'Re: Guitar program'

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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Guitar program
From:       Greg Turpin <gregturp () home ! com>
Date:       2001-06-09 18:06:41
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Count me in.  Maybe we should move this discussion over
to Matthias's list.

A good KDE/Qt GUI for recording is something I've been
looking for for a long time.
We definitely need to look at LAD (Linux Audio Developers)
and incorporate LADSPA.
The new LAAGA proposals sound awesome.

On Saturday 09 June 2001  8:47 am, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> This has been on my pet idea list for a long time.  I use to use Steinberg
> and Notator on my Atari, and I still make use of the software and
> hardware.  I would really like to see everything being discussed here,
> especially the plug in architecture with an eye towards new
> hardware/software combinations so you could do things like *good* hard disk
> recording.  This could be quite a coup.
>
> I don't know if Brahams has an extensible enough architecture or if
> Rosegarden is along that line.  I would suggest that it be built more to Qt
> than KDE if possible and if there are several projects that are working on
> different bits, we should try to get everyone together and see what
> synergies might exist and what time might be saved in getting the
> groundwork together.
>
> If there isn't a list for this topic, maybe we can make one and start
> assembling the interested people.  Sequencing/HD/scoring is hugely
> important in the music and film industry.  One of the products we did in
> the old days as smpte lock up for film on the Atari.  The big innovation
> was that the smpte counter was huge on monitor so that it could be seen
> from across the room.
>
> Since spending the last couple years trying to learn Warr guitar instead of
> playing my keyboards, I've gotten a bit out of touch with the latest
> standards in technology, so I need to get myself back up to speed, but I
> would like to participate in this as well.
>
> Maybe Mattias mailing list is a place to work from, or we could host one,
> whatever works.  We should go through sourceforge and apps.kde.com and see
> what complimentary software already exists and see if we can get people
> together.
>
> those are my thoughts.  anyone else interested?
>
> At 04:31 AM 6/9/2001, you wrote:
> >Hey, cool stuff! I've been thinking about doing something like that all
> > the time. Three weeks ago I finally started something (together with two
> > friends of mine) and we began playing around with a lot of ideas.
> >
> >Our ideas so far:
> >- create a program that can be extended to do anything concerning
> > Multimedia (Midi, Wave, Video, Scoreprinting, and whatever else comes to
> > mind) - if possible, use aRts to have access to all the different media
> > types - put all the different media tracks together to create one big
> > project (biggest problem: sync - especially if you use aRts)
> >
> >Our works (not much):
> >- an idea for a simple framework (subject for discussion)
> >- a waveview widget (just beginning)
> >- a zoomscrollbar widget (I saw one like it in a windoze video program)
> >
> >The whole thing has a CVS repository and mailinglists on my server. Take a
> >look at http://kms.Kretz.dyndns.org/
> >
> >I'd really like for it to become something usefull, or even better ;-) and
> > it would be great to have as many people interested in it as possible to
> > help bringing it to life.
> >
> > > > > To be honest what we need is a KDevelop equivilent for score
> > > > > creation. A main interface with lots of plugins.
> > > >
> > > > Right.  And the Tab interface should be a plug-in, since it's guitar
> > > > specific.  I would say, music-illiterate-guitar-specific ;)
> >
> >sounds cool
> >
> >[..]
> >
> > > > I am of course volunteering to contribute in the areas of design and
> > > > implementation (coding).  If nothing else I'll run with it myself,
> > > > get a stable base design then accounce it when I think people can
> > > > contribute in a meaningful way.
> > >
> > > I'm another person who has this on my "someday" list. If you have
> > > similar goals and are starting something please let me know so I can
> > > see how "someday" is looking.
> >
> >We're still in planning stage. It would be cool to have more input from
> >people who know what's going on.
> >
> >--
> >C'ya
> >         Matthias
> >________________________________________________________
> >Matthias Kretz (Germany)
> >http://Kretz.dyndns.org/
> >MatthiasKretz@gmx.net, kretz@kde.org
> >
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>
> Regards,
>
> Shawn Gordon
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