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OLPC turns DAW

We've talked before about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The aim is to facilitate children of the third world with cheap laptops, that will help them develop into the digital world together with the rest of us, thus preventing that the already existing gap between the third world and the rich countries widens even further. All very good and PC, but can it make music?

Now, the answer is "yes". Due to a collaborative effort of Berklee College, Csound developers and others, the XO laptop now comes with access to no less than 8.5 gbs of audio samples, ready to be turned into music. All of it comes with a Creative Commons license, and all of it is online - so you don't need to have an actual XO laptop to make use of it. Just point your browser to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples and begin collecting the samples, to take part in the fun.

via Create Digital Music