Hi!
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 02:10:56PM +0000, gswilson wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> > * demosong: do a demosong with the new aRts (any musicians here?)
> > * documentation: refer to the new documentation (see above ;), and the
> > generated API reference
> >
>
> Hi, I'm a musician and can do a demo song. I'm new to the music side of Linux
> though and I've only recently discovered Arts Builder and the KDE manager -
> Like them both. How do you want the instrumental ? As an
> MP3 or some other format?
Great! Well, there are two choices. One is not using samples at all, and doing
purely synthetic sounds. The other, if you want to use samples, is using wav
or akai format for that. MP3 playing isn't good during realtime stuff ;-).
It will be a bit of a technical challange to get the demosong job done, as the
new aRts has a few rough edges and unimplemented stuff yet. For instance, you
will probably need a sequencer to do this. There are a few options like
* using an external sequencer (i.e. via second computer and windows)
* using Brahms which has native aRts support (Brahms has just been updated
to a quite new version this weekend, and it has quite a few rough edges)
* using any other linux sequencer, and talk to aRts via midi loopback
Then, aRts itself doesn't support instrument switching and wave table stuff
right now. So... either you'll do a one-instrument song (which might be boring)
or I should implement something to get this done.
Anyway, do you have a recent KDE-CVS or 2.1beta version already installed?
What do you think about the sequencer choice?
> I'm also willing to help out with documentation.
Good - have you had a look at
http://space.twc.de/~stefan/kde/arts-mcop-doc/artsbuilder/
What chapters do you think you can do? Do you know docbook?
Cu... Stefan
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