Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Acid for Linux ? - Pitch shift
From: Darren Landrum (consul_AT_studioconsul.net)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 04:20:10 EET
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 07:23 PM, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos
wrote:
> They are mostly .wavs, some .mp3s. Acid can also use their proprietary
> format
> called .pca (perfect clarity audio - a lossless compression that lives
> to its
> name) along with a really impressive bunch of other formats.
Leave it up to me to not think of the possibility of multiple formats.
:)
That still leaves us with the fact that not all of the Acid loop
libraries will be usable with Alkali, at least not legally.
> A loop library in OAL (Open Audio License)? I'd love to contribute!
I would love to set this up. My programming experience is all in web
apps, so I can start a preliminary design, at the very least.
This site could also include things like patches for all of our various
softsynths, and maybe even a tips and tricks section. Any other
thoughts?
> The basic problem is having the Alkali at hands (kudos for the nice
> name! :)
> Or at least a modular set of tools (each one called
> alkalium-something? :-P)
Thank you. It just seems right. :)
> BTW, yesterday I noticed something on ACID... It was the first time I
> rendered
> a song directly in mp3 with version 4. Ooops, they allow 20 free mp3
> encodings then you have to register the encoder (I believe to
> thomson?). Heh,
> I'll stick to ogg with acid (and the rest of it too!)
At that point, I think I would just render to a straight wave and then
use LAME. But that's just me. :) Ogg is good, too, though.
-Darren
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