:
>
> > The Snd I'm using here at home is quite remarkable, and I much prefer it
> > over CE2000. I've added new menus and many GUI widgets for Snd's various
> > powerful DSP modules, and I've learned much more about Snd than I knew
> > before.
>
> Oh, Dave, don't be so hard to us! How long do we have to wait for
> your article? Please, please, put us out of our misery ;) I'm eagerly
> awaiting your ~/.snd
>
> bye,
> --
> __ __
> Frank Barknecht ____ ______ ____ __ trip\ \ / /wire ______
> / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\
> / / / ____/ / / / // ____// /\ \\ ___\\____ \
> /_/ /_____/ /_/ /_//_____// / \ \\_____\\_____\
> /_/ \_\

--


New Message Reply About this list Date view Thread view Subject view Author view Other groups

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Mon Sep 10 2001 - 15:23:49 EEST