[sdiy] All this talk of sysex....

[ASSI]

On Saturday 22 November 2003 00:12, Julian wrote:
> I was thinking a bit ago about writing a computer editor for the
> OSCar.  I didnt simply want to use sounddiver etc. as it costs a load
> of cash, and isnt even as stable as one might like.

I have sort of a love-hate relationship with SD myself. In the end 
it's still the tool that gets most of the things I would want to do 
faster than anything else. I got it reasonably cheap by upgrading an 
OEM version that came with one of my synths.

> I have all the data for the sysex implementation for the OSCar.  I
> know no C, but have heard that Tcl or Tk has resonable midi
> implemtation.  Knowing perl to some extent allready, this would be
> less of a transition for me then migrating to C (which i have little
> interest in learning anyway):

I've done quite a few MIDI hacks in Perl (nothing realtime) and even 
started writing a SysEx module for Perl that I recently managed to get 
to work for the first time. It doesn't do anything useful yet, the plan 
is to move the core of the assorted scripts that I have collected over 
the years to the module and shave off their repetitious code. I've 
looked at using PerlTk for an editing surface, but was disgusted. 
However the latest iterations of Java MIDI support finally seem to work 
correctly with physical MIDI interfaces.


Achim.

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SD adaptations for
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