[linux-audio-dev] GUIless friendly applications

[Dave Griffiths]

> "Dave Griffiths" <dave at pawfal.org> writes:
> 
> > Mario,
> >
> > Could you give some descriptions of a text based interface you would like 
to
> > use for realtime control of a modular synth? The building of patches seems
> > fairly easy (via a CLI), but I'm thinking you'd want a more direct 
control for
> > actually playing the thing - mapping the parameters to different keys 
maybe?
> 
> Let me explain.  The building of patches is what currently
> doesnt work at all, so if a cli is easy to write for that, that 
> would help ALOT!

Ok, I'll have a look at doing this.

> P.S.: The CLI is not only good for us blind people,
> there are alot of benefits for such an interface, think
> scripting.

Also load/save files can simply become a list of commands for building the 
patch. I believe this is how PD works, so maybe that has some potential too.

dave