Re: [Denemo-devel] Future Releases

[Richard Shann]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 23:49 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
> Hi devs,
> 
> is there some kind of roadmap in your heads? what can users expect what will 
> be worked on from now on?
> I'm just curious :)
There is a list of things which we want to do (the one you have just
updated), but a roadmap implies an order of doing them. What I do tends
to be triggered any of three or four things

1) If I have a problem using Denemo for my own purposes
2) If someone else reports a problem/wish
3) If I can see an opening that might solve many problems/wishes
4) If it may draw more users/developers in

All of these are heavily modified by "If I can see a way to do it
simply"/"If it makes the code simpler, more hackable..."

> 
> Sidenote: I've talked to a few people (from the LAD irc channel)  about Midi 
> and Audiooptions. They all say that raw ALSA midi is a dying concept. If 
> Denemo wants Midi-routing options it should use JACKmidi and JACKtransport 
> additionally (to sync it with other apps)
> As supposed it is unlikely that anyone will code these things into Denemo if 
> not the originally Denemo-devs, but they all said its not a big problem.
I still haven't needed to get the midi thing working for myself - I
managed to get rid of the hum by using batteries in the electronic
keyboard, and I found a cheap mixer to do the amplification so that my
microphone gives a big enough signal to the mic input to get the tuning
working on Linux again (why it had become less sensitive I don't know).

> Greetings and good work, I really like Denemo more and more!
Thank you. I am very pleased with the possibilities opening up for the
user interface: being able to set things up *very* easily for the task
in hand and being able to remind yourself that, say, start/end cresc. is
a mouse drag with the caps lock on are the sorts of thing that could
make denemo really easy to use even for occasional users.

Richard