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Justin Frankel Reveals Life After Winamp
Joseph Gelinas writes "Speaking out for the first time on life after AOL/Nullsoft, Winamp creator Justin Frankel sat down with BetaNews to discuss his new endeavors. Starting a new company called Cockos, Frankel is leaving behind the mass market for his musical roots, but hints at revolutionary -- and presumably controversial -- things to come."
GarageBand is supposed to do on-the-fly filters. And I know Soundtrack does. Apple has been very staunch about on-the-fly effects not only in Audio, but video as well. GarageBand comes with iLife for $50. Soundtrack is $199. Neither of them will lighten your wallet too much.
I guess Jesusonic might be easier to control on-the-road than having a point and click computer to process your effects, but that is the only bonus I see to having it rather than a computer. But since it has a keyboard, I'm skeptical. If this was meant for the studio, I'd rather have a computer.
So does Ardour. I've been having a lot of fun using it to process my rackmount gear. Haven't tried it on a laptop though... I have it in my home studio.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Why not just use Jack Rack?/
http://arb.bash.sh/~rah/software/jack-rack
Loads more effects, low latency and a much nicer interface than Jesusonic.
Check out http://www.ifolder.com/ . It's a half open source / half proprietary software piece that lets directories sync between computers, regardless of the OS. Lin to Win, Win to Lin, Lin to Lin, etc...
Enjoy!
Tim
See... and you thought your sig was boring - TT
You'd be wanting Unison then: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
:)
There's Win/Lin/Mac client's, both graphical and console... lovely little app
95%+ of the posters on /., and perhaps even Frankel himself seem entirely unaware that the idea of his jesusonic project is nothing new at all.
there are several so-called "RT VST hosts" that do the same thing, and several standalone programs. most have been around for several years.
even on Linux (even!) we have tools like JackRack and EcaMegaPedal, not to mention the world's best live looper (SooperLooper). maybe Frankel's ideas about triggers might represent some slightly novel model for this kind of thing, but the authors of most of the stuff I've mentioned could probably add them in a day or two.
This is caused by two main things, firstly a PC has a LOT more raw processing power than any digital hardware fx unit. The reason its much cheaper is that PCs are a commodity item whereas high end musical equipment isnt hence the price difference.
However the best stuff is of course still analogue and remains quite pricey.
I have discovered a truly remarkable sig which this post is too small to contain.
actually it's got 3 holes, but the third is filled with dangerously sharp "teeth" that sometimes damage CockOS
Speaking out for the first time on life after AOL/Nullsoft
Correction, speaking out for the third time since leaving AOL.
Jack rack is fully midi controllable. :)
You can get a behringer foot pedal with eleven switches and two rocker pedals for about £100.
It works rather well.