Re: [Audacity-devel] Audio Unit support

[Vaughan J. <vjo...@co...>]

Dominic Mazzoni wrote:

> I have completed a working prototype of Audio Unit support in Audacity! 


That's great. Sounds like a very wise choice, too.


> Once again, any Windows developers interested in helping to code up 
> support for DirectX plug-ins???  I'll try to raise some money for it 
> if that would help...I really think this is key to Audacity's future 
> success to get plug-in support working well.


Dominic, wandering the desert, crying out for DirectX help -- I hear you 
& want to help. :-)

I'm sorry I've had so little time for Audacity all year. I'd really like 
to get that Change Pitch fix made (I haven't even pinpointed it or been 
in touch with Olli) and port it to a VST plug-in, but I could 
re-prioritize that, or make it a DirectX port first & combine the 
projects. Money would be motivating, of course, but I'm afraid a couple 
of hundred bucks wouldn't do much motivating, although I have no idea 
how big a project DirectX support would be. And I'd feel guilty getting 
paid when so many other contributors are doing so much more, gratis. And 
I noticed that you mentioned, Dominic, that you're paying for the 
AudacityTeam.org site. I hope you're doing so out of the Audacity 
donation funds, not your own. If we're going to pay developers, I think 
it ought to be something like an annual disbursal of some portion of 
Audacity donation funds, somehow proportional to each developer's 
contribution for the year. Seems much more fair

So, it sounds like a "top" priority now, right? I can put it at the top 
of my Audacity agenda (after at least notifying Olli of the Change Pitch 
problem), and I *do* think I'll have more time for Audacity the next 
couple of months. How soon do you think we need it? (And "yesterday" is 
a reasonable answer!)

-Vaughan