You've got it about right. The git version of non-sequencer is still in a transitional phase. You might have better luck with version 1.9.4--it'll be missing a few features, but that was the last official release version. The current dangling work on non-sequencer involves improving the input method, and generally making the application usable entirely via touch-screen. The copy/paste/move feature is new and indeed unfinished. You'll also find that, due to the underlying pattern data format being MIDI, moving a selection of notes 'through' existing notes produces a less than desirable effect. Some of these issues can be classified as bugs--easily fixable--, while others are more just a symptom of the incomplete changes . To be perfectly honest, I haven't fully settled on the particulars of the redesign, but I pushed the changes anyway because it was preferable to leaving 1.9.4 as the only operable version.
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Element Green <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello Non community ;-) > > I'm new to the Non collection of applications, but not to Linux audio. > I'm the author of Swami and have been a major contributor to FluidSynth, > etc. > > Its been my long time dream of mine to have a pattern sequencer on Linux > such as what non-sequencer appears to aspire to. I recently was > entertaining the idea of writing one (yes i know, another project) and then > I came across non-sequencer and the rest of the applications. I'm really > quite impressed so far (I've been using primarily non-mixer with Swami and > Zynaddsubfx). > > Just now I gave non-sequencer a try and I'm having quite a lot of issues > with it. The biggest one is very poor performance with changing notes. > Clicking and dragging on them seems to take several seconds (especially > when selecting a group of notes). > > There are also several other issues I'm having, some of which I have seen > in the bug tracker (problem adding a note just prior to another one). I'm > also unable to change the velocity except in the event editor (no mouse > wheel velocity changing and the velocity setting at the bottom of the > screen seems to be ignored). It looks like the first note in my pattern is > also missing a note on event in the event editor, so I'm unable to change > its velocity (although it sounds like it is being played). > > Is non-sequencer production ready or am I experiencing some isolated > issues? Did I build the right non-sequencer? I built everything from the > latest git source a few days ago. > > I'm quite willing to put in some programming effort to improve > non-sequencer, just want to make sure I have the right orientation to begin > with. I'm really liking the design of the Non applications and see the > possibility of me fixing bugs as much more productive than trying to write > new applications from scratch. The author's philosophy of "lean and mean" > is exactly what I've been wanting. > > Best regards, > > Element Green >
