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Justin Frankel Reveals Life After Winamp

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sitting-on-his-pile-of-cash dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Jesusonic Looks Interesting by somethinghollow · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Jesusonic Looks Interesting by eno2001 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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
  3. Re:Pathsync by electrichamster · · Score: 3, Informative

    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 :)

  4. nothing new, nothing novel by paulbd · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.