[linux-audio-dev] ableton live

Hi all, Yesterday I visited a demo event of ableton live in Switzerland. I've read quite a lot about this thingy in magazines but I never tried it myself (I don't use windows since 1994 anymore). But man I was really impressed. This is by far the most intuitive sequencer for all kind of music I've ever seen. The concept is a bit hard to describe, if you know trackers from the good old days imagine that mixed with a real-time timestrecher for all your samples, a harddisk recording tool and many nice enhancements like effects, crossfader (dj mixtable like)... The best thing is if you download a demo at http://www.ableton.de/ ("Products->live->demo download") and give it a try, it should also work inside VirtualPC, VMWare or whatsover. The thingy is quite fast, even on old machines. anyway, after trying to find the most intuitive sequencer interface for years I think I've found that yesterday, too bad it was not my idea ;) So I'm tempted to start a project to write something like that as open source. The most important part in it is definitely the timestreching (they call it "elastic" audio...). But as far as I know timestreching algorithms are 1. not easy to implement and 2. not open source if they sound good :) Because I'm an absolute newbie with timestretching I request for comments. Can anyone point me to some papers or reference implementations of (realtime) timestretching algorithms? It won't be needed in a first stage of the application but in a long term it is a must. Also, if someone is working on something like a "live" for Linux let me know :) cu Adrian -- Adrian Gschwend @ netlabs.org ktk [a t] netlabs.org ------- Free Software for OS/2 and eCS http://www.netlabs.org