Experience is the key ingredient. Some commercial support never hurts, too. On 4/6/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4/6/06, Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > > anyone try Freeycle? http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23494 > > > > > I looked at it but since it advertizes itself as a beat slicer it > didn't seem to have the multitrack capabilities that are required to > put a whole song together. > > I think th eunderlying technology could be helpful in getting to an > Acid Pro/Ableton Live/Fruity Loops type program. My sense is that this > question has been asked so many times that the real issue is finding a > developer passionate about it. There's no reason at all this couldn't > be done in Linux if someone wanted to make it happen. > > Cheers, > Mark > -- Patrick Kidd Stinson http://www.patrickkidd.com/ http://pkaudio.sourceforge.net/ http://pksampler.sourceforge.net/