%0 Conference Proceedings %B Proceedings of the USENIX Association Second Computer Graphics Workshop %D 1985 %T MacMix: Mixing Music with a Mouse %A Freed, Adrian %C Monterey, CA, USA %I USENIX Assoc %P 23-37 %S USENIX Association Second Computer Graphics Workshop, Monterey 1985. Proceedings %X MacMix is a user interface running on an Apple Macintosh computer, which communicates to processes on a UNIX machine that do the work of mixing and playing files of sound. In many ways the architecture of MacMix resembles that of airline reservation systems or bank networks, where a local terminal initiates transactions on a remote database. MacMix differs from these in that the remote database is physically close, and that the graphics user interface requires rapid response in bursts from the network. A video tape is available which shows MacMix in action. This medium is much better than the written word for communicating the details of a graphical user interface. This paper focuses on the unanticipated design and implementation problems of the project, most of which are related to networking %Z 12-13 Dec. 1985 %8 1986