[Ardour-Dev] Contribute porting Ardour to Windows

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Mon Jun 14 15:38:38 PDT 2010


On Mon, June 14, 2010 1:13 pm, Bruno Barba Venturi wrote:
> Sure.
>
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/barba3
>
> When student, I worked in a project called TC-Station, which is a car
> airbag
> test system (C/C++), and now I've been at Microsoft for 2.5 years as test
> engineer in a platform used by the newest versions of SystemCenter and
> Windows Intune (both are Beta).
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsintune/default.aspx
>
> I've done C# during almost all time at MS, however I like a lot C/C++. I
> also know basic COM, a little asm, concurrent programming, databases, some
> POSIX, Linux, networks, etc.
> I like a lot to do efficient and time critical code; that's one of the
> main
> reasons I want to work in a DAW.
>

The Ardour system is a great way to improve your c++ and realtime skillz.

Just out of curiosity, don't you have an nda that says you can't work on
something as fundamentally threatening to the MS way of doing things as
Ardour on windows?


> Regarding audio, I've always been interested in that kind of software, and
> I
> have some experience with Cubase SX and Protools, therefore, I'm
> familiarized with DAW conepts such as channels, regions, buses, plugins,
> VST, ASIO, RTAS, etc.
> I haven't done much programming about audio; I have done a few
> just-for-fun
> quick-and-dirty apps to read and play WAV files, mix channels, generate
> and
> mix sine waves.
>
> Bruno
> barba3 at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:07 PM, John Emmas <johne53 at tiscali.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the offer Bruno.  If I send you my email address, maybe you
>> can
>> let me have some idea about your areas of experience.  Have you worked
>> on
>> any other audio projects?  Or any other large scale projects - even if
>> they
>> weren't open source?
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On 14 Jun 2010, at 18:38, Bruno Barba Venturi wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to contribute porting Ardour to Windows. This is going the
>> first time I contribute to an open source project.
>> John E: I read you did some work already. I think the best way to get
>> started is by helping you completing work you already identified. Can I
>> help
>> you completing any task?
>>
>> Bruno
>> barba3 at gmail.com
>>
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