[LAU] CALL FOR MUSICIANS / Beast 0.7.6 release

[Tim Janik]

On 25.10.2012 11:31, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 04:38 AM, Tim Janik wrote:
>> CALL FOR MUSICIANS
>> ==================
>> If you are a musician and interested in Free Software, the Beast project
>> needs your input. You can contribute with testing, feature feedback,
>> demos and tutorials. Please see our website: http://beast.testbit.eu/
>>
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I just downloaded and built beast 0.7.6. There was one hickup during
> the build: configure didn't test for libcloog-ppl0. After that it
> built fine. I installed it, fired it up, loaded an example song and
> hit play.. It seems to run, but there's no sound coming out of the
> system. I looked through the preferences if there's a way to configure
> the output device, but I must have missed it.
>
> I guess I could try reading the manual, but thought that maybe you
> also care about the first impression :D

Thanks, Beast generally uses the ALSA drivers. If you have another
program using/blocking your alsa sound devices (e.g. pulseaudio), or the
respective channels are muted (e.g. for soundcards that have multiple
channels), then beast and other alsa programs cannot play music.

>
> Have fun,
> Flo
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Yours sincerely,
Tim Janik

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