Paul, I just wanted to throw another simple thank you your way for ardour. I started saving my girfriend valuable studio time when we started using it yesterday for her album, and I continue to be impressed with it. terrific! On 4/6/06, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 11:48 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 04:14 -0800, Patrick Stinson 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. > > > > > > > I think FreeWheeling might be the closest thing to Live that exists for > > Linux, have you looked at it? > > Freewheeling is *so* unlike Live its hard to even link the two. Just for > a start, Live is organized around a timeline, Freewheeling is not. > > -- Patrick Kidd Stinson http://www.patrickkidd.com/ http://pkaudio.sourceforge.net/ http://pksampler.sourceforge.net/