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From: robinson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SONIX (was Re: Amiga drive noise)
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Date: Wed, 6-May-87 03:17:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  6 03:17:06 1987
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In article <755@puff.WISC.EDU> chin-lon@puff.WISC.EDU (Chin-long Cheng) writes:
>Would someone like to elaborate on what a good musical interface
>is in a mouse oriented system? I am very interested.

Just for starters, it has to allow the user to input the score using the 
keyboard.  NO ONE would tolerate a word processor that required the user to
pull each individual character out of a menu and then place it in the text
using the mouse pointer.  So why do the people who write music programs 
design the interface in exactly that manner?  I guess because they don't 
have to use them themselves.  The mouse should be used for things mice are
good at, like selecting and moving blocks of information (text, score, 
whatever).  Editing a score should not be several times more slow and
difficult than editing text.


># UUCP: ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,seismo,topaz,etc.}!uwvax!puff!chin-lon


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