Robert Jonsson <robert.jonsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sunday 07 September 2003 12:04 skrev Rick Taylor: > > G Cote <garyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Apparently, I'm running arts. Great. One more thing > > > I don't really understand. > > > > > > Now, I've been to arts-project.org and see that > > > it's the Analog Realtime Synth, blah blah blah. > > > > ^ It's a synth. > > > > ...Like buzz or AudoMulch. You set up different modules that make noises > > ...then you pipe those through other modules that screw them up and then > > you make music with the whole mess. > > > > > Questions: do I need it to capture audio from > > > the sound card? Should I be trying to trouble- > > > shoot it? Or is it getting in the way of things? > > > > > :} You might make music with it. > > Though this is accurate, it's only half the story about aRts. > Other sound-servers where born, KDE started out with a sound-server that was > even worse than ESounD, at some point they decided to use something else. > They settled for ARTS, yes... the software synth... reasons being unknown to > me, but ARTS is quite advanced, and developed in C++, it fit the KDE I'd used it to that point... It was one of the first {maybe the first modular synths} Actually, I never could get it to work right. I did manage a few *really* nasty crashes with it... It was one of the reasons I started messing with Audiomulch a while back... I like the whole idea. It makes things very simple. :} Never could get Brahms to compile either {I still can't get it to compile for that matter {But I am still trying.}} I did get Cecilia to make some lovely noises and had a nice time playing mp3s in XMMS. Strangely enough, I haven't been able to get the newer versions of Cecilia to do much... It's a great program but I'm really more interested in common music and scheme. Snd didn't seem to be such a great program back then... I really didn't like it as a matter of fact. It's come a long way since then. {I wonder if Cecilia could be modified to work with lisp?} > architecture rather well, SO BE IT. ARTS is from now on formostly a > sound-server. The goals of producing a software synth lives on, but I think > very little work is being directed towards that these days, maybe later on... http://www.arts-project.org/doc/handbook/introduction.html#what-is-arts > At some point along the way, during the sound-server development, ALSA was > developed as a new sound-card architecture. ALSA, now the sound-driver > formostly being used in Kernel2.6 will soon be what most distros use, as > DRIVER. > Ok... that is definately enough for now... What if you were to use it as a synth and make music with it? It does seem to be much more developed than a lot of linux sound software. {It's grown a hell of a lot too.} Maybe it could be made Jack compatible? {Seeing as Jack's gotten so popular these days.}