25 May
2006
25 May
'06
9:26 p.m.
Hi Joel,
Ecmdr looks good, but just doesn't suit my purposes, and I started work
on my frontend quite a while ago. I generally create ecs files by hand,
them run ecasound in interactive mode and use the command line to tweak
parameters while the song is playing. What I wanted was to be able to
see, and tweak in real time, as many params as possible, and still have
access to the command line. I wrote an early version in python/tkinter
that worked okay but I found tk a bit limiting. I recently rewrote it
from scratch in python/qt and it's getting close to what I want.
With regards
to frontends for eca, I am working on one
myself. I hope to
have the first release in a month or so. It will
try to
preserve as much
of ecasound's semantics as possible, and even
give you
interactive mode
access. I'll try and get a screenshot of the
current version up
somewhere for people to look at and make suggestions on.
I'm curious what motivates your design, having spent a
long time writing one of my own using perl and tk.
http://ecmdr.infogami.com
Did you ever have a chance to have a look?? Any feedback??
But then why did I write a front end of my when a rather mature
Tkeca is available??
- I had (and have) a few problems getting it to work.
- By allowing many of the possibilities for Ecasound
there seemed lots of ways to get errors.
Ooooh yep. There certainly are. I'm trusting ecasound to report any
problems. The hardest part is keeping the gui in synch with ecasound,
but I think Ive got that under control.
- Too many windows makes my eyes glaze over, I
find it hard to keep the big picture.
Me too, so I've tried to make as much visible at one time as humanly
possible.
- Ditto, with dialog boxes, for which I
have a special dislike.
They have their uses, but I think that making the user shift their
attention a lot is usually a bad thing.
- I'm not used to reading/hacking tcl
Me neither. Nor am I a regular perl hacker, so modifying ecmdr was not
an option for me.
- I wanted an autoincrement function for
recording several songs with the same
setup.
I basically write songs using muse or rosegarden, then record the live
parts using ecasound. Then I record the midi tracks to audio files and
use ecasound to do the mixing. So I'm trying to make ecasound look like
a mixing desk (sort of) more than a multi-track recorder.
Are people's requirements and expectations really so
different?
Looks that way :)
Cheers,
Stuart