[linux-audio-user] music engine

[Patrick Stinson]

Experience is the key ingredient. Some commercial support never hurts, too.

On 4/6/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/6/06, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
> > Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Patrick,
> > >    I've been down this rabbit hole 1000 times in the last 4-5 years.
> > > There is nothing in the Linux-Audio world even remotely like Live or
> > > Acid Pro in terms of handling the scaling of pitch and tempo across
> > > all samples. I just updated to Acid Pro 6 this week for $99 since that
> > > sort of stuff I do playing with Acid Pro is nearly impossible in any
> > > Linux app I've found.
> > >
> > anyone try Freeycle? http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23494
> >
> >
> I looked at it but since it advertizes itself as a beat slicer it
> didn't seem to have the multitrack capabilities that are required to
> put a whole song together.
>
> I think th eunderlying technology could be helpful in getting to an
> Acid Pro/Ableton Live/Fruity Loops type program. My sense is that this
> question has been asked so many times that the real issue is finding a
> developer passionate about it. There's no reason at all this couldn't
> be done in Linux if someone wanted to make it happen.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>


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