Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] What's up with SAOL?
From: M. Edward Borasky (znmeb_AT_aracnet.com)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 06:36:00 EET
> Basically, the standard itself keeps rolling along -- we
> had a Corrigenda in 2001, which tracked down a set of
> bugs -- but its fair to say that we're in search of the
> right applications to use the standard in, and in the
> end the right applications may be more signal-processing
> and compression oriented, rather than musician oriented.
>
> Sfront download statistics from our website shows that
> general interest in SA still seems to be there --
> the download stats of sep-nov 2001 and sep-nov 2000 are
> similiar in size. From handling emails of users, though,
> the average new user is more likely to be a new Ph.D.
> student looking for an infrastructure for a EE or CS
> Ph.D. idea, rather than a musician looking for a new
> tool to add to the roster ... of course, some of those EE
> projects might end up producing a tool interesting to
> musicians ...
*This* musician is using "sfront" instead of CSound, mostly because the
"sfront" instruments are more readable and "sfront" itself is lighter and
more customizable. I used "sfront" to synthesize
http://www.borasky-research.net/HarryIannis.htm
I am very disappointed in "saol.net", though -- the tools there are rather
primitive and not the sort of things I can use. Nor did I find either
"saolc" or "saint" useful -- so far the only SAOL tool that has proved
useful to me is "sfront".
One thing I'd really like, though, despite its length, would be a printed
version of the wonderful book and the "sfront" manual from the web site.
Call me old-fashioned, but a paper book is easier for me to use than an
electronic one, even in PDF format.
Then there's the issue of what happens when browsers download (or attempt to
download) an "mp4" file. For some reason browsers think they're text and
mess them up. So even if the "MP4 Player" at saol.net worked, it wouldn't
work. :-)
-- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, Chief Scientist, Borasky Research http://www.borasky-research.net http://www.aracnet.com/~znmeb mailto:znmeb_AT_borasky-research.net mailto:znmeb_AT_aracnet.comQ. Who invented the non-Von Neumann computer architecture? A. John non-Von Neumann.
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