[CREATE] instruments definitions

[Craig Bradney]

On Monday 13 February 2006 22:12, Jon Phillips wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 01:23 +0000, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not actually subscribed to any of muse's lists, so I just CC to
> > Werner.
> >
> > For me situation with instruments definitions begins to bring
> > troubles. We have two decent MIDI sequencers, and each of them
> > supports only its own instruments definition format.
> >
> > For me having one uniform standard format would be best, especially if
> > definitions are kept in one system directory so that any application
> > could see it. This is what we are trying to achieve in our "Create"
> > project [1] with "Shared resources" specification [2].
> >
> > Currently we are about to setup an SVN repository at Freedesktop.org
> > to store shared resources of different kinds. With a uniform file
> > format and a uniform system directory one could make a new definition,
> > commit it to one repository and make users of both applications happy.
> > I'm pretty sure that more free applications will needs some
> > instruments definition file format in the future (at least Ardour), so
> > why not have a standard?
> >
> > There is no need to make Rosegarden and MusE depend on a large package
> > with patterns and brushes that are not related to audio production.
> > Definitions can be packaged separately and have their own versioning.
> >
> > If you feel like are ready to discuss it, Create's ML is a fine place
> > for that. It's a _very_ low traffic list.
> >
> > [1] http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/About
> > [2] http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Shared_resources
> >
> > Alexandre
>
> Yes, I look forward to this discussion. CREATE's main proponents are
> from graphics applications. However, the goal is for support of FLOSS
> creative applications. The shared standard is one part of our strategy.

So.. /me suggests our current package be called create-graphics, and another 
one be called create-audio... and another one.. create-...

Craig