Subject: [ecasound] ecasound front end
From: janne halttunen (jhalttun_AT_pp.htv.fi)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 19:51:51 EET
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Luke Tindall wrote:
> I'm in the process of developing a mixer as part of a gui front end for
> ecasound. It's not packaged up yet and there are a few issues to resolve.
> It'll be out by the end of november.
> Features already done:-
>
> 1. transport control with counter(midi ticks and chainset time) and vu meters.
> eg.
>
> << stop play rec pause >>
>
> 00:00:00:00
>
> ||||||||||||||| L
> --------
> |||||||||| R
>
> 2. multi track wavplot view with marker and loop range. Crude but visually
> useful ie locate any part of song with a click.
> 3.Partial reading of ecs files(hopefully improved and also waiting on
> possible changes to ecs format).
> 4.Mixer pan and volume sliders.
>
> Featues to be done:-
> 1. recording (easily done. To be in the first release).
> 2. event editor ie sending eci commands and given song position. (not in the
> first release).
> 3. effects module ... although it maybe as well to ecawave for that.
> 4. wav editor ... although it maybe as well to ecawave for that.
> 4. midi sequencer (pipe dream).
>
> Developed with gtk, libecasound in C.
Hmm, from reading above, I see your project has many common points with my
project, heteca (written with python, ECI and gtk). It is currently in
pretty bad shape, though.
BTW, what version of gtk are you using?
I am thinking about installing the dev-version, so that when gtk reaches
2.0, I'd be there already. Though I'm not sure if the pygtk-bindings
would provide some level of compatibility between the version change.
What are your feelings of python? (or scripting-languages in general?)
I mean, it does provide some useful abstractions, faster prototyping,
[insert buzzword here], etc. They say: "use C for speed, python for
control" - don't know whether it's true, (have never done it myself)
but it might be.
signing off,
janne
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