7 Sep
2003
7 Sep
'03
11:11 a.m.
Robert Jonsson <robert.jonsson(a)dataductus.se> wrote:
Though this is accurate, it's only half the story about aRts.
Sunday 07 September 2003 12:04 skrev Rick Taylor:
> G Cote <garyb(a)cotecorner.com> wrote:
Apparently, I'm running arts. Great. One more
thing
I don't really understand.
Now, I've been to arts-project.org and see that
it's the Analog Realtime Synth, blah blah blah.
^ It's a synth.
...Like buzz or AudoMulch. You set up different modules that make noises
...then you pipe those through other modules that screw them up and then
you make music with the whole mess.
Questions: do I need it to capture audio from
the sound card? Should I be trying to trouble-
shoot it? Or is it getting in the way of things?
:} You might make music with it. Other sound-servers where born, KDE started out with a
sound-server that was
even worse than ESounD, at some point they decided to use something else.
They settled for ARTS, yes... the software synth... reasons being unknown to
me, but ARTS is quite advanced, and developed in C++, it fit the KDE
I'd used it to that point... It was one of the first {maybe the first
modular synths} Actually, I never could get it to work right. I did manage
a few *really* nasty crashes with it... It was one of the reasons I
started messing with Audiomulch a while back... I like the whole idea.
It makes things very simple. :} Never could get Brahms to compile either
{I still can't get it to compile for that matter {But I am still trying.}}
I did get Cecilia to make some lovely noises and had a nice time playing
mp3s in XMMS.
Strangely enough, I haven't been able to get the newer versions of
Cecilia to do much... It's a great program but I'm really more interested
in common music and scheme. Snd didn't seem to be such a great program back
then... I really didn't like it as a matter of fact. It's come a long way
since then. {I wonder if Cecilia could be modified to work with lisp?}
architecture rather well, SO BE IT. ARTS is from now
on formostly a
sound-server. The goals of producing a software synth lives on, but I think
very little work is being directed towards that these days, maybe later on...
http://www.arts-project.org/doc/handbook/introduction.html#what-is-arts
At some point along the way, during the sound-server
development, ALSA was
developed as a new sound-card architecture. ALSA, now the sound-driver
formostly being used in Kernel2.6 will soon be what most distros use, as
DRIVER.
Ok... that is definately enough for now...
What if you were to use it as a synth and make music with it? It does
seem to be much more developed than a lot of linux sound software. {It's
grown a hell of a lot too.}
Maybe it could be made Jack compatible? {Seeing as Jack's gotten so popular
these days.}