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*********************Graphical Audio Sequencer*************************** README

Introduction

Gas is intended to be an ever evolving application. I never really intendead to develop a application like this but felt that to many of the current crop of sound apps fell short of what I want as a tool for musical compositions. I have little interest in reinventing the wheel so will plunder any good open source ideas out there. What I want is a descent graphical tool for both midi and audio composition. Like many for a long time I have followed sound development for linux and feel a commited member of the community. I am a great fan of ecasound and have used it my compositions for some time now. I was really excited about the possibilities that the release of eci, especially the c library wrapper. This means that I could concentrate on the control and interface for the audio side of gas. I have also followed, as best I could, the advances of the alsa sequencer. Whilst ecasound provided a great interface to programmers it seems that I may need to get my hands deeper into the midi stuff. Muse is a great app, but what I really want is someway to sync midi and my eci app. Yes there is some midi sync support in ecasound but there is no way to move around within the song. Maybe I will need to build the sequncer code myself? At the moment I'm looking at pmidi sources as the framework to build midi sequencer support. This will probably be only play back for now but will eventually be integrated into the editing and recording structure of GAS.