I now have Csound, Python, and CsoundAC running on Eeebuntu on my Acer 
netbook. Trapped renders to float in 24 seconds, it does that in 9 seconds 
on my Qosmio running Windows XP. So the netbook is between two and three 
times as slow. Frankly, I think this is fantastic, considering how toylike 
it looks and feels. It is certainly usable and can do some pieces in real 
time.

The thing also gets sound out to my M Audio Ozone USB audio interface 
without me having to do a blessed thing. I expect the next one of these I 
get will be quite a bit faster. In fact, I think in future I may well have 
only netbooks for portability, and if I need to I will get a multicore 
desktop for heavy crunching. Probably one of those things that doubles as a 
flat screen high-definition television set, with a wireless keyboard.

I think I am pretty close to being able to build it all in Eeebuntu, as 
well.

And, I have implemented basic MusicXML import in the CsoundAC Score class. 
This is booked into Csound CVS. It was very easy to do, as it was based on 
the Grame MusicXML library. I will also add MusicXML import to the csnd 
CsoundFile class.

I will wait on native Csound MusicXML reading, although my code could very 
easily be used to implement that.

I will not do MusicXML export. The CsoundAC and Csound score formats are not 
measure or meter oriented, and make no assumptions regarding visual 
appearance. CsoundAC's Score class can do a reasonable MIDI export, and I 
will rest with that. This is because anything I could do with MusicXML would 
not add anything to what can presently be done with MIDI export followed by 
importing into notation software. If anyone wants to write a meter and 
measure oriented score class for CsoundAC, please feel free, perhaps the 
MusicXML library could serve as a basis for that.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Felipe Sateler" 
To: "Developer discussions" 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] MusicXML


> BTW, the debian packages for csound are also built for powepc (and
> several other architectures). So far, there has been only one
> arch-specific issue reported in the debian bug tracker (a build
> failure on alpha, already fixed)
>
> Saludos,
> Felipe Sateler
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:44, Anthony Kozar
>  wrote:
>> Pretty cool, Mike :)
>>
>> My wife and I have been talking about these since you brought up the 
>> topic
>> and think we might like to get one.  I think I probably would have gone 
>> with
>> Ubuntu on my PowerMac last fall if we had not needed certain Mac OS X
>> programs to communicate with family.  So, I sympathize with the impetus 
>> to
>> move entirely towards Linux.  Mac OS X Leopard does give me access to a
>> large number of open-source programs that I was previously denied though.
>>
>> I'd also like to put time into helping to support Csound on Linux PPC, 
>> but
>> there are so many other things to do ...
>>
>> Do keep us updated on any interesting findings!
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> Michael Gogins wrote on 3/22/09 12:15 PM:
>>
>>> OK, I just bought one, an Acer Aspire One.model KAV10.
>>>
>>> I'm, frankly, astonished at how cute it is and how easy it is to haul
>>> around. It came with Windows XP, then I tried Eeebuntu from a USB
>>> drive, then I installed Eeebuntu 2.0 as dual boot, and everything
>>> seemed to work, so I reformatted the hard disk and installed only
>>> Eeebuntu on it.
>>>
>>> So, the netbook will be my Linux machine, and my Qosmio will remain a
>>> purely Windows machine.
>>>
>>> My motives for using Linux on this thing are:
>>>
>>> I want to use computer music software such as Aeolus that exists only
>>> on Linux, or such as Loris or Taosynth that is better supported on
>>> Linux, or non music software that is better supported on Linux such as
>>> GNU Common Lisp or GAP.
>>>
>>> It is easier to install and uninstall stuff on Linux than on Windows.
>>>
>>> I want to help support Csound and CsoundAC on Linux.
>>>
>>> And I want to see if I can do without Windows altogether, this means
>>> eventually I want to try to run the Pianoteq VST plugin on this thing.
>>>
>>> Anyway, this is the first time I have a computer that I can always
>>> have with me, and the first time I have had a computer that runs only
>>> Linux.
>>
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