Linux-audio-announce October 2006

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[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Vmwaredspjack 1.3, Snd-ls 0.9.7.6 and Jack_capture V0.3.8

by Kjetil S. Matheussen

Vmwaredspjack ============= This is the vmwaredsp program, made by Petr Vandrovec, which makes vmware work with esd or arts. This version adds jack support as well. (Unfortunately, jacklaunch (which is a similar program) doesn't work with vmware, but I think Gunter is working on it... :-) .) The program isn't always working that well, but if used with care (don't trust the output too much) and proper tuning, you can use professional windows audio software in vmware using jack for audio communication. Download from http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/ Snd-ls v0.9.7.6 =============== Snd-ls is a distribution of Bill Schottstaedt's sound editor SND. Its target is people that don't know scheme very well, and don't want to spend too much time configuring Snd. It can also serve as a quick introduction to Snd and how it can be set up. Changes 0.9.7.1 -> 0.9.7.6: --------------------------- -Proper debug output in case startup fails. -Fixed bug in jack audio. -Temporary remove the fft menu because its not working with the 26.9.2006 version of Snd. Bug found by Dragan Noveski. -Check for the existence of the sndfile.h header file before compiling. If it doesn't exist, snd-ls will refuse to run. Problem reported by Krzusztof Gawlas. -Make sure snd starts up even if no file was loaded during startup. Bug found by Dragan Noveski. -Really apply the workaround for the menu problem. Download from http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/snd/ Jack_capture V0.3.8 =================== jack_capture is a small program to capture whatever sound is going out to your speakers into a file. This is the program I always wanted to have for jack, but no one made. So here it is. Changes 0.3.7 -> 0.3.8: ----------------------- *Added the --recording-time option to stop recording after a certain number of seconds. *Quitting with CTRL-C/SIGINT writes remaining buffer to disk before ending program. Download from http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/src/

18 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] Openlab 3 Exhibition and 2 Events London

by Dave Griffiths

*OPENLAB 3* Group Show, 4/11-11/11/2006, 1-7pm Opening Event and Private View 4/11/2006, 4 -12 pm Closing Event 11/11/2006, 4-12 pm Auto-Italia South London Gallery 82-86 Queens Road SE152QX Peckham, London OpenLab is delighted to present OpenLab3, an group exhibition with an opening and closing event featuring musical performances by more than 20 artists and musicians of the OpenLab collective. OpenLab engages in the aesthetics and politics of Free Open Source Software Culture. Free Software Culture seeks to emphasise transparency of the creative process by making all stages of development available to others, enabling them to learn how the creation works and alter it for their own purposes. When this idea is applied to artistic practices, the boundaries between the artistic usage of software tools and their collaborative development become blurred. The workings of the artist's tools are exposed, and the artists are actively engaged in developing media technologies. They can modify them to suit their goals, rather than creating works by using existing tools that impose "their way of doing things" on the artwork. This group exhibition brings together interactive installations, sonic interventions, video works and animations which explore the audio-visual code of this network culture: computers start to paint pictures on their own, expose their internal circuits and "commit suicide"; birds will sing and fly around in multiple realities, the skylines of two cosmopolitan cities merge, language, meaning and time burst into fragments and recombine. The range of the combined works points to the strength of Open Source Culture its increasing versatility as artistic playground essential to contemporary debates and its continued importance not just in the invention of new media realities but also in tackling themes of "real" time and space. The two music events feature sound and multimedia performances of artists who use and develop open-source tools such as PD, Supercollider, Processing and Fluxus. They will perform prepared sets and code their music live in various programing languages. Musicians will also experiment with a set of live instrument swapping. By exchanging PD-Patches, they will challenge each other in an uncharted space of sonic manipulation. The performances will span from excursions into the symphonica, experimental noise and soundscapes to electronica and beat-oriented minimal techno-sets. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Rob Canning, Chun Lee, Claude Heiland-Allen, Carl Forsell, Sabine Gottfried, Karsten Gebbert, Paul Webb, Rob Munro, Chiharu Kaido, Evan Raskob, U-Sun, Ryan Jordan, Oli Laruelle, Robert Atwood, Luke Jordan, Rene, Monica Subrotova & Daniel Kordik, Michael Woelkner, Andy Farnell, Martin Aaserud, Ryan Jordan & Rachel Horne, Dave Griffiths & Alex McLean For more information please visit http://www.fexia.com/openlab http://openlab.pawfal.org http://www.midnightbluecollective.com or contact Sabine sabine.gottfried(a)gmail.com

18 years, 1 month

[linux-audio-announce] Linuxaudio.org introduces a dedicated IRC channel

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

October 25, 2006 -- Linuxaudio.org introduces a dedicated IRC channel If applicable, please forward to your respective mailing lists. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: With the help of consortium's new staff member Cezar Halmagean, the Linuxaudio.org now offers a dedicated IRC channel for its members as well as a resource for the entire Linux audio community. The ##linuxaudio channel can be accessed via irc.freenode.org. (please note double "#" in the channel name) ABOUT LINUXAUDIO.ORG Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of libre software projects and artists, companies, institutions, organizations, and hardware vendors using Linux kernel-based systems and allied libre software for audio-related work, with an emphasis on professional tools for the music, production, recording, and broadcast industries. The consortium aims to co-ordinate joint projects between members, collaborate on the promotion of Linux based systems for audio tasks, offer programs beneficial to members and subsequently its mission, and provide a single point of contact for prospective industry partners. More information on the Linuxaudio.org consortium can be obtained by visiting: http://www.linuxaudio.org/ Press contacts: Ivica Ico Bukvic at (ico at linuxaudio dot org) ends

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[linux-audio-announce] Linuxaudio.org announces new staff members

by Ivica Ico Bukvic

October 24, 2006 -- Linuxaudio.org announces new staff members If applicable, please forward to your respective mailing lists. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: As a result of recent staff openings designed to diversify its membership and community-based programs as well as strengthen the existing services, Linuxaudio.org is pleased to announce its newest staff members: Tom Berger linxuaudio.org webmaster Dan Easley docs.linuxaudio.org writer Cezar Halmagean linuxaudio.org freenode IRC administrator Ross Hamblin docs.linuxaudio.org writer/webmaster Ben Loftis montly column writer (topic: Linux Audio tools in the professional realm) ABOUT LINUXAUDIO.ORG Linuxaudio.org is a not-for-profit consortium of libre software projects and artists, companies, institutions, organizations, and hardware vendors using Linux kernel-based systems and allied libre software for audio-related work, with an emphasis on professional tools for the music, production, recording, and broadcast industries. The consortium aims to co-ordinate joint projects between members, collaborate on the promotion of Linux based systems for audio tasks, offer programs beneficial to members and subsequently its mission, and provide a single point of contact for prospective industry partners. More information on the Linuxaudio.org consortium can be obtained by visiting: http://www.linuxaudio.org/ Press contacts: Ivica Ico Bukvic at (ico at linuxaudio dot org) ends

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[linux-audio-announce] FAVE 2006 registration now open!

by FAVE 2006

Please forward this mail to all relevant lists, post where you like :-) ********************************** FAVE 2006 registration is now open London, 25th November 2pm til late ********************************** FAVE is an event for people who are interested in free and open source creative software on Linux and other computer platforms. It features workshops, talks and performances from free software developers and artists. The 2006 event is taking place at Limehouse Town Hall in London, England on Saturday the 25th of November. Highlights this year include: * Andy Farnell presents a workshop on synthetic audio in Pure Data * Steve Harris gives a talk on LV2, the new plugin standard * Mutant electronic punk from Jamka, over from Slovakia * Conor O’Tuama, recording acoustic music in Ireland * Biomusic from Simon Egan, featuring plants and animal organs * Live coding from Dave Griffiths and Alex * A demo of the 64 Studio distro from Daniel James * Chun and Oli play with Desiredata It will start at 2pm and go on until late - keep checking the FAVE site as we confirm more artists and developers for the line-up. Please get in touch if you would like to be involved - this is a volunteer-run event. Registration in advance is required, and costs just £5 per person - same as last year. This helps us cover the cost of putting on the event. Please click on the button on the FAVE homepage to register, with payment by PayPal or credit/debit card: http://www.fave.org.uk/ See you there! The FAVE 2006 team

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[linux-audio-announce] jack_mixer - frist release

by Nedko Arnaudov

jack_mixer is GTK (2.x) JACK audio mixer with look similar to it`s hardware counterparts. It has lot of useful features, apart from being able to mix multiple JACK audio streams. Homepage with screenshots: http://home.gna.org/jackmixer/ Download: http://download.gna.org/jackmixer/ -- Nedko Arnaudov <GnuPG KeyID: DE1716B0>

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[linux-audio-announce] Linux Audio Conference #5 (LAC2007): Call for Papers, Music, etc

by nescivi

Dear all, we are happy to announce the call for papers for the 5th Linux Audio Developers Conference (LAC2007). The conference is organized by the TU-Berlin in cooperation with people of the Linux Audio Developers mailing list, the music festival Inventionen 2007 and the Humboldt University of Berlin. The LAC2007 is taking place at the TU-Berlin, Germany from the 22nd - 25th of March 2007. We have introduced some new tracks. Besides the category for papers, demos and workshops, calls for tutorials and hands on demos have been added. The tutorials aim is to give new (potential) users an overview of the possibilities of Linux Audio Software and how to get started. The LAC2007 provides a computer pool (LA Pool) where developers can give an introduction to their software and where participants can try out Linux Audio Software during the conference. This has been combined in the call hands on demos. Since the TU-Berlin is installing a new Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) system the call for music has been extended by a call for compositions for this system. Music that can be used for radio airplay can be submitted, and will after acceptance by the Campusradio of the TU Berlin, be played during the conference. More detailed Information can be found in the 'Call for Papers' attached to this email or on the website at: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/ We are looking forward to many interesting submissions for the Linux Audio Conference 2007 and hope to see you in Berlin in 2007! Please feel free to forward this email to anybody who is interested. On behalf of the LAC2007 organisation team, Simon Schampijer and Marije Baalman Call for the Linux Audio Conference 2007 - 22nd - 25th of March 2007 taking place at the Technische Universität Berlin in cooperation with Inventionen 2007 and the Humboldt University of Berlin This call includes: Call for Papers Call for Demos Call for Hands On Demos Call for Workshops Call for Tutorials Call for Music (categories: Concert, Club, Radio and Wave Field Synthesis) ----------------------------- Call for Papers We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing based on Linux and open source software. Papers can focus on technical, artistic or scientific issues and can target developers or users. This includes (but is not limited to) the following categories: Computer Music Music Production Instruments Drivers and Sound Architecture Audio Distributions Generic (Usage, Documentation etc.) The conference is held in English. Length of a paper is 4-8 pages. Papers have to include an abstract (50-100 words). The abstract will be published separately on the conference website once the paper has been accepted. Also, papers should include up to 5 keywords. In general talks should take 20-30 minutes followed by 5 minutes discussion. Please notify us if you need a special technical setup. The technical standard setup will be: microphone (head set) projector with XVGA input (resolution 1024x768) stereo speaker setup with mini jack input a PC with a pdf viewer How to submit File format is PDF, formatted for A4 paper. Make use of the templates for paper formatting available at: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/download/templates-lac2007.tar.gz See our check list to ensure that you do not forget to enclose all necessary information. Send your paper and all necessary information by 8 Jan 2007 via email to this address: lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de You will be notified by 05 Feb 2007 whether your paper has been accepted. The reviewers may ask you to modify your paper in order to be accepted. The deadline for the final version is March 1, 2007. Important Dates 08 Jan 2007: Paper submission deadline 05 Feb 2007: Notification of acceptance 01 Mar 2007: Final version deadline 22 - 25 March 2007: Conference ----------------------------- Call for Demos You do not need to write a whole paper, but rather a short abstract only (50-100 words). This category is mainly thought for software demos. Be aware though that in case of too many submissions papers take priority over demos... See section "Call for Papers" for info on the duration of talks and the technical setup. ----------------------------- Call for Hands On Demos A new item of the LAC 2007 is LA Pool: a pool with Linux audio computers, on which programs can be demonstrated. To give a "hands on" demo you can reserve LA Pool for 1 hour, of which ca. 20 minutes can be used as a general introduction and the rest should be free for participants to try out the program and ask questions. A Hands On demo can be held in addition to a Paper Presentation or as the presentation for the Demo, so you need to either submit a paper or an abstract as mentioned above. Additionally, you need to give us a version of your software, with clear installation instructions and requirements, so that we can install the software on the Pool before the conference. How to submit See our check list to ensure that you do not forget to enclose all necessary information. Send your abstract and all necessary information by 8 Jan 2007 via email to this address: lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de Deadline for submissions is 08 Jan 2007. You will be notified by 05 Feb 2007 whether your submission has been accepted. ----------------------------- Call for Workshops With respect to their content workshops do not differ from talks: Workshops can have technical focus as well as artistic or scientific focus. Workshops can be targeted to developers as well as users. See section "Call for Papers" for more info on this. The shape of the workshop is completely up to you. E.g. it can be tutorial-like ("how to write an ALSA driver/ a jack application/ a LADSPA plugin/ etc.") or it can be BOFS-like (e.g. a meeting of like-minded users and/or developers to exchange experience and knowledge about a specific topic), or it can be anything in between. Workshops can take place in seminar rooms or in a public space like the TU Lichthof. Depending on the location, attendance might be limited to ca 10 people. We strongly encourage you to submit early. It will be more likely to get a free slot and it will be easier for attendants to know about the workshop if it is published on the conference website. If you expect the attendants to prepare their laptops for your workshop ( e.g. by installing some software) or if there are other requirements, please note so in your abstract. How to submit: See our check list to ensure that you do not forget to enclose all necessary information. Send an abstract (ca. 50-100 words) and all necessary information via email to this address: lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de The abstract will be published on the conference website once the workshop has been accepted (not before 01 March 2007 though). Submission deadline is 05 Feb 2007. You will be notified by 01 March 2007 whether your submission has been accepted. ----------------------------- Call for Tutorials New in this edition of the Linux Audio Conference will be a Tutorial track for new users. This Tutorial track will be hosted by the Media Science Department of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Proposals for additions to this Tutorial program are welcome. The aim of this Tutorial track is to give new (potential) users an overview of the possibilities of Linux Audio Software and how to get started. The difference to workshops is that the tutorials are given in a lecture environment and should focus on how to make music with Linux, more than going into specifics of certain programs. The tutorial track is supported by the LA Pool facility as attendants can try out the software themselves with hands on support. Send a short description of your proposed Tutorial topic (ca. 50-100 words), via email to this address: lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de Submission deadline is 08 Jan 2007. You will be notified by 05 Feb 2007 whether your submission has been accepted. Criteria will be based upon creating a full fledged Tutorial program for Linux Audio. ----------------------------- Call for Music The conference will include several concerts. We are looking for music that has been produced completely or mostly under Linux and/or with open source software: Serious compositions, Electronica, Chill-Out, Ambient etc. Indicate whether you want to have your piece played in a concert like environment or a club like environment. Additionally you can submit Radio music (see below) and Wave Field Synthesis music (see also below). Additionally you are welcome to give a talk about your piece. We encourage you especially to show how you made the piece using open source software. Please send a short abstract (ca. 50-100 words) if you want to give a talk. If you want to participate, send your composition(s) to this address: LAC2007 - Call for Music Institute of Communications Research Sekretariat EN 8 Einsteinufer 17 D-10587 Berlin Germany Make use of one of the following media formats: Media: Audio-CD, DVD, DVD-R or CD-R File formats: aiff or wav Channels: mono, stereo, multi-channel and multi-mono (8 channels is no problem, more than 8 must be discussed). Samplerate: 44.1 or 48 kHz Resolution: 16 or 24 bit Include the following items with your submission (in English): A filled-out and signed printout of the form available here: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/download/musicagreement.pdf For the printed program and to be published online and on the conference CD, in continuous text (no table or list please): A short commentary on the composition(s) (each ca. 150 words) A short Curriculum Vitae (ca. 100 words) Deadline for submissions is 08 Jan 2007. A jury will select the compositions that will be performed/played. Furthermore, the jury will give out three prices to participants to contribute to their travel expenses. Besides artistic criteria and technical reasons, these criteria apply for the selection: Tape pieces or pieces which are performed by the composers themselves will generally have more chances to get included. If we get more pieces than we can include in the program, composers who are attending the conference are preferred. Terms and conditions for participation can be found in the form mentioned above. This form includes among other things: I will receive no fees whether my composition is played or not. GEMA fees (in case of performance) will be paid by the organizer. The material I send to the TU Berlin will not be returned. Additionally to this Call for Music, during the late night concerts there will be an open stage: "Plug & Chill - The Linux Jam Nights" where attendants of the conference are invited to perform their pieces in a more club-like context. There is no deadline for this, so people can decide during the conference if they want to participate. However if you already know that you want to participate do not hesitate to inform us. Send us an email to lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de and include a description of your equipment and a short characterization of your music (keywords only). During the conference it is possible to register at the info desk. Note that there is a time limit for "Plug & Chill". If we have received too many registrations already you might not get a slot. Contributions to "Plug & Chill" should not exceed 10 min. There will be a room at the TU Berlin where people can meet during the conference and rehearse for "Plug & Chill". ----------------------------- Radio Music A new category in the Music call is the call for music that can be used for radio airplay. In cooperation with the Campusradio (http://www.campusradio-online.de ) of the TU Berlin, who will do a live report on the conference, we invite composers, musicians and producers of Music made or recorded and mastered with Open Source tools, to submit their works. If you want to participate, send an email to: lac2007-radio AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de with a link to your audio files. Alternately, send your music to the address above, with the addition: LAC2007 - Call for Music Radio Make use of one of the following media formats: Media: Audio-CD, DVD, DVD-R or CD-R File formats: aiff or wav or ogg Channels: mono or stereo Samplerate: 44.1 or 48 kHz Resolution: 16 or 24 bit Include the following items with your submission (in English): A filled-out and signed printout of the form available here (sent by mail, or by fax to: +49 30 31421143): http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/download/musicagreement.pdf Deadline for submissions is 05 Feb 2007. The choice of which pieces are played is in the hands of the Campusradio crew. A program listing will be on their website http://www.campusradio-online.de shortly before the conference. ----------------------------- Wave Field Synthesis Music Shortly before the conference, a new Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) system will be installed in one of the lecture halls of the TU Berlin. We are looking for composers who are interested in creating a composition for this system or who have already written pieces for WFS, which could be played on the system. The WFS system will be based on the sWONDER software ( http://swonder.sourceforge.net), and can be controlled by OSC. For more information, please contact us at lac2007 AT robin.kgw.tu-berlin.de As there is no standard format for WFS material yet, we ask for a elaborate description of the piece and some examples of previous works. To prepare the piece for performance, it will be necessary for the composer to be present a few days before the conference. We will support efforts to get funding for this from external organizations (such as DAAD). Send your material to this address: LAC2007 - Call for WFS Music Institute of Communications Research Sekretariat EN 8 Einsteinufer 17 D-10587 Berlin Germany Make use of one of the following media formats: Media: Audio-CD, DVD, DVD-R or CD-R File formats: aiff or wav Channels: mono, stereo, multi-channel and multi-mono (8 channels is no problem, more than 8 must be discussed). Samplerate: 44.1 or 48 kHz Resolution: 16 or 24 bit Include the following items with your submission (in English): A filled-out and signed printout of the form available on: http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/download/musicagreement.pdf For the printed program and to be published online and on the conference CD, in continuous text (no table or list please): A short commentary on the composition(s) (each ca. 150 words) A short Curriculum Vitae (ca. 100 words) Deadline for submissions is 08 Jan 2007. Terms and conditions for participation can be found in the form mentioned above. This form includes among other things: I will receive no fees whether my composition is played or not. GEMA fees (in case of performance) will be paid by the organizer. The material I send to the TU Berlin will not be returned.

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[linux-audio-announce] [ANN] Simple Sysexxer 0.1.1

by Christoph Eckert

Hi all, first my apologies for cross-posting (TM) :) . This is a wee small bugfix release of Simple Sysexxer. It now should build without needing Qt debug libs installed. As I didn't get any feedback since the first release (neither success stories nor complaints), I'd like to encourage anyone to send feedback or bug reports. Simple Sysexxer is a tool to exchange sysex data with MIDI devices, e.g. to do backups of the device's memory contents or to send presets loaded from the web. Advantages: * (Hopefully) easy to use graphical user interface * True ALSA sequencer support * Built using Qt, no KDE dependency at all * Minor changes to the source should make it run on Mac OS X or even Windows Disadvantages: * Requires Qt4 and will *not* build against Qt3 * No JACK MIDI support :) * No OSS support * No prebuilt binaries available Information and source download: http://www.christeck.de Enjoy, ce

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[linux-audio-announce] MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - 1.0 RC2 released

by Bob van der Poel

Version 1.0-RC2 of MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment - is now available for downloading. Included in this release: Improved support for windows path names. A number of packaging issues resolved. Inclusion of mklibdoc.py for updating of lib docs from user contributed files. Fractional RANGE settings for arpeggio and scale tracks. This is our second version 1 release candidate. Please let me know if anything is broken before we release the real 1.0! Please note the new web and email addresses. The old ones still work, but not for long. Update your records. MMA is a accompaniment generator -- it creates midi tracks for a soloist to perform with. User supplied files contain pattern selections, chords, and MMA directives. For full details please visit: http://www.mellowood.ca/mma/ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: bob(a)mellowood.ca -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca

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[linux-audio-announce] QUICKTOOTS: Most Loaded Desktop Competition

by Patrick Shirkey

Quicktoots :: http://quicktoots.linuxaudio.org NOW ONLINE FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE!!! **************************************************************************** The Most Loaded Linux Audio Desktop Competition This is a little competition to see who can come up with the most heavily loaded and well laid out (cluttered might be a better word) desktop screenshot while running Linux Audio Applications. Rules 1. The most popular will be given top spot on the LAU Guide. 2. All submissions will be presented as the next Quicktoot. 3. There is no size restriction. 4. Video/animation/flash and audio examples will also be accepted. 5. Either post the url to Linux Audio Users mailing list. or send the entries directly to pshirkey at boosthardware dot com. * Round 1 Submissions now closed. Voting is in place through viewing popularity. No cheating please. System is purposefully simple as we expect this audience to be genuinely interested in results. ***************************************************************************** ------------- Background ------------- The purpose of the Quicktoots are to provide a community resource of informative guides for using Linux audio applications. The Quicktoots are the brainchild of Dave Phillips the man responsible for the most comprehensive webpage devoted to Linux audio applications. The Linux Sound and Midi page. Your one stop resource for Linux sound software. http://www.linux-sound.org If you are in the position to link to any of the quicktoots please link to the main page. That way we can keep more accurate statistics on the amount of people viewing the pages. If you are interested in contributing to the Quicktoots please let us know. All work must be submitted to either Dave or myself and we will give advice or make changes to ensure our publishing standard is met. If you are not able to send html don't worry because I am willing to format any braindumps. ----------------------- Cheers. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://lau.linuxaudio.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== "Anything your mind can see you can manifest physically, then it will become reality" - Macka B

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