News In The Linux Audio World

“There’s always something noteworthy happening in Linux audio
development. This week’s news includes reports about a new Linux
audio blog, music made by particle acceleration, how to use a
laptop as a virtual music stand, synth emulation from the terminal
command prompt, and watching the Linux Audio Conference
on-line.

“Louigi’s Blog

“Composer Louigi Verona (a.k.a. Kirill Alferov) has been focused
on making music with what he calls an Integrated Modular
Environment (IME) – what some of us might call a monolithic
application – and is an especially persuasive advocate for the
excellent LMMS music software. His Web site includes an article in
which he voices his concern over the lack of IMEs for Linux, but
more recently he has experimented with a more typically modular
approach to his Linux-based music-making and has written a good
up-to-date profile of two software packages previously reviewed
here, the Rakarrack effects processor and the Phasex synthesizer.
Check out Louigi’s Linux blog and be sure to listen to some of his
music. If the developers of LMMS want to convince someone to use
their software they could do no better than to promote Louigi’s
LMMS-based compositions. Seriously, they are some of the best
demonstrations of that program’s possibilities that I’ve heard
yet.”

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