[linux-audio-user] ALSA MIDI translator for PhatBoy controller

[Patrick Shirkey]

Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Dave Phillips hat gesagt: // Dave Phillips wrote:
> 
>> While Frank is certainly correct, I'm still going to bitch about the 
>> fact that I'd have to use Pd for such a minor function. It's like 
>> driving my car across the street to get milk, it's too much tool for the 
>> job.
> 
> I wouldn't compare this to using the car to get milk but more to
> having a swiss knife ready for small tasks by learning at least one
> "scripting language for music" like Pd, SC or maybe Python etc. Then
> instead of having to search the net to find a ready-made tool for a
> very specific problem, you would just write a little tool yourself in
> a couple of minutes and could get on with the real work.
> 
> I'd consider learning C for much more like driving a car to get milk. ;)
> 

But the average user doesn't want to do either and will be happy to open 
up a gui applet that gives them exactly that function and no more if it 
"just works (tm)"


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