Hi John, Ed:

Thank you very much for the links. I will be checking them out soon to see if 
I find a new toy. So far the application I have been able to use is 
RoseGanden but I have not done whole lot. I work exclusively with midi 
because that is the only way I can manipulate music for live performance.

To give you an idea of the functionality I need: I pick any piece of music 
from my bookshelf, scan it, feed it to the music program, and finally modify 
the music. After this has happened the computer knows how to perform the 
music and I can continue to make changes to any music parameter at will, for 
sound or printing.

In terms of sound, the quality of a midi card in Windows or MacOS is somewhat 
pleasant to the ear( the piano sound ). In linux on the other hand it is 
horrible if I even get it to work.

There is this program from a company called Coda. It listens to your playing 
and adjusts the nuances of your playing, a virtual accompanist.  Can anyone 
imagine the complexity of algorithms they must use? I would love to read 
about the theory behind this technology. I imagine there is a great deal of 
fuzzy logic and heuristic algorithms.

Well, once again thank you and I will talk to you later.

Alvaro Zuniga


On Friday 28 February 2003 08:30 am, John Hebert wrote:
> Hey Alvaro,
>
> Though I'm not as musically inclined as you, I have found a number of
> music/sounds apps for Linux. I have been researching audio on Linux for a
> few weeks now as I have a couple of projects I am working on concerning
> audio.
>
> Here are a few links I've found to be informative:
> http://linux-sound.org/
> http://www.linuxlabs.com/software/AutoZen.html
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
>
> I use Audacity on both win32 and Linux and like it a lot. Note that there
> are packages for RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, and even Gentoo!
>
> John Hebert
>
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 02:15:07 -0600, Alvaro Zuniga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > Hello guys:
> >
> > I always have the trouble that music software is non-existent in Linux or
> > simply sucks. Therefore, as part of my healing process after a windows
> > session I try to do some inspirational reading. Here is something that
> > might be old news but worth reading over, over and over.
> >
> > http://www.beincorporated.com/press/pressreleases/02-02-
> > 19_msft_complaint.html
> >
> > I feel much better!
> >
> > Alvaro


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