hollunder@xxxxxx wrote: >> On Sat, 3 May 2008 17:24:26 -0700 >> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Rui, >> You know me pretty well at this point old friend. I've just a user. >> Nothing more. I might be a pretty smart user, but I'm just a user. >> >> As I remember the work Erik and I were doing, I think we were doing >> sort of hunt and peck. I'd try a few loop files, look at the results >> and if they weren't correct (as per Acid) then I'd send him info like >> the stuff above, and maybe a loop file or two. I'd tell him what Acid >> Pro was telling me, and he'd try and find that info in the file. He'd >> do some changes and I'd try the new version via patches he'd give me. >> We made some headway but eventually he ran out of time and it didn't >> move forward anymore I'm actually not sure if it ever improved after >> that. I've been subscribed to this list or its predecessor for over 8 >> years now and cannot remember any serious discussions in public. >> Fankly though, without someone like you doing an app like qtractor it >> didn't matter too much and I let it drop. >> >> The need for this info is all driven by the app you're doing. I >> don't know of any other Linux app that would really require it. Other >> could use it but I think an app like qtractor would really make good >> use if we could work it all out. >> >> So, to the extent that you or some other developer reading this in >> lurk mode has an interest I have gigabytes of Acid loops that we use >> here for composition. I'd be happy to help out again should the need >> arise. Having an Open Source replacement for Acid has been high on my >> wish list for years. I'd love to help it happen. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark > > I can imagine other apps including that kind of stuff as well. > Isn't there this gstreamer based garageband clone, and isn't garageband > some loopbased thing? Does garagecrap use a simialar format? It's just > an idea for collaboration, if anybody plans to do that kind of stuff. > > Rui, too bad that distros can't keep up with your release cycle, ubuntu > still includes 0.0.3 ... > you may find one .deb in the sourceforge.net/project/qtractor download area. maybe you can try it on ubuntu? ah, and there's another one in the mepislovers forum: http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15434 otoh, isn't ubuntu a community thing? opensuse (the one i do) is pretty fast in that recycling catch-up: packman lags behind each of my releases in just a matter of hours if not minutes :) cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
