On Tuesday 18 April 2006 13:52, Mike Branda wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 15:01 -0700, kevin kelley wrote:
> > I was wondering if anyone on this list has any
> > experience using Linux with DAW/softsynth/midi
> > applications like rosegarden or any others.
> > I am interested in getting any information on what
> > applications appear to work best in the Linux/UNIX
> > environment.
> >
> > Kevin Kelley
>
> I use:
>
> http://ardour.org/
>
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
>
> Ardour is incredible once you get the JACK sub-system working right.
> Audacity is more like a SoundForge. You can do multi-tracking in both
> but for a DAW I'd go Ardour. Check your distro for package releases.
> SuSE had it included on the media.
I installed a real time kernel on FC and added tons of music s/w on a separate
install (drive) to just do music with it. Though I'm just spending some
occational time on it so I don't have much advice to offer.
For serious music you'll need the real time kernel and a great music card.
That alone can use a ton of research.
I have noticed that Jack is a great modular system. Hydrogen is a great drum
machine. Cheesetracker is a portable Impulse Tracker clone (which uses the
famous Scream Tracker interface). It supports all Impulse Tracker features
except a few. Rosegarden is also a good one.
Audacity is cross platform and a great tool, just like Ardour.
Some programs have memory leaks and might just die on you, which is always a
liability with C. But in all I'd say search for a place/distro which have
compiled music s/w specifically and then dive in and test out the programs.
If you already are familiar with music s/w you should feel right at home
quickly.
If you use MIDI make sure you research the cable. There are a lot of poor/non
standard cables around. Pick the wrong one and you'll be stuck with 60 Hz
hum. As they say you will be the effect of what you don't know.
--Steve Szmidt
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