Talk:TamTam

• Is TamTam based on CSOUND?

yes

• Does TamTam a synthesiser, i.e. does it rely on synthesised instruments?

yes. It uses Csound

• Is TamTam a sampler, i.e. can one record short audio samples to use as the instrument sounds?

yes

• If TamTam is a sampler, could it read and play tracker files, commonly called MODs.

mmm..we'll have to envisage that perhaps. MOD files are rather outdated AFAIK

I copied the paragraph and links below from another page. I asked this because this is a low-storage way of doing sampled music and the OLPC is a really low storage device.

Music trackers (or mod players) do exactly this and were very popular back in the days when PC's like Amiga and Atari were common. I remember running tracker software on MS-DOS on a 286 computer. This is well suited to a limited storage machine like the OLPC. Some background on tracker software is in this article. There are at least three trackers/modplayers for Linux:

• http://www.soundtracker.org/
• http://www.reduz.com.ar/cheesetronic/
• http://timidity.sourceforge.net/

• Can TamTam be wholly controlled through the keyboard or does it require a pointing device?

the ascii keyb and, in all liklihood any device fed throughthe USB ports and the audio input

How hard will it be to adapt TamTam to the majority of OLPCs which do not have an ASCII keyboard but use Amharic, Thai, Chinese, etc.

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In the article page, if one clicks on the picture an enlarged view is shown.

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In the article ...

> This is a condensation of the talk I gave at OLPC in Boston on June 14th 2004.

Is that meant to be 2006?

bien sur!

The date has now been corrected in the article page.