[LAU] need help in san francisco

jim jim at well.com
Tue Jun 28 04:15:49 UTC 2011


    Many thanks for responding. I will email you 
off list. 



On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 18:33 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 01:47:45PM -0700, jim wrote:
> > 
> >     any body willing to help me out in san francisco? 
> > the project is to set up a recording and sequencing 
> > system for scratch (semi-pro-quality) recording. 
> >     i'm an out of work musician but none-the-less 
> > willing to pay money. 
> > 
> > problems include: 
> > * determine the right computer to buy 
> >     for example: buy a tower or a laptop or both? if a 
> >     tower, what expansion cards to buy? 
> > * determine what software to use 
> > * determine i/o and other hardware 
> > * how to drive a roland X10, other roland digital 
> >   keyboard? 
> >     what other external hardware to buy? drum machine? 
> >     other music instrument hardware? (i like having 
> >     instrument voices in external hardware so's not to 
> >     burden the CPU of the computer running recording or 
> >     sequencing software.) 
> > * use existing pro-tools recordings on the new linux 
> >   system 
> > 
> > hopefully, 
> > jim 
> > PS: music store people i've talked to have no clue about 
> > linux stuff. 
> > i have read reviews and other online info and cannot find 
> > what i need: specifics to put a small, basic system 
> > together (what CPU speed, RAM, storage... to buy; is there 
> > reasonably good quality recording or sound generation or 
> > audio playback stuff in expansion card form that works 
> > with linux; are there necessary drivers or libraries that 
> > are not obvious to someone new to setting up these systems; 
> > what are the solutions to problems that typically come 
> > with the specific hardware and software components...?). 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Wow, that's right up my alley.
> 
> I'm in San Francisco and I spent 4 years gigging with a strictly Linux setup (mostly at the Boom Boom Room, Elbo Room, and the former Ti Couz, but all over town), as well as produced and mixed a CD using Linux (http://music.betterthanlahar.com/album/bench-seats-are-for-lovers ), plus tons of my own home-studio stuff.
> 
> Some background here:
> http://www.restivo.org/blog/archives/category/geekery
> 
> And lately I've stopped playing music but have been doing computer and software consulting including helping a friend upgrade his studio. So I'm definitely looking for this kind of work.
> 
> AFAICT, if you're looking for someone with professional experience using Linux as an instrument and a studio, I'm pretty sure I'm the only person around here who's been doing that.
> 
> Would be glad to help you out; email me off-list.
> 
> -ken
> 




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