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Re: More Lettuce Feature Requests!

Date2006-05-01 15:03
From"Art Hunkins"
SubjectRe: More Lettuce Feature Requests!
Also, that there are such a thing as  (for new users), what they
are in the specific csd, and that they might need to change them.

I'm thinking particularly about -odac and -M0.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rory Walsh" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Csnd] More Lettuce Feature Requests!


> Yeah, it's just a matter of allowing users of the standalone's a way to
> alter the options, which they currently don't have.
>
> Rory.
>
> Chris Share wrote:
> > I'm not exactly clear about this, but couldn't command line options be
> > editable for the standalones. The values in the original .csd could be
> > the default, which would be over-ridden by those entered into the
> > standalone.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Rory Walsh wrote:
> >> That's a good point, I will think about an effective way of dealing
> >> with this in the standalones that one can create with Lettuce. Perhaps
> >> a simple settings dialog that can e accessed from the main file menu.
> >>
> >> Rory.
> >>
> >> Art Hunkins wrote:
> >>
> >>> I agree with Rory on this.
> >>>
> >>> As a matter of fact, I get concerned about  in *realtime*
> >>> (including MIDI) csd's *when compiled* as standalone exe's. Users
> >>> need to
> >>> customize these for their own systems, and so need to know about and
> >>> be able
> >>> to manipulate these variables. At the same time, the composer needs to
> >>> specify "typical values" for such items in their csd's.
> >>>
> >>> Art Hunkins
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Rory Walsh" 
> >>> To: 
> >>> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 6:47 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [Csnd] More Lettuce Feature Requests!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I'm not so sure about 'perform' and 'render'. I like the fact that in
> >>>> order to use Lettuce effectively one still has to know for instance
how
> >>>> to set the csound options in order to render to disk or how to set
> >>>> it to
> >>>> render in real-time. I guess I want to steer clear of things that
will
> >>>> hinder peoples exploration of csound. I think that if I include too
> >>>> many
> >>>> handy features Lettuce will become a composition environment of it's
> >>>> own
> >>>> rather than being a straightforward csound editor/frontend. Code
> >>>> folding
> >>>> on the other hand would be great, I just don't know how easy it
> >>>> would be
> >>>> to implement...
> >>>>
> >>>> Rory.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Chris Share wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I was thinking that another nice feature for Lettuce might be
buttons
> >>>>> for rendering in real-time and rendering offline to a
file--something
> >>>>> like "Perform" for real-time and "Render" for offline.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I also think that code folding in the editor might be nice.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Chris
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rory Walsh wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>  >Lettuce can't play back audio files
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It will soon.... I have a feature in *my* current version that will
> >>>>>> let users double-click an audio file string that appears in the
.csd
> >>>>>> and launch a lightweight player to play it, is that ok or would you
> >>>>>> prefer an integrated audio player? The useful thing about a
> >>>>>> lightweight external player is that it can support all file types
> >>>>>> whereas if I were to integrate one I could not guarantee that. I've
> >>>>>> also added a feature that will automatically load all of a csound
> >>>>>> files associated audio files into an editor of your choice. It
would
> >>>>>> be nice to have an audio editor in Lettuce but if I started that
> >>>>>> now I
> >>>>>> would never get around to sorting out the basic things!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Rory.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Also do you need
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Is that right?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Cheers,
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Chris
> >>>>
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> >>>
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