Audio Amplitude

Linux Journal May 2003 issue, review of 20 software synth packages. try
their website, maybe you can get a print of the article entiltled "The
Linux Siftsynth Roudup." http://www.linuxjournal.com
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On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 13:34, Craig Brooksby wrote:
>> Can I ask the group -- is there good audio software out there for
>> Linux? You know -- VU meters, mixer, editor, perhaps a synth channel or
>> two? My son is a FruityLoops fanatic (he does recreations of game music
>> on MP3.com -- artistname "kikuichimoji"). Anything synth-like in the
>> linux world? I know, I know -- Google. But anybody out there into this
>> kind of stuff?
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> I don't actually do any of that stuff, but when I want anything like it
> I got to:
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> http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/
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> Which is the Center for Computer Research in Music and Accoustics at
> Stanford. They have an apt-rpm repository at:
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> http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
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> I'll steal their description to explain it (better than I could do
> anyway):
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> Planet CCRMA (CCRMA is pronounced ``karma'') at Home is a collection of
> rpms (RPM stands for RedHat Package Manager) that you can add to a
> computer running RedHat 7.3, 8.0 or 9 to transform it into an audio
> workstation with a low-latency kernel, current ALSA audio drivers and a
> nice set of music, midi, audio and video applications. It replicates
> most of the Linux environment we have been using for years here at CCRMA
> for our daily work in audio and computer music production and research.
> Planet CCRMA is easy to install and maintain, it can be installed and
> upgraded over the network from the Planet CCRMA apt repository or its
> mirrors, or from cdroms you can download from this site.
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> It's the only place I've been able to get a resonable distribution of
> Cinerella...
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>     Have fun,
>         Ted

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