9 Aug
2012
9 Aug
'12
10:21 p.m.
Hello, all,
You may have heard a few of us occasionally speak of an arcane piece of
software called Nama and have wondered in passing just exactly what it
is. Well, I have just posted an article attempting to explain that. The
first half of the article is somewhat autobiographical and may safely be
skipped bu those unwilling to learn more about the author than they
rightly need to, but the second half should prove instructive to those
who may have heard of Nama and Ecasound but have lacked the time or
energy to investigate.
The publication of this article also marks the opening of my new website
www.wolfdream.ca which is mainly meant to showcase my writing but will
hopefully include further articles about Linux, audio, and accessibility
issues, as well as my audio work and, maybe, (god willing) some
recordings of my own. If you think you might care to be exposed to such
things, please bookmark the site or subscribe to the RSS feed.
The article: http://www.wolfdream.ca/article3
Thanks for reading.
Cheers,
S.M.
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9 Aug
9 Aug
10:39 p.m.
On Thu, August 9, 2012 10:21 pm, S. Massy wrote:
Hello, all,
You may have heard a few of us occasionally speak of an arcane piece of
software called Nama and have wondered in passing just exactly what it
is. Well, I have just posted an article attempting to explain that. The
first half of the article is somewhat autobiographical and may safely be
skipped bu those unwilling to learn more about the author than they
rightly need to, but the second half should prove instructive to those
who may have heard of Nama and Ecasound but have lacked the time or
energy to investigate.
The publication of this article also marks the opening of my new website
www.wolfdream.ca which is mainly meant to showcase my writing but will
hopefully include further articles about Linux, audio, and accessibility
issues, as well as my audio work and, maybe, (god willing) some
recordings of my own. If you think you might care to be exposed to such
things, please bookmark the site or subscribe to the RSS feed.
The article: http://www.wolfdream.ca/article3
Thanks for reading.
Nice work!
Don't forget to join the planet feed http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/planet
Cheers,
S.M.
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10:55 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 10:39:35PM +0200, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
On Thu, August 9, 2012 10:21 pm, S. Massy wrote:
Thanks for both the compliment and the pointer.
Cheers,
S.M.
Hello, all,
You may have heard a few of us occasionally speak of an arcane piece of
software called Nama and have wondered in passing just exactly what it
is. Well, I have just posted an article attempting to explain that. The
first half of the article is somewhat autobiographical and may safely be
skipped bu those unwilling to learn more about the author than they
rightly need to, but the second half should prove instructive to those
who may have heard of Nama and Ecasound but have lacked the time or
energy to investigate.
The publication of this article also marks the opening of my new website
www.wolfdream.ca which is mainly meant to showcase my writing but will
hopefully include further articles about Linux, audio, and accessibility
issues, as well as my audio work and, maybe, (god willing) some
recordings of my own. If you think you might care to be exposed to such
things, please bookmark the site or subscribe to the RSS feed.
The article: http://www.wolfdream.ca/article3
Thanks for reading.
Nice work!
Don't forget to join the planet feed http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/planet
10:59 p.m.
On 08/09/2012 10:55 PM, S. Massy wrote:
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 10:39:35PM +0200, Patrick
Shirkey wrote:
I've just added the RSS feed to the planet.
Cheers!
robin
On Thu, August 9, 2012 10:21 pm, S. Massy wrote:
Thanks for both the compliment and the pointer.
Hello, all,
You may have heard a few of us occasionally speak of an arcane piece of
software called Nama and have wondered in passing just exactly what it
is. Well, I have just posted an article attempting to explain that. The
first half of the article is somewhat autobiographical and may safely be
skipped bu those unwilling to learn more about the author than they
rightly need to, but the second half should prove instructive to those
who may have heard of Nama and Ecasound but have lacked the time or
energy to investigate.
The publication of this article also marks the opening of my new website
www.wolfdream.ca which is mainly meant to showcase my writing but will
hopefully include further articles about Linux, audio, and accessibility
issues, as well as my audio work and, maybe, (god willing) some
recordings of my own. If you think you might care to be exposed to such
things, please bookmark the site or subscribe to the RSS feed.
The article: http://www.wolfdream.ca/article3
Thanks for reading.
Nice work!
Don't forget to join the planet feed http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/planet 
11:31 p.m.
Hi Massy!
This is an extensive article! Thank you for that. I would probably dispute
one or two points, but it would get philosophical. :-) Great work! Not only
the purely technical part is interesting.
In a way Nama is a DAW with a lot of usability engineering at its back. Even
though the graphicaluser inte4rface isn't much used, because it's mainly us
blind folks and other friend of textual interaction, there is the graphical
UI. I don't know, what exactly it does offer. But you always have the choice
tointeract view commands or menus and direct manipulation. Also the help
system offers almost all the things one would expect. For a start a fantastic
search, which a lot of commercial programs lack in this quality.
One thing I would like to add to the advantages of Nama's command language:
It allows experts to easily manage meta information, macros, scripts and other
shortcuts. Things, which aren't natural in graphical applications. Not as
natural as they come to us. :-)
Well, splendid work and I'm waiting for the next bits in the series! Thank
you!
Warmly yours
Julien
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******** Find some music at ********
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10 Aug
10 Aug
1:25 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 11:31:11PM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
One thing I would like to add to the advantages of
Nama's command
language: It allows experts to easily manage meta information,
macros, scripts and other shortcuts. Things, which aren't natural in
graphical applications. Not as natural as they come to us. :-)
Absolutely, that is
a very good point indeed. Bundling simple and
not-so-simple tasks into user-defined macros is even now very
straightforward using the custom.pl file (perl knowledge not required).
I once saw someone attempting to use automator to perform some tasks in
Logic... and fail.
Well, splendid work and I'm waiting for the next
bits in the
series! Thank you!
Thanks!
Cheers,
S.M.
2:10 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:21:50PM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
Hello, all,
You may have heard a few of us occasionally speak of an arcane piece of
software called Nama and have wondered in passing just exactly what it
is. Well, I have just posted an article attempting to explain that. The
first half of the article is somewhat autobiographical and may safely be
skipped bu those unwilling to learn more about the author than they
rightly need to, but the second half should prove instructive to those
who may have heard of Nama and Ecasound but have lacked the time or
energy to investigate.
The publication of this article also marks the opening of my new website
www.wolfdream.ca which is mainly meant to showcase my writing but will
hopefully include further articles about Linux, audio, and accessibility
issues, as well as my audio work and, maybe, (god willing) some
recordings of my own. If you think you might care to be exposed to such
things, please bookmark the site or subscribe to the RSS feed.
The article: http://www.wolfdream.ca/article3
Thanks for reading.
Cheers,
S.M.
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Well written article.
Really enjoyed it...
lieven
2:32 p.m.
Hello Lieven!
Would you consider using it? :-) We can always benefit from mre active
users. :-)
Teasingly yours
Julien
050e010d0f12010401-0405-0d09-030f12011a0f0d-
Such Is Life: Very Intensely Adorable;
Free And Jubilating Amazement Revels, Dancing On - FLOWERS!
******** Find some music at ********
http://juliencoder.de/nama/music.html
---------------------------------------------------------------
"If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 95 and 37 days,
so I can be sure, there's someone at your site, who loves you."
(Not Winnie the Puh)
5:57 p.m.
Hello,
Thanks to all who responded so positively. Some people have pointed a
few contrast and formatting (width) issues which I will endeavour to
resolve soon.
Thanks again, and don't forget to stay tuned, if you like ramblings.
Cheers,
S.M.
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10:11 p.m.
Am 09.08.2012 22:21, schrieb S. Massy:
The publication of this article also marks the opening of my new website
www.wolfdream.ca
Unfortunately the page does not render correctly in Firefox (content-box
is pushed far right beyond he viewport). The effect disappears if I
fiddle with the font-size (Ctrl+-) so maybe thats why you have not
noticed this yet.
The claim f the page is also white font on white background -- maybe
that is intended?
best regards
HZN
which is mainly meant to showcase my writing but will
hopefully include further articles about Linux, audio, and accessibility
issues, as well as my audio work and, maybe, (god willing) some
recordings of my own. If you think you might care to be exposed to such
things, please bookmark the site or subscribe to the RSS feed.
The article: http://www.wolfdream.ca/article3
Thanks for reading.
Cheers,
S.M.
11 Sep
11 Sep
8:06 p.m.
Hello, LAUers,
This is just to let you all know that the issues with the article and
website have now hopefully been corrected. I just switched to a simpler
and hopefully bug-free theme which may not look appealing but should let
everyone read what I write painlessly. Thanks to all who pointed out the
errors and/or tried and help solve them. Here is the link again:
http://www.wolfdream.ca/article3
Cheers,
S.M.
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