OPENSEBJ: 110.000+ DOWNLOADS

that is the compressed piano samples - uncompressed after the install it's closer to a Gigabyte. I'm working on incorporating many more instruments for the next releases but will need to make it a little more selective for the bandwidth friendlier requirements. Hopefully I can incorporate the functionality of vScaleNotes in to a more mature product in the future - increase the visual aspects and effects available and continue to hear and see what peoples imagines can come up with as a result."

How about hosting capability for VST(i)s in OpenSebJ?
"I've only had a request once for VST support and I've never thought to hard about it. So it's not a no just not a yes. If I get a few hundred people requesting it, I'll look in to it some more."

What are your future plans for OpenSebJ?
"The most important thing for me is to get some feedback - my development has become a bit stagnant because I have delivered all the major pieces of functionality I was originally looking for; so some renewed interest and hopefully comments would be greatly appreciated. My real hope is that OpenSebJ just becomes another tool and is easy to use that it's the default defacto free open source option and as such I'm hoping to see tracks on sites such as CCMixter.org - the funny thing is I started OpenSebJ for the purpose of composing and producing audio but I've never got around to it in the last 2 years."

Well, if we laptoprockers had to give it a shot we'd definitely go for smoother looks.
"The UI is a fluctuating thing for me. I started out with the concept of the Ghetto edition, everything was black with graphics on every button and all the feedback I received said it was too dark, then I moved it back to the normal window control colours. Looking at the other audio products on the market I can appreciate the sentiment about the UI, they all seem to have this passion for creating an interface that looks like its meant to be manually controlled (knobs, patch leads etc.) rather than a piece of software on a computer (sliders, buttons, menus, etc.). This concept has never made sense to me, I think it adds an additional barrier to entry (for people who are familiar with computers at least) rather than assisting people to use the software. Maybe this desire was for musicians migrating from hardware to software to help them ease in to it but I guess thats not where I've come from, so I always found it disjointed and difficult to use. I sight examples such as Audacity which have garnered huge popularity and I put a lot of that down to the low barrier to entry, which is what I'm trying to achieve. Don't know if I have seceded but theres a plan any way.

"The other reality is that I just don't know how to "improve it" by myself, while still having a familiar set of controls for people to use. So if you know any graphic designers who would like to contribute to OpenSebJ and would like a challenge, by all means, send them my way."

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