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Virtual guitar site amps up with LAMP
by Tina Gasperson
posted 2006-09-19
Chordbook.com is a virtual playground for guitarists. The site is one of the most popular guitar chord databases on the ‘Net, and was once listed as one of the BBC’s top 10 educational sites…
Rax 2.0
by Peter Kirn
posted 2006-09-14
Rax 2.0, a music utility from plasq, the creators of Comic Life, brings the same kind of easy access to virtual musical instruments and effects plug-ins that Apple’s Front Row provides for music, videos, and photos…
At the Sounding Edge: Music Notation Software, the Final Installment
by Dave Phillips
posted 2006-04-06
Dave wraps up his discussion of music notation programs with a look at FOMUS and a new one on the horizon, MuseScore. “This month we take a look at the FOMUS and MuseScore music notation programs…”
Open-Source Radioware
by Doc Searls
posted 2006-01-20
Last weekend I was sick with a fever and was dreaming crazy dreams in the middle of the night. For some reason I kept noodling in my brain about Hugh Hewitt and Salem Communications. Hewitt is a writer, blogger and popular conservative talk-show host. Salem is a large broadcast group owner with a Christian mission. It also owns the Salem Radio Network, which syndicates Hewitt, Michael Medved and other personalities…
Podcasting in Linux
by Vincent Danen
posted 2005-12-19
Two of the most interesting phenomenons on the Internet right now are arguably blogs and podcasts. The former are personal diaries, and can be written by anyone from the fellow next door to executives in big companies. The latter can be considered something similar to “radio on demand”. A podcast is simply a method for distributing multimedia files using the RSS standard. Clients exist for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Depending on your needs, there are different clients you can use in Linux ranging from full graphical tools to simple shell scripts…
At the Sounding Edge: Music Notation Software for Linux, Part 3
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-12-16
In this month’s stop on our tour of Linux music notation programs, we look at the MusiXTeX music typesetting software. MusiXTeX was created by Daniel Taupin, Ross Mitchell and Andreas Egler. MusiXTeX currently is maintained by Christian Mondrup and other volunteers…
At the Sounding Edge: Music Notation Software for Linux, Part 2
by Dave Phillips
posted 2005-11-15
“Common Music Notation (CMN) is a Lisp-based language for creating and editing musical scores. It provided a full complement of music symbols and other scoring amenities, such as score sizing and text underlay. Output from CMN is in the Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format, which is printable by any PostScript-compatible printer. In addition, your output files can be viewed with standard Linux PostScript viewers, such as GhostView and GhostScript…”
Inside a Luxury Synth: Creating the Linux-Powered Korg OASYS
by Peter Kirn
posted 2005-11-09
In the world of digital music, there’s been a longstanding divide between the hardware synthesizer and the computer. You can hook a keyboard controller to a computer, or even build a custom Windows PC into a keyboard frame, like the OpenLabs NeKo. Fundamentally, though, the two categories have remained distinct—until this year’s launch of the Korg OASYS, that is…
