On Tue December 20 2005 20:22, Emiliano Grilli wrote: > IMHO there are tasks that are best expressed by "gestures" > (mouse clicks and acting with icons), and other that are best > expressed by "words" (command line interface, scripting), and > I think both approaches are valuable. Having both well > cooperating is a good thing for me. I don't understand why > denigrate one over another. Actually, I *am* a programmer (just one who's not especially good at writing stable C++ code), and I wish I could "program" songs in a way that made sense to me both as a programmer and as a composer. Something higher level than csound and less Lisp-like than nyquist, for example, but which could still talk to all the nifty audio stuff like Jack and ALSA synthesizers and MIDI and LADSPA filters. "emacs mysong" (or "kwrite mysong") is always gonna be more comfortable to me than a mouse-driven sequencer interface, because I live most of my life in it. I'd like to be able to play my song back whenever I want to, or type "make all" and get nice big honkin' wav, ogg and mp3 files of it. However, I recognize that I am not like most musicians. Since no one else here is either, I felt someone needed to stick up for them. So many people seem to wonder why more musicians aren't using Linux.... the "use the command line, it's better" mentality is one of them. Most musicians and many recording engineers are going to think something's gone horribly wrong if they see a command line. Rob
