Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] firenze talk slides
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp23_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 09:46:07 EEST
Paul Davis wrote:
>
> a few people asked if they could see my slides from the "free software
> & multimedia" workshop in firenze. for whatever its worth, which i
> suspect is not much, there's a PDF at:
>
> http://www.op.net/~pbd/firenze.pdf
>
> --p
"pneumatics versus wood"??
What's that, an obscure court case? :)
Great outline, wish I could hear the talk.
I enjoyed the BSOD joke.
I must quibble with page 8, deficiencies of libre stuff as of 2001:
"no soundfile editors capable of edl editing"
broadcast 2000 can do this. Whether it does it well is another question. (Too
buggy for me, last time I tried it.)
"no multitrack software... more than a few tracks..."
ecasound? (I haven't pushed it hard; comments, Kai?)
"no multichannel software"
ecasound!
"essentially no MIDI-driven realtime synthesis systems"
Now wait a minute.
aRts?
gAlan?
Xsynth?
SpiralSynth?
maybe others?
"no commercial quality audio applications..."
sadly I agree. Most of the best linux audio software have interfaces that would
baffle your average audio engineer. To a commercial studio, this is very much
part of "quality".
"most applications are not real-time"
sadly I agree.
"most applications assume 16-bit samples, interleaved stereo data"
sadly I agree.
"applications cannot talk to each other"
sadly I agree.
"most applications are unfinished"
sadly I agree.
--PW
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