On Tue, September 1, 2009 01:44, Paul Davis wrote:
  On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Rui Nuno
Capela<rncbc(a)rncbc.org> wrote:
  on my own confession, during lac2007
presentation, making a live clone
 was indeed my initial goal for qtractor. it still is, as much of a
 foundation it can be. 
 it might be worth you knowing that the heart of live is realtime granular
 (re)synthesis, all the time, everywhere (or at least it was a while ago).
 i suspect that you cannot do what live does without this as the
 basic model of audio output. i could be wrong.
 
 by clone i was only referring to the pattern/matrix loop sequencer of the
 thing, sorry, not the sampler or synth and what else that goes in the
 monolith. i think, that was and probably still is imho the distinguishing
 feature from the pack, giving function and merit to its own name, live.
 qtractor is and will be just a sequencer. any attempt to make it an
 all-in-one-wonder will get kicked out at first sight :) 
Hey Rui - what about "just" having multiple timelines that can be
switched on the fly (with the switching quantized to a bar)?
Graphically, each timeline would be a column (tracks are still your
rows).  This would give you a pattern/matrix loop sequencer of sorts.