www.openoctave.org

Welcome to the Open Octave Project!

The Open Octave Project exists to provide professional level orchestral education as well as bring together and improve upon multiple open source applications in order to create a professional orchestral audio and midi environment that is robust, stable and easy to use.

What we ARE is a project based purely on building a dedicated environment, using Gentoo, Fluxbox, and as few additions as possible, making a lean and powerful system.

What we are NOT is an answering service for every other distro. We've stated our case, and those who want to use Linux Audio apps in other environments should go to the fora of their particular distro, and sort things out there, among those who know your environment well.

You can find out more about the Project, its founders, and project goals on our About page.

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 03:19 — alexstone

Non-Mixer

The journey continues! I've been testing and working with a new mixer on the linux audio block, called Non-Mixer, written by Jonathan Moore Liles, which he built as part of the Non suite of applications. This programme has been much anticipated here at the Open Octave Project, as it fills an important niche in the Linux Audio armoury, being a standalone, dedicated mixer, entirely intended for use with JACK........

Sat, 01/23/2010 - 03:38 — alexstone

Snippets!

Greetings all, and we hope all of you have had a decent start to the New Year, and that it continues. Christopher and I have continued to work behind the scenes, building, testing, and evaluating, so i'd like to bring some of our discoveries up to date, and share what we've found......

Snippets

Sun, 12/27/2009 - 23:29 — ccherrett

A quick update...

This is just a quick update to say hello and to say that things are moving along with the music making. For both Alex and myself we have been focusing on the music making end of The Open Octave Project. It seems that the pipeline has progressed far enough to do some serious work!

So at that I am back to work! :)

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Mon, 12/14/2009 - 05:31 — alexstone

Denemo

The Denemo team have been hard at work, and the new JACK midi framework is taking shape. Those who notate large works will know that notation application playback is often challenging, as soundfonts just don't give an accurate aural portrayal of what you've written, which is useful particularly when scoring for film......

Denemo

Wed, 11/25/2009 - 09:17 — alexstone

Snippets!

Yes, it's more snippets, as Christopher and I continued to test, and much of what we're doing is behind the scenes.

Despite the quiet blog traffic, we've been busy, not only with our own projects, but working towards our project goal of unified applications and utilities in one environment.

Snippets

Sun, 10/18/2009 - 10:19 — alexstone

Snippets!

A quick blog this week, as Chris and I are both very busy with our own personal projects. There's never enough time in the day......!

Snippets

Sat, 10/03/2009 - 04:38 — alexstone

Expectations- the window

No, the title is not a nostalgic regression to a commercial OS. That'll never happen. Far from it. With the kernel built, and finetuning in place, the next step in my journey is the window, or more accurately, the Window Manager.