Hello,
I've been a windows user for (maybe a bit too) many years now, but I'm
starting to gain a lot of interest in Linux, especially as a Digital Audio
Workstation. I've already found Ardour or Reaper as possible replacements
for Cubase that I've used before. Now, I started to think about other
options. What would you suggest as a good substitute to replace East West
Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Silver as a symphonic orchestra in Linux
DAW? I'd like to hear some first hand experiences how they have worked.
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- Tuukka J. / 100% of Solarians / 100% of Logic Element / 50% of Matti W.
feat. Tuukka J. / 100% of DJ LEVEE PALAVA NAAMA
Last band in the video, "Fossil Fool", from last month's Maker Faire in San Mateo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWMKCONyKnU#
During the intro, I'm seen messing around with the Linux laptop with one hand whilst playing bass through it with the other. I was probably choosing the patch.
The synth sound is WhySynth, the bass is Fluidsynth.
It was a fun show. The whole stage was powered by bicycles.
-ken
It booted within the first 20 minutes of owning it, weeks ago, so the hardware's fine.
Then I tried doing a 64studio install. It wouldn't boot off of the 64studio 2.0 CDROM ("unknown line in config file"). I figured out some goofy hack to force it to boot (I don't remember how exactly). Then, it complained about reading past the end of media on the CD-ROM... apparently the image didn't fit on my 800MB CDROMs using my particular burner. *sigh*
Fine, so I tried instead copying over my whole Debian Sid installation from my lappy to the 8GB USB key. Then installed Grub and did some reconfiguration. It booted! And it ran, even! Well, not really, every time it booted, fsck complained about unclean shutdowns ("unclean! unclean! banished!") and insisted on fscking. Every time it fscked, it created worse file system corruption, by completely botching inodes, wiping out directories ("You don't need this silly /usr/share/man/man1 do you? Fix<y>?".
Back to the drawing board. Wipe the USB key, mkfs it, and use debootstrap to install Etch. That worked fine. Then point to the 64studio repository, and run the 64studio-upgrade scripts. Works great, but takes 4 hours of downloading. Sheesh. Install Grub and do various configuration tasks (locales, fstab, kernel-img.conf, etc). Done. A fully-functional 64studio system! Then boot.... and the key's filesystem is again totally destroyed by fsck. Random inodes wiped out, directories and files in the wrong places. WTF??!?!!
For some reason, this particular PC (the micro-ATX with Celeron), insists on destroying the filesystem on my USB key. My laptop has no problem with it. It only appears to be mangled once the micro-ATX tries to boot off of it (or maybe installing grub is messing it up, that's possible too).
So right now I'm spending another 3 hours to download the 64studio 2.1 install disk. Instead of burning it, I'll just mount the image on my lappy and then do the debootstrap and 64studio-upgrade thing over and over again, to figure out where the problem is and the fail point is, without having to download the whole thing off the net every time.
At this point, my game plan is to install some kind of make-live (or whatever it is nowadays) tools, and try to make the USB key into a read-only, live setup. I don't want to use an actual live CD because I'm definitely going to need to update packages and add some stuff that's built from source. Also, there doesn't appear to be a live CD for 64studio 2.1 anyway.
-ken
hi
i was just sorting out some of the vastness of junk that accumulates on my
system and i ran across these knob animations. i made them a while
ago but never did anything with them.
i called it a dot knob because rather than displaying some sort of
radial meter (in addition to the position indicator), the value is
indicated by the intensity of a dot in the center.
there are two variations, the first uses colour intensity, the second
spectral intensity.
it's very small, which can be useful. it also gives a very good instant
impression of the overall state of the controls. i'm not entirely convinced
that it's practical to use though.
still, you can find them here:
http://www.zenadsl6252.zen.co.uk/dotknob/
i setup phasex to use them and shot down some screens:
http://www.zenadsl6252.zen.co.uk/dotknob/glow-dot-knob.pnghttp://www.zenadsl6252.zen.co.uk/dotknob/spectral-dot-knob.png
i haven't got any idea what kind of licence is appropriate for
3d source files or the resultant animations, at least not with
regard to how they interact with software licences, so they are
public domain.
cheers,
pete.
Hi all,
I recently purchased a cheap midi foot controler.
http://www.micro-mania.net/~nworth/Pictures/x11.htm
However, it seems that instead of sending CCs like I expected, it sends
sysex and channel change messages. Which I couldn't use to control effects
for my guitar like I wanted to.
So I made this program which maps MIDI Channel Change messages to CCs. It
is specific to this hardware and it supports HOLD and TOGGLE. Now I can
control all my effects with this. Neat!!
Anyway, I thought I'd post it here in case anyone else has some need for it.
Peace!
Link: http://bh_x.webs.com/x-11-mm.tar.gz
Miguel Morales
Are you running a real-time kernel (rt)?
rt kernel is pretty much essential to avoid snap,crackle and pop.
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Hi everyone :)
Which is the best distribution for sequencer/composition?
I have Rosegarden4 on Knoppix 4.0 but I can't get any sound (presumably I
need to figure out jackd, but Knoppix doesn't have any of the nice Gnome
front-ends).
I'm thinking of upgrading to the latest Debian (on grounds of completeness)
is there a better alternative?
Jon.
I need the ability to record live 32 track events.
I would really like to do this with Ardour.
Before I invest too much time and effort, is this doable?
If so, what sort of input should I be looking at?
Any hope of ever having Apogee Symphony running in linux?
Anything else out there with that input quality and density?
If I can not get this to work, my other option is dumping a lot of money
into a Logic/Apogee Symphony set up. I would like to try and void that.
I am trying to capture live performances and it just has to work.
There is no chance to go back and redo a magic moment in the live world.
thanks, bk...
--
Bob Knight
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