Re: [LAD] [Release] Autotalent LV2 Port

From: Jeremy <jeremybubs@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun May 30 2010 - 21:00:45 EEST

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder@email-addr-hiddenwrote:

> Excerpts from Jeremy's message of 2010-05-30 19:48:30 +0200:
> > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Jostein Chr. Andersen <jostein@email-addr-hidden
> >wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jeremy,
> > >
> > > söndag 30 maj 2010 07.13.14 skrev Jeremy:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I just finished up my port of Autotalent (A real-time pitch
> manipulation
> > > > program by Tom Baran) to an LV2 plugin (Okay, It's not finished, but
> all
> > > > the important features are there.)
> > > >
> > > > It should work basically the same as Autotalent except:
> > >
> > > Nice work, or perhaps great work! I know that many people want your
> > > additions
> > > of Autotalent. :-)
> > >
> > > That leads me into thinking: Perhaps you should rename your project as
> soon
> > > as
> > > possible to something different? I mean, you have many new features
> (and
> > > will
> > > possibly come up with more), refactoring has being done and your
> program is
> > > an
> > > LV2 plugin witch act more as a fork that take a new direction compared
> to
> > > Autotalent.
> > >
> > > Why do I care? Well, the reason is that it's will not be a big surprise
> if
> > > Tom
> > > Baran comes up with an LV2 version of the plugin while the program
> still
> > > continues as it did as a LADSPA plugin. After a look at Autotalent's
> > > website,
> > > it seem to me that Tom Baran continues to develop Autotalent.
> > >
> > > This will in that case lead us into a situation where we have two
> plugins
> > > with
> > > wich goes in to (very) different directions while have a common ground
> idea
> > > and and names: Autotalent and autotalentlv2. I can imagine that it's
> not
> > > very
> > > cool if the original Autotalent also acts as an LV2 plugin and perhaps
> come
> > > up
> > > with MIDI support in the future. And why the "LV2" in the name anyway?
> > >
> > > All the Q*'s, G*'s, *K*'s and *LV2's in the project names are probably
> one
> > > of
> > > the biggest reasons that keeps the world from adapting it to use Linux
> apps
> > > when making music and use Linux at all. Q's, G's, K's and in some
> respect
> > > LV2
> > > are for people that already know about toolkits, desktop environments
> and
> > > what
> > > they like - It's very confusing for newbies, and the Linux world have
> > > confused
> > > the rest of the word in at least 15 years now.
> > >
> > > That said, kudos to you for bringing up Tom Baran and Autotalent in the
> > > light
> > > and giving him credit. You and Tom Baran have delivered two great apps,
> but
> > > your project is already a grown up one and have it's own character - it
> > > deserves it's own name.
> > >
> > > Jostein
> > >
> > I agree, but quite frankly, I don't have any good ideas for names. As
> long
> > as it's googleable, I'm up to suggestions (I hate applications that have
> > names like "USA" or something, so it is impossible to google for any
> > information.)
>
> I don't know whether you've contacted the original author or not, but
> maybe cooperate and keep the same name?
> --
> Regards,
> Philipp
>
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I have talked to him, and he seemed enthusiastic about someone else using
his code, but I'm not sure if he's done work on it since version 2. If he
has, it might not make sense to keep the same name, unless we agree to merge
the changes.

Jeremy

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