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    <date>$Date: 2012-05-12 19:05:19 -0400 (Sat, 12 May 2012) $</date>
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  <title>aRts-&trinity-version;</title>

  <para>The Analog Real-time Synthesizer (<application>aRts</application>)
  provides software that can simulate a complete <quote>modular analog
  synthesizer</quote> on your computer. It creates sounds and music using
  small modules like oscillators for creating waveforms, various filters, modules
  for playing data on your speakers, mixers, and faders. You can build a
  complete setup with the GUI of the system, using the modules: generators,
  effects and output &mdash; connected to each other.</para>

  <para><application>aRts</application> provides necessary libraries
  for <application>KDE</application>, however it can be installed as a
  standalone package. The installation instructions for
  <application>aRts</application> can be found in the
  <xref linkend="aRts"/> portion of the <application>KDE</application>
  installation instructions.</para>

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