On 4/6/06, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been looking for a high-performance music engine. It must have an > asynchronous control (socket, pipe?) mechanism to seperate the > application from the audio thread. > > I'm looking for: > > start/stop samples on the beat > scaled tempo control across all samples > volume > effects? > easily wrappable (I'll write extensions, implement protocol > plugins...) with python > > I'm trying to write something like ableton live without writing an > engine all over again. FMODex would be *perfect* if it had a > well-defined tempo/beat/sync interface. > > thanks > > -- > Patrick Kidd Stinson Hi Patrick, I've been down this rabbit hole 1000 times in the last 4-5 years. There is nothing in the Linux-Audio world even remotely like Live or Acid Pro in terms of handling the scaling of pitch and tempo across all samples. I just updated to Acid Pro 6 this week for $99 since that sort of stuff I do playing with Acid Pro is nearly impossible in any Linux app I've found. There was some work done a long time ago for Ardour which allowed it to pain samples in an audio track pretty much like Acid and Live do. Unfortunately there was never any work done, TTBOMK, to manage the pitch/tempo changes required to get that sort of functionality. Too bad as it's a really fun way to play around with loops to come up with song ideas. Maybe one day.... Cheers, Mark
