Re: big picture stuff (was re: widget)

[Knos]

[Fredrik Roos <address@hidden>]
| > 
| > Oh. This was only for the GUI control boxes, not for the pattern
| editor.
| > Yeah, having widgets in the pattern editor would kind of suck :-)
| 
| That's not what i meant. You are right about control boxes not being a
| problem if you arrange the widgets in a good way. The problem is in the
| pattern editor. Let's assume we have a 3 OSC synth with 2 filters and a
| couple of modulation options. That would mean you could only have one
| track visible in the pattern editor at a time, even if you're only
| interested in 2-3 of the parameters.  
| My idea was that you should be able to hide the parameter columns you
| aren't interested in. It would allow you to get a better overview and
| still offer full control over each channel in the pattern. The other 
| solution is to make every parameter global (some buzz machines do this)
| but
| i think this approach is better.

I don't think this is needed. 
For a machine developer, it will be always easier to 
develop the machine with global parameters. So there is a natural tendancy
to have global parameters. 
Second reason is that, in practice this is not needed a lot, (at least in
my experience)
in buzz I always try to avoid having many channels per machines...

-n