Hi laa-folk, Announcing the release of sfront 0.86 4/24/04, available for download from: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html It's been a while since the last release -- I was waiting for the RTP MIDI specification to reach stability. This release supports the version of RTP MIDI described in draft-ietf-avt-rtp-midi-format-03.txt, which hopefully will be the version that goes to Last Call soon. See: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/pubs/txt/current-rtp-midi.txt http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/pubs/txt/current-guide.txt For the latest in RTP documents. For those of you unfamiliar with sfront, here's a short bio: Sfront compiles MPEG 4 Structured Audio (MP4-SA) bitstreams into efficient C programs that generate audio when executed. MP4-SA is a standard for normative algorithmic sound, that combines an audio signal processing language (SAOL) with score languages (SASL, and the legacy MIDI File Format). Under Linux and Mac OS X, sfront supports real-time, low-latency audio input/output, local MIDI input from soundcards, and networked MIDI input using RTP and SIP. A SIP server hosted on the Berkeley campus manages sessions. The documentation includes a book about SAOL programming. --- John Lazzaro http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu ---