Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] SAOL examples (grain opcode, otherwise)
From: John Lazzaro (lazzaro_AT_CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 23:45:39 EEST
> Will Benton writes
>
> How active is the "SA community"?
In one sense its active -- over the past two years,
sfront has been downloaded 700-2000 times a month,
and email I receive indicates that people are
teaching courses with it, using it for research,
using it to test their (still-secret) SAOL products
with, etc. And yes, sometimes actually make music :-).
But its not active in the CSound sense of active --
a big community of content makers exchanging code
and techniques.
This will change as SAOL grows up and finds its own
market -- standards can take an exceedingly long time
to catch on in a market, sometimes in a market very
different than the standard was envisioned for use
in -- DSL is an excellent example, its vision was
not an Internet Protocol Layer 2 at all ... but its
current success hinges on that role.
I've made a conscious choice not to do "evangelism"
on the content-creation side, because my hands are
full with evangelizing the "decoder-creation" side;
the MWPP effort:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/pubs/txt/current-mwpp.txt
falls into that category, by placing SAOL in the
middle of the IETF multimedia toolchain, it gives
context to how you might use SAOL in products and
services ...
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