Three For O

The O is for October, harvest time here in NW Ohio USA. A beat-slicer, a book review, and a milestone release compose this trio of reviews for the Fall season in Linux audio fashion.

Smasher

When I profiled some recent audio projects at SourceForge I collected a variety of interesting and relatively unknown applications. After the article was published I was reading the Csound mail list and came across a message from developer Andres Cabrera in which he mentioned a Csound-based program called Smasher. That message jogged my memory, and sure enough I had already download and installed Smasher, but I had never gotten around to testing it. I intend now to amend my forgetfulness with this mini-review of the program.

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