[linux-audio-user] guitar amp emulation

[Cesare Marilungo]

Tim Howard wrote:
> On 3/6/07, Cesare Marilungo <cesare at poeticstudios.com> wrote:
>> Leonard Ritter wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 13:53 +0100, Giuseppe Zompatori wrote:
>> >
>> >> What kind of distorted sounds are you looking for more specifically?
>> >>
>> >
>> > oh, sorry i wasn't clear enough. of course open source software only.
>> > closed source creates more problems in the long run, i am searching 
>> for
>> > everlasting solutions :)
>> >
>> >
>> There's this suite of freeware VST plugins:
>>
>> http://www.simulanalog.org/guitarsuite.htm
>>
>> which sound fantastic.
>>
>> Since it is an academic project maybe we can try to convince the authors
>> to release the source and port them to ladspa.
>>
>
> I already tried to get them to release the source, but they said that
> it is also part of a commercial product, so they couldn't do that.
> Kind of odd for an academic project, I thought...
>
> -TimH
>
>
Hi Tim,
this is sad news. But not that odd. A lot of interesting projects 
developed inside universities are becoming commercial products. 
Especially in the dsp field.

IIRC, the authors are from Italy. Can you confirm this?

If this is the case, there's a very high chance that they're from a 
public university. I believe that the results of a research developed 
inside a public university should be published as open source. But, 
again, nothing surprises me these days. :-(

c.

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