[LAU] [LAA] Qtractor 0.1.3 (frugal damsel) released!

[Pieter Palmers]

Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Rui Nuno Capela <rncbc at rncbc.org> wrote:

[...]

>> As for edge dragging, in Acid this allows you to play a portion of a
>> loop. If I place a loop in a session the tempo is adjusted
>> automatically and I hear the whole loop. If I drag the left edge to
>> the right I lose the front part of the loop. If I drag the right edge
>> to the left I lose the last part of the loop. There are ways to drag
>> the loop to an out-of-sync point if you want but I don't use it much,
>> really only for beat slicing where they have better tools in the
>> editor.
>>
> 
> when you import (or drop) a new audio file into the qtractor time-line, 
> it's always assumed that the new clip is in tempo with the current 
> session. if you find it is not the case, you can trim and/or 
> (time-)stretch the clip until you see fit. take a tour:

[...]

As far as I can remember, the "automagic-ness" of ACID relies on some 
sort of extra metadata. I think it was embedded in the WAV file, but it 
might have been somewhere else.

The point is, if there is such metadata in a clip (e.g. wav), why no use 
it? Have an option like "strech clip according to tempo metadata" or the 
likes. If I remember your LAC presentation correctly, all resampling is 
done "on-the-fly" (modulo some cacheing) so isn't is simply initializing 
the 'stretch factor' to a proper value?

2cents for the masses,

Pieter