Louigi, as always, is right ;-) Unison is a new audio-core written to replace the core used by LMMS. It is not officially endorsed by Toby as far as I know. The goal is to get the core to a point where it is capable of supporting any use-case we can think of. Then, start porting over the GUI and extra-features from LMMS. This is a large undertaking. People frequently ask: "What is wrong with LMMS, why not just improve it?" Well, nothing is "wrong" with LMMS. The problem is that I feel "stuck" when trying to add some new features because of some assumptions that LMMS currently makes.
For instance, I started integrating proper support from tempo and time-signature changes. That is, the ability to control these in the timeline and allow the editor to show these changes without causing weird rendering issues like we have now. By the time I had LMMS ready to accept my new code, I seriously had commented out around 2000+ lines of stuff, and I hadn't even changed anything yet. To me, a more flexible and well-documented core brings many benefits. The main benefit is to make development approachable to new contributors. This also gives us a clean canvas to start thinking up better ways to manage the GUI. (Dock-Windows, tabbed interface, .. ?) I hope this clarifies things, Paul On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]> wrote: > may i add that lots of wanna be devs are helping out pgib (head unison dev > and creator) in regards to implementing missing features and adding new > functionality to it. im working on implementing ladsp support for unison. > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Louigi Verona <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Unison is a project mentioned a lot on IRC and in private emails. It is a >> new integrated music environment like LMMS, but written from scratch taking >> into account all the experience of LMMS, with JACK and LV2 support. Work has >> been started a couple of months ago. The wiki is available and people add >> ideas there and discuss things. >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Rob <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tuesday 03 August 2010 02:33, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: >>> > helping paul giblox in implementing something for Unison. >>> >>> I did a search on my LMMS user/devel mailing list archive which goes back >>> a >>> little over a year, and the first time the word Unison was used was two >>> days ago, in passing. Is Unison the new name for something else? Google >>> tells me it's another music studio project; is it meant to be the >>> successor >>> to LMMS or something different? >>> >>> Rob >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the >>> Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share >>> of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LMMS-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel >> >> >> >> -- >> Louigi Verona >> http://www.louigiverona.ru/ >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the >> Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share >> of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm >> _______________________________________________ >> LMMS-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel >> > > > > -- > Jonathan Aquilina > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > LMMS-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ LMMS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmms-devel
