[LAD] Tux Paint for music?

(Also posted over at the SDL mailing list; <sdl@email-addr-hidden>.)

Hi!

My son is playing around with my little SDL based drum machine, DT-42
again. He seems to be having fun, but I suppose he'd be better off
with something more straight-forward (DT-42 is more like a MOD
tracker than a conventional drum machine), and something with more
obvious ways of creating melodies... At least, that's what I'd
like! :-D

This brings up some thoughts I've been having for years now: A really
simple, yet somewhat useful and educational music toy. An integrated
synth/sampler/sequencer, possibly with audio recording facilities
down the road... Sort of like a tracker (Amiga MOD style), but with a
more visual GUI. Probably some sort of piano roll. A bunch of nice
sounds (I'm thinking IFFT synthesis) with some pre-wired intuitive
timre controls. Maybe a library of drum patterns... Preferably SDL
based and portable to all sorts of computers and devices.

In short: Tux Paint for music! :-)

Is there something like this already out there?

Any interest in this sort of stuff?

Ideas?

I'll probably use EEL for all high level code, over a C engine. EEL is
probably not the most sensible choice for a Free/Open Source project,
but I'm using EEL for various stuff myself (mostly work related), and
it could use some more pilot projects to guide future development.

URLs:
        Tux Paint: http://www.tuxpaint.org/
        DT-42: http://olofson.net/mixed.html
        EEL: http://eel.olofson.net/

-- 
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
.-------  http://olofson.net - Games, SDL examples  -------.
|        http://zeespace.net - 2.5D rendering engine       |
|       http://audiality.org - Music/audio engine          |
|     http://eel.olofson.net - Real time scripting         |
'--  http://www.reologica.se - Rheology instrumentation  --'
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-dev mailing list
Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev