[Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: MIDI playback
Date | 2010-04-20 23:33 |
From | "Art Hunkins" |
Subject | [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: MIDI playback |
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Date | 2010-04-22 16:16 |
From | See Sound |
Subject | [Csnd] Re: Re: MIDI playback |
> > Is the following in beta, alpha, or a figment of someone's imagination still (concept stage): > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csound:MIDI_File_Player > > Is anyone currently trying to develop realtime score visualization on the XO (Sugar)? for any other GUI? (csound or midi)? > > Greg Thompson's MIDI File Player is in the git repository: see http://dev.laptop.org/git/activities/ . It's a nice concept and works at least reasonably well on my XO. I installed it by doing the following: > 1) Downloaded the .zip archive to my Windows computer. > 2) Unzipped it to a USB drive. > 3) Renamed the directory to MIDI-File-Player-Master.activity > 4) Copied (with cp -r) the directory from the USB drive to the Activities directory of my XO - on my XO. > 5) Reboot the XO and activate the activity (select the activity's star) in List view. > 6) Click the activity's icon (it's called Player) on the Home screen. It's got a gear-like icon. > > Obviously a great deal of work has gone into this activity. Perhaps it could be developed further. Midi File Player works for me (to the extent that the XO can handle the CPU/RAM runtime load). To launch from the command line ("sugar-launch <activityname>") I had to change the "name" parameter in ~/Activities/Player/activity/activity.info to match the activity name -- "Player", which I set up as a soft link pointing to the real directory with the activity bundle (~/Activities/<softlink>). This is a great start. I assume the answer to my question about real-time visualized score (traditional notation) is "No" -- but this would be a great connecting piece, or even a _base_ for such visualization, since Greg Thompson has already done the grunt work with the csound-to-[visual sugar/python widgets] code. thank you again! andrew |