Re: [linux-audio-dev] what happened to XAP?

2003-09-24 Thread Marco Ballini
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 19:25, Steve Harris wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:18:45PM +0200, Marco Ballini wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:20, Paul Davis wrote: > > > discussion about it moved to the GMPI list. GMPI is an industry-wide > > > attempt to define a platform+vendor neutral music plu

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

2003-09-24 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
> > Hello. Can anyone report what is going on with the EU software patents? > > How they would affect immediately the audio and graphics development > > we are doing? Xine? Sodipodi? Others? > > I suppose you wouldn't be allowed to control one oscillator's > frequency with the output of another os

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

2003-09-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Paul Winkler hat gesagt: // Paul Winkler wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:36:59PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > I suppose you wouldn't be allowed to control one oscillator's > > frequency with the output of another oscillator using more than about > > 10 Hz because that is Frequency

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

2003-09-24 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 12:51, Paul Winkler wrote: > Sue every radio station in the world? Then again, Major Armstrong did give RCA a hard time back in the 50s. Slightly different baseband frequency range, though... :) Cheers! |

Re: [linux-audio-dev] LilyPond 2.0 - make beautiful music prints

2003-09-24 Thread Chris Cannam
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 15:56, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > LilyPond version 2.0 was released today. And I've only just finished compiling 1.8! Chris

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what happened to XAP?

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:18:45PM +0200, Marco Ballini wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:20, Paul Davis wrote: > > discussion about it moved to the GMPI list. GMPI is an industry-wide > > attempt to define a platform+vendor neutral music plugin API. > Does this mean that the decision process is dr

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what happened to XAP?

2003-09-24 Thread Paul Winkler
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:18:45PM +0200, Marco Ballini wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:20, Paul Davis wrote: > > discussion about it moved to the GMPI list. GMPI is an industry-wide > > attempt to define a platform+vendor neutral music plugin API. > Does this mean that the decision process is dr

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what happened to XAP?

2003-09-24 Thread Tim Hockin
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:21:33PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:44:43PM +0200, Marco Ballini wrote: > > So, what happened to XAP? > > GMPI: > http://aulos.calarts.edu/pipermail/music-dsp/2003-February/022272.html > > > Is this list the right place for discussion on it?

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what happened to XAP?

2003-09-24 Thread Paul Davis
>On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:20, Paul Davis wrote: >> discussion about it moved to the GMPI list. GMPI is an industry-wide >> attempt to define a platform+vendor neutral music plugin API. >Does this mean that the decision process is driven by commercial >interests. its driven by a desire to *avoid*

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

2003-09-24 Thread Paul Winkler
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:36:59PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Juhana Sadeharju hat gesagt: // Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > > > Hello. Can anyone report what is going on with the EU software patents? > > How they would affect immediately the audio and graphics development > > we are doin

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what happened to XAP?

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 07:44:43PM +0200, Marco Ballini wrote: > So, what happened to XAP? GMPI: http://aulos.calarts.edu/pipermail/music-dsp/2003-February/022272.html > Is this list the right place for discussion on it? I think XAP has been put on hold. GMPI is a much more promising project, th

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what happened to XAP?

2003-09-24 Thread Marco Ballini
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:20, Paul Davis wrote: > discussion about it moved to the GMPI list. GMPI is an industry-wide > attempt to define a platform+vendor neutral music plugin API. Does this mean that the decision process is driven by commercial interests. If yes, is there a place for an open API

Re: [linux-audio-dev] what happened to XAP?

2003-09-24 Thread Paul Davis
>So, what happened to XAP? >Is this list the right place for discussion on it? >Would it be better to add my ideas to "XAP spec - early scribbles" >(e-mail from Tim Hockin on 4 February 2003) or to put them in an >indipendent form? discussion about it moved to the GMPI list. GMPI is an industry-w

[linux-audio-dev] what happened to XAP?

2003-09-24 Thread Marco Ballini
I'm following the LADSPA and XAP discussions from the beginning. I've some ideas about audio plugins I've been thinking about since 2001. What I really wanted was an audio plugin API for: - a music composition environment - real-time music performances All my ideas led to a sketch of an event-orien

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

2003-09-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Juhana Sadeharju hat gesagt: // Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > Hello. Can anyone report what is going on with the EU software patents? > How they would affect immediately the audio and graphics development > we are doing? Xine? Sodipodi? Others? I suppose you wouldn't be allowed to control one

[linux-audio-dev] LilyPond 2.0 - make beautiful music prints

2003-09-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
Dear music enthousiasts, LilyPond version 2.0 was released today. LilyPond is an automated music notation system: it is used to make gorgeous sheet music. It is libre software ("open source"), and available for most Unix flavors, including Linux and MacOS X, and MS Windows. Use it for your mu

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

2003-09-24 Thread Tim Orford
> Juhana, would you happen to have any pointers to the media coverage on this? > It's been a non-issue in the North American media. http://swpat.ffii.org/ cheers -- Tim Orford

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

2003-09-24 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 05:59, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > They were more conserned about how companies' > money escapes from research and development to the patent lawyers > when companies *have to* start patenting. (It looks like professional > politicians do not realize that nobody forces

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Harris
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:59:32PM +0300, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > I would like to propose the following: if EU gets the software > patents, then should non-profit open source community and non-profit > academic researchers get patents for free. Then we would be in > equally competitive situation.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

2003-09-24 Thread hexe_2003
directBOX Reply --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24.09.2003 12:07:26 Hello. Can anyone report what is going on with the EU software patents? How they would affect immediately the audio and graphics development we are doing? Xine? S

[linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

2003-09-24 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
Hello. Can anyone report what is going on with the EU software patents? How they would affect immediately the audio and graphics development we are doing? Xine? Sodipodi? Others? Yesterday news broadcasting made not a big case how EU software patents affects us. They were more conserned about how