[linux-audio-user] Re: Mastering app

[Jan "Evil Twin" Depner]

Steve,

	Can I help with the coding.  I have a *lot* of C/Motif experience and
I'm just getting into C++/Qt.

Jan


On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 15:00, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:40:40 +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > Steve Harris wrote:
> > >On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:56:16PM +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> > >
> > >>>There will be 3 band compression, linear parametric EQ and a lookahead
> > >>>limiter, maybe also a learning limiter.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>Is that called time?
> > >
> > >
> > > ?
> > 
> > >>>maybe also a learning limiter.
> > 
> > :)
> 
> Ahh, yes time, but also working out a UI for it. Its kinda optional, so I
> doubt it will make 0.1.
>  
> > >If your willing to work on the UI, then maybe the thing to do is to strip
> > >it down and rebuild the UI code. I can stick the current code in a public
> > >CVS server somewhere (its currently on a private server), but its pretty
> > >scary in its current state.
> > 
> > I have no qualms about learning SDL unless you really think it is a bad 
> > idea. The thing is *learning* it but I am willing to drop (almost) 
> > everything and focus on it for a while.
> 
> Well, theres almost nothing to SDL (well the parts I used anyway), I just
> dont think its appropriate, I ended up writing widget code for the sliders
> and stuff, which is why they suck so much. In retrosect just using GTK
> would have been easier.
>  
> > If you want I can give you ftp access to djcj.org and you can put it 
> > there in a semi/private place.
> 
> The intention wasn't that it be especially private, I just didn't think
> anyone else would want to work on it. I originally wanted to get beta bug
> reports from a small number of people so I could handle the feedback, but
> I dont think that will be a problem now.
> 
> > >I have no particular feelings about what toolkit, as long as its C, and
> > >preferably has working vertical faders, the ones in GTK-1.x are
> > >inconvienient.
> > 
> > I willing to go with the current stuff and work from there. It may be 
> > that it needs a complete redesign but I think it would be good to get 
> > something out sooner rather than later.
> 
> Thats a good point. The current state is that I'm halfway through
> refactoring the UI code to make some of the compressor controls rotary, so
> its impossible to tell what its doing at the moment. The question is
> wether its quicker to rescue the SDL code or replace it with GTK code or
> similar.
> 
> Is there anyone else who wants to work on this? If not I'l just leave the
> code where it is for now and give Patrick a login on the machine. If there
> are a few people I'l have to move it to sourceforge or something, but I
> dont really want to do that cos I think theres going to be some major
> structural work needs doing.
> 
> - Steve