[LAU] lmms ?

[lanas]

Le Mardi, 15 May 2007 11:27:33 +0100,
"Neil Mather" <ngmather at gmail.com> a écrit :

> In defense of the monolithic style, I would say it is more intuitive
> to newcomers to have everything contained within one place.  They
> download one app, and with a hopefully not-too-long browse of the
> manual can get it to do something.  I think it takes a lot more skill
> to grasp the idea of routing the output of one app into another, at
> least for those not coming from an audio hardware background.

It was, at least once, said that successful GUIs are ones that stands
for metaphors to real life objects.  I'm not that much convince that
the sacro-saint newcomer is actually well-defined.

I mean, what would a 'newcomer' do just after buying a DVD 5.1 system
for his/her living room ?  Would we immediately think that this person
will be lost connecting it to his/her TV, as well as connecting the
speakers and cable ?

I think that the 'newcomer' stereotype is defined on the low side.  And
being defined that way, it does not push forward any notion that is not
more complicated than connecting home theatre components together.

After all, the newcomer is sitting in front of a computer.  It is
absolutely not like sitting and staring at the taoster in the
morning ! ;-)

I think it wouldn't be faretched to introduce the notion, at the
'newcomer' level, of components that have to be conencted together.
It's just that it hasn't been done yet.  And as far a Linux is
concerned, and me, the inter-communication is not yet mature enough.
Heck, I can't even get lash going on my FC6 x86_64 SMP machine, not to
mention which apps actually supports lash and to what extent.
 
> It is important these apps don't take too much of a walled-garden
> approach though, and provide some interaction at least, with
> DSSI/LADSPA/LV2, Jack, etc, and if it were possible, hopefully some
> kind of transferable open file format.

A transferable file format would be quite something.  Imagine doing a
rough fast sketch with Seq24 and having that seq file being read by a
more sophisticated sequencer later for detailed work.

Cheers,

Al