[LAD] Tux Paint for music?

(Also posted over at the SDL mailing list; <sdl(a)libsdl.org>rg>.) Hi! My son is playing around with my little SDL based drum machine, DT-42 again. He seems to be having fun, but I suppose he'd be better off with something more straight-forward (DT-42 is more like a MOD tracker than a conventional drum machine), and something with more obvious ways of creating melodies... At least, that's what I'd like! :-D This brings up some thoughts I've been having for years now: A really simple, yet somewhat useful and educational music toy. An integrated synth/sampler/sequencer, possibly with audio recording facilities down the road... Sort of like a tracker (Amiga MOD style), but with a more visual GUI. Probably some sort of piano roll. A bunch of nice sounds (I'm thinking IFFT synthesis) with some pre-wired intuitive timre controls. Maybe a library of drum patterns... Preferably SDL based and portable to all sorts of computers and devices. In short: Tux Paint for music! :-) Is there something like this already out there? Any interest in this sort of stuff? Ideas? I'll probably use EEL for all high level code, over a C engine. EEL is probably not the most sensible choice for a Free/Open Source project, but I'm using EEL for various stuff myself (mostly work related), and it could use some more pilot projects to guide future development. URLs: Tux Paint: http://www.tuxpaint.org/ DT-42: http://olofson.net/mixed.html EEL: http://eel.olofson.net/ -- //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .------- http://olofson.net - Games, SDL examples -------. | http://zeespace.net - 2.5D rendering engine | | http://audiality.org - Music/audio engine | | http://eel.olofson.net - Real time scripting | '-- http://www.reologica.se - Rheology instrumentation --'