@Julien: yep, now we're talking. :) :) Command-line control, Hotkey control. Would be killer! 'Nuff said. Joy 2013/7/20, Julien Claassen <julien@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi Joy! > How about this: you have the good old mode with all its commands. Then in > > any mode you can switch from command to hotkey. In hotkey mode you can: > change tracks, easily adjust vol/pan, switch between other effects, adjust > effect parameters. > For examples sake: > livemix > shift+up-arrow: track up (tracks are listed by numbers) > shift+dwn: one track down > shift+right: next effect on current track > shift+left: previous effect on current track > right: next parameter > left: previous parameter > up: increase parameter value fine > down: decrease fine > pageup: increase coarse > ... > s: decrease volume fine > d: increase volume fine > a/f: de/increase volume coarse > m: mute > shift+m: unmute > x: solo > X: unsolo > Something like that. Whynot the different modes? They could be a little > confusing and I'm not sure, how well you could maintain more than one hotkey > > mode. > Besides: this is not a mode in terms of processing as in doodle, preview, > > arm, mixdown. Even the midish_mode is a little different. > The disadvantage of my idea: you'd have more hotkeys and you'd have to > really think the keys through to make them easy to remember and the whole > thing really intuitive and fast. > The plus: you could have "fast realtime" acess inany of Nama's modes. You > > could even carry through SPACE for start and stop and think about moving > other > features into this mode, as we go down the road. It won't be able to handle > > everything, as I have pinted out, adding effects and everything, that > requires > names, labels and paths, but all your typical live adjustment could in > theory > be put into such a mode. > Sorry Joel, if I seem to go very fast here, but it's only for argument's > > sake right now. and once a hotkey mode is in place, a lot of things could be > > carried through. In my opinion it wouldn't even be too hard, since you could > > reuse a lot of functions, that already are present in the code. > Warmly yours > Julien > > ---------------------------------------- > http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html > -- Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?