Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

imm wrote:
> On 22 Jan 2008, at 3:43, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
>> By the way -- as far as microtonal and xentonal and "world music  
>> scales"
>> are concerned, MIDI's pitch bends are an awkward hack. Serious
>> *microtonal* algocompsynth practitioners either have to spend time
>> working around MIDI or use something else.
> 
> My worry is that a lot of the communities these machines will go to,  
> will want to perform microtonal and xentonal music, but are a long  
> way from being algocompsynth practitioners, and the MIDI tweaking  
> involved is, well, lets say "non-trivial"... I saw Csound (presumably  
> wrapped by TamTam or *something*) as the way to enable that facility  
> transparently. Perhaps I am too optimistic?
> 
> 
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Let's get our own mailing list -- or appoint a "curator of world music" 
on the Wiki. I am on the "tuning at yahoogroups.com" mailing list, which 
has the experts on xen/microtonality, world scales, etc. But as far as I 
know I'm the only one there with an XO.

Let me see if I can get "scala" (the musical scale analysis program, not 
the programming language) up and running on my XO. That's pretty much 
required if you want to deal with world scales.