On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 02:05 -0500, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 1/30/07, Chris McCormick <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Alright, I'll have a look there and pick a few select apps to point > > people at. I guess the main thing is that these people are academics > > and practicioners, not tech people. They don't care or know about > > compiling. They might have a hard time getting into something like Pd > > or Csound even. I was hoping for a short list of apps like Audacity > > which are user friendly and quickly understandable and Free and cross > > platform. Things like Firefox that regular people will go "Wow, this > > is Free!?" > > These are the people I hang out with too. I forgot an obvious one: > ZynAddSubFX. That's relatively mainstream friendly. If you want > friendlier than that, I think Audacity pretty much covers everything > except stuff like CD players. Lilypond is cross-platform, but again > not very friendly. > Ardour would be a great example, if it ran on Windows. ardour does run on windows. its just that if we told you how to get it working, we'd have to kill you. once a non-fatal method of trying it has been developed, and more importantly once we figure out the support implications, we'll be sure to let people know. --p
