----- Original Message ----- From: Joshua Judson Rosen Sent: 06/08/11 08:28 PM To: English Qi Hardware mailing list - support\, developers\, use cases and fun Subject: Re: Ben NanoNote applications (was: USB usages?(Ben)) Wolfgang Spraul <[email protected]> writes: > > There is a range of wonderful high-quality software to discover on > the Ben, such as mutt, aewan, gnuplot, octave, sc, stardict, mplayer, > gmu, nightsky, nanomap, curveship, games, scripting languages, and more.
Since I mentioned Ben as a musical device in my last message, I reminded myself of a class of devices about which I'd entirely forgotten: if a nice tracker were made to run on Ben, it might make a nice musical `walkstation' similar in vein to, e.g.: Yamaha's QY70 (there are some videos on YouTube demonstrating various QY-series devices, for anyone not familiar with them). Someone asked, a while back, whether there were any way that Ben NanoNote might add value to the MM1--maybe this is an answer. A pocket-sized tracker for making and playing mod-files was something that I wanted for much of the last decade (though not as much, now, since I've become focused on things other than making music). A pocket-sized machine that could run GJay is another thing that I've wanted for the past decade, and *that* I've actually been able to get working with my Ben. I'm *really* grateful that you guys brought this device into existence--that I can use it to finally realise dreams that have persisted for this long makes it well worth more $100 (I think I paid something like $400 for the iPod that the NanoNote replaced, and the NanoNote is serving me *much* better) :) Finally! someone who envisions the Ben as a potential platform for actually CREATING rather than just viewing media files! No matter how small we start, any step in that direction is good. _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
