Does Auricle produce streamers, punches & flutters on the computers display?
No. In music computer software, click and MIDI clock timing, handling and production must always take priority over visual display procedures if timing accuracy and tempo stability is to be maintained. Thus, computer display visuals always lag the ‘real time’ events behind the scenes (you can witness this for yourself just in the frequently sluggish or jerky bar/beat counters seen even in the best GUI sequencer programs, for example). Streamer graphics in this environment can thus almost always and mostly do look amateurish (we’ve seen some systems that have tried!). So we opted to forget it as nothing more than computer confectionism. Besides, there seems to be a pointlessness in doing so when the whole idea of a streamer is, and has been since the Forties, to provide a visual conductor’s cue ‘over’ the actual picture (which Auricle does quite professionally in conjunction with the Cueline streamer generator ).
