--- Cesare Marilungo <cesare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ALSA MIDI Humanizer is a tiny application that route MIDI events between > two applications adding random timing and velocity offsets to NOTEON and [...] > For the developers reading this list: at the moment the code is just a > quick hack. I didn't know anything about ALSA develpment, the GTK+ > toolkit and linux threads until this morning when I've started studying > some tutorials (used the midirouter.c code from the ALSA tutorial by > Matthias Nagorni as a starting point). So, be kind. > > Comments and suggestions are highly appreciated. Interesting idea, though I'm not sure adding random delays really "humanizes" things. Of course I realize this is mostly something you've put together as a learning exercise. BTW, in case you're interested in reading some ramblings of another beginning ALSA MIDI programmer (me), you might check out this: http://www.geocities.com/smcameron/linux-audio-notes.html, which is kind of a log I've kept for the last year or so. Maybe there are some interesting links in there, if nothing else, or maybe some humor at my expense, LOL. For a humanizing type feature of my drum machine application, I added a per instrument (per note, really, as MIDI drums instruments are mapped to notes) feature that allows a particular instrument to "drag" or "rush" which is to say, fire off a little late, or a little early. My implementation is a little buggy, in that when dragging or rushing causes an instrument to slip across a measure boundary, things get a little squirrelly, but the idea is there. I got that idea from reading a little instructional book about playing the drums, I guess it's common practice among drommers to keep some important instruments in fairly strict time, while kind of messing about with some others. I guess for a filter app, "rushing" is not really possible, without a time machine, though "dragging" every other instrument would amount to the same thing, plus insertion of latency. -- steve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
