On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:23:42AM +1000, cal wrote: > On 28/04/11 07:08, Julien Claassen wrote: > >[ ... some more thought provoking stuff ... ] > > Just a couple of thoughts from the perspective of the "bear of very little brain" behind yoshimi: Which is exactly what we need. A mechanism such as that under discussion will be useless if it isn't practical for developpers. > > - the FUSE idea isn't entirely without merit, but I really don't want to know about it in terms of > implementing anything along those lines within the synth I always thought of it as more of a bridging daemon, so not part of any synth engine. In any case, I think the idea of a "descriptive format" has now superseeded the FUSE idea as being more feasible and practical. > > - OSC is "loose" by definition. However desirable, the notion of "one spec to bind them all" > is doomed to fail. Every second developer will encounter enough exceptions in their particular > app to justify non-compliance. Could you expand on that? The idea is to be able (as much as possible) to take whatever OSC structure/lexicon the developper sees fit to create and build a useable interface out of it. What are the challenges you think that would pose? > > - one of the many links floating by in previous discussion was <http://idmil.org/projects/mappingtools>. > I haven't looked into those tools closely yet, but just reading the blurb gives a good idea of the problem > space in play here. There will always be a need for mapping the OSC control set of one app or device > to the control set of the app or device being controlled. But what if the app being controlled defines the controling app? > - strictly speaking, RDF isn't an XML format. XML is just one of a number of data formats supported by > the RDF libs. Last year I went through the tedious exercise of converting yoshimi to use turtle format > fot it's data storage (via raptor) instead of xml. State of health plus the sheer scope of the testing > exercise led me to put all of that on the "Not now!" shelf. Some of that work looks like being > recyclable when it comes to putting OSC control into yoshimi. In terms of implementation, would midi be easier than OSC, or the same? Cheers, S.M. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
