[linux-audio-user] FOLKS, PAY ATTENTION TO NOTEEDIT, the score editor!

I. I. Ooisen ii001001 at yahoo.ca
Wed Dec 21 00:44:46 EST 2005


On Wednesday 21 December 2005 07:12, Rob wrote:
> On Tue December 20 2005 20:22, Emiliano Grilli wrote:
> > IMHO there are tasks that are best expressed by "gestures"
> > (mouse clicks and acting with icons), and other that are best
> > expressed by "words" (command line interface, scripting), and
> > I think both approaches are valuable. Having both well
> > cooperating is a good thing for me. I don't understand why
> > denigrate one over another.
>
> Actually, I *am* a programmer (just one who's not especially good
> at writing stable C++ code), and I wish I could "program" songs
> in a way that made sense to me both as a programmer and as a
> composer.  Something higher level than csound and less Lisp-like
> than nyquist, for example, but which could still talk to all the
> nifty audio stuff like Jack and ALSA synthesizers and MIDI and
> LADSPA filters.  "emacs mysong" (or "kwrite mysong") is always
> gonna be more comfortable to me than a mouse-driven sequencer
> interface, because I live most of my life in it.  I'd like to be
> able to play my song back whenever I want to, or type "make all"
> and get nice big honkin' wav, ogg and mp3 files of it.
>
> However, I recognize that I am not like most musicians.  Since no
> one else here is either, I felt someone needed to stick up for
> them.  So many people seem to wonder why more musicians aren't
> using Linux.... the "use the command line, it's better"
> mentality is one of them.  Most musicians and many recording
> engineers are going to think something's gone horribly wrong if
> they see a command line.
>
> Rob

right. "command line", the way we see it now, is a primitive way to put 
a computer to work.

what we need, though, is much higher level full-featured and specialized 
languages (music, 3d, graphics), integrated in a friendly visual (gui) 
environment. not just microsoft/mac-style... "yes/no check-boxes".
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