Hello Simon: Thank you for your comments. These are precisely the kinds of tips that would be required of a mentor! I've been thinking about your Qtractor/Rosegarden comment already, and I feel ready to substitute Qtractor for Rosegarden. I've never heard of AriaMaestosa, and I haven't explored Phasex or Yoshimi in great detail. As for PulseAudio, I think that I'll still cover it. What I should have put is that it's difficult to escape, and that most desktop users will not want to escape it. This is an issue that will be addressed in a chapter about optimizing your computer for use with audio applications. Again, thank you for your comments. I will add information to my proposal page right now. Christopher. On 05/15/2010 02:32 AM, Simon Lewis wrote: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: 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._______________________________________________ music mailing list music@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music