On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:56:44 -0500, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 09:44 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > 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? > > I think a few people have proposed a generalized loop stretching/beat > matching library. Not sure if it exists yet. This seems to be an area > where proprietary software is a little ahead. Lee, Thanks for the inputs. Reading between the lines I'm getting that there are no trackers that you know of that are capable of plugging a wave file in and running it, in time, like Acid can? I've not don't much with time streatching programs before under Linux. I think they are out there. Presuming that no one else shows up and rescues us from this problem it appears that is the way to go I guess. thanks. > > FWIW a friend of mine met the guy who wrote Ableton Live. He said the > beat matching code took him about three months to write. All that work and it still only works that well, 'eh? > > Lee > >
