deadmau5 lets you remix his tracks ..

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

Jay Vaughan wrote:
>> ? I basically look for something that I can use to listen to 1h+ files 
>> (movie audio for one thing) and tag sections to export later. If that could
>> happen with one click, that'd be even better !
>> 
> 
> Was it TouchTheWave (TTW)?
> 
>> Would that work ? It's be great to do on the go rather than sitting for 
>> long time at home to do the same thing. If not, I might even be willing to
>> develop something like that.
> 
> Just Do It.

Yeah! Obviously - don't duplicate if there's something out there already... 
There's a huge amount to be learned from listening to music that's created "in 
the flow", in real time or "in the moment", where, by definition, one cannot be 
aware of what one is doing, or even of it's compositional value. But to get to 
these nuggets requires something like a 10:1 ratio against material where you 
know all-too-well what's going on, and which is all too familiar (one's own 
cliches cropping up in unending forms).

Hell yeah, if an application was *designed* from the ground up to make such 
listening sessions easier to navigate (a finely tuned UI comes to mind - the UIs 
of most editors are always going to be over-spec for such operations), and 
provide annotation, then this would be of great benefit to musicians. Tagging 
with locators and comments, maybe also cross-referencing too, would be great. 
Currently I have used Ardour for such listening, as it provides some pretty 
amazing cue/review/marking which are required in a pro-multitrack studio (even 
though I just use it for stereo recordings).

An interestingly different slice through the user population would find its way 
to such an applicatiopn, over time. One request: X-platform pls :)

Maybe use Qt, cos then it can hit Symbian, Linux, Win, OSX all at the same time.

Tony (HB)