Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@y..., "Charlie Malone" <charlie.malone@a...> 
wrote:
> How about a way to trigger the Sidstation from the GUI. Like a mini 
> onscreen keyboard or simple sequencer. Or better yet, the ablilty 
to 
> use the mouse like a theremin on an X Y axsis!


Yeah, I plan on putting a "virtual keyboard" as part of the GUI.  The 
Theremin idea is neat.  We'll see how much time I have.  I'd rather 
include that in a later version and get a working "Bare-bones" editor 
out to people first though.

Other notes: Yes it will be Open Source, although because it's going 
to be a Win32 app, it will use the winmm MIDI functions and MFC, so 
whoever ports it will have to redo the interface and MIDI 
functionality.  There will be knobs for parameters we'd all like to 
tweak, like resonance.  I'd like to shove as many knobs as possible 
on screen, actually.  I plan on having the actual values of the knobs 
display in the window toolbar, as well as having an optional 
onmouseover info popup.  I probably will not do any digitization or 
speech synthesis attempts or even research in the near future.  I'll 
have to look at the ASID interface, as that may be a better way of 
directly controlling the chip for speech stuff, but that's a ways off.

With luck, I'll have the raw MIDI interface stuff done by next week, 
and the GUI should be the next hardest part.  Everything else is just 
going to be data pushing and debugging.  :)

Thanks for the feedback and interest.

-pjf