Besides doing some work with multimedia packages in debian (zynaddsubfx and specimen mostly) I also use Debian in a music/multimedia project of mine (called crosstalk http://www.crosstalkmedia.net, sorry, it's all in portuguese by now, but the podcast might be enjoyable for all). We're about to start doing live gigs regularly and we're in desperate need of session handling. Since we started using shell scripts to set up the midi and jack connections and starting the applications in the correct order for us, we could do some small presentations and it mostly worked, but now we're getting bigger and need to switch between songs (which frequently use different setups) quickly... It's becoming really hard to coordinate, and since one of the members is not a free software geek (he's a graphics designer and amateur musician) it should be easy for him if we want to use free software. Without session handling and proper integration all this cool software loses pratical usability, I thought lash was already part of debian and was thinking of modifying zynaddsubfx and specimen to work with it, Debian has already pushed standards in the past, I think we should take this step on the multimedia front, who cares it will take us one year to have all this accepted/adopted upstream? Does someone believe the next stable release of Debian will happen before that? ;) It's a good oportunity to give the "multimedia task force" the motivation and purpose it needs Regards, Eduardo
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