Ruby in a music production tool-chain Sep 6 th 2011 Muriel Salvan X-Aeon Solutions http://x-aeon.com

Who am I ? Muriel Salvan Creator of X-Aeon Solutions Open Source Lead developer and architect Fights for software freedom

What is a music production tool-chain ? Songwriting Recording Mixing Mastering Distribution Promotion Statistics Backup

Deterministic and precise processes

Processing power handling high quality audio

Low costs on software

Lacks precision and determinism

Big complex integrated frameworks

Automation and plug-ins use proprietary protocols

Simple => Several independent tools

Easy integration => Command line interface

Automated/Customizable => Configuration files

Easy to interface with C for performance

No need for complex GUI

Quality libraries handling most of the work needed

Simple command line parameters

C libraries for performance

Handles any type of Wave file http://waveswissknife.sourceforge.net

Uses Wave Swiss Knife

Can be used to produce complete albums Recording, Mixing, Mastering http://musicmaster.sourceforge.net

Provide shopping carts

Deliver multimedia content

Integrate external forums, blogs, chats, podcast

AJAX compliant http://rubyonrails.org/

Handle batches of collections orders

Extensible using plug-ins for processes

Handles files generation mechanisms Songwriting and backup http://fscms.sourceforge.net

Write tests to get out of Beta status

Port WSK on many platforms

Finish FSCMS toolbox

Complete documentation

Create a generic Rails platform for users maintaining and tracking their social networks (synchronization, statistics...)

Create Rails gems for complete AJAX handling and external websites integration

Music Master

Ruby on Rails

Stats Collect

FSCMS

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