2 Jun
2009
2 Jun
'09
8:40 a.m.
Simon, a good friend of mine uses Blender professionally, and he's
lauded the virtues of the clever Blender workflow more than once.
I'd also add that quite a few of my fellow orchestral colleagues use a
second midi keyboard, as do i, as a control/keystroke device. Having
the ability to assign CC midi as keystroke action is a real added
bonus. I've only seen this once in a Linux Audio related app, and that
was Livemix. (Please correct me if there are others, that i haven't
encountered, or been unaware of this capability within existing apps)
Alex.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Simon Wise <simonzwise(a)gmail.com> wrote:
alex stone wrote:
--
www.openoctave.org
power user who uses linux audio and midi apps are
part of a fulltime
working environment, i share this view in the hope that you'll
consider the efficiency of using keystroke maps as an added asset, and
code accordingly. Using a mouse for so many tracks, items, and
actions, is counterproductive, and introduces an element of building
frustration that works against creative workflow. Gaining momentum and
keeping it is essential, imho.
some of the graphics apps - gimp and blender come to mind - have addressed
this very well, in their own ways. In the commercial world CAD programs and
Final Cut Pro, with big development teams and huge budgets, have done this
in their fields - for a price.
Using an app for graphics almost always involves mouse/pen, keyboard, screen
very closely. With audio one can completely leave this interface behind, or
work text-only, in some workflows. Think the braille/CL interfaces that some
on this list use, or the various midi or tactile/hardware interfaces to
boxes with little or no gui that some people use. Here the modularity and
flexibility of linux really stands out.
Simon