Re: [linux-audio-dev] What I think about reborn.

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] What I think about reborn.
From: Brian Redfern (bredfern_AT_calarts.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 01:07:07 EEST


We all have to pitch in to help develop gsynth. Looks like there's lots of
interest in using linux to make techno style sounds, and gsynth itself
doesn't have jack support or LADSPA support. I'm trying to push myself to
get beyond the basics of c/c++ so I can start helping with this
myself. Gsynth has a nice, buzz-like interface, but its missing more than
just the 303 module. Of course just getting gsynth to work as it is took a
lot of effort, but instead of flaming this rebirth guy, it would be better
to look at how we can make the stuff that's already out there better,

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hi,
> Juan Linietsky hat gesagt: // Juan Linietsky wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:00:22 -0500
> > Billy Biggs <vektor_AT_dumbterm.net> wrote:
> > > One last thought, I bet his 'kickass app' will still include the
> > > 303 emulation and the drum machines, so you need not worry so much
> > > about losing all those precious lines of source code.
> >
> > Fine, as long as he opensources that, i'd love to include them on
> > the legasynth package.
>
> As I see it, ReBorn was mostly about the interface and the
> compatibility with ReBirth. We didn't see the code yet, but as it used
> gsynth stuff and as 303 emulators are quite common (there are 303s for
> Csound, there is vcf303, there is gsynth,...), this part of the ReBorn
> code probably isn't _that_ interesting. And the drums were sampled...
>
> It's more important, that David put together all of this into a quite
> professional, commercial grade package with excellent dokumentation,
> and I don't see, why I should believe that he wouldn't have released
> the source in a few days or weeks.
>
> But I, too, would have wished to have the source *with* the binary.
>
> And obviously David's fault - free software wise - has been to be too
> quick and to release the binary without acompanying source right
> away. Maybe he just should have waited, because, as we see now, this
> is a Pandora's box opened.
>
> Personally I wanted to wait just a bit for the source, I have no
> problem with that. As I said in an earlier mail, a ReBirth clone
> wasn't exactly what I intended to use much anyways.
>
> But now, with the lawyers of "Pro-Boneheads" going after ReBorn we
> have a really sad situation. And to mourn, that this would be less
> sad, if the source was going through the net already, doesn't help
> either.
>
> ciao
> --
> Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
>


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