[LAU] Sample Manager & Apps That Support Elastic Time?

Olivier Guilyardi ml at xung.org
Sat Jun 26 18:26:46 UTC 2010


On 06/26/2010 08:20 PM, Olivier Guilyardi wrote:
> On 06/26/2010 07:53 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Olivier Guilyardi <ml at xung.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I see. Actually, I looked at Ardour time stretching code not so long ago. And
>>> what I found was rather tight integration with Rubberband. I was't looking for a
>>> plugin API, but for some simple kind of OO abstraction, that would allow to
>>> quite easily add some new stretchers. So, unfortunately, it looks like the way
>>> to a such plugin API is a bit long indeed...
>> it can't be that bad : see libs/ardour/stretch.h which has hooks for
>> SoundTouch as well.
> 
> Thank you for this pointer. I must have missed that. If I ever find some time
> for it, integrating Dirac would quite be the first thing I would like to
> contribute to Ardour. It's not very FLOSSish, and I don't really need it right
> now, but there's lot of wow and professional potential I think :)

Also, there's something funny, it looks like Dirac's author first thought about
making it GPL, then abandoned the idea. Read that: http://www.clearscale.org/ (!)

So, maybe that he could be like the idea of integration into Ardour, and perhaps
loosen the license a bit, dunno..

--
  Olivier





More information about the Linux-audio-user mailing list