From kde-devel  Sun Jun 10 21:36:48 2001
From: Stefan Westerfeld <stefan () space ! twc ! de>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:36:48 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Guitar program
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99220916718802

   Hi!

On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:06:41PM -0600, Greg Turpin wrote:
> Count me in.  Maybe we should move this discussion over
> to Matthias's list.
> 
> A good KDE/Qt GUI for recording is something I've been
> looking for for a long time.
> We definitely need to look at LAD (Linux Audio Developers)
> and incorporate LADSPA.
> The new LAAGA proposals sound awesome.

Maybe this is a good time to say that I have some experimental LADSPA
support for aRts lying around here. It's not quite finished, but well,
it works well enough to load LADSPA plugins and use them within the
aRts flowsystem. If somebody is interested in finishing this, I can
send you a tarball, otherwise ... well ... I'll commit it once I have
the time to clean it up a bit.

Btw, I think that aRts currently is far superior to LAAGA, for a few
reasons:

 * aRts exists, LAAGA is vapourware
 * aRts solves a lot of problems that LAAGA doesn't (i.e. the problem
   how to build up complex communications between apps - answer: use
   MCOP interfaces)
 * aRts standarizes (and can standarize) a lot of aspects that LAAGA has
   not even thought about, such as soundserver, effect stacks, midi,
   synthesis, serialization, gui, plugins, trading, idl, ...
 * aRts is widely available

I think the kde-multimedia list sounds like a good place for discussing
these issues, too.

   Cu... Stefan
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