Whoopees all round.
Today I got my first error free XCode build of a "Squirted" version of Colours from its REALbasic project. It means my REALbasic to C++ produced a clean version of C++ code from the Colours RB project. Getting C++ to implement REALbasic/C# style interfaces proved to be a pig - since it proved impossible to allow base classes to implement interface methods in subclasses. What a pain in the posterior C++ is. The day when REALbasic becomes able to produce dynamic libraries cannot come soon enough imo.
Next step - fill in all the RB framework wrapper objects - ugh. In fact first i should really try running the code as it is and sort out which memory management mechanism to use
ie the BOEHM garbage collector or reference counting ( via BOOST shared_ptr or the like ).
Maybe in parallel with filling in the framework classes i need to start looking at integrating JUCE into the project and figure out how to use JUCE
GUI in the plugin instead of RB.
On a different tone - made further moves to find local jazz musicians with view to getting playing again in some jam session or regular group.
By means of a chain of referrals from one 'muso to the next i ended up coming to an old musical contact - a friend of mines sax teacher.
Funny how things "come around" - turns out he's some kind of christian and does prison visits ( similar to my mothers church ). What going on here ? the bassist and several others who go to the
Nightclub in town where there's a jam session open mic thing goes to some pentecostal church and now this old muso too!.
This guy - a seasoned session musician and teacher now introduced me to the Uxbridge jazz rehearsal band where i met Chris the bassist which led on to the Uxbridge "Load of Hay" jazz gig I ran there for a year or so. ( maybe more i cant remember ). Chris ran it for a year whic was fun - although i got a bit bored with playing commercial stuff like "Sunshine of your life" and "Summertime" incessantly. As soon as he left to work on the QE2 gig and i took over I wasted no time in turning the gig into a more modern jazz affair - got in the best young NYJO and session "deps" - at my expense much of the time. But the standard was then set much higher ( and becme more demanding for me ) . Sadly such gigs only last for a season. Such is Jazz...
The jam session on sundays is an iffy affair. A bit too much showing off at great volume by some younger drummers keen to show off their latest chops.
Showing off is all very well but losing "time" is unforgivable.
But just when i start to get exasperated and wonder what i'm doing there a number starts up and we get a fine groove going and all is well. This sunday I thoroughly enjoyed playing rhythm on a reggae style
vamp. Some old-ish looking black guy near the bar seemed to be digging it which was cool. I;d like to think i was sounding something like what i used to hear on John Peel late at night in the 70s growing up!.
While waiting for a joint taxi and making conversation with the girlfriend of the jam organiser was made aware big time of the "generation gap" - no musical commonality. Also surprised/interested to hear from several of the younger there that they hardly ever watch TV. Guess the Net age has truly arrived and/or they have better things to do!.
