[linux-audio-user] Your synth wishlist?

[John Check]

On Thursday 29 July 2004 11:29 pm, Rob wrote:
> On Thursday 29 July 2004 18:26, Dave Robillard wrote:
> > So, what features are important to you in a synth?  What
> > annoys you about the current crop of linux synths?
>
> I would really like an *easy* and *intuitive* way to map
> arbitrary MIDI controllers to various functions, filters,
> whatever... I have this PCR-30 with 8 knobs, 8 sliders and a
> joystick and would really like to be able to do something with
> all that twiddly goodness that i can tweak while actually
> playing rather than stopping, editing a config file or whatever.
>
> Something like a "Map a controller..." menu option that then
> listens for a MIDI controller producing a lot of data and then
> asks you to click on the filter or whatever that you want to map
> it to, that'd be nice.  Maybe that's out there in some linux
> sound app I haven't tried yet, but I haven't yet gotten to the
> point where I can play a jackified synth from my keyboard for
> any length of time without the whole thing crashing, so I guess
> "not throwing a segv every 5 minutes" would be a nice feature to
> have too ;)
>
> Rob

What he said