Hi all, I have been mostly lurking so far but I thought I might send out two ideas for killer apps I had. 1. Basically a front end to lilypond which will work more like a audio program. In many audio editors you can see the wav or a square block on a track. I had this idea of a notation editor that has tracks you can create your form ABA, lets say, and add markers for them. Then create motives which via midi or notation will become lilypond notation in the end. This chunk can then be put on a track. lilypond, or just a blank track. In the same way a daw may display a chunk of audio a a rectangle or a wave. These Chunk can be copied, pasted transposed retrograded etc, new chunks could be added and manipulated. My reasoning is as follows, when will Linux shine? when it does something unique not done by others. Thats what makes jack/ardour etc so appealing. Fo notation midi input exists with rumor or a number or existing libs, creating an on the fly lilypond file is very possible, infact if the graphic (staff) representation was left off all the parts already exist. 2. This I call V.A.W it has a drawback in that the base technology is currently closed source, but this might be subject to change.. here goes a inventer I know wanted to see if it was possible to recreate what it says in the Hebrew Torah (Bible) the the Jews on Mount Sinai Roim et Ha Kolot. (they say the sounds) He created a way to translate sound waves into light waves and display them. He found some very interesting things. (Hebrew letters spoken display as the shape of the letter). I sang into his device and saw Bach and other music display via his device. All overtones are displayed and visible as different colors. The sound of a audio mix is visually open for all to see. This is very hard to grasp without seeing..... My idea is to take his algorism/app and reverse the process and have the ability to take the visual and turn it back to audio. This would be like view on midi editors with the squares you can change to effect the sound, only not midi but audio! I wrote out very detailed plans for this app, again this is something that just doesn't exist, image not having to rely soley on your ears when adding effects to a mix but being able to see how the changes you make actually effect the way it looks/sounds and I mean in detail. There are so many possibilities for this. In a regular daw your see I think only amplitude and something else (the wav display) If this one isn't clearly described I will try again. Aaron