Re: Help reading .ecs files

Very helpful Joel -- thanks!

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Joel Roth <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:39:37AM -0500, Kevin wrote:
> > Thanks for the quick response, Julien.
> >
> > What's odd about the single quotes is it's behaving opposite of what one
> > might expect: Absence of the quotes gives the "AUDIOIO-SEQBASE: Could not
> > create child object" error, while adding the quotes in yields "Error
> > loading chainsetup: Audio object".
>
> I could guess that there are two routines
> with conflicting quoting conventions.
>
> Perhaps Ecasound could be more liberal about quoting.
>
> > I thought I saw an Ecasound flag in the documentation that instructs
> > Ecasound to output the currently loaded chainsetup to a new .ecs file,
> but
> > I cannot seem to find where I read this now that I want to try it.
>
> There is the IAM command, cs-save-as 'filename'.
>
> man ecasound-iam
>
> > I
> > thought since my chainsetup works at the command line I could feed it in
> > there, generate an .ecs from it, then try re-inputting the generated .ecs
> > and debug from there.
>
> Yes, maybe Ecasound will have a way to represent it for the
> platform. I expect you're not the first person to
> attempt this. :-)
>
> > Regarding Windows; I just finished writing a partial Ecasound .NET
> wrapper
> > library so that I can build/modify chains with .NET objects. I was
> feeding
> > the output of this library directly to the command line until its
> generated
> > output exceeded the size limit for the command line, hence my desire to
> > conquer this .ecs stuff.
>
> The ECI interface (using the same commands described
> in 'man ecasound-iam') is a third way to
> configure and manage the audio engine.
>
> Nama uses a combination approach: the signal routing for
> a setup gets written out as an .ecs file, and after
> loading it, effects are applied by sending commands using
> Ecasound's Net-ECI inteface.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joel
>
> > Finally, I simplified my example as suggested and ran it with -dd
> > debugging. Results are below.
> >
> > Thanks again for the help!
> >
> > Kevin
> <snip>
> --
> Joel Roth
>
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