From 2905e4b5179c0975f9b35e41c9905abecb9cd246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Krause Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 16:39:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add draft for the first dev update --- content/Development-update-19-12-01.md | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/Development-update-19-12-01.md diff --git a/content/Development-update-19-12-01.md b/content/Development-update-19-12-01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c03d93 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/Development-update-19-12-01.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +Title: Development Update December 2019 +Date: 2019-12-01 +Authors: Georg Krause +Summary: An short overview what is currently worked on. +Category: Development Update +Status: Draft + +## Regular update from the development process + +We did a short consultation in the Matrix channel and decided there will be regular development updates. This is the first one. +This is to inform the community whats currently worked on and which discussions are going on in the background. If you are interested +in joining these discussions, feel free to enter our Matrix room or IRC channel or just write an E-Mail! + +## Custom Meters + +Until now Loopp only allowed to use 4/4 bars. From now on its possible to change the meter in the settings. Its not stable yet and needs +testing. If you are interested in helping out with testing this, get in touch! Besides technically testing for bugs we are also happy +for some feedback regarding the workflow. + +## Time synchronisation + +Another decision we made after some testing and discussions affects synchronising Loopp with other applications or even hardware. Until +now, Loopp supported Jack Transport as synchronisation protocol. But there were always bugs. One reason for this is that Jack Transport +does not support looping, making it work requires some workarounds, which always get us into trouble in the edge cases. + +So we decided to drop the support for Jack Transport in favor of Ableton Link. Thats a protocol which is designed with looping applications +in mind. The implementation has not started yet, but it might be part of the next release already. + +## Big changes in the background + +There are some feature requests which needs some deep changes to get implemented. Examples might be a GUI which allows Drag and Drop of Clips, +Midi clips or the headless mode. This is why we started a refactoring of the core components to make it more flexible. + +Please note, this is a long term project in the background. This probably wont get into one of the next releases.