[Lmuse-developer] audio workflow for muse?

[Florian J. <flo...@we...>]

Hi

i've had the idea that muse should offer a decent audio workflow. i have 
absolutely no idea if it does already somehow, but i doubt it:

my idea is basically the following:

    * muse offers functions to select which parts have to be recorded
    * some way for selecting the way to record (use some softsynth's
      jack outports, use some soundcard's LINE-IN for recording a
      real-world-synthesizer) etc.
    * each track (or track groups if defined) is recorded separately.
      however, controllers etc. are sent regardless on what track they
      are; only note-events (hearable events) are filtered by active track
    * intelligent makefily-style: don't re-record unchanged tracks
    * export that in some ardour- or other daw-readable file


what would really rock then is that the DAW software does not 
destructively edit the wave forms, but instead keeps the "raw" waveform 
and only remembers the operations applied on it. this would allow one to 
change some notes in muse, re-record the track, and to NOT lose all the 
effects etc applied to the recorded wave.

traverso seems to support parts of that; but i'd favour a way which also 
works non-live, that is, it precomputes all applied effects so it also 
works on slower machines.


another nice idea for this would be the possibility to store this all in 
ONE file.
and then there need to be utils of course which can strip the wave-part 
or the midi-part out of such a file. (for example, when you need small 
files, remove the wave stuff)


what do you think about that?
i know, this is a whole bunch of work. but it'd be cool, isn't it?

greetings
flo