Re: [Basie-devs] UI Concepts

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It looks functional to me, very clean. Something that could be grasped 
in 5 minutes of toying with it. IMO, This would be good for the first 
3-4 roadmarks until we have time to spend on jazzing it up. I agree the 
Reason interface would be too complex.

Where'd the sound effects go, though?

allegroconmolto wrote:

> Here's the previously-promised prototyping email :)
>
> In the past, we've talked about UI paradigms to imitate. Applications 
> like Reason provide a toolbox of devices to play with and virtual 
> "cables" to connect them together, and I initially thought that we 
> would be wise to imitate that idiom. I still think it's a good idea. I 
> also think it's too complex for our userbase and would be too complex 
> to imitate. So, I've decided that for now, we're going to focus on 
> getting something out the door - something that provides a free, open 
> source, and functional alternative to some of the spendy-yet-crappy 
> stuff in this area. After spending some time and playing with both SAM 
> Broadcaster and Traktor Studio, I've come up with a sample UI that I 
> think will be fairly easy to both implement and use. Eventually I want 
> to make it as pretty as Native Instruments or Propellerheads software 
> - but for now, I really want something that works! :)
>
> Attached is a mockup using Visio's Windows-components stencils of what 
> I think we should do. It's multiple movable windows, each of which can 
> be resized/moved around/whatever - which allows us to add new features 
> (windows) pretty easily. This file is also in the svn repository.
>
> I'd be curious to know what you guys think. Many eventual features are 
> missing from this mockup - things like sound effects panels and so on 
> are definitely still planned, but this is more oriented to getting us 
> to a bare-bones-functionality alpha demo.
>
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