[LAU] CALL FOR MUSICIANS / Beast 0.7.6 release

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

On 10/25/2012 03:18 PM, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 01:54 PM, Tim Janik wrote:
>> 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.
>
> AH OK, so it's not using the ALSA PCM device called "default"  by 
> default :D
>

FYI: This works:

beast  --bse-pcm-driver alsa="default"

And I guess one could argue that "default" should be the default :D

Flo

> Flo
>
>>> Have fun,
>>> Flo
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