Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Kwave
From: Kai Vehmanen (kaiv_AT_wakkanet.fi)
Date: su syys 12 1999 - 15:53:46 EDT
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Dave Phillips wrote:
> Its GUI is based on Qt and requires some of the KDE development
> packages. It is an open-source project. Although only at version 0.29.7
> it is already a pretty nice editor, but Martin is currently unable to
> continue its development. He would be happy to hear from anyone who
> might like to carry on the project, so if you haven't got anything
> else
I haven't had time to test kwave yet (I remember having some problems
compiling it), so could someone brief me on these:
- Does it load the sample data into memory (in otherwords; does
it support _large_ files)?
- Are the basic UI-features (marking, copy, cut, paste, etc) working?
I don't have the time to take over this project, but I wish I could.
The lack of a usable open-source audio editor is really
slowing down my other projects. Ecasound is already quite usable
for multitrack recording and mixing, but without audiofile editing
it's hard to do any real work with it.
I've tried a lot of editors recently, but none of them really
suits my needs. Snd is very good for viewing&analyzing waveforms
and it's currently the default external editor in ecasound. But
for audio editing, it's quite difficult and clumsy to use.
TAON looks goods, but I've had a lot of problems with it
(crashes when loading big files, doesn't take file names
from the command line, gtk/gui freezes). If it was open-source,
I could have tried to fix these... oh well, I understand that they
don't want to release the sources. Still, I hope they will eventually
change their minds.
Ideally, we could have a Linux version of SoundForge. WaveForge
project looks interesting, but still needs a lot of work to be useful.
Anyway, SoundForge is one of best GUI applications I've ever used.
Things that I like the most:
- handles large files with ease
- very intuitive user interface
- versatile cut©&paste and region marking
I've thought about writing a new Qt-based editor, which would
use libecasound.so for file-I/O and effects. It should be quite
easy to make a basic editor (with features mentioned above), but
hopefully I don't need to do it. I'm no expert GUI programmer,
so although this editor would do the job, it would a crude one. ;)
-- Kai Vehmanen <kaiv_AT_wakkanet.fi> -------- CS, University of Turku, Finland . http://www.wakkanet.fi/ecasound/ - linux audio processing . http://www.wakkanet.fi/sculpscape/ - ambient-idm-rock-... mp3/ra/wav . http://www.wakkanet.fi/kerttulin_listat/ - music&movies (in Finnish)
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