On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:47 AM, David Olofson <[email protected]> wrote: > This brings up some thoughts I've been having for years now: A really > simple, yet somewhat useful and educational music toy. An integrated > synth/sampler/sequencer, possibly with audio recording facilities > down the road... Sort of like a tracker (Amiga MOD style), but with a > more visual GUI. Probably some sort of piano roll. A bunch of nice > sounds (I'm thinking IFFT synthesis) with some pre-wired intuitive > timre controls. Maybe a library of drum patterns... Preferably SDL > based and portable to all sorts of computers and devices. > > In short: Tux Paint for music! :-)
Sounds fun. > Is there something like this already out there? Can't think of anything right now. > Any interest in this sort of stuff? Sure! > 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'll probably use EEL for all high level code, over a C engine. EEL is > probably not the most sensible choice for a Free/Open Source project, > but I'm using EEL for various stuff myself (mostly work related), and > it could use some more pilot projects to guide future development. I'm not familiar with EEL. Maybe use fluidsynth so you can have soundfont support? A whole world of cheesy keyboard sounds at your fingertips. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
