Re: [LAU] recycle users wanted

Hi Alexendre.

Just wondering do you reverse engineer with raw python or do you use
some framework like Construct? http://construct.wikispaces.com/

Rustom

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
<alexandre.prokoudine@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Hello lists :)
>
> First, an introduction. Within the context of this mail I'm
> representing re-lab -- a small project [1] that does a dirty job
> developers usually try to avoid -- reverse-engineering file formats
> that have no publicly available specs. Our primary goal is helping dev
> teams and therefore end-users to support legacy data.
>
> We started with Corel DRAW back in 2007 (supported by Inkscape, sK1
> and UniConvertor now), continued with painting dynamics in Photoshop
> brushes (supported by Krita in SVN trunk) and Photoshop gradients
> (supported by SwatchBooker), and now we arrive to audio domain.
>
> A while ago we asked Ardour team if they wanted some file formats
> reverse-engineered. Paul named a couple of such file formats,
> including REX2 audio loops [2].
>
> Since we are (at least pretend to be) nice guys, we started with
> mailing Propellerhead, but they never replied (only to be expected,
> given their track record re open source teams). Well, something had to
> be done about that, eh? So we started looking into things.
>
> Initial version of Python scripts that parse .rx2 files and dump stuff
> to stdout is already available [3]. This is exactly what deliver in
> the end: Python scripts for parsing and a specification that explains
> what every chunk does.
>
> Now here is what we need. All we have right now is a bunch of .rx2
> files that I got with my Focusrite Saffire Pro24 and bundled software.
> It's good for a start, but for proper r-e we need introducing small
> changes to files and seeing what's changed. So we need someone with a
> licensed copy of ReCycle and some spare time on his/her hands to help
> us figuring things out.
>
> Demo version of ReCycle works fine in WINE, but saving and loading
> arbitrary files is impossible. We really do not want dealing with
> pirated copies, because, again, we do our best to be nice guys.
>
> And since we do it not just for fun, but for actual results, we'd be
> glad if developers of other applications (FreeCycle and Smasher are
> the first I can think of) implemented support for REX2.
>
> Coincidentally we are also interested in people who are good at audio
> compression algorithms. *cough* Monty *cough* :)
>
> By the way, usually I don't read both l-a-u and l-a-d lists, so after
> a while (a week maybe) I'll turn off delivery of mails, which means
> you probably want using Reply to All button in your mail client of
> choice.
>
> [1] http://gitorious.org/re-lab/
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX2
> [3] http://gitorious.org/re-lab/audio
>
> Alexandre Prokoudine
> http://libregraphicsworld.org
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