On Thursday 29 July 2004 11:29 pm, Rob wrote: > On Thursday 29 July 2004 18:26, Dave Robillard wrote: > > So, what features are important to you in a synth? What > > annoys you about the current crop of linux synths? > > I would really like an *easy* and *intuitive* way to map > arbitrary MIDI controllers to various functions, filters, > whatever... I have this PCR-30 with 8 knobs, 8 sliders and a > joystick and would really like to be able to do something with > all that twiddly goodness that i can tweak while actually > playing rather than stopping, editing a config file or whatever. > > Something like a "Map a controller..." menu option that then > listens for a MIDI controller producing a lot of data and then > asks you to click on the filter or whatever that you want to map > it to, that'd be nice. Maybe that's out there in some linux > sound app I haven't tried yet, but I haven't yet gotten to the > point where I can play a jackified synth from my keyboard for > any length of time without the whole thing crashing, so I guess > "not throwing a segv every 5 minutes" would be a nice feature to > have too ;) > > Rob What he said
