[linux-audio-dev] Splitsheet

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:31:08PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 
> In Pd it is possible to build your own modules, that you then can use
> inside your patch. You also can of course code modules. I recently
> counted how many modules I have - downloaded or self-created. I have
> 4781 uniquely named pd-files on my disk, every one of which I could
> use as an object.  
> 
> When designing a modular system, it might become important to be able
> to handle such enormous amounts of possible objects. 

Just some quick ideas:
- Module browser, with thumbnails/previews (but only if the nature of the 
system makes them recognizable)
- Description/Comment fields (searchable, be it gui or commandline)
- Special find functionlity: search for number of modules, presence 
or exclusion of certain modules.

Directly dealing with several thousand files will always be 
troublesome.


But my concept is for rather simple things, and will not lead to 
so much variation as pd does. It should be much faster and easier 
to understand for the lack of complexity and therby flexibility.


> Regarding your design: It reminds me of Numerology, which is a cool
> sequencer that makes routing the way you suggested, with drop-down
> boxes. But Numerology just has a very small amount of possible
> "objects": it's own tracks, AFAIK.

But routing happens from top to bottom, through the blocks as 
they are laid out in my concept. Just imagine patch cords from 
each block to all blocks below it.
The menus are for selecting module types.


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Thorsten Wilms