[PlanetCCRMA] [Fedora-music-list] Summer Coding Project: Still Seeking Mentor

[Simon Lewis]

Hello Christopher

Aria Maestosa (http://ariamaestosa.sourceforge.net/) has a groovy gui if 
you prefer to enter notes as sheet music and would like to save as midi 
file. Also, it outputs to timidity so you can hear what you are composing...

The latest stable release is 1.2.1 but you will need a tricky rpm 
specfile to get it up and running. The attached srpm has been tested on 
x86_64 and should build on i686. The source code does not support ppc.

Regards, Simon


Am 15.05.2010 21:08, schrieb Christopher Antila:
> Hello Simon:
>
> Thank you for your comments.  These are precisely the kinds of tips that
> would be required of a mentor!
>
> I've been thinking about your Qtractor/Rosegarden comment already, and I
> feel ready to substitute Qtractor for Rosegarden.
>
> I've never heard of AriaMaestosa, and I haven't explored Phasex or
> Yoshimi in great detail.
>
> As for PulseAudio, I think that I'll still cover it.  What I should have
> put is that it's difficult to escape, and that most desktop users will
> not want to escape it.  This is an issue that will be addressed in a
> chapter about optimizing your computer for use with audio applications.
>
> Again, thank you for your comments.  I will add information to my
> proposal page right now.
>
>
> Christopher.
>
> On 05/15/2010 02:32 AM, Simon Lewis wrote:
>    
>> Hello Christopher
>>
>> I hope you don't mind me making a couple of comments to your proposal...
>>
>> The most important sequencer is Qtractor - despite Rui's cautionary
>> notes it's a very solid  and advanced app that allows you to work with
>> both midi and audio.  Rosegarden is perhaps interesting from a
>> historical approach but it's midi only.
>>
>> You noted that you can not escape Pulseaudio in Fedora - you certainly
>> can! Simply remove everything except the pulseaudio-libs... Your PC will
>> feel like it's turbo-charged after you done this!
>>
>> Synthesizers? Yoshimi - the best sounding synth I know. Phasex - very
>> clean sound. Alsa Modular Synth - fun.
>>
>> Typesetting AriaMaestosa
>>
>> One overlooked but very important aspect when creating a pro-audio spin
>> of a distro is to set up common directory locations for plug-ins and
>> make sure that all apps automatically point to them.
>>
>> The two areas that need a lot of effort and code changes is multiple
>> sound cards and getting all apps to work on x86_64 (lib64 savvy).
>>
>> Regards, Simon
>>
>> PS: Versions...
>>
>> AriaMaestosa.x86_64             1.2.1-1
>> ams.x86_64                      2.0.1-2
>> phasex.x86_64                   0.12.0-0.2
>> qtractor.x86_64                 0.4.5svn1517-2
>> yoshimi.x86_64                  0.055.3-1
>>
>>
>> Am 14.05.2010 22:21, schrieb Christopher Antila:
>> Last week, I sent an introductory message, about the Fedora Summer
>> Coding project that I'm proposing. The proposal is almost finished (see
>> it online at
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_proposal_-_Fedora_Musicians%27_Guide),
>>
>> but some serious work remains.
>>
>> The most important part still remaining is that I need a mentor! I
>> would really like to have somebody from Fedora and Planet CCRMA, because
>> of the opportunities it would allow. This co-mentoring possibility has
>> been approved in principal by the Fedora Summer Coding SIG, and they
>> also recommend it for this particular proposal.
>>
>> The responsibilities for a mentor from the Audio Creation SIG would
>> probably be like these:
>> -helping sort through existing documentation to derive a 'recommended
>> practice' for optimizing Fedora PCs for audio work
>> -giving tips on installing and using audio software
>> -assist in getting algorithms tested on hardware that I don't have
>> (esp.
>> multiple sound cards, including FireWire, and external MIDI devices)
>> -assist in determining the success or failure of the project as a
>> whole,
>> which determines whether I get paid
>>
>> I can't say for sure, but this is my best guess. You can contact the
>> Fedora Summer Coding people for more information, or see the wiki page,
>> available at
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010#You_are_a_mentor
>>
>> Thank you for considering my proposal. Any comments that you may have
>> are welcome!
>>
>>
>> Christopher Antila.
>>      
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