Greetings:
The use of the computer keyboard in Sequencer Plus is the main reason I keep using it. MusE, RG, and the crop of Windoze MIDI sequencers are all very nice, but they all presume that my working method will be mouse & MIDI-keyboard centric. I don't play keyboard worth a damn, and I find the mouse to be clumsy and inaccurate compared to keyboard control. It looks as though your project attempts to revive the more extensive use of the keyboard in a GUI sequencer, is that correct ?
Best,
dp
Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Hi!
I have been thinking about transfering the concept of a cursor from text editing to MIDI editing.
Since this not specific to any existing sequencer I like to present my concept here, in hope of feedback and maybe some project picking it up.
http://wrstud.urz.uni-wuppertal.de/~ka0394/forum/04-10-25_cursor.png
The red, turned H is the cursor. The row (note) it's on is always marked/highlighted.
The cursor can be moved with cursor keys or placed by left clicking (just like a text cursor).
Selection of events happens by rubberbanding per mouse or by using shift + cursor keys.
New notes can be inserted at the cursor location by just hitting enter, using a default value or the grid resolution for the length when nothing was selected. Or filling the selected area with the new note (empyt space is treated like whitespace in a text).
Selected events can be moved with the cursor keys by holding down Ctrl.
There could be auto-selection of the closest event when nothing else was selected.
--- Thorsten Wilms
