[linux-audio-user] audiogui

Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org
Tue Feb 27 02:55:25 EST 2007


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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 01:41:08PM +0100, Leonard Ritter wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 06:42 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> > I can say that the QT package is much easier to use and has
> > better documentation and support.  Not that GTK is terrible, it's just
> > not as polished or professional.
> 
> the enemy of the good is the better.
> 
> i, for one, used the past 3 days to write a python module named
> "audiogui", which provides widgets to mimick the look and feel of
> traditional audio hardware panels (i dare you to start an audio ui
> design war with me). it will be the base for providing an engine which
> renders panels from stylesheets, to be used with plugins of aldrin - but
> of course that whole thing could be connected to an OSC library and
> control any DSSI host.
> 
> the basic idea was to imitate the design seen from native instruments
> plugins and propellerheads reason. of course i'm damn proud that the
> results look so well ;)
> 
> here is a demo showing the three widgets DecoBox, Knob and LCD, with
> different settings applied.
> 
> http://www.paniq.org/images/audiogui5.png
> 

I personally love the "LMAO" parameter.

I want a real instrument with one of those!

And I can just imagine the complex sounds produced by varying the "WTF" parameter.

Seems to me like a cleaner version one of the Metasonix products, which has knobs labeled "fist", "ream", and "screw".

Anyway, I loved this, it made my night.

Looks pretty too. Nice work. 

Although I'm looking forward to leaving GUI's behind and using ChucK, SuperCollider, and Csound instead, possibly attached to a real control surface with real knobs.

I have to say, though, by far the prettiest and slickest-looking graphics I've ever seen on a Linux softsynth is on Bristol.

- -ken
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