Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Poll about linux music audio app usability
From: Kai Vehmanen (kai.vehmanen_AT_wakkanet.fi)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 22:40:46 EEST
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Billy Biggs wrote:
> The same holds for software as well: interface is almost everything. I
> would much rather have a sequencer with less features and a good UI than a
> fully-featured one that's annoying to use. When composing it's important
> to "forget technology: think music".
I just couldn't agree more!
> This was the thought behind my sequencer: ttrk (http://div8.net/ttrk).
> I did a UI that I'm pretty proud of for the target platform: basically
> it's an Alesis MMT8 meets a tracker in 80x50 textmode on an old PC, low
> enough latency to have really smooth drumrolls even at high bpm, and it
> syncs happily to external MIDI clock (essential for my setup).
[...]
> Of course, since I have a market size of 1 (myself), and pretty much no
> interest from the open-source community, the project hasn't gone
> anywhere else. But I'm quite happy with it. :)
Make that two!! :) ttrk has been one of my favorite audio apps for a while
now. Thanks to the well-defined set of functionality and the way it is
implemented, there just isn't much to complain about. ;)
-- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!
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