yo! >% What's CCA? cca. = circa >% Please don't waste your time re-implementing existing technology. i didn't intend to just copy the programs. i think their features are great, but the user interfaces are big craps, so they need to be redesigned. >% Why don't you add some new and fun features instead? Here are some >% ideas for you to experiment with: send control messages over a network, network stuff would be great... >% convert movements captured by a webcam into control messages, implement a >% 3D interface with OpenGL, make a softsynth with a more unusual form of >% synthesis: formant, granular, etc. my synth will use Csound as output. need i say more? >% Why don't you find some actual users (esp. non-programmers) and ask them >% what they *really* want? Don't be satisfied with answers about how they >% currently use existing commercial programs. Find out what they dream of >% doing and try to develop a solution that actually meets those needs. i'm a hardcore audioware user, so i know what i miss from these programs, that's why i want to code my own. :) i asked some friends, but after i planned the whole, i'ma put it out somewhere, and wait for some other feature-requests. -- Racz, Mate linux + IT professional audio software developer
