Beast Related
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This place serves to collect various links and resources useful to aid Beast development or use.
Synthesis Links
We are maintaining a collection of selected links to articles and other writings about audio synthesis for people interested in reading up on the topics.
Samples & Instruments
Links to sites with instrument, patch or soundfont collections:
- FreePats ALSA.OpenSRC - Completely free and open set of instrument samples.
- FreePats.OpenSRC - Project to create a free and open set of GUS compatible patches.
- HammerSound.net - Free and non-free soundfonts.
Beast Project Pages
- BEAST at Freshmeat
- BEAST at GnomeFiles
- BEAST at Advogato
- BEAST sources in the GNOME SVN repository
- Old BEAST sources in the archived GNOME CVS repository
- BEAST at the CIA Open Source Notification System
- BEAST at freemusicsoftware.info
- Linux Audio Blog - SYNTHESIS
- Heise Online - BEAST Page
- BEAST package for Debian (and bse-alsa package)
- BEAST at the Web Archive (old)
- BEAST at the Web Archive
- BEAST at the FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory
- The Open Directory Project lists Beast on the Linux Audio Page, mirrored in the Google Directory (Linux Audio).
Related Projects
Here is a collection of links to related or subsidiary projects:
- LADSPA - Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API
- ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
- aRts - analog Realtime Synthesizer
- GStreamer - Media Component Framework
- GLAME - GNU/Linux Audio Mechanics
- Buzztard - Free replacement/clone of Buzz
- Ogg/Vorbis - Open Audio Codec
- MAD - MPEG Audio Decoder
- Rapicorn
- CSL - Common Sound Layer
- Freeverb - Public Domain Reverb
- LilyPond - Music Notation For Everyone
- Guile - Scheme Scipting Language
- Texinfo - BEAST and BSE documentation format
- GTK+ - The GIMP Toolkit
- GNOME Project
- freedesktop.org
- GNU - GNU's Not Unix!
- Sound & MIDI Software For Linux (http://linux-sound.org)


