Re: [LAD] A History of Audio on Linux somewhere?

2022-02-03 Thread Winfried Ritsch
... only a secondary linux anecdote: MAAS Maybe too young and too encourages we wanted a transition from expensive SGIs and NeXT to affordable Linux systems for our multichannel sound installation art projects. They first had nice audio libraries, the concept for float multichannel libraries

Re: [LAD] A History of Audio on Linux somewhere?

2022-02-01 Thread Matt Flax
I realise that the original thread may have been more of a focus on Kernel level audio software, rather then user space audio software, however the old school clunky XForms UI were classic from back in those days. Found some screen shots of the dynamic audio software : https://web.archive.org

Re: [LAD] A History of Audio on Linux somewhere?

2022-02-01 Thread Matt Flax
Back in 1999 and just before it was the crossover between ALSA and OSS. I remember getting help from mailing lists as a newbie, just making your first sound using C/C++ was difficult back then ! I don't know if this is the type of thing you are after, but this was my developer focus back in t

Re: [LAD] A History of Audio on Linux somewhere?

2022-02-01 Thread Jonathan E. Brickman
On 1/25/22 9:18 AM, Len Ovens wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Philip Rhoades wrote: I am just a regular user of Linux audio but I am interested in the history of how software was developed and what problems they were meant to solve on Linux eg OSS, ALSA, Jack etc and more recently PipeWire. Is

Re: [LAD] A History of Audio on Linux somewhere?

2022-01-25 Thread Len Ovens
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Philip Rhoades wrote: I am just a regular user of Linux audio but I am interested in the history of how software was developed and what problems they were meant to solve on Linux eg OSS, ALSA, Jack etc and more recently PipeWire. Is there such a documented history already

Re: [LAD] A History of Audio on Linux somewhere?

2022-01-25 Thread Bruno Vernay
Hi, On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 9:27 AM Philip Rhoades wrote: > > Flo, > > > On 2022-01-25 19:19, Florian Hülsmann wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > > > I sure enjoyed this keynote by Paul Davis of LAC 2017: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk2AMwc4e2k > > > > There's also a history of JACK by FalkTX (Sonoj

Re: [LAD] A History of Audio on Linux somewhere?

2022-01-25 Thread Florian Hülsmann
Hi Phil, I sure enjoyed this keynote by Paul Davis of LAC 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk2AMwc4e2k There's also a history of JACK by FalkTX (Sonoj 2019) which includes more recent developments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpvkn8DOScI Looking forward to other recommendations as well!