KVR Audio

openoctave · Post by **openoctave** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 7:33 am

http://www.indiegogo.com/OPEN-OCTAVE-ST ... -the-means new video posted!

LawrenceF · Post by **LawrenceF** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:52 pm

openoctave wrote:Thanks for your comments, we have always developed our application based on direct feedback and involve our community along the way. So it is much appreciated!

Thanks for taking my comment in the way it was intended.

I don't personally use Linux DAWs so your product would be of no interest to me personally with it being on that platform, but it looks pretty good to me. Looks like it will be an excellent choice for people who compose on Linux... especially being open source and (I presume) free?

Props. As they say... "Nice piece of code, that..."

P.S. One additional tiny observation. The large logo in the panel seems a bit gratuitous... and just a bit of a waste of working space, to me, mmv. If you asked me for suggestions about the UI I'd say it looks great, but ditch the logo graphics and leave that space for more of the actual data.

openoctave · Post by **openoctave** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 5:17 pm

LawrenceF wrote:
openoctave wrote:Thanks for your comments, we have always developed our application based on direct feedback and involve our community along the way. So it is much appreciated!
Thanks for taking my comment in the way it was intended.

I don't personally use Linux DAWs so your product would be of no interest to me personally with it being on that platform, but it looks pretty good to me. Looks like it will be an excellent choice for people who compose on Linux... especially being open source and (I presume) free?

Props. As they say... "Nice piece of code, that..."

P.S. One additional tiny observation. The large logo in the panel seems a bit gratuitous... and just a bit of a waste of working space, to me, mmv. If you asked me for suggestions about the UI I'd say it looks great, but ditch the logo graphics and leave that space for more of the actual data.

One of the primary point of the fund raising campaign is to bring the app to Windows and Mac.

Thanks for the pointer on the logo. I quite like it so I am not sure that will be changing but again thank you.

openoctave · Post by **openoctave** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:25 pm

LawrenceF wrote:
openoctave wrote:Thanks for your comments, we have always developed our application based on direct feedback and involve our community along the way. So it is much appreciated!
Thanks for taking my comment in the way it was intended.

I don't personally use Linux DAWs so your product would be of no interest to me personally with it being on that platform, but it looks pretty good to me. Looks like it will be an excellent choice for people who compose on Linux... especially being open source and (I presume) free?

Props. As they say... "Nice piece of code, that..."

P.S. One additional tiny observation. The large logo in the panel seems a bit gratuitous... and just a bit of a waste of working space, to me, mmv. If you asked me for suggestions about the UI I'd say it looks great, but ditch the logo graphics and leave that space for more of the actual data.

When we get to Windows you will have to give us a shot, we have a unique tool-set that simply does not exist anywhere.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 6:44 pm

I like the concept, and the ambition, and have a few questions.

1. Ardour3 alpha/beta have a simple binary installer, no packaging or
compiling needed, is this easy installation be implemented?

2. With linuxsampler under the hood, will one be able to simply
create a track, and drag/drop or menu-select a .gig or .sfz file,
and begin playing, then arm the track and be able to press a
'Record' button?

3. Ambitious linux apps requiring compilation, have a deadly failure
ratio, when not compiled on the authors hardware/software configuration,
has the linux version been packaged by anyone for .rpm/.deb in such a way, that
it will install and work correctly when system libraries are newer
than those now considered OOM dependencies?

4. Since linux audio distro basics require less than 200 meg, have you
considered using one as a host for OOM, so your team is in almost total
control of the operating system?

5. A business P.O. box for old-fashioned donations?

Good luck with this effort

openoctave · Post by **openoctave** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 7:53 pm

glokraw wrote:I like the concept, and the ambition, and have a few questions.

1. Ardour3 alpha/beta have a simple binary installer, no packaging or
compiling needed, is this easy installation be implemented?

2. With linuxsampler under the hood, will one be able to simply
create a track, and drag/drop or menu-select a .gig or .sfz file,
and begin playing, then arm the track and be able to press a
'Record' button?

3. Ambitious linux apps requiring compilation, have a deadly failure
ratio, when not compiled on the authors hardware/software configuration,
has the linux version been packaged by anyone for .rpm/.deb in such a way, that
it will install and work correctly when system libraries are newer
than those now considered OOM dependencies?

4. Since linux audio distro basics require less than 200 meg, have you
considered using one as a host for OOM, so your team is in almost total
control of the operating system?

5. A business P.O. box for old-fashioned donations?

Good luck with this effort

1. Ardour has always fought to have installs go through them, we are not like that we will just go with the distributions packaging

2. It is already one click to add instruments and synths. You should give it a try.

3. No sure I follow. Just try it out.

4. No time to make a distro, busy building tools.

5. We have a P.O. address for my wife's business that we could use.

If you are on Ubuntu we have the Beta ready to test, more builds coming soon:

https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-team/+a ... openoctave

Thanks!

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 4:12 pm

openoctave wrote: 4. No time to make a distro, busy building tools.

3. No sure I follow. Just try it out.

If you are on Ubuntu we have the Beta ready to test, more builds coming soon:

https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-team/+a ... openoctave

Thanks!

Hi, 4. the distros already are made, dropping in your project and it's dependencies/accessories, then running a remaster script to create
a live CD/DvD, is pretty easy. This could insulate you and your users
from some of the more moronic linux caveats and config nightmares,
that have sent so many curious windows users back
to the brink of insanity

3. lack of uniformity and coordinated system library releases among the plethora of
linux versions, has cost linux musicians countless hours spent sorting,
configuring, installing, reinstalling, making life more difficult for projects like yours, hence my suggestion 4.

Don't have a buntu, so I'll watch for more builds.

Cheers

alvfaria · Post by **alvfaria** » Mon May 14, 2012 12:22 am

I bet the windows version will be available before the release of Bitwig Studio!

Mechanought · Post by **Mechanought** » Tue May 15, 2012 12:01 am

Looks quite interesting.

Wish I could donate, but the Summer Months are setting in, which as DJ is not the best time of year financially.

I wish you the best with your development and you have a willing able tester when the Windows Beta rolls around.

bulusglo · Post by **bulusglo** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:23 pm

Hi,

What's happening to Open Octave Studio now ?

B.

AstralExistence · Post by **AstralExistence** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:31 pm

aw gee, did there money run out from there less scam.

bulusglo · Post by **bulusglo** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:53 pm

Strange I haven't found any info since 2012.
If someone knows what they became ?

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:57 pm

Looks nice. As soon as I get a new laptop, I might put Ubuntu on this one...

StevenT2112 · Post by **StevenT2112** » Tue Apr 08, 2014 11:58 am

1. Is this still going? I just heard about this project recently and wanted to check it out. Seems like the last version that came out was a few years ago. I haven't been able to find any recent news on this.

2. I managed to install this on Ubuntu. I can get the open octave studio to run but I wan't able to get open octave midi to work. When I tried to install one of the sample libraries that came with it, open octave studio would crash towards the end of the installation and when I checked the terminal I saw this.

"Qt has caught an exception thrown from an event handler. Throwing
exceptions from an event handler is not supported in Qt. You must
reimplement QApplication::notify() and catch all exceptions there.

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
Aborted (core dumped)"

o.O Did I do something wrong? I admit, I'm not familiar at all with Ubuntu. But I followed everything it said on how to install this software.

glokraw · Post by **glokraw** » Wed Apr 09, 2014 3:36 am

Hi, you might check the qt libs that were standard at the
time of the last update, and install a linux of
that vintage.

I think one of the devs has an active twiiter account,
so maybe you can sleuth it out, and could ask about
the current status of the project.
I think they moved to Canada, probably career or family changes
diverted them away from the project.
Cheers

Open Octave Studio?