<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Philipp Überbacher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hollunder@lavabit.com">hollunder@lavabit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Qtractor might also be able to do it. Don't know about the others.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Qtractor can do mp3 playback/non-destructive-editing and is fully jack-ified for both MIDI and Audio, per <a href="http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/qtractor-index.html">http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/qtractor-index.html</a></div>
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Uses JACK for audio and ALSA sequencer for MIDI as multimedia infrastructures.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#551A8B"><u>Built-in connection patchbay control and persistence (a-la QjackCtl).</u></font></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
Audio file formats support: OGG (via libvorbis), MP3 (via libmad, playback only), WAV, FLAC, AIFF and many, many more (via libsndfile).</blockquote></div></div><div><br></div><div>A few links on Qtractor showing screenshots of main features:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.straightedgelinux.com/qtractor/howto_qmidi.html">http://www.straightedgelinux.com/qtractor/howto_qmidi.html</a></div><div><a href="http://www.straightedgelinux.com/qtractor/">http://www.straightedgelinux.com/qtractor/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>If you use Fedora 12, x86_64, you can try the stable release I just built: <a href="http://nielsmayer.com/qtractor-0.4.5svn1517-2.fc12.x86_64.rpm">http://nielsmayer.com/qtractor-0.4.5svn1517-2.fc12.x86_64.rpm</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>My opinion of qtractor, posted to PlanetCCRMA <a href="http://old.nabble.com/Re:-Qtractor-0.4.5svn1517-p28567324.html">http://old.nabble.com/Re:-Qtractor-0.4.5svn1517-p28567324.html</a></div><div>....................</div>
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I strongly second that this version of qtractor be included in the CCRMA repo. It is very solid, and very nice!! I've tested it extensively today and it never crashed, never did anything unexpected, and kept up with everything. I was also wondering when I'll be giving rosegarden another chance, as qtractor is much closer to what I expect as it's based on the last sensible DAW I ever used: Cakewalk Pro Audio ( <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 136, 0); white-space: nowrap; "><a href="http://www.rncbc.org/jack/qtractor-0.1.0-whitepaper.pdf" target="_top" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 1em; ">http://www.rncbc.org/jack/qtractor-0.1.0-whitepaper.pdf</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 136, 0); white-space: nowrap; "> </span>). Yes, rosegarden's integrated notation, extensive feature set, documentation and maturity is great. But the direct integration of audio and midi, and the simplicity and "ease of flow" of qtractor is more important for my purposes. Given that many of the "future features" from the aforementioned whitepaper have already been implemented, I have high hopes that qtractor will be able to remain competitive with any future developments on other platforms and other DAWs.</div>
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Other than its complete jack-ification, the thing that makes qtractor stand out is the compatibility with Cakewalk instrument definition files available on the net. For example, I quickly googled-upon <a href="http://www.cybertown.com/xginstr.zip" target="_top" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 1em; ">http://www.cybertown.com/xginstr.zip</a> --> YamahaXG.ins, a Cakewalk instrument definition file which creates names for patches, voices, banks in my Yamaha db60xg synth-daughterboard. I'm sure all my other synths and gear will be just as easy to find because there's a lot of Cakewalk users on the internet.</div>
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Another important feature is midi controller mappings, which are hellishly tedious to implement in a one-off fashion. It is nice that qtractor provides a framework on which people can start sharing control surface layouts and definitions, just like cakewalk did with it's .ins format: <a href="http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/142" target="_top" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 1em; ">http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/node/142</a></div>
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Greatest thanks goes to Mathias Krause aka gizzmo, who contributed with the fundamental code to the new MIDI controller mapping functionality that now widens the <a href="http://qtractor.sourceforge.net" target="_top" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Qtractor</font></a> horizon with regard from generic control surfaces. Being the <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/BCF2000.aspx" target="_top" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 1em; ">Behringer BCF2000</a> </font>a notable example, control feedback is fully supported so that those fancy motorized faders, knobs and lights, actually reflect the whole mixing and editing session state. Some pre-made files are here provided for your convenience: <a href="/datahub/bcx2000.qtc" target="_top" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">bcx2000.qtc</font></a> is to import into Qtractor (View/Controllers...) and a couple of presets goes into your BCF2000, <a href="/datahub/Qtractor_Mixer_1-8.syx" target="_top" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Qtractor_Mixer_1-8.syx</font></a> and <a href="/datahub/Qtractor_Mixer_9-16.syx" target="_top" rel="nofollow" style="font-size: 1em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Qtractor_Mixer_9-16.syx</font></a>, respectively for the first and second set of eight channel/track strips.</blockquote>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">..................</span></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>-- Niels</div><div><a href="http://nielsmayer.com">http://nielsmayer.com</a></div>
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