Re: [Lmuse-developer] Muse and a new release

[Robert J. <spa...@gm...>]

Hi Florian,

2011/10/23 Florian Jung <flo...@we...>:
> Am 23.10.2011 03:06, schrieb Geoff Beasley:
>> Well, there have been some really great improvements lately and we're
>> getting to the bottom of some very 'serious' useland show stoppers; when
>> this 'move single armed track' issue is finally put to bed, i suggest a
>> week of solid testing ( by me of course) then a release should be
>> forth-coming.
>>
> we are already in a week of solid testing ;)
> when for one week there have been no open bugs any more, we'll release.
> (i assume we'll need a month or more)
>
> that's why we have a release_2_0 branch ;)

That's right, I forgot, Geoff, please move to the release branch until
we get 2.0 out the door.

> it's just that muse is still pretty buggy. the bugs you've mentioned,
> then valgrind reports lots of problems. i'd like to fix all that before
> releasing. but currently, we're directly aiming towards a release
> (that's why we also should not do any new features, but rather focus on
> finding and squashing bugs)
>
>
>> Muse2 is almost there in terms of midi now and it's robust and musical.
>>
> true. but note the _almost_ ;)
>
>> I have been asked to give a talk at a Linux Mini Conference to be held
>> here (at Ballarat, Victoria,Australia) in January 2012. I have decided
>> to do a talk entirely on Muse. It's history, development and current status.
>>
> yay! that would be really cool. i think that's one great way to get more
> people using and deving muse ;)
>> This is a fine piece of software that you can all be proud of; and it's
>> time it had some kind of promotion to lift it's profile to where it
>> truly belongs - as the premier midi solution on the Linux platform.
>>
>> I'm not a fan of the audio implementation as you are all aware, but it
>> seems to work perfectly well - I just can't vouch for it's
>> stability,reliability and user friendliness.
>>
>> I intend to rectify this by attempting to use Muse2 for my next
>> arrangement; that's right, giving up my beloved Ardour to give the old
>> bitch a chance to prove herself.
> i have plans (well, rather ideas in a very early state ;) ) to add some
> DAW-like features to muse:
> "dumping" MIDI tracks to wave (useful for: mixing it all down when
> you're ready and want to create a flac/mp3/ogg out of it, when your
> machine is too slow for all the synthes, when you don't have all synthes
> right now (think of portable laptops, but non-portable external
> synthes), or you want to apply effects). then i also want to apply
> effects and basic audio operations on these recorded waves (which are
> NOT to be confused with "WAVE-tracks"; i call it "prerender" currently),
> like "echo", "fade in/out", filtering, phaser etc (of course, with
> time-dependent strengths etc.). the great advantage of this would be:
> you can do almost everything in one program, and you can change midi
> notes, then re-record WITHOUT losing your applied effects. they're just
> applied on the NEW recorded wave)
> but that's in far, far future ;)

Just as a reminder, we discussed this before right? It is possible to
do the above in MusE with bounce to track and muting the original
track, the administration of it needs to be done manually though.

Which reminds me, when I try to do bounce to wave with freewheeling
enabled it works fast but the resulting wave contains garbage. MusE's
fault or jacks fault?

>> Not having LV2 is a bit of a  problem
>> though, but ladspa/dssi will have to suffice. hhmm, i could use some of
>> my old vst's under dssi perhaps?? we'll see.....
>>
> is it that hard to implement LV2? (i have no idea about it ;) )

Having LV2 is on my wishlist too. Adding it is a little too big a
project for myself currently..

Regards,
Robert