ARts
aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an
application that simulates an analog synthesizer under
KDE/
Linux. One key component of aRts is the soundserver which mixes several soundstreams in realtime. The soundserver called aRtsd is also utilized as the standard soundserver for KDE. The soundserver is not dependent on KDE and can be used in other projects. It is a direct competitor to
JACK Audio Connection Kit, another real-time sound server.
The aRts platform also includes aRts Builder an
application for building custom layouts and configurations for audio mixers, sequencers, synthesizers and other audio schema via a user-friendly
graphical user interface.
Encyclopedia
aRts, which stands for
analog
Real
time
synthesizer, is an
application that simulates an analog synthesizer under
KDE/
Linux. One key component of aRts is the soundserver which mixes several soundstreams in realtime. The soundserver called aRtsd is also utilized as the standard soundserver for KDE. The soundserver is not dependent on KDE and can be used in other projects. It is a direct competitor to
JACK Audio Connection Kit, another real-time sound server.
The
aRts platform also includes aRts Builder — an
application for building custom layouts and configurations for audio mixers, sequencers, synthesizers and other audio schema via a user-friendly
graphical user interface. aRts is
free software, distributed under the terms of the
GNU General Public License.
Future of aRts
On December 2, 2004 aRts' creator and primary developer Stefan Westerfeld he was leaving the project due to a variety of fundamental development and technical issues with aRts.
In KDE 4 developers plan to replace aRts with a new multimedia API, known as
Phonon. Phonon will provide a common interface on top of other systems, such as
GStreamer.
See also
- Enlightened Sound Daemon – used by GNOME
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