This was from another thread but also answers some additional questions about ammobox..
6:05am, still not done getting ready for the demo that's going to be in 8.5 hours. Pffoo.
busy busy.
-n
Dj-Grobe wrote:Nathan , can confirm?
With your software not possible play music like with deckadance and traktor scracth etc etc?
Correct?
Not for now?
Well. That's a sticky question. ammobox is a prototype, could you? Yes you could. Would you want to? Probably not. ammobox is not as bulletproof as any of the existing commercial products when it comes to timecode, I implemented a fairly barebones mechanism for reading timecode and while it works great and takes very little cpu it makes little to no effort to compensate for bad reads (dust, scratches) -- it only knows what to expect in ideal to ever so slightly less than ideal conditions. This is the nature of building things from scratch.
In time I'm hoping to robustify the time-code reading so that it is on par with commercial applications but I make no promises.
As well, the UI for ammobox doesn't have nearly the capabilities that the commercial apps do in that loading files frequently is a cumbersome process, it performs much better when you create preset lists of samples and load them in large batches.
ammobox also doesn't play well with mp3 files, it likes uncompressed audio. It can play with mp3 files but not yet and it'll require some fudging to make that a possibility, personally it's not on my agenda.
Consider ammobox an additional tool to add to the dj toolbox, it doesn't really replace any existing tool, it just fills a niche thats been empty.
I should also mention, there's a good chance I'll just stop working on ammobox entirely, I tend to get an idea and work on it 110% until its done and then I'm burnt out for a while.
You guys will note, it's been about a year since LiveAPI came out, I took a week of vacation off in the final phases of it and worked 16 hours a day for 9 days to make sure everything 'worked', that the website was up, contacting bloggers and magazines, etc..
It took me about 8 months to care about writing music software again, this was far less painful and more fun to have an end product like ammobox but I can't make any promises about its future. My day job needs to get top priority again so I can pay the bills, and unfortunately it has more to do with boring technical stuff than fun music stuff.
