Welcome to the Open Octave Project!

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.



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........



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......



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! :)



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......



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!

 

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......!

 



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.

 



OOP Scripts Online!

The Open Octave Project: Open Octave Scripts

Due to popular demand, I have just created a new page on the site for dowloading the helper scripts for The Open Octave Project Pipeline.

http://www.openoctave.org/downloads/ooscripts

Enjoy!

NOTE: these scripts need user modification to run properly.

 

more to come on using the scripts!......



Technical Overview Videos HD

Finally! :)

I have put together a quick technical overview of The Open Octave Project Pipeline.

You can watch the original .ogv here:

http://openoctave.linuxproaudio.org/openoctave_tech_overview.ogv

You can watch them in HD on youtube here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/christophercherrett

Enjoy!


 

 


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