| Regarding:
Linux sound driver unification
Linux sound applications
Excellent looking "snd" editor from Stanford for Linux, SGI
and probably any other unix system.
There is a project to unify sound driver software for all Linux
systems - with a very cost effective ($20) arm supporting a free
version as well. A very interesting paradigm for software
development.
Find out all about it at:
http://www.4front-tech.com/
There you will find a list of applications which talk to this
interface (which is for sound, MIDI and FM synthesis amongst other
things besides):
http://www.4front-tech.com/ossapps.html
One application I had not heard of was the "snd" editor by Bill
Schottstaedt (bil@ccrma.stanford.edu)
http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/CCRMA/Software/snd/snd.html
I just downloaded it and it ran like a beauty!
This is an X application (no tcl/tk), freely available, with a
binaries for Linux and SGI, with full source code availability (half
a megabyte - when gzipped - of serious looking code), excellent html
documentation and a list of features a mile long . . . .
Bill Schottstaedt's brief description is:
Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs and an old,
sorely-missed PDP-10 sound editor named Dpysnd. It can accomodate any
number of sounds at once, each with any number of channels. Each
channel is normally displayed in its own window, with its own cursor,
edit history, and marks; each sound has a 'control panel' to try out
various changes quickly, and an expression parser, used mainly during
searches; there is an overall stack of 'regions' that can be browsed
and edited; channels and sounds can be grouped together during
editing; edits can be undone and redone without restriction
('unlimited undo'); Snd can be customized using an Emacs-lisp-like
syntax; it can also be extended with user-supplied editing or display
functions loaded at run time; and it's free; the code is available via
anonymous ftp from ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu as pub/Lisp/snd.tar.gz.
PDP-10??? I think we have some old-timer experience at work here!
This is definitely hot off the presses - it was put on the Stanford
site on Friday.
Thanks Bill!!!
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