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Very cool! I hope they do the same with Rax and Wormhole. --Josh On Apr 28, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Mech wrote: > Since there are a few devs on the list here, I figured this might > be of some general interest. > > In the wake of Comic Life's success of on the Mac, Plasq seems to > have made a decision to divest itself of its audio software (which > currently leaves both Rax and Wormhole in a somewhat precarious > position). As to the fate of their freeware Looping program -- > Musolomo -- one of the Plasq admins (atariboy) has unofficially > announced that it will be going Open Source in a forum thread here: > http://preview.tinyurl.com/2dsguj > > For those of you who've never used it before, Musolomo is a quirky > little Looping plug that features a variety of interesting > functions -- instant sample mapping and transposition, forward/ > reverse, DJ-style scratching, and an X-Y pad, just to name a few. > The transposition in particular is actually pretty good/ > interesting, as it was partially coded by Airy Andre (who also did > the Speedster plug). The package is still up for download on the > Plasq site, and there's even a Universal Binary version that's been > made available through the forums. > > Personally, the main gripes I've had with Musolomo are that there's > no real Feedback mechanism (so I really think of it more as a > Phrase Sampler than a Looper), and that the allocated memory fills > up fairly quickly. It seems I always have to open multiple > instances and use them simultaneously to get around the memory > issue. Otherwise, it's an interesting little Looping tool. > > Perhaps in the future somebody might try developing it a bit > further, or porting it to a different platform (or at the very > least just add a frickin' Feedback function to the darn thing -- > please!). If nothing else, having a look at the source code might > give some of the other developers here ideas for implementation of > feature sets on their own products. > > --m. > > >