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Jarkko Sakkinen

This my main UI reference or something I will taken now a lot of inspiration from at least because Octamed is superb and nice to use. And stands time just like Vim :-)

1. Octamed was made by a Finn Teijo Kinnunen.
2. Had major share on invention of such electronic music genres at their epoch such as breakbeat, jungle and drum'n'bass.
3. Still widely used as it does the job and has predictability unreachable on a signal chain with adaptive latency prevention algorithms, and especially with hardware samplers and such this makes ones life better.
4. I like it too a lot, it's great for what it does :-)

That is next 6 months at least because I want my tracker to level that I can do a full track with no other tools, and it is surprising how bottomless pit different usage patterns are (and not necessarily bugs, something just works or doesn't). And now that I actually have really good design and implementation for the engine it makes me less eager to less, it's fun to try things out :---)

#octamed #amiga
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In 2024, Octamed 8 was released after 25 year break. It's pretty amazing, at least to me, that there can be 25 year gap, and still have a vibrant and loyal following and committed user base.
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@jarkko brother but sibelius, widely regarded as the shittiest ux in existence, was also written by -- not one -- but two finns! like dudes literally named finn. plus sibelius himself was a finn.

don't tell me there's no finnish conspiracy

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@jarkko @jarkko I love to see, there can be in this decade SW not spoiled with material design and use “old school” working widgets.

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@lkundrak lol, in that case it is no wonder that Sibelius is part of Avid/ProTools mob, which is a business based on delivering bad user experiences to highest paying customers in the music and movie industry :-)
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@janantos Need to try that some day on my DE-10 Nano FPGA MiSTeR setup :-)
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