talking linux wanted

[Krister Ekstrom]

Hi Janina,
Do you know a good howto that one can read up for working with Ecasound?
As i understand it, the command line syntax is very very longish and
complex. I could be wrong, so would be very interested if there was a
good howto on this.
/Krister


Janina Sajka wrote:
> Luke Yelavich writes:
>> I am affraid you will have to stick to Windows if you need useful audio 
>> tools that are accessible. While there are many tools for working with 
>> audio under Linux, practically none of them are accessible.
>> -- 
> 
> I had to respond to this. My response is that it depends on how you want
> to work with audio whether or not you'll find satisfaction on Linux.
> 
> Certainly, if you're looking for a wysiwyg multitrack recording/editing
> application, you may, or may not have success with Ardour2. Regretably,
> they rolled their own widgets rather than building with gtk2. On the
> other hand, they seem to have provided extensive keyboard options. So
> the jury is out on this important app, but some of us inclined toward
> optimism are cautiously so.
> 
> There is nothing even remotely on the horizon for recording/editing MIDI
> that I know of.
> 
> On the other hand, apps like ecasound, csound, and sox are both powerful
> and very accessible. If you're willing to work at the data stream level,
> you could certainly work directly with midi data streams via amidi. If
> you're interested in algorithmic composition and are willing to code in
> lisp, you can even get intensive training this summer with faculty
> conversant with working with blind persons at U.C. Santa Cruz:
> 
> http://summer.ucsc.edu/wacm/
> 
> So, the blanket statement is probably inaccurate. However, non of this
> is soft and easy. Non of it is going to be uncrate your new computer and
> write a new masterpiece overnight.
> 
> Janina
> 
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