[Lmuse-user] call to arms....

[Geoff B. <ge...@la...>]

Dear Devs (friends)

just looking at my options here and have to say just a few points most of 
which have already been mentioned by me and others before. 

Muse 0.9x is without peer for serious midi work full stop. It is feature 
(very) rich where it REALLY matters (time and tempo variables,playback timing, 
window management, editing interface,stability etc), and although it has a few  
quirks, they are manageable and I'm quite used to them ;)

However, there has been for a long time now the issue of Muse suffering from 
being abandoned by the primary dev, namely Werner, for other projects. 
Laudable as they are,(muse score and muse2) watching Muse fade utterly from 
the LA world has both amazed and frustrated me. Most distro's I have seen have 
packages no later that v 0.8x which as we know is full of really serious bugs 
and problems; most of which have been to a very large extent repaired. 
However, anyone installing and trying to use these versions will soon find the 
bugs are total showstoppers for serious work and walk away.

Tim as we all know has done a remakable amount of really good work this last 
year on the .9x branch and has singularly kept it alive and usable. However, 
his development platform is behind the current 'state-of-play' relative to 
compilers,libraries and kernels and this has meant that he cannot reproduce 
the issues seen by those who have 'up-to-the-minute' systems in production 
such as I do. I'm often forced to 'upgrade' frequently to keep up with latest 
moves in the audio/midi arena and therefore have perhaps seen this more than 
most. 

It seems such a waste of everyones' efforts so far to just leave Muse 
here....there is nothing close to Muse in Linux.  Can we give Muse .9x one 
last polish so she can live on a current machine and be the best she can be 
for a little while longer?  Then realese v1 with a splash! Could it be updated 
to QT4 perhaps? That would see most of the UI issues vanish, no?  

Werner, you use a current system don't you ? Perhaps you can see if Muse 0.9x 
will build for you ? Maybe it's just me....alsa-1.0.17, 
jack-0.115,kernel-2.6.25.4-rt5,gcc-4.3.2 etc

In fact I would consider it important,for Muse 2 to achive wide acceptance, 
that Muse 1 needs to lift it's profile and earn it's place in the LA world 
again and make it's mark. To lift it's current reputation as an 
old,unsupported,buggy app to it's 'real' current status of a stable,reliable 
and musical midi app; that's what i consider it as.

Werner, Robert,Mathias,Tim and anyone else involved; can we put this right? If 
a couple of you were to work in tandem in 'real-time' perhaps there is only a 
few hour work in it ? This is such good software; to see it left here like 
this is such a shame.I would be devestated to have to leave Muse behind.

If I'm deluded and speaking out of turn you must tell me; I'm a mere end user 
not a dev; but one who cares. I am indebted to you all for your past and 
current efforts with Muse. I really mean that.

Anyway, I now have to go and create a Jingle Bells sequence on Rosegarden :(
...pray for me..


just my 2 feeble cents.


best,

g.