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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