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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: brahms and artsbuilder in the CVS
From:       Antonio Larrosa <antlarr () arrakis ! es>
Date:       2000-05-31 16:08:54
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Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> 
>    Hi!
> 

Hello,

> I've just imported more nice stuff:
> 
> ===>  artsbuilder (which lives in kdemultimedia/arts/builder)
> 

Cool, thanks Stefan !

> ===>  Brahms (which lives in kmusic/brahms for now)
> 
> Brahms is a fully fledged sequencer, similar to CuBase or AudioLogic. If
> KDE2.0 is to adress musicians, then this is the way to go. Under KDE1.x,
> the same code could already be used for making music, with some minor tweaks.
> 
> I hope that now that it is in the CVS, it will improve more rapidly, as
> everybody can start improving things.
> 

I haven't seen it to advance too much in the last months, so I hope it's
does better in CVS :-)

> Status: the code is ported to KDE2.0, to the degree that it compiles and
> starts. There are strange display problems right now. I hope, that we'll
> be able to do the following things in the next time
> 
>  - make Brahms usable under KDE2.0
> 

>  - aRts/Brahms midi integration, especially midi I/O via aRts, virtual
>    instruments, etc.

I'm having (even) less time each day, so I doubt I will be able to help with
this (at least, until October)

> 
>  - audio tracks via aRts, with effects and stuff for Brahms
> 

Think that we're preparing for KDE 2.0, we should be putting all our
resources on arts (and artsbuilder), trying to complete missing important
features, and fixing bugs.

>  - maybe Brahms should also use stuff from kdelibs for midi? currently it
>    contains an (old) copy of Antonios midi libs - how will
>    aRts/Brahms/libkmid stuff work?

For now, you can just delete the midi lib copy in Brahms, and link it with
libkmid (and perhaps also changing some headers to
#include <libkmid/whatever.h> :) )

> 
> Jan Wuerther the author of Brahms has got a CVS account, now, so he can work

Cool, he's also in this list, isn't it ? Jan ?

Greetings,

--
Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
Student of Mathematics
antlarr@arrakis.es        larrosa@kde.org
http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa
KDE - The development framework of the future, today.


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