[LAU] csound + cecilia and jack on ubuntu

[Robin Paulson]

On 25 July 2012 17:44, michael noble <looplog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> huh, i'd been using cecilia 2.0.5, as in the ubuntu repositories. what
>> is the relationship between that (which i now see hasn't changed since
>> 2004) and cecilia4? is the latter a fork of the former? and, do you
>> know of anywhere which has a repository with it in?
>>
>> cheers for letting me know about this
>>
>
> I can't say about a repo for Ubuntu, but it is in the AUR for Arch. It is
> python based though, so assuming you can find the necessary libs, it may not
> be that hard to run it (no compiling involved).
>
> It seems to be more a continuation than a fork, as some of the original
> Cecilia team are involved. That being said, development of Cecilia4 also
> seems to have stalled, and Cecilia5 supposedly will no longer have a csound
> backend.

yeah, i found cecilia5 last night, it uses pyo as a backend, which is
apparently more powerful.

i'm having problems with dependencies though, i will be encouraging
the maintainer to build a .deb, or maybe i will do it.

pyo needs compiling though, so not as simple

-- 
robin

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