[Gambas-user] Article

[Benoit Minisini]

Le Jeudi 23 Octobre 2003 20:09, optimus a écrit :
> On Wednesday 22 October 2003 8:23 pm, danielcampos at ...282... wrote:
> > 2) Midi : lot of PCI cards has still a bad midi support on Linux,
> > however there are emultators, like timidity, that "parses" midi
> > into wav, that are quite useful to play midis on not supported cards,
> > Gambas sound developers should  care about this fact to let more people
> > use Gambas-midi programs.
>
> Device detection and configuration are more mature in 2.6. This could help
> improve support for PCI MIDI devices on Linux.
> http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html
>
> I'd love to see a Gambas program with more functionality than Cakewalk
> Audio Pro ;-). If only I know how to program (sigh...)
>

I wrote a MIDI sequencer on my ATARI ST (8MHz and floppy disk) with GFA-Basic 
and a 68000 assembler routine to dispatch MIDI events.

So I know how to program that, but I have no time !

To do that with Gambas you must first write a component that :

1) Dispatches MIDI events and play sound tracks - With 1GHz processors, I 
think assembly is not necessary anymore, even if 1MHz on a Motorola is better 
than 1MHz on a Intel.

2) Implements a control that display midi events and sounds like Cakewalk 
does. For quickness reason... You can do it partly in Gambas too... I don't 
know if we can freely use the TrueType fonts that draw part symbols.

Then you can code during two years :-)

A big deal, isn't it ? Any volunteer ?

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
mailto:gambas at ...1...