[linux-audio-dev] [ANN] Bol Processor going Open Source!

[Anthony Kozar]

Dear Linux Audio Developers,

Bernard Bel and I are very happy to announce to you that a powerful tool for
computer-aided composition using Csound or Midi -- the Bol Processor -- is
being reborn as open source software!  While the software only runs on
Macintosh computers at this time, we are hoping that some savvy Linux
developers with porting experience will be interested in joining the
project.

Thanks!  (And please email me directly if you want to see the source code in
a more Linux-friendly format :)

Details are below ...


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From: Bernard Bel <bel at lpl.univ-aix.fr>
Reply-To: bp2-list at yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 12:48:54 +0200
To: bp2-list at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bp2] Bol Processor going Open Source!

[Please circulate]

Bol Processor is a program for music composition and improvisation with
real-time MIDI, MIDI file, and Csound output.  It produces music from a set
of rules (a compositional grammar) or from text scores typed or captured
from a MIDI instrument.  Bol Processor 2 was a shareware application
developed by Bernard Bel with the help of Jim Kippen and Srikumar Karaikudi
Subramanian.  BP2 won the Bourges 1997 international award (ex aequo with
Cecilia) in the category of computer-aided composition and realization
software.  More information about the capabilities of BP2 is available at
<http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~belbernard/music/>.

Bol Processor is now being released as free software (open source) under a
BSD-style license. BP development is hosted by Sourceforge at
<http://bolprocessor.sourceforge.net/>.  We are looking for several
developers to join the project to help with porting and to decide the future
directions that the software will take.  If you are interested in helping,
please email Anthony Kozar for more information.

BP2 currently runs on the Classic MacOS.  (However, its OMS MIDI driver,
including QuickTime music, only runs on machines booting MacOS 9.) One of
the goals of the open-source project will be to port it to other platforms.
We are hoping that Bol Processor 3 will at least run on MacOS X, and ports
to Windows and Linux are also possible depending on the desires and
expertise of the group of developers that can be assembled.

Two files are now available in the release section of the Bol Processor
Sourceforge site. There is a MacOS disk image with the BP 2.9.5 beta
application and another disk image with copies of all of the source files to
build it.  The source code has also been added to the BP CVS repository.
 
This release is a snapshot of the current state of the project and
interested developers are encouraged to download the files and start looking
them over. Users will probably want to stick with version 2.9.3 for now but
are welcome to try out 2.9.5 beta as well.  Note that we have not yet
removed the shareware registration notices, so please disregard them.
 
There is a mailing list for discussion of BP2 at <bp2-list at yahoogroups.com>
and there should soon be a developer mailing list hosted by the Sourceforge
project.  Please join and help us determine the future of Bol Processor !!

Bernard Bel   <bel at lpl.univ-aix.fr>
Anthony Kozar <anthonykozar at sbcglobal.net>


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