-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:09:56PM -0500, Thomas Vecchione wrote: >>> Can't you extend an existing app rather than starting a new project? >>> I know that Ardour has been used for sound installations, how are the >>> requirements of a theater different? >> Was looking at it, but at this time I am not sure Ardour is the best >> choice. Plus I gotta refresh my coding at the same time as its been a >> while, ardour is not what I like to jump in on;) > > > Recently there was some talk on #ardour regarding Ableton Live like > features. Seems to me there could be quite some overlap between > such loop-triggering and a theater sound playback system. > > Roughly we would need transport on a per track (and groups of tracks) > basis (transport scopes). That might require deep changes, but wouldn't > be too hard on the gui/interaction side. Now that is a feature I'd be interested in: multiple jack transports - guess that solves loop-playing as well. >> But then the question is, from a standpoint of accepting there is >> limited time for people to spend on these things, which is going to >> create a better product for it, one that is dedicated to a single use, >> or one that is modified for multiple uses? > > Wouldn't there be a tremendous benefit from Ardour's existing features, > full fledged arranging, cutting, automation? > > > Not strictly for a theater system, but: > I could also imagine a central 'hardware controler input mapping' > application that allows to map events from MIDI/keyboard/mouse/joystick > /tablet to every action other apps expose. now that sounds just like an ardour-midi-light-automations-track - Cool! > So you could for example map > an octave of your MIDI keyboard to a loop-player but the rest to a > softsynth. like freewheeling.sf.net ? > Such a beast should support jack transport for being able > to delay action until the next bar/beat for loop-syncing :) that wold be awesome. - i never quite got the hang of freewheeling sync with the F1 laptop key-mode and it opens up much more possibilites.. #robin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF6XLOeVUk8U+VK0IRAhrvAJ9qFLS0KTnqc/2OVtt1PWbyGCvM/gCffXGF zkxvW5Js7kODCnBfneX6LxA= =wBtv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
