The competitive equivalent for Windows' Sonar/Cakewalk, Macintosh Digit Design, etc., is Ardour, not Audacity:
http://ardour.org While ardour2 uses gtk2 to some degree, and while they've provided extensive keyboard shortcuts, they have unfortunately also crafted numerous custom widgets in their software. The news for midi is even worse. There is nothing other han a few simple console tools. The applications that sighted musicians and composers are using, Muse and/or PD, are written in older versions of QT--and even at that also rely on custom widgets. Frankly, it's a very sad state of affairs. Janina PS: For Linux music/sound apps, pages, and lists start with: http://linux-sound.org Bill Haneman writes: > Thomas and Chris; > > In reply to your question regarding accessible wave editors, I believe > audacity has been tested with Windows access technologies (on Windows, > that is). Because audacity is written with the WxWindows toolkit (I > believe that's what it's called), it doesn't yet take advantage of > native Linux accessibility interfaces such as ATK. > > The latter would be a great project for someone to help the audacity > team with, as they clearly are interested in making their > project/product accessible. > > regards, > > Bill > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Chris, > > > > First, I think we may be posting in the wrong mailing list. This is > > the gnome-accessibility-list, and even though I'm brand new to this > > mailing list, I suspect the list has more focus on the kind of > > accessibility described at > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility > > > > There are a *lot* of Gnome mailing lists, perhaps some kind person on > > this one could direct us to one that would be a better fit to our inquiry. > > > > I say "our inquiry", because I don't have an *answer* for you--being > > very much in the same boat. (^_^) > > > > Recently, I switched over from Windows 2000 to Ubuntu. Under Windows I > > was using Anvil Studio. Now, I'm trying to find a good MIDI editor, > > MIDI sequencer, MIDI player, MIDI whatever, to use in > > Ubuntu--specifically the Gnome desktop of Ubuntu. > > > > There are lots of discussions about MIDI and other sound systems on the > > Ubuntu forums: > > > > Ubuntu Forums > The Ubuntu Forum Community > Main Support Categories > > > General Help > > Music Composition in Linux? > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=376531&highlight=midi > > > > Ubuntu Forums > The Ubuntu Forum Community > Main Support Categories > > > General Help > > Rosegarden: MIDI Playback > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=371356&highlight=midi > > > > But everything I've tracked down so far looks like either KDE only, or > > else refers to Timidity--which, so far as I know, is a > > command-line-only player-only. > > > > Since this is at least a Gnome list, could anybody out there point us > > in the right direction to find out about a *GNOME* MIDI sequencer? Please? > > > > -- Thomas A. McCloud > > > > > >> MIDI Sequencer > >> > >> Chris Norman > >> Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:50:25 -0800 > >> > >> Hi all, > >> I have got everything working on my ubuntu system, but am missing one > >> thing. I want to be able to sequence (using MIDI), and edit and create > >> wave files. Does anyone know of an accessible MIDI sequencer and / or an > >> accessible wave editor? What, if any modifications do I need to make in > >> order to get midi on my system? > >> > >> Cheers all, > >> > >> Chris. > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.202.595.7777; sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada Learn more at http://ScreenlessPhone.Com Chair, Open Accessibility [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Foundation http://a11y.org _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
