[LAD] [Release] Autotalent LV2 Port

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Jeremy's message of 2010-05-30 19:48:30 +0200:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein at vait.se>wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jeremy,
> >
> > söndag 30 maj 2010 07.13.14 skrev  Jeremy:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I just finished up my port of Autotalent (A real-time pitch manipulation
> > > program by Tom Baran) to an LV2 plugin (Okay, It's not finished, but all
> > > the important features are there.)
> > >
> > > It should work basically the same as Autotalent except:
> >
> > Nice work, or perhaps great work! I know that many people want your
> > additions
> > of Autotalent. :-)
> >
> > That leads me into thinking: Perhaps you should rename your project as soon
> > as
> > possible to something different? I mean, you have many new features (and
> > will
> > possibly come up with more), refactoring has being done and your program is
> > an
> > LV2 plugin witch act more as a fork that take a new direction compared to
> > Autotalent.
> >
> > Why do I care? Well, the reason is that it's will not be a big surprise if
> > Tom
> > Baran comes up with an LV2 version of the plugin while the program still
> > continues as it did as a LADSPA plugin. After a look at Autotalent's
> > website,
> > it seem to me that Tom Baran continues to develop Autotalent.
> >
> > This will in that case lead us into a situation where we have two plugins
> > with
> > wich goes in to (very) different directions while have a common ground idea
> > and and names: Autotalent and autotalentlv2. I can imagine that it's not
> > very
> > cool if the original Autotalent also acts as an LV2 plugin and perhaps come
> > up
> > with MIDI support in the future. And why the "LV2" in the name anyway?
> >
> > All the Q*'s, G*'s, *K*'s and *LV2's in the project names are probably one
> > of
> > the biggest reasons that keeps the world from adapting it to use Linux apps
> > when making music and use Linux at all. Q's, G's, K's and in some respect
> > LV2
> > are for people that already know about toolkits, desktop environments and
> > what
> > they like - It's very confusing for newbies, and the Linux world have
> > confused
> > the rest of the word in at least 15 years now.
> >
> > That said, kudos to you for bringing up Tom Baran and Autotalent in the
> > light
> > and giving him credit. You and Tom Baran have delivered two great apps, but
> > your project is already a grown up one and have it's own character - it
> > deserves it's own name.
> >
> > Jostein
> >
> I agree, but quite frankly, I don't have any good ideas for names.  As long
> as it's googleable, I'm up to suggestions (I hate applications that have
> names like "USA" or something, so it is impossible to google for any
> information.)

I don't know whether you've contacted the original author or not, but
maybe cooperate and keep the same name?
-- 
Regards,
Philipp

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