Hi All,
Having made my co
Hi All,
Having made my complaints about GPO, I ought to say a few things in defense, for as Mark indicated above
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GPO itself offers MIDI controllers as its user interface, and not the actual graphical user interface, which is the job of the notation or MIDI sequencing program. <!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>
(a) Other similiar products to GPO suffer from the same non-musical interface. The idea of using (or abusing) the midi standard makes some sense as a means of communicating between musical instruments (in this case software musical instruments).
(b) Most software system comes in 'layers', with different people or systems being expert at a particular layer. In this current situation, GPO (along with many other packages) provide 'expert' sounds. But it is only one of the layers in the overall system. The layer that is missing (and Mark indicated he is working on) is the 'top' layer - the musicians interface.
(c) My reading of the glossy book that comes with GPO seems to indicate that the interface to GPO from other notation programs is at a very similiar level. Mark, who I am sure knows better than most of us, makes the comment above:
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I have worked for years as a computer systems designer/programmer in a manfacturing environment, and as it was the early days of computing (1970-2000) we were often on the leading edge of technology ('bleeding' edge as it was affectionately called). I think we are at that stage with GPO and similiar products. And we are doing a little 'bleeding' at present, but in a few years time (and with Composer hopefully leading the way) we will wonder what all the fuss was about.
What is exciting about being on the leading edge of technology is that we maybe able to influence the future, and experiment, 'throw in our twopennce worth' and help in the shaping of the musical interface. This forum provides, and Mark encourages our feedback, a way for us to do that in a non-threatening, respectful way, recognising that on occasions we will get it wrong, but hopefully enjoying the adventure together.
Cheers ... Clyde
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