Re: [LAD] Tux Paint for music?

2009-05-07 Thread Ray Rashif
> Doesn't exactly look like the ultimate tool for an 8 year old > beginner...! ;-) Then you'd be surprised to know that my 4-year-old brother loves to scrape across the LMMS virtual keyboard - with a touchpad at that. He also knows that dragging a different item from the left side gives him a diff

Re: [LAD] Tux Paint for music?

2009-05-07 Thread David Olofson
On Thursday 07 May 2009, David Olofson wrote: > On Thursday 07 May 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > [...] > > Using SDL sound only (not SDL graphics) but you may want to try > > LMMS: > > > > http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ > > Doesn't exactly look like the ultimate tool for an 8 year old > b

Re: [LAD] Tux Paint for music?

2009-05-07 Thread David Olofson
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: [...] > Using SDL sound only (not SDL graphics) but you may want to try > LMMS: > > http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ Doesn't exactly look like the ultimate tool for an 8 year old beginner...! ;-) That definitely seems worth checking out for ot

Re: [LAD] Tux Paint for music?

2009-05-07 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
On Wednesday, May 6, 2009, David Olofson wrote: > My son is playing around with my little SDL based drum machine, DT-42 > again. He seems to be having fun, but I suppose he'd be better off > with something more straight-forward (DT-42 is more like a MOD > tracker than a conventional drum machine),

Re: [LAD] Tux Paint for music?

2009-05-07 Thread David Olofson
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Pelle Nilsson wrote: > Paul Coccoli writes: > > > Well, since you're thinking SDL, you should consider using a > > gamepad as the primary input device. I understand it is a > > somewhat popular interface for kids these days. > > Yes, in particular it would be great fun

Re: [LAD] Tux Paint for music?

2009-05-07 Thread David Olofson
On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Paul Coccoli wrote: [...] > > Ideas? > > Well, since you're thinking SDL, you should consider using a gamepad > as the primary input device. I understand it is a somewhat popular > interface for kids these days. I don't know about primary, but... Well, I suppose it shou

Re: [LAD] linux audio and what have you ...

2009-05-07 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
> Hey there, Ico! > > Were you in Parma last month for the Linux Audio conference? > As you may recall, I am the News and Announcements editor for CMJ. > If you have any good CMJ-type photos or a paragraph of news to report, I > would be happy to include them in the next issue. If you sen

Re: [LAD] Tux Paint for music?

2009-05-07 Thread David Olofson
On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Dave Phillips wrote: > > David Olofson wrote: > > > >> [snip] > >> > >> In short: Tux Paint for music! :-) > >> > >> > >> Is there something like this already out there? > >> > >> > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TamTam > > > > Perhaps ? >

Re: [LAD] Tux Paint for music?

2009-05-07 Thread Pelle Nilsson
Paul Coccoli writes: > Well, since you're thinking SDL, you should consider using a gamepad > as the primary input device. I understand it is a somewhat popular > interface for kids these days. Yes, in particular it would be great fun to have some toy like that on running on my GP2X. :) -- /P