At Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:55:28 -0700 (PDT), R Parker wrote: > > Will the design be for user definable ports? Yup. > I'm not familiar with Specimen and don't know how you > define a patch. Assuming that a patch is an instrument > and a drum kit could be eight instruments (one patch) > then the drum kit patch could be eight 1in/2out ports > for a total of 16. It isn't difficult to begin > exausting available ports. This is actually difficult to answer, because I'm not familiar with traditional sampling terminology (I find it to be generally impenetrable when I do encounter it). Specimen has no notion of an "instrument" per se. Its vocabulary is as follows: * Patch: a sample and the parameters controlling how it should be played. Later, patches will be given the ability to contain multiple samples. * Channel: there are 16 channels corresponding to the 16 standard MIDI channels. Each channel can have any number of patches assigned to it (so long as that number doesn't exceed the global limit on patches). * Bank: a bank is the collection of all 16 channels and any global parameters that have been set. So, an instrument might be just one tb303 patch. Or it might be a set of patches on Channel 3 that serve as a drumkit. The choice is up to the user. By default, Jack outputs are provided at the Bank level (and they must always be present). The plan is to allow channels and patches to have Jack output themselves, if the user so desires, on an individual entity basis. > In my mind a routing system similar to that in Ardour > would be interesting because the user can manage > physical and user defined ports in anyway that fits > their audio hardware and personal preferences. qjackctl. I'm not interested in creating Yet Another Routing System. Better to do it once and do it right. > I don't think having one master bus output to hardware > is ideal either because a user might want to process > the snare drum in a rackmount reverb that's connected > to a hardware mixer. I don't think I follow you here, so understand if my response seems asinine. Specimen creates a pair of master outputs and connects them to the first set of available hardware outputs that it finds, but you're free to connect them to whatever you want. > I don't really know what you're designing but thought > I'd make a few assumptions and toss a couple half > baked thoughts in your direction. Always appreciated. I don't like operating in a vacuum. -- Pete www.gazuga.net ===================================================================== "I saw the movie 'I, Robot' recently, a film based loosely on a book written by science fiction author Isaac Asimov. In case you're not familiar with Asimov's writing, here's a list of things the movie had in common with the book: * The title." [maddox.xmission.com] =====================================================================
