Re: ADSR (DaHdsr)

["Leonard \"paniq\" Ritter" <paniq paniq org>]

Hi Hanno,

I'm not really involved in this project, so take my comments with a
grain of salt.

after watching your huge batch of mails in the past weeks, full of new
suggestions, I wonder if your invitation to feature creep is really the
way to go. The problem is not really BEASTS lack in features. The last
time I tried BEAST, it managed to crash itself in about under 3 minutes.
The project structure was archaic. There was lack of support for better
audio backends.

So I suppose what would really help development would be tracking down
the benevolent dictator in this project and bugging him about the bugs -
thus, doing some serious QA.

On development side, an upgrade of the project structure is required,
adding a proper lightweight build system (scons), support for either
rtaudio or portaudio v19 as an audio backend, and some serious
refactoring, which involves mainly: removing all the IDL crap, thinning
the code, and porting of the frontend to a scripting language such as
python, so new feature additions and bugfixes become easy, and people
stop worrying about e.g. 3 different types of complex types in the
code ;)

I would do this myself, but instead I decided to start my own tracker
project, and we're progressing fast.

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 10:01 +0100, Hanno wrote:
> A week ago or so we talked about a DELAY in the ADSR-Module. After studying 
> the LAC2006 I would appreciate if we could have another factor: the HOLD
> 
> The ADSR should be therefore expanded by a sixth parameter. Just after 
> DELAY,ATTACK the HOLD tells how long the maximum value should be hold before 
> it DECAYS to the SUSTAIN and RELEASE.
> 
> At the moment I have no sound in mind that uses this feature but with slow 
> coming, soft or deep sounds this would be nessecary I think and after I read 
> that Pons Adriansen is doing his Swami with this kind of expanded ADSR I 
> think we should too. Because with this in it we can build any Wave-Sound that 
> can be done in Swami. Simple trick and cheap to have, I think.
> 
> Hanno
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