Freecycle integration

Hi again,
Another thing i have been hoping to see for a long time is a sequencer working with freecycle project files.

Basically it's a beat slicer, that saves its project data in tar.gzipped folder format.
The folder has the following files in it ::
orig-wav.wav (the original wav file)
env-wav.wav (the wav file with the envelopes applied at the slice points)
project.xml (the project settings)

An example project xml file looks like so

8<-----------------------------------------------

<freecycle bpm-modifier="1/2" release="0.6.1.1alpha" >
<loop right="29721" left="29721" />
<envelope mode="2" release="0.1" decay="0.252941" releaseCx="0.95" releaseCy="0.5" active="1" attack="0.224599" decayCx="0.406404" decayCy="0.458333" sustain="1" duration="1389" attackCx="0.0712143" resolution="100" attackCy="0.8125" hold="0.101604" />
<beatlines>
<beatline position="29721" locked="1" />
<beatline position="45567" locked="1" />
<beatline position="85155" locked="1" />
<beatline position="113931" locked="1" />
<beatline position="140919" locked="1" />
<beatline position="158586" locked="1" />
<beatline position="187646" locked="1" />
<beatline position="199778" locked="1" />
<beatline position="216307" locked="1" />
</beatlines>
<stacks/>
</freecycle>

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Loop, envelope and stacks tags are all ignorable really,
as you can just use the env-wav.wav file if it exists for the envelopes,
and loop and stacks are for internal sequencing in freecycle.

On import i guess you'd have to
1.) get the part size from the bpm-modifier
2.) split the wav into parts on the beatlines,
3.) calculate their qtractor positions
4.) make a meta part holding the seperate clips in their qtractor positions

I guess it'll ony ever work in a worthwhile way if the parts in qtractor can be kind of meta-containers for a number of child audio clips, though, and if these can be edited and shifted in that part.

phew, that's a really big feature request then, sorry :)

I read in the other wish lists somewhere that a future feature is to add volume and pan curves to tracks, so you can draw in a volume fade etc.
This would be really really useful, and i was wondering if, with jack, this would allow qtractors mixer to unify other apps.
As an example, if i was running hydrogen or similar in a simple pattern,
could you have a special type of track in qtractor that is simply a jack input.
then you could pipe hydrogen into qtractors mixer and fade it,pan it, mute it etc from there.
I know you'd have to reconnect everything everytime you came back to a project,
but if you could give these tracks names then it'd be pretty clear what went where,
and the whole mix should come back pretty much as you left it.
Basically a jack track would have all the same functionalty as an audio track, but with the input coming via jack.
This could be a stupid/impossible/redundant idea, i need to read some more about what jack can and can't do, and i know there's LASH for session management, but having jack tracks just seems quick and dirty but a really really useful way of unifying things down to one mixer.

cheers,
mat