This sort of examples is complety useless and easily negated. When you
measure the size of some object, do you start from the 0 or the 1 on your
ruler ?
Nice. Just put that in your manual and see if it makes sense - get your
ruler out and measure the number of channels? You have lost the point here:
how is a user really supposed to know that MIDI channels should be counted
from 1 or from 0? Are you expecting a user to understand that MIDI reserves
4 bits for channel selection therefore to reach 16 they must have been
counted from zero. That is a stupid assumption - if more bits were available
then even as a programmer I could well understand that channel zero be
reserved to indicate 'isolated' and still reach channel 16, which to me
would seem quite reasonable.
The 'connect everything to
everything' trick breaks down once you have more than two things to
connect.
Why is that wrong? That would sound pretty much lilke a MIDI mixer function,
and why should that not be done by default? Why do you think this 'trick'
breaks down (it isn't a trick BTW)? MOTU has made millions selling hardware
to do just this (and admittedly more). In fact MIDI was build this was to
allow for layering between different synths allocated to the same channel -
far from breaking down this actually enriches the capabilities of my
installation. You are well of the mark my friend.
If you have a keyboard and a synth you run a MIDI cable between them. Most
people are smart enough to know this. It also allows you to play your synth
on your keyboard, and not be disturbed when I sit down beside you and
switch
on my keyboard and synth. Just imagine it were different.
Just imagine it were different - you just connect your MIDI master keyboard
to your synth and it works. Amazing. Just imagine that. Rather than having
to check whether the master keyboard and synth are on the same channel and
that the synth and master keyboard have the same concept of channel
numbering. Sorry mate, OMNI was designed to allow products to interoperate
with minimal intervention but more on this below - attach the cable and they
work due to defaulting to OMNI, why is this not done with Unix softsynths?
Dumbing down everything is never a good idea.
Agreed, but this looks again like you have missed the point. What does this
proposal have to do with dumbing down? It has not proposed simplifying
anything, that would have been dumbing down. On the contrary the proposal is
to have a more considerate set of defaults. As stated in my submit, that you
seem to have read rather lightly, this does not affect the complexities
required of a user - in the current situation the default is no connnection
and you have to build the ones you want. In the proposed case you would need
to use the MIDI connection tools to break the default OMIN connection before
building new specific ones that you require. If it makes you feel any more
'highbrow' it actually makes things more difficult for you as a knowledgable
user, which seems to be what you are after. In addition to that it makes
things almost infinately simpler for someone who does not want to read 50
README files for different applications built by pedantic developers.
Regards,
N.
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