[Rosegarden-devel] Pitch-tracker: release time?

[Nick B. <n.j...@el...>]

Hi guys,

After months of careful honing, we consider the pitch tracker is no longer too 
embarrassing to release to the wide world. It works pretty well with 
clarinets and voices, and as you can see at 
http://www.n-ism.org/Projects/microtonalism.php (towards the bottom of the 
page) there is also an off-line version which allows you to compare an audio 
track against a MIDI track after the performance (so you can make several 
takes on the same score data, then look at them in turn).

The 12ET stuff is ready to fly.

The Microtonal stuff has a few interface widgets to add to it before Dougie's 
totally happy, but I'm trying to force him to get it out there ("release 
early, release often")

Now the questions.

What's the best way of getting this into a mainstream release? I think we are 
all a bit uneasy about it stopping any potential rewrite of the notation 
view. Dougie's mentioned his ideas on what class should contain what on this 
list before. If I read between the lines correctly, the current architecture 
is up for rewrite, but at a pretty low priority, so it would make sense to 
release our stuff in the interrim (although the last thing we want is to 
delay the rewrite further).

Do you think it should be a build-time option, or just be there? Or should it 
be a separate CVS branch? As I said before, I'm quite keen it goes 
main-stream, but you the dev comunity might not have the same priorities as 
we do.

Nick/.