[linux-audio-user] Ardour, Muse 7.0, Jack_fst (Hypercanvas) & Jack transport...

[Russell Hanaghan]

Hi all,

I know this isn't a big deal to most but I had to write and say...

With the Missus and kids out of town for a few...I've been a messin' 
with Linux Audio! I have been thinking I was limited to audio only 
recording with Ardour in Linux which was fine. But tonight I proved 
myself wrong and also need to correct a few statements I've made previously.

I managed to sync Muse with Ardour and run a midi vst softsynth all with 
relatively few glitches. Hypercanvas is a GM2 full instrument set (128 + 
Roland variations) and has some killer sounds. I use midi sequences for 
backing in my live stuff and play guitars and do vocals. Sort of 
Kar-e-okie on steriods really...but it has punch! I have been needing to 
do a demo so rather than concede defeat and resort to Sonar I tried this 
combo and it worked very well.  I actually finished on song and mastered 
it thru Jamin and it kix ass even if I do say so myself!! :) I did 
Superstition ...sort of a cross between Stevie and Stevie. The midi file 
is very punchy and I laid 4 guitar tracks and 2 vocals. Never went out 
of sync. Shut both progs down...shut one down...logged out on one 
machine...oh...and for added kix, I used a laptop with 2 monitor capable 
Vid card, hooked up a spare monitor and used XDMCP as well as a montor 
and keyboard on the actual machine. This gave me twice as much Desktop 
real estate and worked great! All stayed in sync with no drift at all. 
Hypercanvas dies every so often but it was doing that before anyway.

So to correct the things I mentioned...Originally I said on this forum 
that Muse was kind buggy and not ready for much of anything. Although 
it's still very sensitive to loading up (used $ muse -P 99) and it does 
not save mixer states (might be a controller thing in the sequence 
too...I'm not sure) and still gets gas sometimes running on 2.6.7 with 
realtime-lsm, it ran quite predictably and the thing I like about it 
most is it is more intuitive than RG on instruments, etc. RG is a pain 
because you have to setup instruments individually most of the time.

Sorry for the blurb...I gotta go to bed but I laid down 3 songs tonight 
all in Linux and I'm stoked!  I used the gammit and this is just 
reaffrimation of what you all know; Linux audio has come a LONG way and 
is packing some punch!!

Cheers

R~