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ketzah
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Posted : Sep 15, 2004 17:42
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I know it sounds krazy, but what about linux for experiment shit? I´ve heard rehmudi is cool ,despite the fact it is a few parsecs behind SX3. But anyway, it is free right? 
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psypox
Psypox / Bufo
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Posted : Sep 15, 2004 18:15
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linux is free.. dont know any music software..
maybe buzztracker can be used in linux..
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Psycho Mushroom Lolipop
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Posted : Sep 15, 2004 18:21
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hi!
this is an excerpt from an email chat with someone regarding linux:
> What kind of music software is there for the linux?
Sequencers, soft synths, drum machines, tuners, sound font editors/
players, all kinds of stuff, really. You can even run VST soft synths
and plugins in Linux now (not *all* of them, of course, but a lot of them.)
> I'm sure there must be at least sequencers but what about
> soft-synths, sample manupulation, etc?
There's not that many Linux native soft-synths, but there are a
few good ones. AMSynth (Alsa Modular Synth) is one that's particularly
exceptional, but it needs some horsepower before that's very evident.
The sequencers are getting better by the day. MuSE and Rosegarden
are a couple off the top of my head.
There's also a very good HD recording package called Ardour.
> Well a friend of mine gave me an old PC and i was wondering if i can
> build a bewolf cluster to take advantage of having 2 pcs...
As far as I'm aware, there's no Linux pro-sound stuff that'll work better
in a clustered environment. However, I'm sure any of it would benefit
in a multi-processor environment.
> Please i«'m a bit overworked now, but i can keep a moderate
> conversation by mail, but i dont want to bother you much.
Don't worry about bothering me.
I'd reccomend starting with PlanetCCRMA. You start out by installing
either Red Hat or Fedora on a machine, then you can follow the
instructions on the PlanetCCRMA web site to install all the software
you need on top. (It's really, really easy. You set up apt-get
and it automaticaly gets everything you need at once.)
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
Linux pro-audio is a bit different from the Windows world, but PlanetCCRMA
has everything you need to get started.
One thing to keep in mind is that like other things *nix, Linux pro
audio uses lots of seperate programs to do things, instead of one
big program to do everything, like in Windows.
For example, in Windows you'd have, say, Sonar that would be your
sequencer, HD recorder, soft-synth host, effects host, etc. In
Linux, you'd run, say, Rosegarden as your sequencer, Ardour as your
HD recorder, Hydrogen as your drum machine, stand alone soft synths
and you tie it all together with JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit --
think Re-wire done right.) It's much more flexible. Of course,
that flexibility comes at the cost of usability (at least for now.)
Well, hopefully that'll get you started. Let me know if you
have any more questions.
--J(K)
Ok... that's most anyone need to start
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Hayez
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Posted : Sep 15, 2004 21:11
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medir
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Posted : Sep 16, 2004 09:08
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OpTiKoOl
IsraTrance Junior Member
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Posted : Sep 17, 2004 02:25
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there are a MIDI/Audio Sequencer that are very well supported by the linux distribution that i use. (www.gentoo.org) called 'Rosegarden-4'.
altough if you aimed to work with audio in linux i think you should get to know better this API (www.ladspa.org) Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API!
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High Pulse
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Posted : Sep 17, 2004 03:39
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optikool knows what he says :=) i know im very well .. and is a big gek in linux platforms from several years ;=)
more one time optik strikes again 
dalje manolas ehhehe |
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ketzah
IsraTrance Junior Member
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Posted : Oct 2, 2004 19:38
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Ok. I´ve already downloaded Fedora Core 2, and planning to install it on my other HD, is it possible? I´m using XP. (guess my Luna card isn´t supported yet)
I want to keep on making my music on windows, till I understand how to use Linux for audio, so I´ll try to use a double OS PC. And hopefully someday I´ll say bye bye to spending my precious coins on soft, and invest them on TACOS and TEQUILA
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