Hi Paulo, I like this idea. I suspect there are many out there
who have ancient project files on floppy disk they would love to
ressurect.
One thing that really limits sequencers and DAW software in the
commercial domain is import and export paths. These seem deliberately
absent in many cases as a weak form of vendor lock-in, or a belief that
very few users would see it as a worthwhile feature. I think anyone
working on free open source projects should see the great opportunity
for say; a sequencer like Rosegarden, to have numerous data paths
extended via a popular and portable language like Python. Input
modules offering support for old formats, trackers and suchlike
would be great.
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:24:14 +0100
Paulo Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
> One interesting thing can be done are plugins for Rosegarden.
>
> Rosegarden, anyway, still doesn't support plugins, specially coded in
> Python - these codes could exist externally, and latelly being used on
> Rosegarden, for example.
>
> What i personally needed were plugins for importing tracker files
> there, like .mod, .s3m, .it, etc... - but of course, someone (even me)
> could parse even those considered obsolete files, like from AmigaOS
> DeluxeMusic or BarsNPipes - i received from Rosegarden mailing list
> even idea requests for Sonar and Cubase files, for helping people
> leaving ms-windows
>
> what do you all think?
>
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>
> On 3/19/09, Mikko Eley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm a second year BSc Computer Science student with an long arts
> > background. Having grown up working with images, video, sound and
> > vector graphics I was exposed to a lot of Apple and Adobe software.
> > But growing up fascinated by hackers (and maybe even a few crackers
> > too) I slowly learned about Linux and FLOSS.
> >
> > I attended the Open Source City conference in Liverpool Last year and
> > became aware of pure:dyne and the existence of open source tools for
> > artists. I helped out in the mesh networks workshop and attended all
> > the talks but my workshop on hacking CCTV feeds was cancelled and I
> > stupidly missed the opportunity to take part in other workshops
> >
> > Getting involved in my course and computer science I see the
> > importance of open source software more and more and hope to migrate
> > my Apple machines to something like Debian or pure:dyne soon, and hope
> > to build a linux desktop rig too. In the meantime I am approaching my
> > third year of studies and need to come up with a software project that
> > I can run by my tutors. With my interest in FLOSS and also the arts I
> > would like to produce something relevant and useful for artists and
> > to progress the open source cause.
> >
> > So I am canvassing this mailing list for possible software projects.
> > What would you like to see in pure:dyne, does anyone have a specific
> > need for a piece of arts software that an average computer science
> > student could code up in two terms? I familiar with Java but may still
> > get into c/c++. Is there a software program that desperately needs
> > coding, a utility that would make currently available software work
> > better? Or is their an add on that would be needed to be coded that
> > would provide a much needed function?
> >
> > I'm hoping to be able to contribute something valuable not only to the
> > open source community but to artists working with linux.
> >
> > thank you for your time,
> >
> > Mikko
> >
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> >
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