[linux-audio-dev] cute idea from the VST world ...

[Benjamin Flaming]

On Thursday 20 November 2003 02:05 am, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> Thursday 20 November 2003 05.08 skrev Paul Davis:
> >  http://www.fxfreeze.com/product.html
>
> Yeah. The idea that you could forget about "poliphony" is perhaps most
> important though ;).
>
> Actually, I've been thinking about similar things at several occasions, I
> even posted a message here in a similar (though more elaborate) vein a few
> years ago.
> http://www.eca.cx/lad/2001/Nov/0310.html
>
> I read sometime ago that Logic has a freeze feature built in nowdays also.

Glad to see I'm not the only person who thinks this is the way to go.  I've 
been working on an implementation of this sort of thing for quite some time.  
My original work ended up getting off-track and turning into something very 
similar to pd.  Thankfully, I discovered pd, and redirected my energies.

Really, this is just going back to an older way of doing things.  When the 
only thing available was an ultra-expensive 4-track tape recorder, you got 
around the limitations by bouncing 4 tracks to 2 or 1.  The downsides were 
audio degradation and the loss of flexibility.  Neither of this disadvantages 
exist with computer based systems, but all of the advantages do.

What I'm envisioning is a system which is based on a hierarchal tree 
structure, rather than a linear row of faders with buses.  I have a sf.net 
project going (Tinara), but the only thing in CVS is an HTML document called 
"scratchpad", which is like a huge disorganized notebook with scattered 
ramblings.  The only real reason for the project at this point was to 
publicly document some of the ideas with a 3rd-party timestamp.  Now I see 
that your message provides some documentation even earlier than mine :)

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