Hi all, I finally made it to the LAC (yay) and did a performance which seemed to generate a few questions that I probably didn't answer too well, in my post-gig-panic state :) (was the night recorded btw?) The main page for software I was using can be found here: http://www.pawfal.org/Software/livenoisetools/ This is probably the best explanation (huge url alert): http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/livenoisetools/livenoisetools/noisepattern/doc/composing.txt?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup The software is not really aimed at end users, or that coherently documented, it's more of a research/art project, that might provide ideas for a usable application later. feel free to give it a go, but it will need hacking to some extent I expect. Also, seeing as there has been some debate over whether linux is ready for live use, I've been using the following setup for the last 12 months, it's kinda old now, but it's with good reason - it's completely stable for me: Thinkpad R31 running Slackware 9.0, with Luke Yelavich's AudioSlack distribution and LL kernel. Jack 0.99.0 release (might have updated to a cvs version - can't remember) I use liblo for OSC communication between a sequencer, sampler and synth - and for communication from the GUI, which is written in python, using tkinter. I also use bash scripts for killing old processes, launching all the apps, and connecting the jack ports up. I find this really valuable, as you dont want to have to think about this stuff when you're nervous just before starting. Many many thanks to all the people who have worked so hard to make linux the powerful, dependable platform you need for live work. cheers, dave
