PROTUX - The Professional Audio Tools for Linux v. 0.10.0
Author : Luciano Giordana (giordana@canada.com) 


I - INTRODUCTION
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        Hello and welcome to Protux. 

        Protux aims to be the most pratical and one of the most powerful audio tools for Linux.  Protux ***does not want to imitate Protools (tm)***,  as many people have been asking me about, and this is because I really don't think Protools is the "gold at the end of the rainbow" of digital audio. Although Protools is such a powerful suite, its interface is traditional (mouse, icons, buttons, menus, and so on), and you got a very strong wrist pain at the end of your daywork. Using only a 1-button device when you have a 101-keys right in front of you, is kind of a waiste for me. 
        THE things in Protux are 3 : the interface, the edition concepts , and the project assistment. Protux Interface is based in the JMB engine, that lets you to edit you audio using combinations of keys and mouse movements. The edition concepts are based in a real production environment, and all the internal engines are oriented to support real time operation. 
	
	This release is part of the Phase II in the Protux project. You can see a complete text about the projects plans in the official web site (http://protux.sourceforge.net) .

	In the next section you'll see how to compile/install/run Protux in your Linux machine. We do not provide a RPM package yet, but it is possible that such package is released by some volunteer. Please visit http://rpmfind.net and check out for a Protux rpm package. 

	Thank you for testing Protux. Please send your suggestions and bugs reports to us.



II - HOW TO COMPILE/INSTALL/RUN PROTUX
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A) IF YOU WANT TO COMPILE PROTUX

- download the source tarball (tar.gz file) and save it to a clean directory , for example /protux

- Enter this directory and unzip the tarball file

    cd /protux <enter>
    gunzip protux-0.10.0-src.tar.gz <enter>
    tar -xvf protux-0.10.0-src.tar <enter>

- Compile Protux. You must have imlib/imlib-devel, glib/glib-devel and gtk/gtk-devel libs installed in your system. 
  If you have a Gnome desktop installed with its *-devel packages installed, then you probably wont have any problem 
  to compile Protux.

  To compile type:

  make clean <enter>
 
  ...and then...

  make <enter>

- run protux by typing

   ./protux <enter>
    
- You can eliminate unnecessary temp files by typing:

    make temp <enter>

- If you are root, you can install protux in /usr/local/protux by typeing

    make install

    ... and uninstall it by typeing

    make uninstall



B) IF YOU JUST WANT TO RUN PROTUX (PRE-COMPILED)

- Download the binary tarball (tar.gz file) and save it to , for example, /protux

- Enter this directory and unzip the tarball file

    gunzip protux-0.10.0-i386.tar.gz <enter>
    tar -xvf protux-0.10.0-i386.tar <enter>
    rm -f protux-0.10.0-i386.tar (if you want to discard the file you download)
    cd protux-0.10.0-i386

- Run protux by typing

   ./protux <enter>



CONTRIBUTORS

Author :

- Luciano Giordana (giordana@canada.com) - Computer Engineer
	Main code mantainer and project designer
	
Contributors :

- Luiz Otavio Zorzella - Computer Engineer
	Code revisor, OOP designer and general colaborator
	
- Dario Louzado - Computer Engineer
	Tester and code revisor

- Ana Santana - Producer/Composer/Arranger/Singer
	Tester , "open source aided music evangelist" and documentation revisor

- Kovesdy Gyorgy - Developer
	Tester and Code revisor

- Reinhard Amersberger - Producer
	Tester and project design colaborator