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Dfenestr8
Hi.
I'm no coder. I'm just a working guy who likes to tinker with computers in
my spare time.
That's my hobby. My passion is: playing instruments. Combining the two,
I've made a couple of event driven, GUI controlled progs in Python and
tKinter before. I made an abc/midi player, using the timidity, and
abc2midi packages. I also did a metronome, using the Snack sound toolkit.
My next project is to make my own sound recorder, using Tkinter and the
Snack Sound toolkit. I have an idea, that using multiple threads for each
recording track, I could eventually develop it into a multitrack recorder.
I could use linux SOX to add effects to each track.
Does this sound like a stupidly complicated idea for a newby?
Also, is the Python interpreter fast enough for this sort of work?
Especially on a pII 450Mhz with only 256 meg?
Would I be better off just sticking with a single track recorder, until
the day I get around to seriously studying a compiler language like C++?
Here's the skeleton of the code I'm writing......
#! /usr/bin/python
from Tkinter import *
from os import popen, popen2
import threading
import tkSnack
root = Tk()
tkSnack.initializeSnack(root)
class RecThread(threading.Thread):
#this thread accesses the Snack toolkit
#and actually does the recording
def __init__ (self, master = None):
threading.Thread.__init__(self, master)
class TrackFrame(Frame):
#this frame will contain the controls for running RecThead
#including Rec, Play, and Mute Radiobutton contols.
def __init__ (self, master = None):
Frame.__init__(self, master)
class ControlFrame(Frame):
#this contains all the arrow keys for controlling TrackFrame
#it will have Start, Stop, and Pause buttons
def __init__ (self, master = None):
Frame.__init__(self, master)
class Application(Frame):
#this is the layout for all of the above
def __init__ (self, master = None):
Frame.__init__(self, master)
if __name__ == '__main__':
root.App = Application()
root.App.master.title("Un Recorder")
root.App.mainloop()
I'm no coder. I'm just a working guy who likes to tinker with computers in
my spare time.
That's my hobby. My passion is: playing instruments. Combining the two,
I've made a couple of event driven, GUI controlled progs in Python and
tKinter before. I made an abc/midi player, using the timidity, and
abc2midi packages. I also did a metronome, using the Snack sound toolkit.
My next project is to make my own sound recorder, using Tkinter and the
Snack Sound toolkit. I have an idea, that using multiple threads for each
recording track, I could eventually develop it into a multitrack recorder.
I could use linux SOX to add effects to each track.
Does this sound like a stupidly complicated idea for a newby?
Also, is the Python interpreter fast enough for this sort of work?
Especially on a pII 450Mhz with only 256 meg?
Would I be better off just sticking with a single track recorder, until
the day I get around to seriously studying a compiler language like C++?
Here's the skeleton of the code I'm writing......
#! /usr/bin/python
from Tkinter import *
from os import popen, popen2
import threading
import tkSnack
root = Tk()
tkSnack.initializeSnack(root)
class RecThread(threading.Thread):
#this thread accesses the Snack toolkit
#and actually does the recording
def __init__ (self, master = None):
threading.Thread.__init__(self, master)
class TrackFrame(Frame):
#this frame will contain the controls for running RecThead
#including Rec, Play, and Mute Radiobutton contols.
def __init__ (self, master = None):
Frame.__init__(self, master)
class ControlFrame(Frame):
#this contains all the arrow keys for controlling TrackFrame
#it will have Start, Stop, and Pause buttons
def __init__ (self, master = None):
Frame.__init__(self, master)
class Application(Frame):
#this is the layout for all of the above
def __init__ (self, master = None):
Frame.__init__(self, master)
if __name__ == '__main__':
root.App = Application()
root.App.master.title("Un Recorder")
root.App.mainloop()