Excerpts from Jeremy's message of 2010-05-30 19:48:30 +0200: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Jostein Chr. Andersen <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi Jeremy, > > > > söndag 30 maj 2010 07.13.14 skrev Jeremy: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just finished up my port of Autotalent (A real-time pitch manipulation > > > program by Tom Baran) to an LV2 plugin (Okay, It's not finished, but all > > > the important features are there.) > > > > > > It should work basically the same as Autotalent except: > > > > Nice work, or perhaps great work! I know that many people want your > > additions > > of Autotalent. :-) > > > > That leads me into thinking: Perhaps you should rename your project as soon > > as > > possible to something different? I mean, you have many new features (and > > will > > possibly come up with more), refactoring has being done and your program is > > an > > LV2 plugin witch act more as a fork that take a new direction compared to > > Autotalent. > > > > Why do I care? Well, the reason is that it's will not be a big surprise if > > Tom > > Baran comes up with an LV2 version of the plugin while the program still > > continues as it did as a LADSPA plugin. After a look at Autotalent's > > website, > > it seem to me that Tom Baran continues to develop Autotalent. > > > > This will in that case lead us into a situation where we have two plugins > > with > > wich goes in to (very) different directions while have a common ground idea > > and and names: Autotalent and autotalentlv2. I can imagine that it's not > > very > > cool if the original Autotalent also acts as an LV2 plugin and perhaps come > > up > > with MIDI support in the future. And why the "LV2" in the name anyway? > > > > All the Q*'s, G*'s, *K*'s and *LV2's in the project names are probably one > > of > > the biggest reasons that keeps the world from adapting it to use Linux apps > > when making music and use Linux at all. Q's, G's, K's and in some respect > > LV2 > > are for people that already know about toolkits, desktop environments and > > what > > they like - It's very confusing for newbies, and the Linux world have > > confused > > the rest of the word in at least 15 years now. > > > > That said, kudos to you for bringing up Tom Baran and Autotalent in the > > light > > and giving him credit. You and Tom Baran have delivered two great apps, but > > your project is already a grown up one and have it's own character - it > > deserves it's own name. > > > > Jostein > > > I agree, but quite frankly, I don't have any good ideas for names. As long > as it's googleable, I'm up to suggestions (I hate applications that have > names like "USA" or something, so it is impossible to google for any > information.)
I don't know whether you've contacted the original author or not, but maybe cooperate and keep the same name? -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
