2 Mar
2007
2 Mar
'07
5:23 a.m.
Hi,
On Friday 02 March 2007 10:11, Ken Restivo wrote:
I played with RTSynth a bit, it generates some cool
sounds.
But, it looks completely orphaned! The distribution I got was binary-only,
no source code. Really weird, never seen that before in a Linux project.
I don't know the reasons but RTSynth has always been closed source. It's odd
for Linux and a potential problem if the sources and or Stefan ever gets
lost. But I for one respect his decision, it's jack and alsa compatible and
can be used by anyone.
I emailed the author, to find out where the source distribution is, and his
email bounced as undeliverable. The website hasn't been updated since 2003.
Anyway, what's up? Anyone have a source tarball of the source for the
latest version of it (with JACK/ALSA support)?
There was actually an update in december (announced here), so it's actually
alive.
I think there's a new homepage.
http://www.linux-sound.org/rtsynth/
I tried it at the time and it works, there's some wonderfully wierd sounds
hiding in there :-).
/Robert
-ken