On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 19:33, Rick Taylor wrote:
> I have a huge {read huge} number of samples... mostly noise, mostly
> generated in graphic synthesizers like coagula and svelte or those
> bizarre little synths that you find in the back rooms of the most
> obscure web pages that I've taken and either beaten into submission or
> inflamed with passion or lust or anger or something.
>
> I'm thinking a lot of folk in here probably do.
>
> My problem with these is that seeing as I'm a computer junkie and am
> constantly riding the edge of that "too much information" brain fry...
> I, basically... have no memory {short term}
>
> What I'm thinking might fix this is to literally turn ones file system
> into a sampler. {I'd do it myself but, seeing as I'm really slow at
> coding stuff and someone else might like the idea and be able to do it
> faster and better and I'd much rather use it than build it...}
>
> What if you were to take something like Nautilus with its adjustable
> display parameters, notes, etc, etc... and set up an interface to a
> sequencing engine? This way folk could open their loops folder,
> highlight specific samples and have them play according to a specific
> system tempo. You could do the same with the drum samples folder so as
> to build drum loops and maybe even get a couple of folders all going at
> the same time so as to build entire songs. You could add the ability to
> dump stuff to higher level folders, run synths... quite literally turn
> ones computer into a musical system... Maybe you could even toss in
> little flashing soft-leds that might work similarly to the emblems
> already existant in nautilus so that you could actually see what's
> playing at any given time. Some sort of quickie preview system would be
> nice... plugin folders, display folders, etc... What if you were to
> interface a scripting language with this, add the ability to perform
> system functions like run specific programs at specific points in ones
> sequence, save patterns, etc, yadda...
>
> The entire linux community could participate by just adding seqence
> scripts to the community sequence script pile...
>
> Just a thought... It might go a ways towards producing that killer
> linux app. {and get me halfway organized in the process...}
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Rick Taylor <ricktaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The Dispossessed
