On 01/17/2014 02:29 AM, Vesa wrote: > I'm not entirely familiar with CSound or the others, but it seems fairly > complex with a high learning curve - it has an entire programming > language for sound generation, and also it kind of seems like it would > be hard to integrate well with LMMS. I'd like there to be something that > even people who don't know programming can use, something where you can > just use a GUI to put in modules and connect them together, and make an > instrument that way without writing a single line of code.
Oh, I agree, and in fact, I think a GUI for this is essential. If we integrated something like csound (as someone suggested on the bug report page), it would have to be a GUI that generated csound orchestras that were our patches. GUIs for csound have existed for years, though I've never tried one. Maybe it could load arbitrary orchestras but just not allow the user to graphically edit the ones it couldn't parse, allowing advanced users to edit the underlying code. (That would make me happy, as someone who's always more comfortable with a keyboard than a mouse, but we could always use the text editor of our choice outside of LMMS as long as it wasn't too cumbersome to reload orchestras.) And if that's too complex, well, Pd is less so. I just think using something with an existing userbase and a well-established syntax and a million tone generator modules and plugins of its own would suit LMMS better than starting from scratch, even though that may be appealing to restless developers looking to design something new. Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list LMMS-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
