On Wednesday 09 June 2004 08.53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:53:43PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > Hallo, > > Steve Harris hat gesagt: // Steve Harris wrote: > > > > > > What I meant with "nice" is more in the vein of this here: > > http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/img/closeup/redrum/closeup-r > >edrum450.jpg > > > > I mean, it looks like a nice piece of hardware, but what good is that > > on screen. You don't even know which button is more important that > > others. And why are there srews? And Reason gets especially terrible > > if you look at the moving cables on the back. Ah well, I could go on > > for hours on how terrible I think this is... ;) > > the moving cables are quite distracting. > but you can right click on every jack and connect it to another jack via > the menu. and you can see the connections in the menu too. > > reason also does a very good job at connecting everything for you. > this is of course only possible, because the reason building blocks are > really big. how should pd know how you wanted to have your objects > connected ? > > i consider the eyecandy RACK part of reason only for playing (fooling) > around with the effects. so that you get to know them. > > you can rightclick on every control, and add a control track to the > sequencer. > > and that is what makes reason a nice tool. the sequencer is integrated > with the rack part. > > imagine you got muse sequencing pd and you can add a control track to > muse with one mouse click on a pd control. (not to mention, that you can > record automation from pd to muses control track)
Hey! That's a nice idea. Don't patent it ;) > > this is why i am still tempted to implement a full sequencer into galan > someday. But it would be much better to define some API to make this > possible in the UNIX way. That would be the way to go. I have to give this some thought... /Robert > if reason had a schematic behind the rack i would be quite happy with > it. (well should run under linux and be jackified :) -- http://spamatica.se/music/
