[linux-audio-user] Xi instruments

[Dave Phillips]

Emiliano Grilli wrote:

>mercoled?, 11 gennaio 2006 alle 18:25:36, Erik de Castro Lopo ha scritto:
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>>Sorry, what do you mean by "dismissed software"?
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>He probably refers to the fact that the main developer does not mantain
>the program anymore. However there is a guy (Yury Aliaev) who
>contributed bugfixes and who's writing a gtk2 port, so the project isn't
>dead. The gtk2 port can be found here: http://metamorph0sis.nm.ru/
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That link currently reports a temporary error.

I'm happy to hear that Yury is continuing ST's development.

>I had a great time with soundtracker and used it a lot in the past, but
>the fact that it doesn't support jack (at least not reliably) kind of
>discourage its use...
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Kai Vehmanen wrote a patch that gave it rudimentary JACK capability, but 
I think the patch won't work with current JACK versions. Don't quote me 
on that, I haven't tested it recently. Maybe Kai can be persuaded to 
update it for Yury ?

>I really don't grasp cheesetracker as I come from fast tracker and you
>know, impulse tracker vs. fast tracker was a sort of religious war like
>emacs vs. vi :)
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Happily, I can use both. CT is a very nice tracker, but like yourself I 
simply prefer ST. However, CT does have some cool features I'd like to 
see in ST.

>soundtracker is a great program, and I sincerely hope one day it would gain
>jack support and jack_transport features. This would put it back "on the
>road again" in my setup.
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++agree.

>Trackers may seem a thing of the past, but as James Shuttleworth has
>repeatedly proved on this list (BTW great music, James) they can be
>great tools for music creation.
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Tracking may be in partial eclipse on Linux, but it's definitely alive 
and kicking elsewhere.

Has anyone else on this list taken a look at SkaleTracker ? I like it 
but the Linux version is incomplete at this point.

>Cheers,
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Ciao ! :)

dp