10 Mar
2005
10 Mar
'05
3:47 p.m.
this is a great thing to bring up - portability and modularity - this is one
reason the ADAT became so popular
the first thing I thought when I discovered Ardour, for example, was "I
wonder if it'll take the actual session from a ProTools session - like
directly BOOM open it up" - that might be a problem due to apps on other
OS's being closed source
But at the very least I have had the back of my mind thoughts about perhaps
writing scripts that at least automate the "tedious track exporting" thing.
i think it'd be super super cool to be able to jump in and out of linux - I
do do that to a large degree, but there isn't a lot of automated way, and
there isn't a lot of way for me to share stuff with people that don't
understand it as well, for example.
But then again it's not like it's THAT hard, either - for example, if you're
JUST dealing with MIDI, cakewalk will save standard midi files, which
rosegarden will open.
I was also thinking about (in the back of my mind of course ;) ) writing
something that allowed me to share sessions between ecasound and ardour, or
even modifying my version of ardour to that end...
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Baron" <d_baron(a)012.net.il>
To: <linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 3:33 AM
Subject: [linux-audio-user] Migration or Interoerability--The Final Frontier
In word processing, it's a piece of cake. I can
get any Word, RTF,
xls-spreadsheets, presentations into OpenOffice and others. OpenOffice
runs
fine in both Linux and that other operating system. I
can use what I want,
where I want. No comments on what and where is best. My choice and this
does
not detract from the other choices at all.
In audio? Now that we have decent applications in Linux and more coming,
the
question of migrating from other OSes arises. I have
loads of Cakewalk (or
Cubase or Logic or ...) projects and now I want to use them in Linux,
without
tediously exporting each track and reimporting.
Not all features are in common but most are: Midi tracks, Audio
tracks--Cakewalk files have pointers to (reusable) regions in two (mono,
stereo) or more wav files. Is there anything around to get such files into
Rosegarten or Wired or Muse or Ardour (without the MIDI)?