Simon, a good friend of mine uses Blender professionally, and he's lauded the virtues of the clever Blender workflow more than once. I'd also add that quite a few of my fellow orchestral colleagues use a second midi keyboard, as do i, as a control/keystroke device. Having the ability to assign CC midi as keystroke action is a real added bonus. I've only seen this once in a Linux Audio related app, and that was Livemix. (Please correct me if there are others, that i haven't encountered, or been unaware of this capability within existing apps) Alex. On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Simon Wise <simonzwise@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > alex stone wrote: > >> power user who uses linux audio and midi apps are part of a fulltime >> working environment, i share this view in the hope that you'll >> consider the efficiency of using keystroke maps as an added asset, and >> code accordingly. Using a mouse for so many tracks, items, and >> actions, is counterproductive, and introduces an element of building >> frustration that works against creative workflow. Gaining momentum and >> keeping it is essential, imho. >> > > some of the graphics apps - gimp and blender come to mind - have addressed > this very well, in their own ways. In the commercial world CAD programs and > Final Cut Pro, with big development teams and huge budgets, have done this > in their fields - for a price. > > Using an app for graphics almost always involves mouse/pen, keyboard, screen > very closely. With audio one can completely leave this interface behind, or > work text-only, in some workflows. Think the braille/CL interfaces that some > on this list use, or the various midi or tactile/hardware interfaces to > boxes with little or no gui that some people use. Here the modularity and > flexibility of linux really stands out. > > Simon > -- www.openoctave.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
