Hi, > I think the biggest problem with this kind of format, or at least the way > that Jokosher does it, is that the file sizes are _huge_ and not really in a > format that's good for distribution.
For collaborating with music collegues, this is acceptable. As long as the file is somehow transferrable (several gigabytes rather than several terabytes) it is fine. The transfer takes a lots of time but it does not matter as long as the time is reasonable (not more than tens of hours, hundreds of hours is too long). > the bigger that bandwidth becomes ;) This is particularly because of the > unlimited undo stuff that Jokosher does, which means that all files are > stored in their original state. I think the undo should not be stored on a file going to transferred to a music collegue in any case. Example scary scenario: you do something really stupid on some tracks ("WTF! Is Karoliina really that bad player??!!!", then you undo them and record something else instead. Then you send it over to your friend, your friend does the undo and wow, your master piece is 5 minutes from being online... This is great idea, but the format should be supported not only by Jokosher, but every program, especially because Jokosher is still (well, I am impatiently waiting Jokosher to become the ultimate musician's tool that would do everything that Cakewalk Sonar does and more...) lacking many of the features I would need in order to be able to use it (simultaneous audio and midi recording and playback, stereo tracks etc., named tracks instead of the current "instrument" names which are not intuitive for my use at all - my average composition uses 60 different stereo tracks (some tracks are muted though and not all of them play simultaneously usually) which have different names and all of them originate from hardware synthesizers - having a dozen of tracks with names "drums" "voice" "guitar" etc. would not make life very easy to navigate on that kind of environment and also, I have one midi track per one audio track usually because I am so bad player that I usually want to record as midi first, then go to event list editor, fix the playing glitches, then let it play it back so that the software plays the hardware synthesizer and records the next audio track at the same time (and thus converts or "renders" the glitch-free midi track into stereo audio track)). Btw, couldn't the same format to be used for lossless multichannel audio distribution - meaning e.g. 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 10.2 configurations. Of course I see that nothing technically would prevent that, but I mean that major players (xine, mplayer, whatever) would need to support that and be able to send it out from the 5.1 / 7.1 /whatever outs of the sound card or alternatively route it out from e.g. a 8 in / 8 out audio interface. Now the problem is that lossless multichannel material is not available. But for example I could mix in e.g. 5.1 if there would be just a open format that would support it and a software that would support that format and would have the capability for mixing in multichannel. Best Wishes, Karoliina _______________________________________________ jokosher-devel-list mailing list jokosher-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/jokosher-devel-list