French speech music and so on

[hank smith]

that or get a mac

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Jean Philippe" <jp.rykiel at noos.fr>; "Linux for blind general 
discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: French speech music and so on


> Generally speaking, the Linux environment is not accessible in the same
> way as Windows for blind musicians. There are tasks that people perform
> with applications like Sonar which are not available to us on LInux. On
> the other hand, I would argue that there are tasks which can be
> performedfar more reliably and with greater accessibility on LInux. So,
> much depends on what you want to do. Much also depends on your
> proficiency with Linux. In general, I believe Linux music making
> requires greater technical proficiency but rewards you with more
> reliable performance. At the very least you will need to be very
> comfortable with command line interfaces, something which now appears
> trange and quixotic to those blind people who have been first introduced
> to computing under Windows in the past decade.
>
> Places to start:
>
> ecasound
> http://www.eca.cx/ecasound/
>
> It is not easy to learn ecasound, but it is a very powerful application.
>
> You should also look at:
>
> http://www.audiosynth.com/
> http://linux-sound.org/toc.html
> Also look at the applications for music/audio editing at
> http://www.linux-speakup.org
>
> You should subscribe to the Linux Audio User list:
> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
>
> Good luck.
>
> Jean Philippe writes:
>> > Hello to every one,
>> I'm French, blind of course, and  dived into the Computerworld about 
>> three years ago, and like many others,, I started with a PC with Windows 
>> and the ever popular jaws screen reader which I am still using at the 
>> moment.
>> > I am now interested in knowing more about the alternatives to Windows 
>> > and especially Linux.  I would like to know what exists under Linux for 
>> > musicians
>> who wish to compose and record their music, and also if any 
>> French-speaking solution exists for LINUX.
>> > Hope you have answers for me,
>> > Thank you and best regards,
>> > Jean-Philippe Rykiel
>
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