[LAU] Building a DAW on Linux for Yamaha DTX II

[Emanuel Rumpf]

2009/1/18 gravyface <gravyface at gmail.com>:
> Hello all,
>
> It's been over 10 years since I've done any digital audio stuff on my PC and
> now having finally bought a house, I'm actually going to have some room in
> the basement to setup a DAW, my Yamaha DTX II kit, keyboard, etc. and have
> some fun.
Lucky man ! :-)
>
> Anyways, back in the day, triggering audio samples via MIDI was always a bit
> of a hassle with my (at the time) underpowered machine with the various VST
> instruments.  I now have a P4 3.0GHz box with 2GB RAM and some sort of
> newish Soundblaster card and I'm interested in triggering live .wav/digital
> audio drum samples with my kit and some Hammond B3 emulators from my
> keyboard.  I'd like to do some multitrack MIDI and audio recording as well
> (most likely overdubs so a multi-input soundcard/break-out device isn't
> really in the picture right now).
>
> Can anyone suggest what software (or any how-tos/sites) I should be looking
> at?
>
There's a lot of software around!
First have a look at apps.linuxaudio.org !
Note: The applications mentioned there have very different quality and features,
so it might take some time, until you find what works best for you.
For Midi, pupular sequencers are:
muse (use the cvs-version!), rosegarden, qtractor, non-sequencer, seq24
Some Trackers support midi as well (btrk IIRC)

> What distro is best?  I'm more confortable with Debian/Ubuntu
> personally.
Then try Studio64, pure:dyne or Ubuntu Studio

--
Emanuel