Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Question to developers of sound editors.
From: Richard Guenther (rguenth_AT_tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 11:31:55 EEST
Hi!
Patrick wrote:
I am kind of bemused and slightly frustrated at how things are going in
linux when it comes to sound editors. There are two projects right now
where the developers are creating the music version of the Gimp - Sweep
and Glame. Paul and Taybin are also creating a new editor from scratch
and Paul has made his point clear on why he feels it is neccesary. Also
soundtracker is still being addded to and improved. Don't forget the
multitude of Ecasound frontends that keep popping out of the ether.
While I'm all for diversity and totally respect that you guys are doing
it purely for the love of it, it seems kind of pointless that all these
are being worked on seperately. Is there a reason for this indivuality
that goes beyond a simple case of disorganisation?
I remember searching for projects to join and improve before starting
on GLAME, but on that point (late 1999) there wasnt a promising wave
editor around (well, lots of nifty GUIs without any thought on a backend).
I think this happened to most projects (just look how many were started
in this timeframe!). Of course once you started, you wont as easily
join forces with another project.
We all witnissed how much gets achieved when the old schoolers get
together. The last few weeks were pretty hard to digest because of the
speed of interaction.
I tend to ignore those discussions until mag points me to some interesting
stuff for which I go after the archives (see this thread). Usually the
best way to talk about standards and interaction stuff is to show _code_.
So my question is... Is any kind of cohesiveness developing on the sound
editor front or are we all going to keep fucking around?
Well - we'd be glad if some projects start merging with GLAME :) But of
course other projects would be glad if GLAME starts joining them - thats
life.
Richard.
PS: please CC me, I'm not on the list.
-- Richard Guenther <richard.guenther_AT_uni-tuebingen.de> WWW: http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~rguenth/ The GLAME Project: http://www.glame.de/
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