Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Audio/Music CD: Where things stand now...
From: Dave Phillips (dlphilp_AT_bright.net)
Date: ti elo 10 1999 - 11:36:53 EDT
Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
> Impressive list. Having such a distribution surely helps us to find out
> what still is missing and what is needed so that existing programs would
> co-work seamlessly. Or, for example, do we already have audio or MIDI
> copy/paste in GNOME? Sync between different programs? Esound allows already
> run of the multiple applications but perhaps the sync is not there yet.
A few more words about that list:
1. It wasn't meant to indicate what I thought should go on the disc,
only to show what I actually have running here. No, not everything
listed works absolutely perfectly (like everything on Windows does...),
but everything there works well for my applications. I had received mail
concerning the actual number of usable programs, so I wrote the list.
2. Yes, it does show where we're short. IMO, Linux excels at the more
experimental types of audio and music apps, and it falls short in the
domains of MIDI sequencing, wave editing, and software more oriented
towards making music in popular styles
3. Bill Schottstaedt pointed out that it lacked notation progs, so he
would add CMN (Common Music Notation) and LilyPond to the list.
4. There are dozens of smaller, excellent applications not on the
list. For instance, I've been using Mike Oliphant's GRip, a nice
front-end for cdparanoia (a ripper), BladeEnc, (an MP3 encoder), and
Mike's own GCD (a CD player). GRip utilizes the cddb, an on-line
database of CD titles and their contents, very handy when grabbing
tracks. Then there's Maurizio Puxeddu's PitchTracker suite, a neat new
GUI for Oyvind Hammer's PTPS code, which Maurizio revisedand updated
using the FFTW library. Kai Vehmanen's powerful ecasound is now equipped
with a Qt interface, but is perfectly happy at the command-line. And so
and so forth...
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Finally, I must apologize for some of my recent mail, it was supposed to
be sent to the Csound mail-list but I hit the wrong button. Now aren't
you all happy I don't work for a nuclear power plant ?!
== Dave Phillips
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/index.html
http://sunsite.univie.ac.at/Linux-soundapp/linux_soundapps.html
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