[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [ANN] No More Specimen

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:53:12AM +0200, Lars Luthman wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 13:20 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:30:34PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:19:30PM +0100, Jonny Stutters wrote:
> > > > I've uploaded a copy of specimen-0.4.5.tar.gz (the most recent on my 
> > > > disk) to:
> > > > http://jeremah.co.uk/downloads/linux/specimen/specimen-0.4.5.tar.gz
> > > > I'm happy to host for the foreseeable future.  If anyone's got a more 
> > > > recent copy let me know and I'll get that up as well.
> > > Great!
> > > I found a copy of 0.5.1 on my drive. Email me privately if you want it.
> > umm ... the download just worked for me ...
> > That said, I agreed a while back to maintain the project after Pete
> > announced his own death and the accompanying death of specimen. While
> > Pete resurfaced as a zombie and promptly went over to the dark side, I
> > have not yet found time to resurrect specimen (mainly due to my job and
> > preparations for LAC06). 
> Great to hear that you are going to maintain it. When you start looking
> into it, could you also have a look at the LASH and JACK MIDI patches
> for it? It would be very nice to have those in the official releases.
> 
> The JACK MIDI patch is here (it adds a JACK MIDI input port that can be
> used at the same time as the ALSA-seq port):
> http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d00-llu/code_patches/specimen-jackmidi-051205.diff
> 
> Dave Robillard's LASH patch is here:
> http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~drobilla/files/specimen-lash.patch
> 
> I think both applied to 0.5.1 and the last CVS version I tested.

Those are 2 things I'm interested in myself. So, yes I think there's a
good chance of that functionality being added. I've grabbed copies of
the patches. I'll look into them after LAC.

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