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Editing audio in Linux (ars technica)
ars technica
looks at a few popular Linux audio editing packages.
"Given Linux's strengths, weaknesses, history, and ideology, it's interesting to see where Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) competes well with proprietary software, where it falls behind, and where it provides novel innovation. The FOSS pro-level Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), Ardour, competes with industry-standard apps like ProTools, Logic, Nuendo, and Digital Performer. Audacity, on the other hand, is a more casual FOSS audio editor, but infuses the task with some distinctly geeky scripting facilities. SND, "modeled loosely after Emacs and an old, sorely-missed PDP-10 sound editor named Dpysnd," is a distinctly Linux audio app, complete with an ass-ugly interface, a mountainous learning curve, and the ability to wash your dishes if you know how to ask."
(Thanks to Andy Kauffman.)
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Editing audio in Linux (ars technica) Posted Oct 14, 2005 9:49 UTC (Fri) by sdalley (subscriber, #18550) [Link] From the article:The argument against DSP hardware goes that with audio data becoming so easy to process, better results will be achieved by upgrading general purpose hardware, than by buying specialized hardware acceleration. This is an interesting attitude, given the press for distributed processing models in the gaming world, what with video acceleration and now physics and AI hardware acceleration. Also interesting is a recent effort to utilize the GPU for DSP hardware acceleration. If such technology were to become commonly available, perhaps Ardour would come to rely on offboard DSP processing. Until then, the proprietary nature of available DSP hardware makes it highly unlikely that Ardour will support DSP cards.The Open Graphics Project design looks as if it's going to be ideal for an open-hardware add-on board which could be programmed to do audio DSP acceleration.
Editing audio in Linux (ars technica) Posted Oct 14, 2005 15:26 UTC (Fri) by rstreeks (subscriber, #1018) [Link] That why we have to support the open graphics initiative. It opens up allot of signal processing capabilities with an open FPGA board to play with.
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