Hi! On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 03:40:33PM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: > i'm writing this email, because i'm interested in what plans the > different linux audio developers have for the year 2005 Any new > revolutionary applications planned? Major changes to some of the > existing apps? So let us know. What are your roadmaps for 2005? What are > you guys up to?
Well, funnily enough, somewhere on my TODO list is discussing about and writing an official Roadmap document for BEAST. But it will probably take some time to get this done, so I here my inoffical 2005 plan: beast: - work on the instrument support - support for GUS Patches (currently working on this) - add more synthesis networks to the distribution, provide presets - maybe later add soundfont support (maybe via libfluidsynth) - integrate more with "the rest of the linux world" - probably DSSI client/host support - fix any remaining issues with the PortAudio driver and the PortAudio blocking JACK support I added - more (maybe native) JACK support - more ALSA support, to allow proper (time synchronous) midi loopback from/to other synths/sequencers and midi output to external devices - more C++ porting - fix what annoys musicians most about it - make music with BEAST to find out what this is - listen to musicians to see what this is - maybe provide ports to non-linux systems other projects: - support interoperability where possible (for instance: maybe provide help for polypaudio to become a new de facto soundserver standard) There is a more elaborate version of my (and Tim Janiks) TODO (my part of the TODO starts at the line "sfidl:") at http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/beast/TODO?rev=1.523&view=markup but that is probably more work than for 2005 only. My plan for 2005 is to more or less concentrate on BEAST development, as I can provide a new place for some of my former ideas I had for aRts there. Cu... Stefan -- Stefan Westerfeld, Hamburg/Germany, http://space.twc.de/~stefan