psychosynth

I just wanted to announce, in case anyone is insterested, that there will be two important events related two Free Software where there will be a Psychosynth tech talk and a networked showcase with Shaker08.

• Hackmeeting. From 17th to 19th October. Exact time of the Psychosynth speech to be confirmed. More info here.
• Open Source World Conference. 20th October at 16:00 and 21th October at 17:30 in the Music Garden. More info here.

Photos of the speech in the ETSIIT have been published.

Hi gnus!

If you are near Granada (Spain), I will give a speech about GNU Psychosynth in the ETSIIT (School of Computer Engeneer and Telecommunications) next tuesday October 14th at 10:00 AM. The speech will contain more technical details than previous ones to make it more didactical for students of computer engeneering. I will also talk about the Spanish Free Software Contest for University Students.

The full programme of the event can be found here. The place @ google maps.

Psychosynth is now a GNU package!

The first consecuences are:

1. The webpage has been rewritten using Mediawiki. You can access it at www.psychosynth.com as usual or at psychosynth.es.gnu.org. I hope you like the new design
2. As you can see, the blog has moved to the new fancy GNU blog’s infrastructure: http://planet.gnu.org/psychosynth

But, more important, this is a guarantee:

1. That GNU Psychosynth is and will always be Free Software.
2. That GNU Psychosynth will always work and integrate into a GNU system, with support for gettext internacionalization and full texinfo documentation.
3. That we will work hard to make GNU Psychosynth live for a long time and meet high quality standards.

On the development side, I am working on a rewrite of some important core parts. The dynamic patcher is about tu suffer major changes so the connection matrix is not defined at compile time but dynamically on XML files with simple syntax. This is a first step to support plugins, so you can define your own XML file to handle the plugin’s dynamic patcher and map the plugin kind of ports to libpsynth kind of ports.

Also, we are changing the way ports are handled so we can support virtually any kind of data in the connection ports. This is a first step to support Midi message passing among objects and many other fancy features.

I’m sorry there are no new visible changes in the short term, but these internal changes are very important and will enable the development of many interesting features in the future.