12 Sep
2003
12 Sep
'03
1:41 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:47:23PM +0100, James Shuttleworth wrote:
2. The big app... I see lots of things in
development, but that seems
to be the problem - they are lots of separate things. Now, I hear that
Jack is the next big thing, but is it enough? It seems like a great
idea - synchronise multiple multiple apps and mix their output - but I
can't see this being enough. I think it seems more suited to using a
couple of apps together than for combining instruments into a track.
When I write something in Cubase, I expect to click "save" and for
all my connections, parameter values, automation, mixer settings,
etc. to be stored, ready to be opened next time I feel like it
without having to go through a number of apps and remember which
files went with this project. Maybe I'm wrong - I hope I am -
but Jack doesn't appear to come close to Cubase in this respect.
Is there something else out there?
http://pkl.net/~node/ladcca.html
Could probably use your help. Now that JACK is pretty mature,
I think laddca is the next "killer framework" for linux audio.
But it's not mature and not widely implemented.
3. I want to know the state of play. Not of one
app, but of
the whole linux audio scene. Which apps work together? Which
apps have debs, rpms, mdks, or whatever. Is there some kind
of site like this? If there isn't, how about we build one?
I've been planning to, for AGES, and one of these days i'll really
do it, honest :-) It should only really take me a weekend
of fiddling with Zope.
Something that would really keep it all together.
Imagine:
- Articles for developers and users
yup
- FAQs that cover a whole host of apps
wikis too
- Info on the current state of apps
would be built into the app-listing system
- Pre-compiled packages that work together -
that's a whole huge project in its own right. I'm not going there.
Anyway, others have already done so: PlanetCCRMA and Demudi,
most notably.
- Tutorials, links, guidelines. Now, guidelines is a
good idea!
yup
- A big, all encompassing TODO list.
huh?
- A combined effort on documentation. I think a nice
manual
that covers a whole audio setup would be good.
would be cool.
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