Is Aldrin still alive?

[BamBooli]

Aloha,

after a hard work installing aldrin in sidux (i am not that good to compile things), i am wish it can make more comfortable. What about a debian packaging and set to the main debian packages (apt-get ... makes it for user easier)?

I like aldrin and it is for me faster/stable than buzztard. What are the plans? Is aldrin still in development? Is a way to integrate original buzzmachines?

Hope the project goes on!

Greetz

Michael

[paniq]

Hi Michael,

I am/was the main developer of Aldrin. Aldrin is currently in a "dormant" state, that is, it has been largely abandoned. I have ceased to work on it since about two years because of private affairs (new wife, moved to Hamburg), but I still used Aldrin since then.

Pieter Holtzhausen and others took over maintenance while I was away, but apparently there was little interest in keeping Aldrin going, maybe because of the awkward project structure, or maybe because we have a user community of just about 3 people

Bucket Brigade forked Aldrin and continued working on it, but his product appears to be as buggy as ours:

http://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/news

After thinking long and hard about what bugs me about Aldrin, I decided to write Aldrin's unique components from scratch, as part of the larger Jack Audio Connection Kit infrastructure on Linux. So the spiritual successor of Aldrin is going to be "Jacker" (Jack-Tracker), which is a pure sample precise MIDI tracker/sequencer for the JACK bus. It's going to be usable in about 2-3 weeks.

I hope that answers your questions.

[BamBooli]

After thinking long and hard about what bugs me about Aldrin, I decided to write Aldrin's unique components from scratch, as part of the larger Jack Audio Connection Kit infrastructure on Linux. So the spiritual successor of Aldrin is going to be "Jacker" (Jack-Tracker), which is a pure sample precise MIDI tracker/sequencer for the JACK bus. It's going to be usable in about 2-3 weeks.

I hope that answers your questions.

Hm? What is Jacker? Works it like aldrin (buzz)? I have no clue but it seems interesting.
Have you a link? Show us pictures

Greetz
Michael

[bucket_brigade]

You are free to try my fork. I made it so no one screws up the software I need to making music on. And thus I will maintain it until I stop making music (hopefully not sooner than in 50 years or so). And thus bugs will be fixed when they bite and new machines will be added when they are needed and I will make sure that instructions on how to install work on all the newest versions of Ubuntu. It is also nowhere near as buggy as aldrin

http://sites.google.com/site/neilsequencer/