| What CPU/computer do you run Sugar on a Stick on?
Regards,
Mike
On 8/14/09, Art Hunkins wrote:
> Rory,
>
> I probably overstated.
>
> Mike has indicated his intention only to build double binaries of Csound for
> Windows from now on, if I read him correctly. I believe his pre-release of
> Csound 5.11 is his first move toward a single build.
>
> As you know, this concerns me. However, what potentially concerns me more is
> that Mike is (gratefully - and I appreciate it very much) also now involved
> in Linux builds/patches - particularly in trying to solve the
> Csound5.10/Sugar/Python interface dilemma. (No Sugar Activities using Csound
> currently work in Sugar on a Stick/Fedora11.) I'm sure Mike's interest in
> this work is due to his expertise and interest in python; and Sugar
> Activities are python scripts. I doubt that anyone knows as much about
> interfacing python and Csound as Mike does.
>
> My main concern in this forum is to carry the torch for Csound float, and to
> make the case for why the float version continues to be desirable.
> (Incidentally, I am open to being shown lacking.)
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rory Walsh"
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:00 PM
> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pre-release Windows
> installer for Csound 5.11 at my Web site
>
>
> Did I miss something? Did someone say something about abandoning float
> versions of Csound?
>
> 2009/8/13 Art Hunkins :
>> I'm using Linux because that's what Sugar uses which is what the OLPC
>> (XO-1)
>> uses - and I'm writing Sugar activities for children. Sugar on a Stick
>> (i.e., USB drive) is a variant of Sugar that allows kids to access these
>> activities on just about any computer (including older, less powerful
>> ones).
>>
>> As Walter Bender ("CEO" of Sugar Labs) stated in a recent email on the
>> sugar-dev list:
>>
>> (1) Sugar is designed to meet the needs of young children learning--it
>> puts an emphasis on guided discovery, collaboration, and reflection.
>> It is not just a repackaging of an 1970s-inspired office desktop. (2)
>> Sugar is built on free and open software because learning requires
>> more than just access to knowledge--it also requires the ability to
>> appropriate knowledge and put it to use. Sugar encourages and
>> facilitates such appropriation through mechanisms such as "view
>> source." (3) Sugar is designed to run on small, old, slow machines,
>> e.g., it can breath new life into existing hardware.
>>
>> Incidentally, "collaboration" (collaborative learning) is a major goal of
>> the project, and is why Csound5.10 must work on both the XO-1 and Sugar on
>>
>> a
>> Stick. (It doesn't currently - when run from python, which Sugar
>> requires.)
>> 5.10 is the only Csound that permits multiple MIDI controllers (as in
>> "collaborative performance").
>>
>> Finally, since most Csounding on OLPC's and Sugar on a Stick will be
>> realtime, and done on less powerful (even "weak") systems, I am very
>> worried
>> about abandoning the float version of Csound. (XO's include 5.08 float;
>> Sugar on a Stick has already moved to 5.10.) Hopefully, Sugar builds will
>> keep being *float*. Someone needs to do speed comparisons between 5.10
>> float
>> and double on slower machines to see how much difference there is.
>>
>> To make my .csd's, for example, work on the XO-1, I've had to severely
>> restrict sample rate (32K stereo), control rate (100!) and number of
>> voices
>> (8 - realtime) - as well as turn off internet - to get glitch-free sound
>> (Csound 5.08 float). Thank goodness I got to keep global reverbsc.
>>
>> Art Hunkins
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gogins"
>>
>> To:
>> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:53 PM
>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pre-release Windows installer for
>> Csound 5.11 at my Web site
>>
>>
>> Ok, in that case, why are you using Linux? Most musicians I know use OS
>> X...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>> On 8/13/09, Art Hunkins wrote:
>>>
>>> Sugar = Linux (Fedora11), so no problem there.
>>>
>>> Art Hunkins
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Michael Gogins"
>>> To:
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:02 PM
>>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Pre-release Windows installer for Csound
>>> 5.11 at my Web site
>>>
>>>
>>> I've probably asked this before, so please excuse the question -- why
>>> Sugar?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On 8/13/09, Andres Cabrera wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Oh, OK. I thought you were concerned about the change breaking your
>>>> sugar application.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Andrés
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Art Hunkins wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a composer, and to an extent, a performer of Csound works; i.e.,
>>>>> I'm
>>>>> a
>>>>> Csound *user*. I am not a developer/packager; i.e., I do not build
>>>>> Csound.
>>>>> I
>>>>> do give feedback to developers, and try out the new things they
>>>>> develop,
>>>>> in
>>>>> order to have better tools to compose with.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, this distinction tends to break down in the Linux world -
>>>>> which
>>>>> is probably the prime reason I'm not a "Linux person". I simply don't
>>>>> want
>>>>> to get so heavily into the technical stuff; I don't want to construct
>>>>> my
>>>>> own
>>>>> "system". I want to construct my *compositions*.
>>>>>
>>>>> Frankly, I've my hands more than full trying to get my compositions
>>>>> right,
>>>>> create simple performance GUIs, and writing Python scripts for Sugar
>>>>> (ugh).
>>>>> I count on developers to furnish me the tools - including working
>>>>> Csound
>>>>> binaries - to enable me to write my music. Furthermore, I'm not
>>>>> particularly
>>>>> picky; my needs are fairly mainstream.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since I write realtime Csound pieces for *others* to play (hopefully
>>>>> not
>>>>> just myself), I wouldn't *dream* of asking a potential performer to
>>>>> build
>>>>> Csound. (I don't ask him to build a piano.) I want to make it as easy
>>>>> and
>>>>> approachable as possible for the performer. So, *please*, developers,
>>>>> make
>>>>> as many ready-to-go, bug-free, user-friendly tools/builds as possible.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Art Hunkins
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andres Cabrera"
>>>>>
>>>>> To:
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:25 AM
>>>>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pre-release
>>>>> Windows
>>>>> installer for Csound 5.11 at my Web site
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Removing portmidi from the windows installers doesn't mean removing it
>>>>> from all csound. It's still available for windows if you build it and
>>>>> it will still be available on the other platforms.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Andrés
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Art Hunkins wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, yes, yes - please. (I've written an XO Activity based on multiple
>>>>>> controllers.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Art Hunkins
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Gogins"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To:
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:25 AM
>>>>>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Pre-release Windows
>>>>>> installer for Csound 5.11 at my Web site
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, I said I would try to debug the PortMidi problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 8/12/09, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Didn't Andres added code to the portmidi module to accept multi-port
>>>>>>>> MIDI
>>>>>>>> input? That will certainly be missed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Victor
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> At 16:12 12/08/2009, you wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Windows, winmme (Windows Multimedia Extensions) is a standard
>>>>>>>>> part
>>>>>>>>> of the operating system and seems to work pretty well. Backward
>>>>>>>>> compatibility would be a problem, I believe, only for the
>>>>>>>>> command-line
>>>>>>>>> options. It should not affect MIDI behavior.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>> Mike
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 8/12/09, Art Hunkins wrote:
>>>>>>>>> > If not PortMidi, what?
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > Backward compatibility?
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > Art Hunkins
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>>> > From: "Michael Gogins"
>>>>>>>>> > To:
>>>>>>>>> > Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 8:00 AM
>>>>>>>>> > Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Pre-release Windows installer for
>>>>>>>>> > > >
>>>>>>>>> > Csound
>>>>>>>>> > 5.11 at my Web site
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >> Yes. That's one of the things I will debug. If I can't fix it,
>>>>>>>>> >> no
>>>>>>>>> >> >>
>>>>>>>>> >> more
>>>>>>>>> >> PortMidi on Windows.
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >> Regards,
>>>>>>>>> >> Mike
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >> On 8/12/09, Oeyvind Brandtsegg wrote:
>>>>>>>>> >>> It seems like portmidi hangs at (Ctrl+c) exit still.
>>>>>>>>> >>> Oeyvind
>>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>>>> >>> 2009/8/12 Michael Gogins :
>>>>>>>>> >>>> I'm updating tutorials, then debugging a few things, then the
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> final.
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> Mike
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> On Aug 12, 2009 5:21 AM, "Tim Mortimer"
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> So just to clarify
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> id like to do this install when it becomes official (been out
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >>>> of
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >>>> the
>>>>>>>>> >>>> loop
>>>>>>>>> >>>> too long to participate in this trail sorry... havent been
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> using
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >>>> 5.10
>>>>>>>>> >>>> because of the ctrl thing basically... hoping to re-enter
>>>>>>>>> >>>> with
>>>>>>>>> >>>> 5.11 -
>>>>>>>>> >>>> see
>>>>>>>>> >>>> what QuteCsound is all about + Lua)
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> would now be a good time to upgrade to python 2.6 then? >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> shouldnt
>>>>>>>>> >>>> >>>> be
>>>>>>>>> >>>> any
>>>>>>>>> >>>> drama vs 2.5 for most bog standard types of scripts?
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> assumedly no other dependencies necessary.... do i need to
>>>>>>>>> >>>> update
>>>>>>>>> >>>> quicktime
>>>>>>>>> >>>> or something? this is the only info i have seen...
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> http://qutecsound.sourceforge.net/
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> talking Windows obviously
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> many thanks.
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> -----
>>>>>>>>> >>>> http://www.timmortimer.net
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>>> >>>> --
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