Hi Yoshimi users and devs!
First- fantastic project you have here serving a very good cause you
are serving in continuing the development of everyones fave free
softsynth! Secondly, I'll apologise in advance if my suggestions have
already been discussed as I haven't read the archives of this list but
I must confess I'm extremely excited of the possibilties of using
yoshimi with the soon-to-arrive Ardour 3, especially if these
suggested tweaks take shape.
The real, painful shortcoming of zyn for me was its inability for you
to be able to right-click on any dial or slider and then enter a
controller value or click a 'MIDI learn/ detect' button. If this one
feature alone could be implemented, yoshimi would instantly become
massively more powerful and useful.
The second problem that should be easy to implement/fix is was zyns
lack of a way of precisely adjusting dials/sliders without the use of
a mouse. What you should be able to do is mouse-over the dial/slider
you wish to adjust and then be able to use the arrow keys to precisely
fine tune that value or type a new one.
Third and final is the GUI. The current one could do with a facelift.
I like fltk and it would be nice if fltk was used again but the GUI
should ideally be usable on an average netbook (1024x600ish) display
and also have a mode for hi-res, large desktop studio displays. QT4
would be the obvious other choice of toolkit for a new GUI and then we
might see yoshimi (and qtractor) for Haiku too!