Hi, Pete Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The actual electribe hardware has a 'virtual keyboard' mode where the > 16 step keys can be used as a 1-and-a-bit octave keyboard, but i > think i may just implement midi recording + midi thru to allow a real > keyboard to be used, or the virtual keyboard of your choice - i > really want to make this sequencer simple and modular, rather than an > all-things-to-all-people sequencer. I agree about making things simple and modular, but I still think it would be preferable to have keys mapped to all the buttons on the screen (single keys for often used buttons like the 16 steps or to change to other parts, no combos), and that the step keys could also be switched to act as a virtual keyboard. It would really increase usability to not have to switch window to a virtual keyboard to do on of the most important functions of the application, editing notes. More sequencers could really be improved by adding the ability to play on the computer keyboard, and in general making sure it is possible to control everything from the keyboard, IMHO. Trackers have been doing it forever. I know that has historic reasons, but I don't see any of the newer trackers, on linux or elsewhere, requiring an external (virtual) keyboard to play/edit. The only good alternative I can see would be to have some kind of application that could be triggered in the desktop environment to temporarily take over keyboard events from all other applications and map them to ALSA/JACK MIDI events instead, without having to switch to another window. I'm not sure how easy that would be to do in a portable way (working with Gnome/KDE etc). But even with a tool like that I would not mind if a virtual electribe to behave more like an electribe with the same specific keys tied to the 16 step/note keys just like on a real electribe. -- /Pelle _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev