On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 02:12:15AM +0100, Giovanni Mugnai wrote: > 2013/1/23 Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Giovanni, have you looked at Csound? It's running like a charm in > > Haiku now, even if it is command-line-only for now. I'm intending to > > work on some sort of front end for it, but of course it is at base a > > language, so there's only so much that can be done in that direction. > > Unfortunately i am from the GUI generation, at least for audio > software. I know that Csound is great tool and is here on Haiku.. A > frontend would be very nice and useful! > Well, that might be a pity... (:-)) I'm not anti-GUI -- heck, I wrote the MusicWeaver! -- but there are times when a textual language is so much more capable. And I don't think a GUI is always simpler, either. I took a look at SyncModular's "Drawbar Organ", and gave up trying to follow the spaghetti connections. [It doesn't compare to my Csound Hammond anyway... (:-)] BTW, in a sense, Csound already has a "front end" in the MusicWeaver. I always use that when I'm playing a Csound orchestra live, so that I can control parameters with MIDI sliders. Works pretty well, though I can't create a unified control panel like SyncModular (or Csound with FLTk in Linux). That has advantages, too, though, as I can keep just the controls I want to access in front and push the others out of the way. -- Pete --