Beast Related

Resources related to Beast
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)