Dave Phillips:
The sources are
to different. Ceres3 only supports mono-files and is
very non-thread-safe.
Ceres3 will load L, R, or L+R stereo files.
The problem is that ceres3 only shows/transforms one channel.
ceres1 can handle up to 8 channels simultaniously. Thats a quite huge
internal difference.
I can start sending you comments
regarding the major differences between Ceres and Ceres3 if you like.
That would be great. I'm not so sure how much time I have to spend on
Ceres right now. But such a list would at laset be nice to put into the
documentation.
Øyvind Hammer
has been working on Ceres in all years, the latest version
(0.15) was released in 2001 if I remember correctly, before I took over.
Even then, it compaired fairly to ceres3. So he never
stopped the development of ceres, still other people released both
ceres2, ceres2w and ceres3. I don't know why, perhaps they had good
reasons.
I had many email exchanges with Dr Hammer
during that period. The other
versions had his blessings, he was I think too busy to add things like
WAV file support and stereo file support, and many bugs were not being
addressed. IIRC he was doing more work in paleontology. We occasionally
Problem is that they shouldn't have been named ceres2/3, but instead
something like ceres-newversion. Even here at notam, I sometimes see
people use ceres3. I ask them why, and they say its because its the latest
version.
Btw, thank you for all your excellent work in Linux
audio software. I
don't know if many people realize how much you've contributed, but I do,
so thank you very much. :)
Thank you very much. Same to you. :)
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