On Wednesday 21 December 2005 07:12, Rob wrote: > 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 right. "command line", the way we see it now, is a primitive way to put a computer to work. what we need, though, is much higher level full-featured and specialized languages (music, 3d, graphics), integrated in a friendly visual (gui) environment. not just microsoft/mac-style... "yes/no check-boxes". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
