Linux Studio
My inner composer has been in hybernation for a while but I’m sure will wake up eventually. The idea in my head is that I’ll dust off the gear & put together a basement studio as soon as I buy a house.
I think this time around though I want to run the beast all open source. All through the AFX/Minor Procedure days I was using Cakewalk for DOS, even long after Windows came into its own. I finally started using the Windows version around ‘99 or so, and while I appreciated the power the new versions gave me, I never liked the interface, and worse, the timing was *abysmal*. I hear this was better in NT and thus XP, but too little, too late.
So it looks like Musix will be a good place for me to start.
Update: came across another resource to follow up on.
More: VST on Linux
you might also want to check out the eastman computer music center’s turn-key linux audio distribution, based on mandrake (used to be based on debian).
i’ve used a few linux audio packages, including audacity, jack, snd, ardour, and ecasound. ALSA has brought linux audio a long way since the OSS days. still, i haven’t seen a break-through audio package for linux that has made me want to keep my box booted into linux all day long. i haven’t seen a single sequencer that matches the capabilities of fruity loops version 2, let alone the capabilities of reason, cakewalk, or ableton live.
VST plugins anyone?
Cool, thanks, i’ll look into that one too.
I figured the oss stuff would be behind the win stuff. I think I can probably get away with it since my head is still largely thinking in terms of the old DOS system, and my set up is somewhat hardware-centric as a result, so I’m less likely to miss features I never had to begin with.