On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Callum Lerwick wrote: > Snd is quite nifty. Haven't played with it a whole lot, its UI is a bit > different, its much better than the usual. Careful! You'll give DD-B ammo in his Holier Than GNU Emacs Jihad<tm> :P Snd is heavily emacs oriented. Historically, it tries to replicate functionality of an old program called dpy (I think) that ran on DECsystem 10's. I only ever messed with that once, had no sound hardware, so have no idea if it was a good or bad model. Interestingly (or maybe not) Andy Moorer, was at CCRMA and there's an awful lot of snd present in the interface for Sonic Solutions. Sonic is a lesson in productive UI's (not without learning curve, though). > The zoom sliders are such an > intelligent way to handle zoom, plus it does zoom in the amplitude > domain, not just time... Actually, they are a lot more intelligent on time *than* amplitude. If you had serious editing -- like a classical piece with a couple of hundred edits -- it would be kind of doggy. But since it has both lisp-y macros and you have the source code to boot, you could probably make it slicker if you really wanted to. > Last I checked it was the only WAV editor for X that was even remotely > usable for editing CD tracks. Namely, having at least minimal > functionality and doesn't try to load an entire 600mb wav into RAM... If you could make it run a dedicated DSP, say a Motorola 56001, you'd have something. Oh, wait -- I'm awfully close to a product description for Sonic! > And I can't get to that site. Bah. That one, or the snd site? Just search for snd or CCRMA -- I think it's at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/ but Google will know. -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous