One thing I think about is a program that I have played with before with great satisfaction, TunaFish (www.brambos.com).
It has a few things that make it quite unique and there are some features that I would like to see in Mulab.
The drum grid:
A simple step sequencer that you can click patterns, or play if you want.
TREMENDOUSLY unique huh?
Well, it gets better ...
Each note you can, with a simple click choose velocity,
if there should be a regular drumhit,
and you can define duration of the drumhit.
AND now the good stuff!:
You can stretch the drumhit to duration of the note.
The stretch is a simple downpitching of the drumsample, not timestretch.
This down or up pitched drum or sampled sound you can cut up with the variationbar.
The variationbar is a quite simple collection of preset gate pattern.
So if, for example, you have a tabla that is 0,5 seconds long drumhit.
Drag the note so that is 10 times longer, and cut it up with the preset gate.
Then you have a dark and airy (?) rythmicly chopped up sound.
This is a fantastic and simple tool for grooves.
Does anyone understand what i am aiming at here?
Has anyone tried Tunafish?
