ARts
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Template:Lowercase Template:Infobox Software 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 (d for Daemon) 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.
Future of aRts
On December 2, 2004 aRts' creator and primary developer Stefan Westerfeld announced he was leaving the project due to a variety of fundamental development and technical issues with aRts.
On January 12, 2006 KDE developer Aaron J. Seigo said that KDE 4 will replace aRts with another multimedia system, most probably GStreamer. [1]
See also
- Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD) – used by GNOME
