[Fedora-music-list] Summer Coding Project: Still Seeking Mentor

[Simon Lewis]

Hello Christopher

I hope you don't mind me making a couple of comments to your proposal...

The most important sequencer is Qtractor - despite Rui's cautionary 
notes it's a very solid  and advanced app that allows you to work with 
both midi and audio.  Rosegarden is perhaps interesting from a 
historical approach but it's midi only.

You noted that you can not escape Pulseaudio in Fedora - you certainly 
can! Simply remove everything except the pulseaudio-libs... Your PC will 
feel like it's turbo-charged after you done this!

Synthesizers? Yoshimi - the best sounding synth I know. Phasex - very 
clean sound. Alsa Modular Synth - fun.

Typesetting AriaMaestosa

One overlooked but very important aspect when creating a pro-audio spin 
of a distro is to set up common directory locations for plug-ins and 
make sure that all apps automatically point to them.

The two areas that need a lot of effort and code changes is multiple 
sound cards and getting all apps to work on x86_64 (lib64 savvy).

Regards, Simon

PS: Versions...

AriaMaestosa.x86_64             1.2.1-1
ams.x86_64                      2.0.1-2
phasex.x86_64                   0.12.0-0.2
qtractor.x86_64                 0.4.5svn1517-2
yoshimi.x86_64                  0.055.3-1


Am 14.05.2010 22:21, schrieb Christopher Antila:
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> Last week, I sent an introductory message, about the Fedora Summer
> Coding project that I'm proposing. The proposal is almost finished (see
> it online at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_proposal_-_Fedora_Musicians%27_Guide),
> but some serious work remains.
>
> The most important part still remaining is that I need a mentor! I
> would really like to have somebody from Fedora and Planet CCRMA, because
> of the opportunities it would allow. This co-mentoring possibility has
> been approved in principal by the Fedora Summer Coding SIG, and they
> also recommend it for this particular proposal.
>
> The responsibilities for a mentor from the Audio Creation SIG would
> probably be like these:
> - -helping sort through existing documentation to derive a 'recommended
> practice' for optimizing Fedora PCs for audio work
> - -giving tips on installing and using audio software
> - -assist in getting algorithms tested on hardware that I don't have (esp.
> multiple sound cards, including FireWire, and external MIDI devices)
> - -assist in determining the success or failure of the project as a whole,
> which determines whether I get paid
>
> I can't say for sure, but this is my best guess. You can contact the
> Fedora Summer Coding people for more information, or see the wiki page,
> available at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#You_are_a_mentor
>
> Thank you for considering my proposal. Any comments that you may have
> are welcome!
>
>
> Christopher Antila.
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