this is a great thing to bring up - portability and modularity - this is one reason the ADAT became so popular the first thing I thought when I discovered Ardour, for example, was "I wonder if it'll take the actual session from a ProTools session - like directly BOOM open it up" - that might be a problem due to apps on other OS's being closed source But at the very least I have had the back of my mind thoughts about perhaps writing scripts that at least automate the "tedious track exporting" thing. i think it'd be super super cool to be able to jump in and out of linux - I do do that to a large degree, but there isn't a lot of automated way, and there isn't a lot of way for me to share stuff with people that don't understand it as well, for example. But then again it's not like it's THAT hard, either - for example, if you're JUST dealing with MIDI, cakewalk will save standard midi files, which rosegarden will open. I was also thinking about (in the back of my mind of course ;) ) writing something that allowed me to share sessions between ecasound and ardour, or even modifying my version of ardour to that end... ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Baron" <d_baron@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:33 AM Subject: [linux-audio-user] Migration or Interoerability--The Final Frontier > In word processing, it's a piece of cake. I can get any Word, RTF, > xls-spreadsheets, presentations into OpenOffice and others. OpenOffice runs > fine in both Linux and that other operating system. I can use what I want, > where I want. No comments on what and where is best. My choice and this does > not detract from the other choices at all. > > In audio? Now that we have decent applications in Linux and more coming, the > question of migrating from other OSes arises. I have loads of Cakewalk (or > Cubase or Logic or ...) projects and now I want to use them in Linux, without > tediously exporting each track and reimporting. > > Not all features are in common but most are: Midi tracks, Audio > tracks--Cakewalk files have pointers to (reusable) regions in two (mono, > stereo) or more wav files. Is there anything around to get such files into > Rosegarten or Wired or Muse or Ardour (without the MIDI)?
