Just in case no-one else has noticed, the UK number one magazine for professional/semi-professional/serious-amateur sound engineers has carried a long article in their Febrary 2003 issue about using Linux for audio and production. They cover (with links): AGNULA, Ardour, Audacity, LADSPA, CCRMA, Rosegarden and Sweep, along with ALSA card support.
A large chunk of the article deals with introducing the concept of Free Software and Open Source, however, as this is probably strange to most of the readers. The closing paragraphs basically mark the Linux audio scene as 'one to watch'. Unfortunately, the web-version of the article is only available to subscribers. I have the print edition. In any case, the Sound-on-Sound web-site is here: http://www.sospubs.co.uk/ It seems a fairly significant happening to me, that the Linux audio scene has got big enough and respectable enough to get the attention of SoS. Also, with this kind of exposure (even though it is only in the UK), maybe more hardware support will become possible. If you are all already aware of this, I'm sorry for the dup, but I did scan the last 300 messages or so to check. Jim P.S. [Off-topic] Maybe some people will remember me from discussions a long while back. I remained subscribed to this list, although I haven't been following discussions. Instead, I've been busy putting my time into DSP stuff and analysis for handling EEG data, as part of the openEEG project: http://openeeg.sf.net/ I developed a wave-viewer for brainwave files that pushes the analysis about as far as I could. It is just about possible to use it for audio, but it is really a bit too slow for that. It is more designed for looking at things that happen on the scale of 1000-10000 samples, say: http://uazu.net/bwview/ I have also recently adapted Tony Fisher's "mkfilter" tool-set to create a GPL'd digital filter design tool. There are still quite a few things I plan to add to this (i.e. it is still in development): http://uazu.net/fiview/ My SBaGen binaural beats tool has also seen some activity recently, although it is really in need of an overhaul now: http://uazu.net/sbagen/ That's about all the news from me. Good to hear that things are progressing so well here, though. -- Jim Peters (_)/=\~/_(_) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_) /=\ ~/_ (_) Uazú (_) /=\ ~/_ (_) http:// B'ham, UK (_) ____ /=\ ____ ~/_ ____ (_) uazu.net JUST SAY NO! to corrupt audio CDs. For details: http://uazu.net/CD
