Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] a sense of disappointment

[denis q. <dqu...@fr...>]

I agree with dom, that's why I've started my own editors on Mac OS X with Cocoa.

I was so disappointed by the slow GUI with Java (eMac 800) that I can't use it 
when working on a music, too slow to start, too slow to switch between panels etc.

I've made two editors with Cocoa, one for the Matrix 1000 (quite older than the 
one on Apple site...) and a Micro Q one. I've started a FS1R (again !).

A simple thing that I have made is to save a patch as a file, not in a bank so I 
can make my own sort with simple folders.

To compare Cocoa (ObjC) with Java I have found an editor for the micro Q in 
Java, well, it is VERY slow to start and VERY slow to tweek, so I've started my own.

-- 
Denis

> hi all
> 
> you guys are all working so hard on this, but as a user i have to say  
> that synthlib has so far been hard to use and understand.  maybe mac  os 
> x java support is still pretty poor, but the whole thing is  sluggish 
> and uncooperative.  however, i use a line 6 variax guitar  and i'm 
> pretty sure the 'workbench' software is java, and that works  very well.
> 
> if you check out apple.com > mac os x > downloads > audio, you'll see  a 
> new matrix 1000 editor.  it's max/msp; it looks good, launches  quickly 
> and is easy to use.  in fact i bought a second hand matrix  1000 by 
> coincidence almost the same day.  if jsynthlib were as user- friendly as 
> that, i'd continue to follow its development.
> 
> i have never before been offered the chance to try motu software on a  
> 30 day basis, but the UK distributor is sending me a copy of unisyn.   
> it seems to do what synthlib promised.  for 200 GBP [around 300USD].
> 
> only once did i ever sit down and make a new patch for a synth with  
> synthlib, for my tx81z.  it's still on the synth [appropriately  titled 
> 'moody f**k'], but that's my only success.
> 
> i don't like to sound negative, but synthlib looks as if it will only  
> ever be useful to synthists who are also pretty competent  programmers.  
> take it from someone who looks from the musician's  viewpoint [i'm 
> avoiding calling myself a musician, that would be  grandiose];
> 
> synthlib is just too unfriendly.
> 
> if you want to make it a popular, open source, easy to use editor,  you 
> need to radically rewrite it.  i'm afraid my only contributions  to this 
> project have been criticism, from the muso's viewpoint, but  surely 
> that's the target 'market'?
> 
> i'll keep checking it out from time to time, but for the time being,  i 
> give up.
> 
> sorry
> 
> dom
> 
> 
> 
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