External Input/Output Plugins
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Plugins to communicate control and sound data with the
outside world. ALSA i/o on the list of stuff to do.
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OSS Plugin 1.0
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Inputs
Left Input
Right Input
Outputs
Left Output
Right Output
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This is the most important plugin, you wont hear anything without it!
It opens the OSS sound driver, and outputs whatever is passed into it's
inputs to the soundcard. It works in stereo, so you have seperate left
and right volumes.
There are three modes of operation: read, write and duplex. You can select
read to record/process sound from your soundcard, write to play sound (default)
and if your card supports it - duplex, to play and record simultaneously.
The output plugin also gives you the ability to save the output to disk,
in realtime, as a wav file.
(If the plugin can't get access to a soundcard, for whatever
reason, you can still use this plugin to save wav files.)
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Midi Plugin 1.0
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Inputs
Outputs
Pitch CV
Trigger CV
Pitchbend CV
Channel Pressure CV
Aftertouch CV
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A plugin that converts midi signals (or keypresses - see below)
into SSM's CVs. The midi
plugin outputs a Frequency CV, which comes from the last note
pressed and Trigger CV which lets you know the timing and the
velocity of the event.
It also detects pitchbend, channel pressure and aftertouch information, and
outputs these as continuous CV data.
You can select the Midi device used with the selector. Devices
0-16 are valid Midi channels. You can run
multiple Midi plugins simultaneously to get data from different
device numbers to make an externally controlled song.
The note frequency CV can optionally be switched into "Note Cut"
mode, where the frequecy is set to zero when the key is released.
This is useful for a number of things, including retriggering
samples from frequency information (see sampler).
Extra ports can be added to handle the 128 controller messages.
Click add control, and you will get a menu window to pick the
controller you need.
Note: If you don't have midi, you can trigger the
midi plugin by using the keyboard. Unfortunatly, the mouse has to
be over the plugin window for the plugin to capture the events.
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JACK Plugin 1.0
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Inputs
Inputs
Outputs
Outputs
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JACK is the Jack Audio Connection Kit, and allows multiple
Linux audio apps to be connected together and run simultaneously
See here for more
details.
Under construction for now, it's a good way to avoid using the
OSS plugin, and get alsa output through the standard jack ports.
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External Input/Output plugins 