18 Jun
2003
18 Jun
'03
2:15 a.m.
Hi All:
I'm wondering if Dave Phillip's book 'Linux Music and Sound' is still a
good
buy. Given that it was published 3 years ago, would much of the material now be
out of date?
TIA
Mick
18 Jun
18 Jun
3:56 a.m.
Michael Hall wrote:
I'm wondering if Dave Phillip's book
'Linux Music and Sound' is still a good
buy. Given that it was published 3 years ago, would much of the material now be
out of date?
Hi Michael:
Yes, I'm afraid much of it (most of it?) is out of date. It's probably
still useful as introductory material for Csound, Common Music Notation,
and a few other things, but I hesitate to recommend it. I'm supposed to
be working on the 2nd edition, and I've collected a good lot of material
for it, but I still need to work out some issues with my publisher.
You're likely to get much more timely information from this list. :)
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
4:21 a.m.
Thanks for that Dave, I guess there's no arguing with the author himself! I
have heard/read that the book is/was very good, but time stands still for no
man or book unfortunately. I have a good collection of expensive, outdated
Linux books that were all wonderful in their day :-)
Although I've played music for 30 years, and worked with Linux web
servers/scripting/databases for 3 years, I've only just put 2 and 2 together
and begun exploring Linux audio and sound. So I look forward to the 2nd Edition.
Mick
Quoting Dave Phillips <dlphilp(a)bright.net>et>:
Michael Hall wrote:
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I'm wondering if Dave Phillip's book
'Linux Music and Sound' is still a
good
buy. Given that it was published 3 years ago,
would much of the material
now be
out of date?
Hi Michael:
Yes, I'm afraid much of it (most of it?) is out of date. It's probably
still useful as introductory material for Csound, Common Music Notation,
and a few other things, but I hesitate to recommend it. I'm supposed to
be working on the 2nd edition, and I've collected a good lot of material
for it, but I still need to work out some issues with my publisher.
You're likely to get much more timely information from this list. :)
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
4:51 a.m.
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 15:49, Dave Phillips wrote:
Michael Hall wrote:
I'm wondering if Dave Phillip's book
'Linux Music and Sound' is still a good
buy. Given that it was published 3 years ago, would much of the material now be
out of date?
Hi Michael:
Yes, I'm afraid much of it (most of it?) is out of date. It's probably
still useful as introductory material for Csound, Common Music Notation, == Dave Phillips
I'm reading it now. It's true that it's out-of-date with regards to some
software. Interfaces have changed, one or two apps that looked cool
haven't been updated by their authors and won't run on recent Linux
versions.
However, it's still basically solid, and there's not much else out
there. Without the book, I wouldn't have been able to make anything out
of some of the things I downloaded from Planet CCRMA. You just have to
make allowances.
--
Rohan Parkes
Melbourne
Australia
6:10 a.m.
Dave Phillips wrote:
Michael Hall wrote:
you might still want to file an acquisition request in your local
public/university library :)
it's what i'm doing to silently sneak linux stuff into the heads of
students, and if it fails it has the nice side-effect to get some money
to authors and publishers....
;)
jörn
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I'm wondering if Dave Phillip's book
'Linux Music and Sound' is still a good
buy. Given that it was published 3 years ago, would much of the material now be
out of date?
Hi Michael:
Yes, I'm afraid much of it (most of it?) is out of date. It's probably
still useful as introductory material for Csound, Common Music Notation,
and a few other things, but I hesitate to recommend it.
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