Graphical display of CM note params?

[Larry Troxler]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has done anything to be able to
graphically display event parameters in Common Music threads.

I have in mind something like a crude piano roll notation, or possibly a
better system  where a number of variables can be displayed at once,
coded into various graphic attributes. Yes, a more elaborate system that
allows editing would be nice, but failing that, just a simple crude
graph might be useful. I was thinking of using something like gnuplot,
and writing a lisp function to dump a thread in a suitable format and
run gnuplot on it. But I think that this type of plot is probably not
easily done with gnuplot. For example, it would be nice to be able to
show different parameters by using stems of various lengths and colors
and angles. So I think that a statistics visualisation package would be
better.

The other alternative that I would consider, would be to load lisp2wish,
and  use the tk approach. 

Actually, I realize that my request is really independent of Common
Music; since a general approach would be load ascii data,  which could
just have easily been generated from MIDI files, or Keykit, or whatever.

So, is there anything ready to use in this area? 

LArry -  lt@westnet.com  --  Patterson, NY USA  --