4 Jul
2003
4 Jul
'03
6:05 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:11:44 -0700, Lance Blisters wrote:
Hi Lance,
[...]
timestretch and transpose. in fact, the more i learn
about live the
more similar it seems to what gdam has been doing.
sounds very interesting!
hardware controllers include midi, joysticks, dancepad,
"dj man"
toy turntable, "thin air" interface based on ultrasonic rangefinders,
any usb human interface device, etc. hardware control over almost
everything, and an xml spec for writing "binding files" to accomplish
complex macros and presets via any hardware controller.
wow sounds like you thought about many nice things :)
if you work from gdam, you can get most of live's
features
by simply creating a custom skin which is compact and clean.
there are a few limitations which require a little c programming;
such as a tiny drift when swapping loops of different original
tempos within the same channel. every shortcoming i've come across
has been straightforward to fix, i just haven't gotten to all of
them myself.
sounds perfectly well (yeah, I repeat myself)
if you are interested, browse the website and ask me
questions. i can
describe in more detail how our skin system works. the latest linux
release of gdam is a bit old, but the CVS version has the "turntable array"
skin which offers much of live's functionality without the nice layout.
ok, I won't find the time until late autumn I guess (weather is simply
too good for coding here at the moment ;) but I definitely will have a
look at that later this year!
finally, think long and hard and repeatedly before
starting a new
project. whether or not you work with gdam, it is often much much much
better to start from an established project rather than create your own.
100% ACK, that was also one of the reasons why I wrote this mail. I
won't start to mess around with stuff other people did already. That's
what open source is about at the end, isn't it :)
many one-person projects fail to meet their goals,
there are dozens
(hundreds?) of half-finished open-source audio apps. finding other people
to work on your project can be difficult, especially if it is a new one;
I know that too good, I have a center for OS/2 open source software
(yes, still alive and kicking :) and I saw that way too many times the
past years.
thanks for your feedback, the page is bookmarked and I will give it a
try!
cu
Adrian
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