Hi Janina, Do you know a good howto that one can read up for working with Ecasound? As i understand it, the command line syntax is very very longish and complex. I could be wrong, so would be very interested if there was a good howto on this. /Krister Janina Sajka wrote: > Luke Yelavich writes: >> I am affraid you will have to stick to Windows if you need useful audio >> tools that are accessible. While there are many tools for working with >> audio under Linux, practically none of them are accessible. >> -- > > I had to respond to this. My response is that it depends on how you want > to work with audio whether or not you'll find satisfaction on Linux. > > Certainly, if you're looking for a wysiwyg multitrack recording/editing > application, you may, or may not have success with Ardour2. Regretably, > they rolled their own widgets rather than building with gtk2. On the > other hand, they seem to have provided extensive keyboard options. So > the jury is out on this important app, but some of us inclined toward > optimism are cautiously so. > > There is nothing even remotely on the horizon for recording/editing MIDI > that I know of. > > On the other hand, apps like ecasound, csound, and sox are both powerful > and very accessible. If you're willing to work at the data stream level, > you could certainly work directly with midi data streams via amidi. If > you're interested in algorithmic composition and are willing to code in > lisp, you can even get intensive training this summer with faculty > conversant with working with blind persons at U.C. Santa Cruz: > > http://summer.ucsc.edu/wacm/ > > So, the blanket statement is probably inaccurate. However, non of this > is soft and easy. Non of it is going to be uncrate your new computer and > write a new masterpiece overnight. > > Janina > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list