> >How about doing this with the verse protocol and daemon or in the same > >spirit?. That way, any editor that supports this protocol, could edit > >a live region. > > > > Thats an insanely large project you are proposing. :-) not really. most win32 samplers have an 'edit in ___' button which just does something dumb like 'wavelab.exe /project/path/.sdf34liswesdf.wav' .. ..DAAP is dead simple. a tiny http daemon sends the audiofiles + metadata in XML..ive only seen it uesd for mp3 players but being able to shuttle a file between wave editors / loopers / DAWs without having to be conscious of its physical location on disk and/or navigating a different file dialog in each would be nice.. > > Hacking snd into ardour should only require a days work or something because snd can be compiled as a gtk widget.