LinuxDevCenter: MusE: MIDI Sequencing for Linux | Linux Today

LinuxDevCenter: MusE: MIDI Sequencing for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 24, 2005

[ Thanks to Robert
Jonsson
for this link. ]

“Frank Neumann, a 36-year-old computer scientist from Karlsruhe,
Germany, and one of the developers of MusE, sums up the current
state of music production applications for Linux: ‘It’s always a
nice warm feeling when you show an application like MusE to people
and they just go, ‘Whoa–I didn’t know Linux audio stuff was
already this far!”

“The application, a MIDI/audio sequencer popular within the
Linux music community, began in late 1999 with the work 49-year-old
Werner Schweer of Bielefeld, Germany. Schweer still leads
development today. Fellow MusE developer Robert Jonsson describes
him as ‘the fastest coder I know. The pace of development is,
thanks to Werner, as always, furious…!”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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