TamTam:Development Tasks

Features

Misc

• Pickle PagePlayer.trackDictionary and TamTam settings
  • move settings out of GUI
• Loading and saving tune
• Networking
• Integrate TamTam into Sugar
• Plugin for SoundFilePlayer (low priority)
• Make Framework.Constants.TAM_TAM_ROOT dynamic (pull value from env TAMTAM_ROOT)

Look

• Instruments buttons display the name of the instrument (eventually an image)
• Add legend to Volume, Tempo and Beats sliders.
• Note drawing
  • shadows
  • bezels
• Button Images
• Background Images
• Custom slider drawing
• Custom scroll bar drawing
• Drawing for mini page widgets (display notes)
• Incorporate mixer into instrument controls section
• Mic Record buttons directly on the instrument button

Interaction

• Double clicking on sliders should reset the value to defaults.
• Double clicking a page in the page bank or song selects all tracks of the page.
• Click and drag playhead (with possibility of notes playing while the user drags the cursor in the future)
• Left cliking the mute buttons mutes the track, right cliking it solos the track. Cliking it when in mute/solo with any button reverts to normal.
  • Colour to indicate whether in solo/mute state?
• Contextual Cursor
  • Change over the playback <->
  • Change over note hotspots
• Ability to draw notes
• When in tune mode, effects from right clic in the track should affect all page for this track (ex.: increase reverb level for this track over all tune )
• re-order pages in tune view by dragging
• Ability to delete pages in tune view
• Ability to insert pages into tune view (from page bank)
• Track selection shouldn't affect playback (only muted tracks should affect playback)
• Double click selects one track (single clicking selects multiple tracks)

Generation

• Alternate generators
• Interface for choosing generation algorithms
• Template python generators
• Documentation

Performance

• Separate the main TamTam application into two threads.
  • Timer thread (Doug)
  • Timer interface for TamTam (Sean)

Bugs

GUI

• Right click several times on note or track - several windows pop up
• Should lockout main window while subwindows are up?
• Changing the number of bars needs to resize the notes
  • workaround: resize window
• First selected page in Page Bank should be the first (not the last)
  • workaround: use the "close" button to close the window
• Notes aren't being displayed during Keyboard recording
• don't popup so many generate windows (when you click generate several times)
  • (repeat)Repeatedly Clicking the Generate button brings up multiple windows
• Close mic recording window using the 'x' button, reopen it (it's tiny and empty!)
• Need to move window on startup to show notes
• Double clicking on a track to select only one track doesn't work anymore.

Generation

• Generate across many pages. Modifying notes in one page can modify notes in other.
  • Generator is likely copying notes from previous pages by reference, not by value.
• GenerationParametersWindow should keep in memory modified parameters values
• GenerationParametersWindow should never be destroyed...

Csound

• Csound server uses cpu cycles when idle ( CSoundServer.py )
• Csound server seems to forget about certain instruments (init faster than table loading ? )
  • INIT ERROR in instr 101: Invalid ftable no. 330.000000
  • a1 flooper2 1 kpitch .25 .5 .1 itab 0 iskip
  • INIT ERROR in instr 101: function table not found
  • a1 flooper2 1 kpitch .25 .5 .1 itab 0 iskip
  • T213.880 - note deleted. i101 had 2 init errors
• Send note offs for tied notes when stop is clicked ( also for muted track )
• CSoundClient performs no error-checking, program crashes on broken pipe.