[LAU] Snd learning curve

[Hartmut Noack]

Am 10.02.2011 21:00, schrieb Bill Schottstaedt:
> Thanks for the kind words about Snd!

Thanks to you for asking us so kindly for wishes regarding Snd!

>  If any of you have the
> time and inclination, I'd like to hear how Snd should be changed
> to make it easier to use.

I do not think, that Snd is too hard to use. Given its plethora of 
capabilities it cannot and should not be made much more simple without 
sacrifying flexibility I guess.

BUT
It is indeed hard to configure. Too hard for even an advanced beginner.

So if this could be possible without too much effort I would be very 
very happy about a distribution of Snd, that allows to switch all menues 
and modules that Snd can actually handle on in a simple 
pereferences-dialogue. And that these menues actually pop up and work as 
expected.

Examples: I´d like to have that rightklick-menu for regions that allows 
them to be played looped. LADSPA-Modules can be applied in real time and 
their parameters can be automated in Snd, if this works in any recent 
distribution without any hassle -- great!

So simply put: If Snd could handle everything it has to offer in any 
distribution, that would be great and a vast improvement.

Some 2 or so small wishes also:

1.) It would be nice, to have a play-cursor as known from most 
Wave-Editors like Mhwaveedit or Ardour.

2.) It would help to have a little switch, that allows to treat all 
channels in a multi-channel-file as one, so one can work more easily 
with stereofiles.

3.) to have a rightklick-menu entry that allows to save a region or a 
marked section to a new file with the opportunity to render effects etc 
to that file...



>  My main interest is in the sound
> processing, not the user interface (which I guess is painfully obvious),
> and I use Snd mainly to work on synthesis.

I use it for manipulation of sounds. Especially the granular-synthesis 
is priceless :-)
And I store my results by recording Snds output with qarecord via jack 
and edit the recorded material with Mhwaveedit...


>  I almost never
> try to, for example, edit a recording.  Right now, the gtk version
> is in transition from gdk to cairo and gtk2 to gtk3, so it's a worse
> mess than usual.  But, it's a good time to make major changes!


best regards and thanks again for Snd -- the program that made me stay 
with Linux 10 years ago, since it showed me, that really interesting 
things *can* be done with Audio under Linux ;-)

HZN/Berlin

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