Hi, My son and I are spending a Saturday morning together trying out Cheestracker. He's used Acid Pro for a while but he needs something he can run on his Planet box. Cheestracker seems to do most of the high level things he wants to do, but we are having one conceptual problem with it that is a non-issue in Acid - loop length vs. tempo. In Acid you can choose any loop you want as a starting point, paint it in for a number of measures and then set the tempo that you want the song to run at. Acid takes responsibility for resampling the loop behind the scenes so that the loop plays right. (I.e. - starts and ends on the beat. How do we do this in Cheesetracker? We've managed to load Acid loops, creat instruments out of them, insert them into a pattern and then play the pattern. (I was blind. My kid really reads menus and gets what's there more quickly than I do sometimes. Cool!) However, when we play a couple of loops against each other within the same pattern they play at their default rates and they are not in time with each other. This is stopping us from making any real song. I imagine that it's possible, probably, to do some sort of resampling of every loop in the library to move them all to the same tempo, but that would be a huge undertaking and would require you to choose a specific tempo. What happens when you decide 98BPM isn't right and you want 102BPM?? Anyway, thanks in advance for any pointers. Maybe there is a way to do this that we cannot find. (It's so automatic within Acid that you almost forget that it's happening.) If not in this tracker, does this feature exist in any other trackers that run on Linux? Would a tracker developer (Juan?) be willing to work on a feature like this? (I hope that's not necessary!) Thanks, Mark
