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using artsbuilder, and then use these instruments to compose or play music.
Synthesis does not necessarily mean pure synthesis, there are modules you can
use to play samples. So aRts can be a sampler, synthesizer, and so on, and
being fully modular, it is very easy to extend, very easy to experiment with,
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