Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 11:09:06PM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: You again. Yes, me. I was told by some members of this list only a few days ago that sarcasm was OK. Where did I say I would have problems with sarcasm? But the use of sarcasm doesn't make your comment any bit more

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Dave Griffiths
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 23:15, Pete Bessman wrote: At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:00:42 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Dave Griffiths said something above about hiding functionality for the users to find. That, to, is just wrong. This isn't a videogame or Where's Waldo. heh heh, funnily enough - I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 07:55:50PM -0400, Pete Bessman wrote: At Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:28:35 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: so that I can compare it against the mouth-breathing crow-magnon music created with shiny-quarter interfaces. I'm sure the results will speak for themselves.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:33:59AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Designing for usability is not rocket science. For the phone example, the options (in decreasing order of desirability) are: 1. A self-explanatory pictorial representation. 2. A text label. 3. An

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:41:17AM +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: Having worked professionally on related things, I just can't stand the I HAVE to understand everything about an interface in 5 SECONDS! attitude to gui design. People can learn things, it's part of playing music on real

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:36:26AM +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: I made the observation that educated people usually do not mind having to learn something. So if there is a widespread aversion to having to learn and read a manual, that seems to indicate that education levels have gone down.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Jan Depner
On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 02:36, Fons Adriaensen wrote: I made the observation that educated people usually do not mind having to learn something. So if there is a widespread aversion to having to learn and read a manual, that seems to indicate that education levels have gone down. I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] swh plugins and fixing undenormalize

2004-06-26 Thread Tim Blechmann
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:38:24 -0500 Jan Depner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 13:49, Tim Blechmann wrote: I have a denormal fix without a branch but you probably don't want to see it ;-) It's pretty simple, just OR the bits of the exponent together which gives either

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sat, 26 Jun 2004 01:41:17 +0100, Dave Griffiths wrote: I HAVE to understand everything about an interface in 5 SECONDS! attitude to gui design. People can learn things, it's part of playing music on real instruments - why can't it be part of playing computer instruments? I simply don't

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Pete Bessman
At Sat, 26 Jun 2004 09:36:26 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote: What is normal ? Why do you think I put it in quotes? I have an increasing difficulty in just understanding what you try to say. Could you explain the terms No. - crow-magnon (sic) music I'm amazed that your purportedly

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design (radial movement)

2004-06-26 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 11:50:29AM -0400, Pete Bessman wrote: Great, well, I made the observation that the intelligentsia have microscopic genitalia. (What, you want my data? Surely you jest.) Ergo, the smarter a person claims to be, the greater the magnification they require at the urinal.

[linux-audio-dev] fixed point?

2004-06-26 Thread derek holzer
hi all, I'm starting some work with audio applications on Familiar for the IPAQ. I was wondering if anybody here can point me in the direction of some fixed-point audio software for investigative purposes. Probably the holy grail of fixed-point audio would be a fixed-point MP3 or OGG encoder.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] fixed point?

2004-06-26 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 01:18:42 +0200 derek holzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody working on a fixed-point version of Ecasound, BTW? I've seen it already runs on the IPAQ, just very slowly... What about other harddisk recorders using fixed point? I have a very good start on a recorder for