On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:11:44 -0700, Lance Blisters wrote: Hi Lance,
[...] >timestretch and transpose. in fact, the more i learn about live the >more similar it seems to what gdam has been doing. sounds very interesting! >hardware controllers include midi, joysticks, dancepad, "dj man" >toy turntable, "thin air" interface based on ultrasonic rangefinders, >any usb human interface device, etc. hardware control over almost >everything, and an xml spec for writing "binding files" to accomplish >complex macros and presets via any hardware controller. wow sounds like you thought about many nice things :) >if you work from gdam, you can get most of live's features >by simply creating a custom skin which is compact and clean. >there are a few limitations which require a little c programming; >such as a tiny drift when swapping loops of different original >tempos within the same channel. every shortcoming i've come across >has been straightforward to fix, i just haven't gotten to all of >them myself. sounds perfectly well (yeah, I repeat myself) >if you are interested, browse the website and ask me questions. i can >describe in more detail how our skin system works. the latest linux >release of gdam is a bit old, but the CVS version has the "turntable array" >skin which offers much of live's functionality without the nice layout. ok, I won't find the time until late autumn I guess (weather is simply too good for coding here at the moment ;) but I definitely will have a look at that later this year! >finally, think long and hard and repeatedly before starting a new >project. whether or not you work with gdam, it is often much much much >better to start from an established project rather than create your own. 100% ACK, that was also one of the reasons why I wrote this mail. I won't start to mess around with stuff other people did already. That's what open source is about at the end, isn't it :) >many one-person projects fail to meet their goals, there are dozens >(hundreds?) of half-finished open-source audio apps. finding other people >to work on your project can be difficult, especially if it is a new one; I know that too good, I have a center for OS/2 open source software (yes, still alive and kicking :) and I saw that way too many times the past years. thanks for your feedback, the page is bookmarked and I will give it a try! cu Adrian -- Adrian Gschwend @ netlabs.org ktk [a t] netlabs.org ------- Free Software for OS/2 and eCS http://www.netlabs.org
