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[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:41:35PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > Now if only I could find a good cross platform multitrack audio 
> > program like that.
> 
> dream on.  nothing good in SGI land?  probably is, but costs like $5K for a
> copy.

Actually, there is good free stuff.  There is csound.  Complex.  Probably
not what you want, but still cool.

Slab.  I think it originated on Irix, but I'm having trouble accessing the
homepage to verify it.

Well, I'm having trouble finding the other stuff, but I know it is out there.

A number of the current batch of linux audio apps are ports from SGI.  
Unfortunately, every person who maintains a list of audio stuff for linux 
includes a link to a library for accessing irix audio files on linux, so
it makes searching for irix audio applications hard.  The death of reality
doesn't help either.

I know that an old issue of Linux Journal specifically pointed out several
applications that came from Irix, but all my magazines are currently in
storage.

Well, continueing my searching, I see rt.  This appears to be something
more oriented for say techno work rather than normal track work.  See
http://silvertone.princeton.edu/winham/PPSK/rt.html It looks like 
dependencies might be a real pain though.

Also, check out: http://www.sgi.com/tech/faq/audio/public.html

Finally, I found one of the main thing I was looking for:  Multitrack.  Not 
to be confused by a linux program with the same name.  I thought I was 
losing my mind.  I kept seeing the linux proggy and thinking that it wasn't 
right.  See: ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/multitrack.  Oops.  This is binary only 
for irix 5.2.  Time to dig out an old I^2.

Lets see, what else.  Mix for irix.  This was from NoTam, but their website
no longer refers to it.  NoTam used to have a bunch of cool software.

Wow.  I'm feeling really depressed about the state of irix innovation now.
All the cool toys seem to have faded into history.

I'd be happy to code up some stuff if someone would send my a decent SGI 
(meaning Irix 6.5 and 128+ megs of ram.  Otherwise, even a Indigo or Indy 
would be fine).  If you like it, just send me a machine with better 
audio hardware for the more advanced tricks.  DM makes it easy.  I'll have
to poke at this area when I get my own SGI (since I assuming that nobody
really wants to give me one).



-- 
Joshua D. Boyd