From: John C. <j4s...@bi...> - 2004-03-29 22:54:01
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On Monday 29 March 2004 03:26 am, Robert Jonsson wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday 29 March 2004 04.04, Joachim Schiele wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Just a few notes: > > I tested MusE since 23 o'clock to ~ 4:00 (right now). > > > :) > : > > It's the 0.6.3 MusE release. What I notices is that I had a lot of > > crashes, copy&paste does not work 'well' and others. > > Okay, it would be very good if you could narrow these down to so it's > easier to find the bugs. A few copy&paste errors where fixed just before > 0.6.3 was released, possibly there are more similar problems ? > > As for the crashes, well, muse /does/ have a lot of features, although, the > way I use MusE I feel it actually to be quite stable. But it's quite > possible there are other use cases that are not as lucky. > Descriptions of what you did to get it to crash are greatly appreciated. Crashes are unacceptable in a performance context. If we don't have that and solid timing, nobody is going to take MuSE seriously. MuSE should be at least as stable as Cakewalk on Windows98. > > I actually am very little midi-oriented (you know...guitarist...<insert > favorite pun>), I'm more concerned with the audio parts, and that's what I > use mostly. Of course I do use midi, but I'm no power user, drums and pads > mainly. > > On a related note, I updated the FAQ on the brand new shiny wiki with a few > known problems (a few are crash problems) for 0.6.3. By staying away from > those issues, MusE behaves quite well for me. > Right there... I know it's hard to do anything about a bug you can't reproduce, but... I guess what I'm saying is, I'm sure there were good reasons for the rewrite or major overhaul, but theres still a lot of potential in the 6 series. Having to gut the RTalloc function as a workaround for the no playback bug was a major step backwards. > > what i miss is a realy stable MuSE and i think that is what a musican > > want's too - stable software - not that super power feature list the > > comercial softwares are sold for. it's should just be stable. > > Of course you are right in that MusE should be really/really/really stable. Stable will do. It's running on a platform that's more robust than windows, so thats half the battle right there. > But there are a bunch of features that, at least myself, would want very > much. And... 0.7 has pretty much all these features semi-implemented :). > Those are all audio features, as a Midi sequencer MusE is pretty much all I > ask for. > But different users have different needs, I know Mathias has some more > midi-stuff in the works because he wants it himself. > This is another point.. I can't build the unstable CVS on debian unstable, because it requires a bleeding edge QT. Which wouldn't be so bad, but apparently there are some obsolete things in you guys tool chains. I have to downgrade some stuff, then open a whole can of worms with Qt and KDE. I've been there/done that type of thing. I'm running debian for a reason. For the time being any time invested in hacking around with MuSE is strictly 6 series for me. > > i managed to use muse with my Q / MC 307 / zynaddsubfx / iiwusynth > > and hey - that worked well! > Softsynths is one of the great features of MuSE, IMO. > Great :) > > > 0.6.3 release realy fit's my basic midi needs. record midi, replay midi, > > record ..., delete, ... > > > > when is the release of 0.7 planned? Personally I hope not before it's > > more stable than the 0.6.3 release. > > I always liked Werners previous schedule with releasing a few > <versionX>preY test versions before the real one. > > I don't know if Werner is around? No cvs checkins for a while.. infact no > checkins after this message from him (some weeks ago): > "manual writin is evil! It instantly shows all the open ends, missing > code, misfeatures, design flaws etc." > ...which makes me a little worried :-). > > Werner, if you're around, do you have any plans for what is left before 0.7 > is ready ? What level of functionality is expected for 0.7? > I've got a bunch of stuff that is visible from using it, but I'm guessing > there are still some issues internally that need to be taken care of? > I think I'll make a (new) list of issues I know of sometime during this > week. > > Regards, > Robert > > |