Re: [Bluemusic-users] Status/Roadmap

[Steven Yi <ste...@gm...>]

Thanks Dave!

I'd very much welcome contributions!  After a small hurdle, I'm making
my way through the Clojure SoundObject fairly quickly and am doing it
all within a single module.  It can serve as a good example on how to
create a module for other SoundObjects. So, if you ever have the time,
that'd be great!

steven

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Dave Seidel <dav...@gm...> wrote:
> Nice features, Steven! I'd been thinking about a Clojure SoundObject too,
> but I haven't had time to do more than read about Clojure yet. The other one
> I've had in mind in a Ruby SoundObject (using JRuby), since I do a lot of
> work in Ruby and even use it for command-line utilities for some things. If
> I can manage to fire up my motivation and set aside the time, I may
> contribute that one of these days.
>
> - Dave
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Steven Yi <ste...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just wanted to let you know my current plans with blue.  Primarily,
>> there are three main projects I have planned for the short term:
>>
>> * Audio Layers
>> * Clojure SoundObject
>> * Modulation
>>
>> Audio Layers is putting DAW functionality into blue. This will include
>> an Audio LayerGroup, and library management of audio clips. I will be
>> releasing this feature in stages with basic functionality to start; I
>> am hoping that the community here will inform me what things they'd
>> like from there.
>>
>> The Clojure SoundObject is something that I've wanted to put into blue
>> for a while.  I've finally gotten a start on it and it's motivated by
>> my interest in OpenMusic.  My thoughts are that the Clojure
>> SoundObject would be a start.  Afterwards, I'd like to look at
>> building a composing library that could both be called by code, as
>> well as be used as the basis for a graphical composing system that'd
>> be similar to OpenMusic.  My thought too is that there is a lot of
>> great lisp-based projects out there and that using Clojure would be a
>> natural fit for translating things for a Java-based system.  I am
>> still very much used to python coding, so I'd like to support both
>> means of working somehow (still need to figure out best path forward
>> for this).
>>
>> The third major part is Modulation. In thinking about instrument
>> design I had thought that a modulation system is a big missing part to
>> the BlueSynthBuilder feature set.  I had a very good discussion with
>> Ed Costello and have come up with a design that I think will work
>> well.  This will require some coding conventions to be followed, but
>> on the other hand, will allow users to user a GUI interface to make
>> modulation connections between modulation sources and targets and
>> choose amount of modulation to apply (also allowing sources to map to
>> multiple targets).  I think this will make things easier for
>> modulation to have it built-in and to have an established practice for
>> designing instruments with it.
>>
>> One thing I've left off at the moment is the BSBCanvas widget.  I
>> think I need some more time to figure out the exact API for this that
>> users will code against for setting tables and channel values; there's
>> some complications as I'm also trying to redesign blue's engine to be
>> more realtime and there's a lot of things intersecting.
>>
>> The Clojure and Modulation projects should not be too bad to develop,
>> and I hope to have working prototypes of both by next week. Audio
>> Layers will be continuing development in parallel, and will be
>> released after the first two.
>>
>> Also, starting in February, I will be looking at revamping the blue
>> website.  This will include a number of things, but I'd like most to
>> redo blueShare to add a number of things like subscribing to users
>> and/or contributions, making contributions versioned, having a
>> notification system on the client-side, etc.
>>
>> Later in Spring I will be looking at implementing auto-update to blue.
>>  There is a mechanism for this in the Netbeans Platform that blue is
>> based on, and but I need to have time to organize and establish the
>> exact practice I will follow for versioning and releasing artifacts.
>> The result will be that bug fixes should be easy to get as a hot
>> update.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> steven
>>
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