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Synthesis: the act of putting different representations together, and of grasping what is manifold in them in one act of knowledge. http://www.bright.net/~jclarke/kant/concept1.html

why do they have to have screens or physical input devices..
little projector
http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/toshiba-pocket- projector-for-cellphones/
little keyboard
http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5731.html

your wife called. she said you should stop dicking around with your linux boxen and give her some love.

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1) What did happen? I'm as confused as the rest of us.
2) They are a secret plot to increase hospital funding.
3) <Insert Ranma, episode 1 summary > <Insert Ranma, episode 2 summary > ... <Insert Ranma, episode n summary>
4) Hire scientists from the future, get a mystic to power your creation, and super-size it at McDonalds.
5) This is a trick question. You can't. (Law 11, 2nd Corrllary).

So, do I pass?

Mostly because it was ready a couple of weeks ago when I was looking at Dave Phillips' page. This is where to find it. It runs on Red Hat 8 and everything seems to install well - I'm still casually working out some things here and there but Snd, Rosegarden and a few other things are working - haven't had a chance to try everything. One thing I've noticed is that other software packages I've downloaded elsewhere don't always get along with the libraries, probably because they were written with older distributions in mind.

One of the advantages is a special low latency kernel with ALSA built in. I've installed this and it's working.

I'll probably download the Turn-Key Linux Audio disc and see what I can get to work on my current installation - I downloaded and installed Red Hat 8 so I could check out Planet CCRMA, and don't really feel like switching to Mandrake.

Like how you can jump on missiles in the air, and then they keep going in the same direction without deflection. All attacks must be called out by name, even if they're as simple as pushing a button on a control panel. The best pilots have hair that completely covers one eye. And of course, all the usual Hollywood ones like the guns that never run out of ammo (unless it's a plot point to run out of ammo), and the Stormtrooper Effect (best parodied by the Rambo scene in UHF.)

Don't even get me started on the Laws of Anime Cooking.

I believe Csound should do the trick.

As with nearly every question pertaining to audio, MIDI, and music on Linux, Dave Philips' site is pretty much the definitive resource. You'll probably want the section on HDR software.

From the discussion on the Linux Audio Developers' mailing list, Ardour seems to be the most powerful of your options, designed to beat even ProTools.

As with nearly every question pertaining to audio, MIDI, and music on Linux, Dave Philips' site is pretty much the definitive resource. You'll probably want the section on HDR software.

From the discussion on the Linux Audio Developers' mailing list, Ardour seems to be the most powerful of your options, designed to beat even ProTools.

I'd love to see what some of the CSound hackers to do with this. CSound is basically a programming language for sound and music, where you define the sound of the instruments as well as what they play programmatically. Take a lisp program to analyze these results and write csound scripts in real time, and you've got a recipe for fun!

the school didn't have a formal major so through the help of two professors, i created my own major and worked on hacking up cool interactive pieces for the last two years of school!

i would program sound synthesis in a program called CSOUND and in Common LISP that interacted with realtime video signals...

it was wacky for sure but it 'twas Art!
fugg those small minded fools, move away from the stix, head for NY or LA where they love that type of shit.

Are you aware of the Linux Sound & MIDI site? (There is also a European mirror) It's the best collection of links to Linux music-related software and documentation I've found.

Here's their Music Notation page.

Are you aware of the Linux Sound & MIDI site? (There is also a European mirror) It's the best collection of links to Linux music-related software and documentation I've found.

Here's their Music Notation page.

SLab is an excellent multitrack recorder/mixer. It is not up to snuff with ProTools yet (though no program is on any platform).

Other Linux audio related links include (sorry if some links are bad, I haven't updated this list in awhile):

Multitrack audio recording/mixing:
Ardour
Slab
Snd

Midi Sequencing:
Jazz++
Rosegarden
Brahms (I THINK this is a sequencer)

Sound editing / effects processing:
MixViews
ecasound

Audio creation (synth emulators):
Ultramaster RS-101 and Juno6 CSound
Cecilia (requires Csound)

Notation:
Lilypond
Rosegarden
Mup

Awesome pages with links to everything you wanted to know about Linux audio:
Applications for Open Sound System
Sound and MIDI software for Linux

Oh, my, so much fluff, so little time ...

Cyber-"space" isn't. The point should be obvious, and it worries me that it isn't, and needs to be explained. All of us, every last one of us, live in what gets referred to disparagingly in cyberpunk novels as "meatspace," the real solid physical world. OK, so some of us spend more and more time staring at computer screens. That no more means that we "live" in "cyberspace" than the fact that I spent a lot of time one year reading Lord of the Rings meant that I lived in Middle-Earth.

Tools don't provide meaning. Again, I would hope this should be obvious. It is right to look for a moral and spiritual foundation for society (Jon is on the right track here), but the things we build and use can never provide that foundation. The technical theological term for this is idolatry, and it is the thing warned against most strongly in the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. This is not new with the Internet; it goes back at least as far as Babel.

Try some non-techophile authors. In particular, Jacques Ellul's The Meaning of the City (Amazon, my review) is relevant to a discussion of technology and any supposed "New Jerusalem."

The real New Jerusalem doesn't have a monthly access charge. In Revelation, New Jerusalem is the symbol of eternal shalom, of God's justice and mercy for all who will enter and be citizens. There is no poll tax -- in fact, the global poor are probably in a better position than the global rich (which includes anyone with a computer and Internet access). It strikes me as ... almost obscene, to take the symbol of universal relief from oppression and suffering, and claim that the plaything of the rich techno-elite will take its place.

I haven't used any of these myself, but they might work for you: a list of speech synthesis and analysis software for Linux.

But my grandest creation, as history will tell,

BROADCAST2000!!

Everything you need to edit stuff from web content to film.

Don't forget the GIMP either. Works great for all sorts of effects if you know a little Perl.

Be sure and check out Sound & MIDI Software For Linux for a whole slew of audio tools.

The makers of Broadcast2000 have some great mpeg-2 encoding tools as well.

Use Linux for your project! It gives you total access to your media, it's stable and cheap. I've been using it to edit my documentary and I'm really happy with it.

• Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU)
  
• Yamaha Although I can't seem to find the popular DSP factory in a few minutes of looking on the site.
  
• Echo Audio make the Gina, Darla, and Layla cards that used to be distributed by Event Electronics
  
• Aardvark Audio
  
• Digidesign
  
• Sek'd
  
• Soundscape Digital Technologies
  
• DSP FX makes an effects processing card
  

There are apparently several. I have used SLab and it's quite decent. Certainly full featured. I haven't used it enough to know if it's ready for primetime, but if it's not, it must indeed be close.

There are apparently several. I have used SLab and it's quite decent. Certainly full featured. I haven't used it enough to know if it's ready for primetime, but if it's not, it must indeed be close.

Here are a couple of good links on the subject:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/lin ux_csound.html
http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-boo ks/csound/frontpage.html

I haven't the time to explain it further, but it is far and away the most powerful sound package I've ever used. Even without a pretty GUI for composing, it's worth checking out.

-Isaac

Check out the Sound & MIDI Software For Linux page at http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsoun d/ Woogie

Finally. The one thing Linux needs and is severely lacking is good multimedia studio software. Correction. Any multimedia studio software. The only projects are not really in active development from what I can tell, except Melys, and that's fairly new. KeyKit is pretty cool, although a bit ugly by modern standards, but it has a few problems, especially the license.

As you can see from general searching and The Linux Sound and MIDI page, there isn't much else going on. I don't even see an attempt at a nonlinear video editor.

Also there are some unfortunate driver issues. I requested specs for the Motu MTP AV after purchasing one, only to get a reply that the information wasn't available to the public... so I can't write a driver, and am forced to use it like a cheap MIDI switch. (I'm going to continue to bug them, of course. It would benefit them and the Linux community to at least have open drivers. They sell more, we get software support and better, more capable studios.)

This really is a step in the right direction for the Jazz people, though, since they don't have a lot of regular updates. Hopefully they will use a Free(tm) license like the GPL. I applaud them in their decision, though, this is something I've been hoping for for awhile. Thanks guys!

But we can always program our own reverb algorithms. Already, the Turtle Beach Fiji/Pinnacle cards have a Motorola 56001, fully programmable under Linux. See Sound & MIDI Software For Linux for details.


I'm sceptical though towards seeing sound card DSPs used in general data processing. Isn't the data path too slow? It's only 48000 kHz * 2 channels * 2 bytes/channel = 192kbps. For example, mp3 encoders such as LAME are already a lot faster than this on fast PII/III's. And on the Athlon, doubly so.

This page is a good place for music/sound software for Linux.

Not much help on the telephony-specific angle, but for general purpose speech synthesis and analysis info for Linux, check out the Linux Audio Developers' Resource Page.

Why does it seem like suggesting this link is my answer to many Ask Slashdot questions? Maybe we need a FAQdot!

Div.

--
But my grandest creation,
As history will tell,
Was Firefrorefiddle,

The limiting factor in getting multichannel sound out of your sound card is seldom the driver; it is almost always the card itself. If your card has more than two physical channels of output, chances are that the driver can address them, although many applications are not designed to take advantage of this.

Quadraphonic and other more-than-two channel sound is well supported with all the Linux sound drivers I know, including both the free and commercial versions of Opensound (OSS), and its more modern free competitor ALSA.

If you have more than one sound card in your machine, you can even use a few audio channels from each at once to drive different speakers.

One program I know that can handle quadraphonic sound (maybe more) is Csound. It is a difficult program to learn, but very powerful and might suit your purpose (it is general enough to suit many purposes). Information about this and just about everything audio-related for Linux is available at the Linux Audio Developers Resource Site.

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But my grandest creation,
As history will tell,
Was Firefrorefiddle,