Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Novice Programmer
From: Matthias Weiss (matthias.we_AT_gmx.at)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 11:22:37 EET
I suggest you join an existing project - there are several ones that could
need your input.
First that pop into my mind are soundtracker (www.soundtracker.org),
ecasound (www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/),
vodootracker(www.syncomm.org/voodoo/main.html), muse(muse.seh.de) and of course ardour( ardour.sourceforge.net ) -
some of them are written in C++;
For a comprehensive overview check www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
It's generally recommendable to use ALSA, as they announced to release 0.9
in the near future, where you might expect better documentation up to then.
Right now, you can learn a lot by reading code of existing projects.
matthias
> I am fairly novice c programmer interested in writing a tracker like audio
>
> application with integrated synths. I have been trying to decide which
> set
> of libraries to use, but they all seem to have major downfalls. OSS is
> becoming outdated, ALSA doesnt have any good documentation, ESound appears
> to
> have been stalled in development, and I can only find c++ documentation
> for
> most of the features in the ARTS libraries..
>
> I need some suggestions on which one I should go with, I would like to use
>
> ALSA if someone can give me some clues on how to get started or where to
> find
> good docs. Otherwise I'm open to suggestions
>
> thanks
> Chris Cortner
>
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