20 Apr
2011
20 Apr
'11
3:01 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 08:24:55PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:37 PM, S. Massy
<lists(a)wolfdream.ca> wrote:
I remember, I
tested it briefly, but it must have been at its inception
or soon after, because it was too unstable to really do anything with,
so I stuck with ecasound.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:34:24AM +0200, Julien
Claassen wrote:
i tackled a version of this problem nearly 10 years ago when i did the
KSI (key stroke interface) front end for ardour, which used a purely
text-based interface to control an early version of ardour (including
plugins). at the prompting of frank carmickle, who was paying for the Hello!
OK, then I think I'd prefer it the Bristol way. Basically that
kind of Vi-interface and an optional commandline. I suppose this
kind of interface is so handy, one should endevour to write a small
library for it. Something C++ based perhaps, that can easily be
Yes, we've
agreed on this point before: it's a wonderfully flexible
compromise, allowing what needs to be commands to be so, and what needs
to be key-stroke controled to be so as well with minimal waste of time. work, we adopted a heirarchical structure that also
involved
scrolling, with 10 items per page at any time. so for example to get
to the 21st parameter of a given plugin, you'd navigate *down* a tree
(from the mixer to the Nth track to its plugins to the Nth plugins and
then scroll twice, and then use the control for the 1st item on that
"page". it worked extremely well, and i regret that we never adopted
the model for the GUI version of ardour in some deeper way.
Yes, tree structures,
especially with coherent numbers can be very
efficient. By the way, I believe this kind of interface design is not
just useful for blind people, I'm sure a lot of users need to manipulate
data as quickly as possible and don't necessarily want to muck about
with the mouse.
I just had this wonderful idea: what if parameters were searchable? For
example, suppose one wants to change the envelope release time, one
could hit "/" to bring up a search prompt and type "envel release"
and
hit enter, then the cursor would already be on the first matching
parameter, if there were several matches, one could hit "n", just like
in vi to go to the next match. This could significantly speed up the
editing process.
Cheers,
S.M.
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