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7. Appendix
7.1 Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard accelerators can be used at any moment. However, some of them can be used only if the widget in question is visible (i.e. if the appropriate tab is selected on the main window). Following is the list of available keyboard shortcuts and their associations with the particular functionalities:
SHORTCUT | WIDGET | FUNCTION |
CTRL+Delete | MAIN (editor, real-time) | Purge Console |
CTRL+g | MAIN (editor) | Go to Last Known Compile-Time Error |
CTRL+e | MAIN (editor) | Restore and Focus the Console |
CTRL+r | MAIN (editor) | Refresh Contents of the Editor (after using external editor) |
CTRL+w | MAIN (editor) | Open Scriptfile in the External Editor |
CTRL+n | MAIN (editor) | New Scriptfile |
CTRL+s | MAIN (editor) | Save Scriptfile |
CTRL+o | MAIN (editor) | Open Scriptfile |
CTRL+m | MAIN (editor) | Compile Scriptfile |
CTRL+; | MAIN (network) | Deactivate Local Socket |
CTRL+' | MAIN (network) | Start Local Socket |
CTRL+o | MAIN (network) | Disconnect From the Selected Remote Client |
CTRL+p | MAIN (network) | Connect to Selected Remote Client |
CTRL+[ | MAIN (network) | Stop All Connections to Remote Clients |
CTRL+] | MAIN (network) | Start All Connections to Remote Clients |
CTRL+t | MAIN (real-time) | Toggle Real-Time Events ON/OFF |
CTRL+y | MAIN (real-time) | Toggle MIDI Monitoring ON/OFF |
CTRL+u | MAIN (real-time) | Toggle MIDI Logging ON/OFF |
CTRL+q | MAIN | Quit |
CTRL+ArrowUp | MAIN (configurable) | Play |
CTRL+ArrowDown | MAIN (configurable) | Stop |
CTRL+ArrowLeft | MAIN (configurable) | Rew |
CTRL+ArrowRight | MAIN (configurable) | Ffw |
CTRL+Shift | MAIN (configurable) | Pause |
CTRL+Return | MAIN (configurable) | Panic |
F1 | MAIN | What's This? (Usable on All Widgets) |
F2 | MAIN | Open Settings |
F3 | MAIN | Toggle Main Widget's Size |
CTRL+Return | SETTINGS | OK |
CTRL+s | SETTINGS | Save Settings |
CTRL+d | SETTINGS | Revert Everything to Defaults |
CTRL+c | SETTINGS | Cancel |
CTRL+a | SETTINGS | Apply All |
CTRL+F1 | SETTINGS | What's This? (Usable on All Widgets) |
CTRL+w | SETTINGS | Close All External Widgets |
ALT+1 | GLOBAL | Switch to the Playback Tab |
ALT+2 | GLOBAL | Switch to the Editor Tab |
ALT+3 | GLOBAL | Switch to the RealTime Tab |
ALT+4 | GLOBAL | Switch to the Network Tab |
7.2 Links
Here's the list of assorted links:
Author's Homepage:http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/
Author's contact information: e-mail
College-Conservatory of Music (CCM)2 Electronic Music Studios: http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/
Linux Audio Development Homepage: http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/
Linux MIDI & Sound Applications: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/one-page.html
ALSA Project:http://www.alsa-project.org
Open Sound Control:http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OSC/
Planet CCRMA:http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
Eastman Turn-key Audio Software Package: http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/docs.html
Essentials of the MIDI Protocol: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~craig/articles/linuxmidi/misc/essenmidi.html
Dave Phillips's small Tutorial on an older Version of RTMix: http://linux-sound.org/quick-toots/3-arecord_and_rtmix/quick-toot-arecord_and_rtmix-2.html
7.3 Screenshots
Following is the list of available screenshots:
7.4 About Author
Ivica Ico Bukvic (commonly known as Ico, which is pronounced as "Eetzo") is a man of many trades. His primary profession is writing music, so one could opt to call him a composer, although he prefers to call himself a multimedia sculptor because he finds the term "composer" somewhat overused, as well as a bit misleading since it does not encompass all aspects of the multimedia art which interests him the most. His compositions encompass diverse media and have been performed in various venues, music festivals (Music98-03, IEMF02, OCEAn00-02, SEAMUS03), and radio stations in US and Europe. His current compositional interest is in interactive multimedia art.
He was born in Zagreb, the capital city of Croatia, a beautiful small European country situated in the northern Balkans (south of Austria and Hungary, and east from Italy), where he spent most of his childhood. Currently he lives in the United States where he is working on his DMA degree at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, music composition being his major and electronic music and music theory being his cognates.
His skills include arranging, graphic, 3D, and Web design, scoring/transcribing, orchestrating, piano and organ performance and accompaniment, choral conducting, teaching (with focus on Music Theory, Composition, and Electronic Music), digital mixing and sound mastering, programming (C, C++, Perl, Fortran, Javascript, Qt, Basic etc.), computer systems administration (Unix, IRIX, Linux, Windows, Mac), and computer consulting.
His hobbies are (obviously) computers, open-source software development (he's a real Linux geek), leisure sports, computer games, and philosophy. Ico currently lives in Cincinnati with his wonderful wife Anamaria and a beautiful son Sebastian.
Some of his recent accomplishments include Organised Sound article on RTMix, “Outside Campus” soundtrack, several music-oriented applications (RTMix, REVMIX and MOCKBEND RTCmix instruments, co-development and Linux implementation of “Soundmesh”), paper presentations at SEAMUS02-03 and ICMC02, research grants (2001 and 2002), design and implementation of CCM’s “Multimedia on Linux” class curriculum.
For more info please visithttp://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/.
7.5 Acknowledgements
I would like to acknowledge the people without whom this application would not be possible: my wife Anamaria for her kind and loving support and patience, my son Sebastian -- my greatest inspiration, as well as my brother and my parents for always being there for me. Many thanks also to my mentor prof. Mara Helmuth as well as the University Research Council of the University of Cincinnati. I would also like to thank the friendly Linux-Audio-Dev and Linux-Audio-User communities, Dave Phillips for his encouraging words, as well as KDevelop and the Qt developers for providing such awesome tools. Finally, I would like to thank all of the Linux contributors for making it such a great OS.
This project has been first publicly presented on the ICMC 2002 conference in Gotteborg, Sweden.
Cincinnati, March 2003.
7.6 User Reviews
If you have used RTMix and would like to give your thoughts and opinions on it, please e-mail them to me, and I will include them in the later revisions of this document. This way you can help make RTMix even better! Below is the list of current comments/reivews by others:
"I just wanted to let you know that the 0.16 binary works perfectly here. I ran a script with multiple calls to Csound and aplay, everything sounded as it should... Very cool software, Ivica!"
"...I set up a system last night with multiple streams from Csound, aplay, and mpg123..."
--Dave Phillips on RTMix v.0.16.
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