I have ecazound compiled, and have used it some but not for compression or filtering. It is certainly daunting to understand and work with. I believe Mario Lang has the beginnings of an Emacs front end to ecasound that I have bookmarked somewhere, if that would help. Scott Berry writes: > From: Scott Berry <scott at drscott.dyndns.biz> > > Janina, > > Have you ever had a look at ecasound? I don't bhave the web url in > front of me but I can't figure the stupid thing out. I have been > working with it a little but I can't get it to record from the line in > to the comp. > > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Hi, Shaun: > > > > I play keyboards. My background is concert piano, and I've played > > various mostly church music over the last 15 years on various keyboards > > ranging across all kinds of styles. > > > > My latest acquisition is currently in escrow. I bought a Kurzweil 2600 > > on Ebay on the strength of what the Scrimenti brothers discovered about > > Kurz 2k machines. It turns out the Kurz sends ASCII out its MIDI out > > port that covers everything on the LCD. How about that? > > > > This has been all the rage on the MIDI-Mag list. They have a $70 USD > > Windows app to voice the LCD, essentially. I want to duplicate this in > > Linux, needless to say. I'm also spending a lot of time getting > > acquainted with various music apps available on Linux. I pay particular > > attention to Planet CCRMA (pronounced karma) at Stanford: > > > > http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/packages.html > > > > PS: You can hear some of my music backing up folks on my home page: > > > > http://www.rednote.net > > > > Shaun Oliver writes: > > > From: Shaun Oliver <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au> > > > > > > hi, > > > well what do you both play? > > > me, I'm a guitar man anyway that's not the point, I'm glad to a certain > > > extent I'm holding back on gnopernicus mainly because of these issues. > > > I'm the type of person that's likely to get ill tempered with the thing > > > and toss it out the window if it really cracks the shits. > > > to be honest, for now, I'm happy to be an end-user of GNU/Linux and pick > > > up bits and pieces along the way. > > > but I guess I'll be waiting for a while for gnopernicus to be prime > > > time. but I'm also betting it'll be worth the wait. > > > > > > -- > > > Shaun Oliver > > > > > > > > > "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." > > > email: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au > > > WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/ > > > IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 > > > IRCNICK: blindman > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > -- > Scott Berry > Email: n7zib at bresnan.net > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://accessibility.freestandards.org