>yet but Im ready to change that). I have been very interested in assisting >the unix community with the development of a completely professional >multitrack recording ystem complete with audio processing "plugins" >including soft-synths. I have ideas regarding a method and standard but have >not weighed them against anything out there. Is there anybody out there >actually doing development on an open source system that is a part of this
http://ardour.sf.net/ http://www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound Ardour's primary goal is to make ProTools irrelevant. Ecasound is more oriented toward command line use, though its a very powerful tool and there are graphical front-ends for it under development. i should also mention MusE, which doesn't do a lot with audio right now, but is easily the cream of the current crop when it comes to MIDI sequencing. http://muse.seh.de/ <<= most advanced MIDI plus of course, LADSPA (http://www.ladspa.org/). i strongly suggest you read the Ardour FAQ's entry on VST support, since it applies to just about all of us, i believe. >I have many ideas and much knowledge in audio processing and used to me a >member of the AES (Audio Engineering Society) about 10 years ago and I would >like to talk to others that are interested in this. Perhaps we can put >together an action list and get underway. Ardour has been underway for 2-1/2 years. There are several professional recording engineers on the ardour-dev mailing list, and I'm also a partner in a commercial recording studio here in Philadelphia. --p
