Josh Lawrence wrote: > OK, I've been seeing mention of this: > > http://www.gleetchplug.com/Gleetchplug/berna.html > > Looks super-cool, but there's no Linux version. > > The OSX people have tools for compiling Linux applications on their > platform, can we (Linux users) do anything to run Mac apps on Linux? why would you want to do this? just take your usual linux setup with a few oscillators, and don't use midi keyboards or any DAW feature that's remotely convenient, and there you have your 50s electro-acoustic studio. i can't imagine there is anything this thing does which any default audio installation of any linux distro doesn't do... basically, there are two basic approaches: a) fiddle around randomly with basic synth modules wired in clever (and often abusive [1]) ways, until they make an interesting noise, use only very limited controllers while you are recording it in real-time, store the snippet. lather, rinse, repeat, then arrange those snippets until you think it's cool. b) write down a very abstract serial plan of everything you intend to do, then realize it on the tape machines, carefully hiding any astonishment about the sonic outcome from your colleagues (because we all heard those intervals of multiples of the square root of 5 in our minds already, didn't we?). and remember: anything more than stereo out is cheating :) check out the early stockhausen works from the 50s (before he entirely departed to sirius) and try grab some scores as well. best, jörn [1] such as recording a modulating sine wave to tape and use that as a crude automation input for something else. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
