Hi Erik: Thanks for the update and info. It is a very exciting time for Linux audio (despite the /. insistence on consigning our announcements to the backwaters). I believe that such performances and recordings will eventually draw manufacturer attention to the existence and viability of Linux as a superior audio platform. In the meanwhile we'll just keep on keepin' on as we always have until the cluetrain arrives at said manufacturers' front doors. And thanks to you, Erik, for creating some of our most important software. I'm happy to see that libsndfile has taken a well-deserved place as a standard component in the Linux audio developer's toolkit. Please pass my regards and best wishes to all the Linux audio heads in the land down under. IIRC we'll be in communication during LAC, so perhaps we'll meet soon in the bitstream. :) Best, dp Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

That's cool! This is not meant to blow our own horns, but rather let people know we're available. XORNOT ( myself and Glyn Gibson ) also do a csound & linux only live techno show. We just did our third set last week here in Vancouver, using Csound5 ( yup that would include your work Erik! ) and Gentoo. Ours is a bit more live-techno oriented, nothing is prerecorded, it's all sequenced off of sequencing tools we wrote in Csound, and all synthesis, effects, and mixing are in Csound. When writing we use gvim with a wack of custon python extensions. The only non-csound noises are drum samples, but we will be tackling that later too. Probably the most interesting feature to nerds is that we don't ever look at the computer or use keyboard/mouse, everything is controlled by midi hardware using a midi parser and input modules of our own devising allowing us to very quickly change just about anything with multiple input streams for the two users. The sound is deep and dubby funk influenced tech-house I guess. Future plans include custom hardware programmed with PICs using the GNU pic stuff, and adding a second computer to do post processing and live mastering with LADPSA plugins for final sub-mixing/eq/compression. Also we will be publishing all tracks and source code used on line under GPL and Creative Commons Licenses of some sort. ( Our python score pre-processing utilility designed specifically for arranging techno is already up on our site. ) We are also looking into making custom live-cds with something like Dynebolic/Agnula plus Csound5 and our own FLTK front end so that others can try out the set rig on any fast commodity PC and get an idea of how the interface works with an FLTK hardware mockup. We are also planning to do a four track self release ep this year, which will be produced on Ardour/LADSPA/Jammin. We will be doing a bunch of shows here in Vancouver this spring and summer, details will be available on our web site and you can also get on our mailing list. I am also interested in doing seminar/shows in which we demonstrate how we are working, what tools we're using, discuss linux audio, and then rock out. A friend from Active State wants to get something going this summer, and if anyone else is interested in this kind of thing and travel expenses can be covered from Vancouver, B.C., we're available! A massive thanks to all you hard working developers who have made this possible! Iain http://www.xornot.com iain(a)xornot.com Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: