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Hello, and welcome to The Open Octave Project!
What does the Open Octave Project do for me?
We're bringing together a collection of applications, and developing our own, to provide a professional working environment that does the following:
Enables users to work within a dedicated audio/midi projectbase, primarily for orchestral and film score use.
Monitors closely developments within our applications of choice, and provide feedback to the developers, in a positive and constructive manner.
Develop further, or build from scratch, applications with added or modified tools, with the intent of creating a continuous, efficient, and powerful workflow, from "A to B", removing as many obstacles or workarounds as possible.
Build further a keystroke, or keybinding mapping structure that, where possible, the user can define to his or her own choice, across multiple programs. We are focusing on orchestral and film writing and recording, as a daily professional working environment, and are examining in fine detail the process of inputting, editing, and recording, to give a user the best possible opportunity for a smooth, unhindered, and efficient experience, maximising their productive time, and minimising where possible any non productive time, in a real use case scenario. We don't like workarounds anymore than anyone else, so we're keen to avoid or remove them, where we can.
Why does Open Octave exist?
The Open Octave team had talked for some time about linux audio and midi, and the viability of using Linux programs and utilities in both domestic and professional settings. After laying out initial project goals, we decided to bring together Linux audio and midi apps in a common environment, and further develop programs and workflow in a direction that would provide great tools for those writing music, including orchestral works. The Open Octave Project is in its infancy, but growing rapidly. With workflow at the core, the project team is committed to going foward towards the goal of united application low user maintenance music creation, incorporating audio and midi, with further plans towards using these tools to write for film, and image, using Linux video programs.
Who are we?
The Open Octave Project was formed by three people, Alex Stone, Christopher Cherrett, and Wendy Cherrett.
The Open Octave Project team can be contacted at:
Christopher Cherrett ccherrett@openoctave.org
Alex Stone alexstone@openoctave.org
Mailing lists are up and running, and you can subscribe by sending a blank email with the relevent email address as follows:
development-subscribe@openoctave.org
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The Open Octave Project team.
A Special Thanks To:
- Andrew Williams
- Christian and the Linuxsampler Team
- Vladimir Savic (icons set work)
Additional Thanks To:
- Chris Cannam and the entire Rosegarden Team
- Fons Adriaensen