Re: FTS Oscillosope

Hi there,

I've edited the help on the fts beta download page about FTS and SCALA
to be a bit clearer.

It requires far too many clicks to do it - at least three, plus some more
clicks on Yes, or Ok, plus it isn't at all clear when one first sees
the dialog what one needs to do.

Should be a one click thing, plus one needs to browse to find the
Scala and Scala scales archive folders. That should be all that
one needs to do.

I'll think over best way to do it.

Making a single archive does seem an interesting idea, for those
who want to use both programs, depending on the practicalities.

If one were to try to keep it up to date all the time,
I'm not sure how well it could actually work with number of
uploads of FTS beta, SCALA, and the SCALA scales and modes archives.

Here is one idea though - on next release of FTS (prob. next year the way it is
going...), could do an extra edition of the installer with SCALA in it as
well if that were thought a good idea (JM too if there were a version of
it ready for release by then). Both would almost instantly
become out of date I expect, but would help those coming new to microtonal
music, who could then download the later versions later once they've
tried it out for a while and "got their feet wet" as it were.
In terms of size, the whole bundle wouldn't be that large for those
with fast connections.

Practicalities again intervene here - as with Manuel, I don't think I have anything
like enough space for this either, at least not in my ntlworld site
that I plan to use for programs downloads presently. Maybe another tripod site,
one can have as many of those as one likes, but some people have trouble downloading
files from tripod. Could investigate other possibilities, maybe try some of
the program download sites that keep their own copies of a program, and
if that were suitable, do a link to it from the download pages of FTS
and SCALA. Ones I know of are simtel - they only do zips, not installers,
and Shareware Music Machine, which likes to have an installer.
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/FractalTuneSmithy/

If it was an installer, one could get it to do the SCALA desktop shortcut
as well - that many people end up making themselves, and dragging SCALA itself onto the
desktop instead of makaing a shortcut there. (Easy to do - on checking it
once I found a number of programs on the desktop that I'd thought were
shortcuts :-))

Would have to list the combined installer as shareware in the
description - that may be a problem as SCALA is free - could say
something about that though in the description next to it.

Robert