On Tuesday 11 June 2002 19.37, Billy Biggs wrote: [...] > The same holds for software as well: interface is almost > everything. I would much rather have a sequencer with less > features and a good UI than a fully-featured one that's annoying to > use. When composing it's important to "forget technology: think > music".
Yes! > This was the thought behind my sequencer: ttrk > (http://div8.net/ttrk). I did a UI that I'm pretty proud of for the > target platform: basically it's an Alesis MMT8 meets a tracker in > 80x50 textmode on an old PC, low enough latency to have really > smooth drumrolls even at high bpm, and it syncs happily to external > MIDI clock (essential for my setup). > > Of course, since I have a market size of 1 (myself), and pretty > much no interest from the open-source community, the project hasn't > gone anywhere else. But I'm quite happy with it. :) Well, I'm *interested* - I've actually downloaded it and looked at it! :-) Problem is that I don't really like the traditional tracker idea anymore. I just record stuff from the keyboard and prefer editing notes using some kind of piano roll view. The typical sequencer "event list editor" *really* sucks, though. Something more like an Old Skool tracker interface might work for that part... Any ideas? Maybe I should look at ttrk again? (I might not be understanding it's internal structure properly...) //David .- M A I A -------------------------------------------------. | Multimedia Application Integration Architecture | | A Free/Open Source Plugin API for Professional Multimedia | `---------------------------> http://www.linuxdj.com/maia/ -' .- David Olofson -------------------------------------------. | Audio Hacker - Open Source Advocate - Singer - Songwriter | `-------------------------------------> http://olofson.net -'
