Am 10.02.2011 21:00, schrieb Bill Schottstaedt: Thanks to you for asking us so kindly for wishes regarding Snd! I do not think, that Snd is too hard to use. Given its plethora of capabilities it cannot and should not be made much more simple without sacrifying flexibility I guess. BUT It is indeed hard to configure. Too hard for even an advanced beginner. So if this could be possible without too much effort I would be very very happy about a distribution of Snd, that allows to switch all menues and modules that Snd can actually handle on in a simple pereferences-dialogue. And that these menues actually pop up and work as expected. Examples: I´d like to have that rightklick-menu for regions that allows them to be played looped. LADSPA-Modules can be applied in real time and their parameters can be automated in Snd, if this works in any recent distribution without any hassle -- great! So simply put: If Snd could handle everything it has to offer in any distribution, that would be great and a vast improvement. Some 2 or so small wishes also: 1.) It would be nice, to have a play-cursor as known from most Wave-Editors like Mhwaveedit or Ardour. 2.) It would help to have a little switch, that allows to treat all channels in a multi-channel-file as one, so one can work more easily with stereofiles. 3.) to have a rightklick-menu entry that allows to save a region or a marked section to a new file with the opportunity to render effects etc to that file... I use it for manipulation of sounds. Especially the granular-synthesis is priceless :-) And I store my results by recording Snds output with qarecord via jack and edit the recorded material with Mhwaveedit... best regards and thanks again for Snd -- the program that made me stay with Linux 10 years ago, since it showed me, that really interesting things *can* be done with Audio under Linux ;-) HZN/Berlin

Excerpts from Bill Schottstaedt's message of 2011-02-10 21:00:31 +0100: Hi Bill, I tried SND-GTK and here are some things that could be improved. 1) playback. It's very strange that you need to tick a box to start/stop playback instead of hitting the space bar. 2) general lack of keybindings 3) In the preferences for example the menu section labels look like buttons, which is confusing. 4) An error I just got when clicking somewhere in the preference menu: snd: cairo-surface.c:385: _cairo_surface_begin_modification: Assertion `! surface->finished' failed. 5) sometimes the meaning of checkboxes is less than obvious (sync, unite) 6) Dragging scrollbars during playback makes playback very choppy or stops it altogether, most likely some more general graphics issue, it's just most obvious with those scrollbars 7) information/option overload. It's nice to have options, but seeing all those rather cryptic options in a new file dialog is intimidating. I dabble with audio since years, yet all those mus-* tell me nothing. Imagine a musician sitting in front of that dialog. A sane default is crucial and it's probably also a good idea to hide intimidating options like those or make them less intimidating. What I love: 1) The "Go Away" label 2) The colorful sliders in the preference menu (nice red/green/blue here) I know that I've only scratched the surface of SND, and maybe it's intended to be programmed rather than simply used, I don't know. However, from my perspective simply using it is a rather difficult task. I hope this helps a bit. Best regards, Philipp perspective simply using it