Mark Knecht wrote:
On 4/6/06, Brad Fuller <brad(a)sonaural.com>
wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi Patrick,
I've been down this rabbit hole 1000 times in the last 4-5 years.
There is nothing in the Linux-Audio world even remotely like Live or
Acid Pro in terms of handling the scaling of pitch and tempo across
all samples. I just updated to Acid Pro 6 this week for $99 since that
sort of stuff I do playing with Acid Pro is nearly impossible in any
Linux app I've found.
anyone try Freeycle?
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=23494
I looked at it but since it advertizes itself as a beat slicer it
didn't seem to have the multitrack capabilities that are required to
put a whole song together.
I think th eunderlying technology could be helpful in getting to an
Acid Pro/Ableton Live/Fruity Loops type program. My sense is that this
question has been asked so many times that the real issue is finding a
developer passionate about it. There's no reason at all this couldn't
be done in Linux if someone wanted to make it happen.
true.
I wonder what the legal ramifications would be by creating an "acid"
like app that accepts acid loops.
The question is: is there any proprietary IP in acid loops? Could
probably find out by seeing if Cakewalk pays any royalties to Sony for
their inclusion of acid-loop-a-bility (!) in Sonar.
Frankly, I don't use Acid much, even though I own it. We used it on a
recent product which fit the use of it (a driving game) but other than
that type of work, I don't use it.
But, I bet it would be popular among Linux audio users. And, if it could
legally use acid loops, there's no shortage of assets.
brad