Introducing the Rear Window blog

@trixie

I didn't know you were active in the demo scene.
I'll download the demo and give it a whirl.

Cheers

@all

Thanks for reading!

@TiredOfLife

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Yes, this is a period I call "my first Amiga life" But the demoscene in the Czech Republic wasn't very vibrant, and I lost interest towards the end of the 90s. When I jumped on the AmigaOS4 bandwagon in 2009 I didn't continue writing music but, instead, rekindled my interest in application programming - something I find much more enjoyable on OS4 compared to the Classic.

@trixie

Cool that you've been active in the demoscene! I used to swap/mailtrade floppies with some in the Czech Republic in the 90's. Maybe you know them? Lahve (member of Reason), Magellan (member of Royal) and I think Bolda from Horizontal Lamerz too (but can't remember 100%, hehe). Good times!

@AmigaOldskooler

Yes I remember all three of them. I met Lahve in person a few times (he's an actor and film director now), and I exchanged a good deal of mail with Magellan (who was also active in the Atari ST scene AFAIK).

@trixie

Wow, that sounds marvellous! Impressed Lahve has become both an actor and film director! :) Lost touch with them when mailtrading sort of disappeared due to most people getting Online back then, so interesting to hear how they're doing.

My December blog post gives some background on my programming activities and - more importantly - introduces the software project I'm working on at the moment. Enjoy!

@Trixie
Wow! As usual quality programs from you! I love Exchanger quite much :) As for the new editor itself: if you need any deep beta test, I am ready :)

The new Rave app looks awesome. Trixie, you rule. Looking forward to use it. I am regularly using such apps, in conjunction with AudioEvolution. They are extremely useful.

Thanks for doing this.

@trixie
Rave...Nice!
Thanks for all your contributions and it looks like another great one.
I see a record button. Will it have the ability to record audio from a Mic Input?

@kas1e

Stay tuned for the first beta And... I'm glad somebody actually uses Exchanger!

@walkero

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Which are the ones you use, out of curiosity? I still like SoundFX, although it's showing its age, and can be a bit difficult to grasp because of its scope.

@ktadd

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It will record from anything AHI presents as an audio input.

@trixie

Thank you, nice to see productivity software in development!

@trixie

Very nice!!!

Rave will be a good replacement of AmisoundED

This is awesome news, well done! I'll definitely be using this when it's available

Way to go Trixie!

Looking forward to this new tool.

Will it make it possible to fix pops in a sample (e.g. a recorded vinyl with a scratch) by zooming in and manually editing the waveform?

That would be very useful for me and something I haven't found in any modern (i.e. 16+ bit sample capable) Amiga program.

Best regards,

Niels

@sinisrus

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I will be honoured if people think so

@nbache

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Not any time soon I'm afraid A more likely solution is a plugin that detects and repairs pops in a given sample or selection.

@trixie

This Rave seems pretty interesting

@trixie

Quote:Yeah, I've seen that feature offered in some programs (mostly on other platforms, but I think SoX can do it too).

I just feel more in control when I can see the changes I make one by one and make sure they are not a sound that is supposed to be there (some percussion instrument or something).

Although I have to admit the few times I've actually used a manual waveform editor (in Exact Audio Copy on a PC) to fix up a sample of a pretty scratched vinyl track, it has taken much too much of my time, so maybe it's time to weigh the pros and cons of the automated approach.

Best regards,

Niels

@nbache

Of course both approaches (manual and automatic) have their pros and cons. The reason I'm saying the automatic approach is more likely to happen is that Rave's plugin system is ready to adopt a piece of processing code, whereas the waveform display module is not ready for manual editing.

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Speaking of SoX... it would be interesting to see if libsox could be used as a processing engine (today, no-one writes their own DSP code anymore, you simply use one of the existing libraries). I'll see if I can coax anybody into porting it for me. Should be easier than porting the full SoX, especially as I don't need the I/O routines (sample loading/saving is already handled by Rave's sndio.module, which is based on libsndfile - port courtesy of Fredrik Wikstrom).

@trixie

How about getting your software "Rave" to use the XMOS XS1-L2 124 onboard chip. (XENA) With some sort of bridgeout board that could be used for Audio related tasks..... Soundcard, Midi, Ofloading of audio related stuff...

Just thinking about how the X5000 users could use that extras piece of hardware... I could also have had to much to drink yesterday.