[linux-audio-dev] Great (and some offtopic)

[Juan Linietsky]

On Wednesday 16 July 2003 22:21, Nasca Paul wrote:
> Hi.
> I released ZynAddSubFX 1.4.2 on
> http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net
>
> News:
>       - (small) tutorials
>       - added full-featured, advanced formantic
> filters
>       - added mixer panel which lets you to see/change
> most important part settings, and shows a vu-meters
> for each part
>       - you can choose to process the instrument's kit
> items only with one Part effect (eg. you can make a
> instrument kit that contains a reverberated piano and
> flanged strings)
>       - enabled to launch more instances in Jack
>       - when is launched first time, it searches for
> default.bnk_zyn file into /usr/share/zynaddsubfx and
> /usr/local/share/zynaddsubfx directories (useful for
> binary packages for Linux distributions)
>       - bugfixes
>
> For those that you don't know, ZynAddSubFX is a
> poweful software synthsizer for Linux and Windows.
>
> Paul.
>

Awesome work! I really love ZynAddSubFX!
Yet there's one small simple thing I'd like to feature-request..
Could program-change on a midi channel be recognized?
This way I can browse instruments from the sequencer or keyboard
more easily!

Oh and a little thing, from the site, and sorry for the offtopic but maybe 
more ladders have experience on this point. Not being Christianism
my religion, I still do agree that is a lack of respect and discrimination
to promote music that tries to discredit a religion, yet I think some
things are not clear to me.
 I can understand about metal lyrics being anti-christian, we've seen
that countless times in groups from megadeth to iron maiden,
But I have no idea why "New Age" music is considered against god, since
it has nothing to do with the "New Age" spiritual/religious movement (which
is definitely anti-christian). Nowadays people calls "New Age" music to 
anything ambient, soft jazz, lounge, soundtraquesque, etc. Even people
like vangelis gets his music called "New Age" and he never intended it 
to be associated with that name. As far as I know, and for historical reasons, 
the idea of  the term comes from the idea of ritualistic music based on 
sustained voices, beats and nature elements inspired on indian tranditions 
and that kind of things, but was rapidly taken by musicans to call anything
nature/ambient and out of the context of religion. Maybe the site should 
specify "Anti christian ritual music"?

Well, cheers and thanks for such an awesome piece of work!

Juan Linietsky


Cheers!

Juan Linietsky
but musicans