Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Question to developers of sound editors.
From: Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 01:41:19 EEST
Richard Guenther wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
Ok. What I'm trying to get at is that quite a few people have got their
heads around how to get the editors going but there isn't much consensus
on what direction the code should be evolving.
Tom mentioned that edl is replacing the conventional approach in the
professional world. So it will be good for linux editors to do the same.
Ardour and Broadcast 2000 are the only projects that seem to be on this
tangent. But there are only a couple of people working on these
projects wholeheartedly.
Their seems to be a lack of unity in this community when it comes to
editors. Is it because there are so many artists among us? Someone else
mentioned the problem with QT and GTK. Excellent point but isn't it
trivial in the end? I guess not.
Paul has provided the guts to get that problem out of the way with AES.
It seems the more I get into the reasons for collaborating the more
likely it is that I will start investing my energy in Ardour.
Now I'm wondering why the other developers on this list with a lot more
experience than I have are not falling over themselves to help out too.
I've been following the lists for ardour-dev and they are deinitely not
as busy as LAD. Yet it would seem that Ardour is a very well thought out
solution to the needs of Linux Musos. Far in advance of the majority of
the apps for Linux audio.
Here's another question.
Would you prefer to have your code used by a few hundred people around
the world or would you rather that tens of thousands possibly millions
used your code? Think how many people could learn from reading through
what is essentially the internals of your mind.
I guess fame is not for everyone but if that is a problem you could just
do it anon.
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