[linux-audio-dev] Old Specimen mockups

[Thorsten Wilms]

Hi!

Specimen might be dead or in keep-functioning-maintainance only, 
and work based on these mockups had been canceled before due to 
them being too time consuming to implement and doubts on 
extendability, anyway :(

BUT, instead of them just bit-rotting on my hd, I rather present 
them here, since they could still be an inspiration to someone :)


1. Keys and Main:
http://xs71.xs.to/pics/06102/specimen_18_keys_main_i.png

2. Mixer and Pitch:
http://xs71.xs.to/pics/06102/specimen_18_mixer_pitch_i.png


Like in the actual Specimen, all sliders are fan-sliders.
(http://leute.uni-wuppertal.de/~ka0394/en/fan-sliders/index.html)

On the left there are 16 MIDI channels down. The numbers also 
act as MIDI activity indicator (3 is receiving something).
They're followed by volume slider, mono, solo and name.

The selected channel (1) is connected to the Keys/Mixer area.
This works a bit like tabs, but allows that section to come 
up from the sunken field, resulting in cleaner look.
It's all meant to be GTK theming friendly.

On the keys area, Patches are assigned to keyboard ranges.
They can be put in columns to allow layering. The base note is 
marked (D here, could have made that more obvious). 
The selected Patch is shown in inverted colour.

The Mixer area is a bit redundant as it is shown here. 
Initialy it was meant to not just allow access to panning over 
what the channels section on the left offers, but also Cut/Cut by 
(a more versatile, but not exactly self explaining system than 
exclusion groups, used for cutting off a open hi-hat on a closed 
one and similar things). Every selection of Parameters could be 
shown in that table, though.

The right section shows the selected Patch. It was a goal to 
keep the Specimen window rather small to make using it with other 
apps more handable, so a number of tabs were needed.

The not shown Volume, Panning, Cutoff and Resonance tabs  
would be much like the Pitch one. Contents of that tab should be 
pretty selfexplainatory, or it's no good anyway :)


The 3 sections layout and the Keys area where all my own idea, but 
Pete Bessman's influence and decisons are all over the place.


Cheers,
Thorsten Wilms

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