Introducing the Rear Window blog

@trixie

Very nice, thanx a bunch.

@trixie

Great read as always, and thanks so much for the first release of RAVE!!
Will post this on my Blog as well!

Keep up the good work!

@trixie

Very nice read mate!!!
And Rave is awesome!!!

EDIT: loaded a WAV file and in information window (File) I get:
Name: albatros.wav
Path: blahblahblah
Type: Wave
Data format: MPEG Layer III <---- ¿:-/

I don't know anything about audio/samples (en)codecs, but a WAVE file using MPEG format?

@trixie

Thank you for the Rave, I'll check it out as soon as time permits! Reading about last 5% was very interesting, I would never guess, not being a coder myself.

@jabirulo

Thanks for trying out Rave!

Quote:
Yes, that is possible. If you look at the WAV entry on Wikipedia, you'll read that "Audio in WAV files can be encoded in a variety of audio coding formats, such as GSM or MP3, to reduce the file size." So what Rave reports is indeed correct. Most WAV files, of course, contain uncompressed PCM data; yours happens to have the data compressed by the MPEG Layer III codec.

@trixie

Ok, thx for clarification

localization planed?

@jabirulo

Quote:
The program is localization-ready, but because the editor is still work in progress, things keep changing all the time. The locale catalog descriptor will be sent out for translation as soon as the user interface text is stable enough.

@trixie

Congrats and Thank you for the first release!

@trixie

Excellent news - congratulations on letting it fly out into the world for the first time!

Downloaded immediately, looking forward to seeing what it can do.

And as soon as you're ready for localization, I'll take care of the Danish one, of course

Best regards,

Niels

@trixie

Wow, for a First release It looks already feature complete and very powerful... count on me for the italian translation

@trixie
Quote:
Just downloaded and gave it a quick spin with three different format sound files.
Enjoy I did! Very nice first release!

Is it to early to start asking for features. :)
The one I missed most was an "Undo".

Kevin

@ trixie

congrats on the official release! messed around with some samples and so far so good

@trixie
Is MIDI/CAMD support planned for Rave?

I see record is planned for the future of Rave but couldnt find anything about MIDI in the docs.
The reason I ask is that I have have an idea for a plugin that involves MIDI and record.

@khayoz

Quote:
What kind of MIDI support would you like to see? Rave is a sample editor and does not deal with MIDI in any way.


@ktadd

Quote:
Undo is high on the to-do list along with other missing features, but surprisingly it's not straightforward to implement. It's not like in 8-bit editor times when samples were short and you just dumped the undo data into a memory buffer.

@khayoz

You want to wait for @lylehaze and his "Score" program.
It might give you exactly what you are looking for.

@trixie

Thanks for your latest blog entry (as well as all the previous ones). It's always helpful to read how other programmers view and approach things, and to compare it with my own views and approach. And equally helpful to see what kinds of problems other programmers encounter with their projects.

Although I don't have a great need for editing audio samples, I wanted to check out Rave anyway. I downloaded it and tried to run it, but it won't start because I don't have the latest versions of the Enhancer Core components. And I can't update those because every time I try to download a newer version with Updater it tells me my account isn't enabled for downloads.

I gather the solution to that is to get in touch with AmigaKit and have them make some database adjustment on their end. I haven't bothered with this previously as I didn't have anything that actually used the Enhancer Core components. Now I do, so I guess I'll have to get on it.

@all

Thank you for your interest in Rave! I hope you'll enjoy using the program as much as I've enjoyed making it! And Skateman, thanks for spreading the word!

@nbache, @samo79

Thanks for the offer - you bet that I'll reach out to my usual suspects for translations!

@msteed

Sorry for the inconvenience, I'm sure AmigaKit will fix this for you. Hope they'll also update the Enhancer Core archive to include the latest version of the classes.

@trixie

I would like to see MIDI output(notenumber, velocity and prg change) for plugins to be able to send MIDI out.

And I would also like to see a Donate button on your blog! ;)

Congratulations with the release! Well done!

@khayoz

Quote:
While Rave plugins could theoretically do anything, such functionality would IMHO find a better place in a MIDI sequencer. Horny and BarsnPipes should fit the bill.

Quote:
I'm not asking for donations but if you'd like to support my projects and blog, I have a page on Ko-fi where I share more immediate news and progress reports, and where donations can also be sent. Now that Rave is finally out I should probably promote the page some more