Re: [Lmuse-user] [Muse-QT4] Musing on MusE

[N.Radd <nr...@or...>]

On Sunday 16 December 2007, N.Radd wrote:

>  Concretly i wish MusE had more MIDI routing ability.
>
I did a quick test of MusE-QT4 (how sweet is that gentoo proaudio overlay, 
makes SVN installation a breeze) and i had the good surprise to see that MusE 
has greatly improved in the routing department. 

> Now i see the version "2.0" delayed again and i have the impression that
> the dynamic behind MusE is decaying. I have not build yet the QT4 version
> but i have the impression that the complexity of the project has increased
> significantly to bring the audio features up the the current standards
> (with full clip editing and automation) and that since Werner is the only
> core developper it will be very hard for him to be as productive as several
> developpers.
>

(BTW, i realised during my test that the clip features are not completly as we 
would expect. Changing the envelope of an audio clip affects the track 
automation, there is kind of a confusion between the roles).

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I have just seen the recent thread on LAU on midi sequencers (that don't 
sucks, that is) and it seems that i am not alone feeling the frustrating 
situation we are facing right now. ;-)

I think that as linux users we have failed to create some sort of organisation 
to collect fund and to elect some projects for receiving a momentum boost. 
Because we cannot rely exclusivly on the part time of a single talented 
programmer for project that are so complex. 

I am sure they are a lot of people who would want to give a little money for a 
better and faster achievement... no ?

>To summup may be its a better bet to switch to MusE QT4, all of us, specially 
>if the MIDI part is stable enough, but i don't know... I have gentoo and 
>could build it for a try to see that. Are there some people using it 
>already ? :) 
So i made the experiment, managed to play some notes without crash. The 
routing logic is a little different, and at first you wonder how to simply 
hear you playing. The routing is more powerfull but potentially troublesome 
for the average joe (shit !). 

One thing i didn't find is how to change the bank/patch number of a midi 
channel ? (would still be glad to know, btw). Seems like this has disapeared 
from the track list pannel ?

The next big step for me would be to be able to load my current MusE projects, 
even if it's just the MIDI side of them (as i don't use audio, ahah). Even a 
simple text converter would do the trick.

Then i (and may be other guys here ?) would be able to use the SVN version on 
a daily basis, and report short corners. That would greatly restart the 
dynamic behind the project if there is a little number of people willing to 
test it, specially since the MIDI features seem to be okay at this point 
(wich i hope to be true). 

NR