[linux-audio-dev] Re: killer app idea

[Dave Griffiths]

Going slightly off topic, an idea I'd like to try is a hexagonal drum pattern
sequencer. I got the idea from this:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/images/autechremax2.l.jpg

I have no idea how it actually works, but from that patch I got thinking that
you could get multiple loops from the same pattern by moving time in different
directions across a (non rectangular) tesselated grid. 

If you see what I mean!??

I'm going to hack together a little script to do this, when/if I have time,
but feel free to take this idea further...

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:28:40 +0200, Aaron wrote
> So your saying the idea of rectangles might be patented??
> 
> So I might be forced to use pentgons or octagons? Maybe the color 
> will also be a problem....
> 
> Aaron
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 09:09, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> > >From: Aaron <aamehl at actcom.net.il>
> > >
> > >1. Basically a front end to lilypond which will work
> > >more like a audio program.
> > 
> > I remember something like that has been discussed somewhere
> > earlier.
> > 
> > Well, if the rectangle on the track editor is made with audio editor,
> > it is displayed as waveform or as spectogram. If the rectangle on
> > the track is made with midi editor, it is displayed as matrix.
> > If the rectangle is made with X editor, it is displayed as X.
> > 
> > When one zooms in to these displays, they might become editable.
> > (Waveform display usually does.)
> > 
> > Maybe this should be mentioned in this context (before anyone
> > patents all these ideas): a rectangle may have different
> > reprentations and thus different display styles. E.g., if the
> > original data is audio, then the another representation could
> > be sequence data (midi?) generated with, e.g., wave-to-midi.
> > When the audio is edited, the other representation is changed
> > automatically (possibly using lazy-evaluation). If the original
> > is the sequence, then audio is just renderation of the sequence
> > (sort of freeze feature).
> > 
> > I wanted to write about this multiple-representations because
> > in graphics, Silicon Graphics (Wavefront-Alias, Maya) has a patent
> > on using multiple reprentations. User-friendly for user-editing,
> > faster for rendering. I invented exactly that basic idea in high
> > school 10 years before they!
> > 
> > So, if there are further ideas, lets hear them all now before
> > the ideas are patented.
> > 
> > Juhana