Well, it's been over 2 (3?) years since last release, but rtmix refuses to die ;-). Thanks solely to Robin Gareus and his heroic work in making rtmix gcc4 compliant, I am releasing rtmix version 0.76. Apart from compile error fixes (courtesy of Robin), there have been a few cosmetic tweaks, but most notably, the source is now released under a 100% GPL-compliant license. That being said, the code is still a dirty hack, the internal event cue occasionally still misbehaves (albeit only in very complex situations), and unfortunately native alsa seq is still MIA (uses old unix dev access). OTOH, the thing does work as advertised, has been used, and continues to be used in my works without a hitch. Apart from oss midi, rtmix supports networking, OSC, and other goodness making it rather practical for on-screen coordination as well as interaction between performer(s) and computer.

For more info on what really rtmix is please consult the HTML documentation included with the tarball (or see online documentation info below). The tarball (5MB) comes with source, documentation (some statements in it are likely a bit outdated, so please take those parts with a grain of salt), tutorials, and precompiled binary on Ubuntu 6.10 (i686, qt3, gcc), so if you have these a simple "make install" should do it (installs in /usr/local/rtmix and binary in /usr/local/bin). For a "simon" tutorial with sounds you will also need sounds zipfile (11MB-ish) which are downloadable from the same folder (just browse the folder).

To download latest RTMix click here:

http://ico.bukvic.net/Linux/RTMix/rtmix-latest.tar.gz

Online documentation:

http://ico.bukvic.net/Linux/RTMix/RTMix-docs/

Complaints to: /dev/null

Future roadmap: Rtmix in its current state is a project in a need of a total rewrite. This is primarily due to the fact that despite the fact rtmix appears to do the job in 99.9% of instances, the code is an ugly hack which makes its maintenance and perhaps more importantly expandability exponentially difficult. That being said, I am looking forward to one of the upcoming summers when I will dig into the code once again and rebuild the darn thing from the ground up the way it was meant to be all along. Until then, this version should prove an adequate substitute.

Enjoy!

Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A. Composition, Music Technology, CCTAD, CHCI Virginia Tech Dept. of Music - 0240 Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-1137 (540) 231-5034 (fax) ico@vt.edu http://www.music.vt.edu/people/faculty/bukvic/ http://ico.bukvic.net