Greetings,

News from Anders Vinjar on the cm-dist list :

Hi all.

Ive been working on a linux-port of IRCAMs OpenMusic lately, and think
its approaching a useful state now.

I would very much appreciate it if some of the brave ones out there did
some testing and sent me feedback:

  http://forge.ircam.fr/p/OM6/downloads/label/421/

The tarball you'll find there includes the OM-6.7 image, source code, a
README and the various resources it uses (.so's, libs, fonts, icons,
help-files, tutorials, other).

This beta is not prepared to be installed anywhere, only to be run from
inside the directory where you unpack it (type ./OM_6.7_beta_4 ... ).
Plan is to make an installable version once the dust settles some.

Theres one thing which needs installing to work however, the music-fonts
used in the various editors and factories etc.  Theres an .rpm here:

  http://forge.ircam.fr/p/OM6/downloads/get/omfonts-1.0-1.noarch.rpm.zip

- which hopefully takes care of the fonts (theyre also available for
manual install in the tarball).  The .rpm installs them (4 .ttf-files)
inside its own folder /usr/share/fonts/omfonts/*

The present version uses JACK for audio + midi I/O, and will try to
start a JACK server if its not already running.

To get any sound from the usual midi-ports, the linux-port uses
libfluidsynth, and attempts to load one of the standard soundfonts into
it.  However you should be able to route midi-output to any client you
prefer (with jack-midi support).

Thanks for any feedback.

Cheers,

-anders

I've been testing it since his announcement on Oct 28, most things are working well, with only occasional graphics glitches. Check the download site for updated packages and be sure to let Anders know if you test it. He'll be doing a presentation at IRCAM soon, I'm sure he wants it to be tested as much as possible before then.

Btw, I figured some Csounders might be using OM or want to. The OM2Csound module looks interesting.

Best,

dp