30 May
2010
30 May
'10
7:48 p.m.
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein(a)vait.se>wrote;wrote:
Hi Jeremy,
söndag 30 maj 2010 07.13.14 skrev Jeremy:
I agree, but quite frankly, I don't have any good ideas for names. As long
as it's googleable, I'm up to suggestions (I hate applications that have
names like "USA" or something, so it is impossible to google for any
information.)
Hi all,
I just finished up my port of Autotalent (A real-time pitch manipulation
program by Tom Baran) to an LV2 plugin (Okay, It's not finished, but all
the important features are there.)
It should work basically the same as Autotalent except:
Nice work, or perhaps great work! I know that many people want your
additions
of Autotalent. :-)
That leads me into thinking: Perhaps you should rename your project as soon
as
possible to something different? I mean, you have many new features (and
will
possibly come up with more), refactoring has being done and your program is
an
LV2 plugin witch act more as a fork that take a new direction compared to
Autotalent.
Why do I care? Well, the reason is that it's will not be a big surprise if
Tom
Baran comes up with an LV2 version of the plugin while the program still
continues as it did as a LADSPA plugin. After a look at Autotalent's
website,
it seem to me that Tom Baran continues to develop Autotalent.
This will in that case lead us into a situation where we have two plugins
with
wich goes in to (very) different directions while have a common ground idea
and and names: Autotalent and autotalentlv2. I can imagine that it's not
very
cool if the original Autotalent also acts as an LV2 plugin and perhaps come
up
with MIDI support in the future. And why the "LV2" in the name anyway?
All the Q*'s, G*'s, *K*'s and *LV2's in the project names are probably
one
of
the biggest reasons that keeps the world from adapting it to use Linux apps
when making music and use Linux at all. Q's, G's, K's and in some respect
LV2
are for people that already know about toolkits, desktop environments and
what
they like - It's very confusing for newbies, and the Linux world have
confused
the rest of the word in at least 15 years now.
That said, kudos to you for bringing up Tom Baran and Autotalent in the
light
and giving him credit. You and Tom Baran have delivered two great apps, but
your project is already a grown up one and have it's own character - it
deserves it's own name.
Jostein