Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio/Music CD: Where things stand now...
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp_AT_ulster.net)
Date: ti elo 10 1999 - 03:15:18 EDT
Dave Phillips wrote:
> WRT a Linux audio distro, a friend wrote to say that he felt it was
> quite premature to plan such a beast, when so few Linux audio
> applications are truly "ready to rock". So I decided to list what is
> stable and usable on my machine. Here's a partial list of what I've come
> up with:
(snip)
> Silence
(snip)
I was just looking at M. Gogins' license for Silence at:
http://www.pipeline.com/~gogins/Silence/Silence.htm#License
NOtice that he uses the GPL but then adds a $100 download fee for any
"non-personal" useage. Unusual. Would this be a problem? I can't really
figure it out. Might be a good idea to write to him before including
Silence in anything.
> and actually a bunch of other small progs.
Most notably SoX. Love it or loathe it, it's hard to avoid using SoX!
> So what would you add
> to/delete from that list ? Are we shy of our projected distribution ?
Hmm. Personally I think it's still a _bit_ early; I'd like to see nearly
everything on that list developed a bit further before making a distro
out of it. In particular I'd like so see one of the truly-free sequencer
projects (not Jazz++) get to a stage of real production useability:
working midi input and output, etc. Anyone know when the much-fabled
Rosegarden 3.0 might arise? 2.1 looked promising but didn't seem to work
very well ... And what's up with Cantor? No new version in a long
time...
I was just at a friends' house playing with 303seq on a windoze box.
Very fun little proggy. Sort of like SoftWerk only not. Would be a cool
thing to clone and/or make obsolete!
--PW
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