On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:47:23PM +0100, James Shuttleworth wrote: > 2. The big app... I see lots of things in development, but that seems > to be the problem - they are lots of separate things. Now, I hear that > Jack is the next big thing, but is it enough? It seems like a great > idea - synchronise multiple multiple apps and mix their output - but I > can't see this being enough. I think it seems more suited to using a > couple of apps together than for combining instruments into a track. > When I write something in Cubase, I expect to click "save" and for > all my connections, parameter values, automation, mixer settings, > etc. to be stored, ready to be opened next time I feel like it > without having to go through a number of apps and remember which > files went with this project. Maybe I'm wrong - I hope I am - > but Jack doesn't appear to come close to Cubase in this respect. > Is there something else out there?
http://pkl.net/~node/ladcca.html Could probably use your help. Now that JACK is pretty mature, I think laddca is the next "killer framework" for linux audio. But it's not mature and not widely implemented. > 3. I want to know the state of play. Not of one app, but of > the whole linux audio scene. Which apps work together? Which > apps have debs, rpms, mdks, or whatever. Is there some kind > of site like this? If there isn't, how about we build one? I've been planning to, for AGES, and one of these days i'll really do it, honest :-) It should only really take me a weekend of fiddling with Zope. > Something that would really keep it all together. Imagine: > - Articles for developers and users yup > - FAQs that cover a whole host of apps wikis too > - Info on the current state of apps would be built into the app-listing system > - Pre-compiled packages that work together - that's a whole huge project in its own right. I'm not going there. Anyway, others have already done so: PlanetCCRMA and Demudi, most notably. > - Tutorials, links, guidelines. Now, guidelines is a good idea! yup > - A big, all encompassing TODO list. huh? > - A combined effort on documentation. I think a nice manual > that covers a whole audio setup would be good. would be cool. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's SPICY SNOTNOSE TACO! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
