Richard,

I'd call this a "Squeak programming opportunity". :->

What currently exists is a way to view a single track sampled sound that
fits in memory. You can trim off the part of the sound before or after the
cursor. This facility is really only intended to clean up a short sound that
you've recorded yourself for use as, say, a sampled instrument or a sound
effect.

What's needed are extensions to handle:
  a. an arbitrary number of tracks
  b. cut/copy/paste of any subset of tracks
  c. keeping the sound data on disk, rather than in memory
  d. an editing tool and UI

It's not a huge job, but it's definitely two to six weeks of effort even for
someone who knows what they're doing.

	-- John


>	What do they mean by digital editing?
>	Cutting, pasting and splicing of the tracks?
>	
>I thought I was careful to say "editing of digital music"
>rather than "digital editing of music".
>My understanding of what they want to do is just what
>you say, cutting, pasting, and splicing.
>If they get adventurous, they might want to do a bit
>of mixing.  Modifying the signal as such is not important.
>
>Since sending that message, I've found out about Amadeus II,
>which looks like a lot more than they need, and has a GREAT
>price (USD 25), except that I suspect they'll want to run it
>on a Windows box, and Amadeus II appears to be Mac only.