Subject: [linux-audio-dev] introduction & ideas
From: Stefan Kost (kost_AT_imn.htwk-leipzig.de)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 12:35:44 EET
Hi there,
Just to quickly introduce myself, as I am new to the list (and to linux/unix-audio too), I am working since 1983
on a audio-processing package which is called SoundFX (see http://www.sonicpulse.de) and is avaiable form the Amiga-platform since (its
written in pure C though). Things have changed alot since then and so I'am doing some research to make the software more
and more portable. This way I found out about this mlist and projects like ladspa, jack and so on.
Now to the ideas :
When browsing jack web page (http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php) I found the "How does Jack compare to...?
" a bit confusing as some of those API's are not comparable per se. Generally it is a quite tedious task to get a
good overview about whats going on with unix (and especially linux) and audio, as everything is quite in flow.
What I would like to suggest is to
1. start a sourceforge foundry
name suggestions : "unix media" (other names are welcome)
2. start a sourceforge project along with the foundry, which is aplain website project
this way we all could easily contribute to build an informative website for audio-development, collecting links etc.
3. model a unified abstract architecture, so that the single projects can easily refer to it to state in which field
they are working (see super-simple first approach in attachment).
LADSPA e.g. would be positioned in pluginAPI/effects, ALSA in ioHAL/audio, jack probably pluginAPI/producer and pluginAPI/consumer
and so on. I belive this would clearly help new developers to choose the right technology for their tasks.
Stefan
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