[linux-audio-user] setting loop-points

[Atte André Jensen]

Tobiah wrote:

> You should be able to get apt-get to find boatloads of music
> software packages like Ardour, Jack, Smurf and DAP.

Nice. A couple of questions (as I'm new to CCRMA):

1) The website specifically mentions that only redhat is supported.
Aren't those apt-get's related to apt-get from a redhat machine?

2) If not what are the line(s) I should ad to my sources.list?

3) Will it break my system by grabbing a lot of stuff from CCRMA?

I'm still surprised to find that none of the sample editors I tried 
seems to support editing and saving of looppoints. This leads me to the 
following rant: Why would I need a bunch of editors (I have at least the 
following installed: audacity, rezound, gnusound, xwave, snd, kwave, 
gnoise, ecawave and sweep)???? I'd much rather have one that did it all, 
did it well and was stable and easy to upgrade (= is in the debian 
tree). This is of course due to the nature of OSS development: people 
start a new project because they miss something in the existing projects 
or simply because they like to code.

Still however much I love linux, this is one of the drawbacks at least 
when doing audio work: there're too many small projects that take time 
to develop, maintain and for the user to set up and try out.

If it wasn't for csound and abcm2ps (that I consider my main music 
applications, I spend about 99% of my music-generating-time in one of 
those) I wouldn't be nearly as happy about linux as an audio framework 
as I am now. I acknowledge that some people like to spend time 
configuring, hacking, testing etc, but for me it's about producing 
music, and the two mentioned applications let me to exactly that.

I realize that there's not a lot that can be don about it, just needed 
to get it off my chest :-)

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peace, love & harmony
Atte

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