hi oli, > i installed nova, but had the impression, that it is not meant to be > used by anyone else than developers. first it's hard to install. i > think there should be binaries for osx (and windows?) and a source > package for linux that compiles out of the box. then i found the GUI > not intuitive at all, but maybe it's just the missing documentation / > tutorials / examples.
right, at the current state, nova is usable by experienced max or pd users ... that should change, but i was hoping to attract developers, who might want to contribute code to novas weak parts ... the focus of nova is its engine, the user interface is just at a state, so that one can access the engine, not more ... from the beginning, i was looking for people to work on the front-end ... if someone looks for a tool that works `out of the box', use pd/max/supercollider/chuck/csound ... to be honest, i have spent more than two years on about 65000 lines of code ... thinking of the complexity of a well-designed user interface, it would probably be another 20000 or 30000 lines ... probably another year or two of work ... i am probably running out of time, though ... i will not be able to spend a significant amount of my time on nova, as i did in the last years ... and i will definitely _not_ be able to write a full-featured user interface ... i have not discontinued nova, yet, especially since i think its architecture is more powerful than max/pd, but since i didn't manage to start a community, i consider to do so ... i start to realize, that the nova project is too big to be carried out by one person alone ... tim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tim.klingt.org Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
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