7 Feb
2003
7 Feb
'03
3:45 a.m.
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 20:20, Darren Landrum wrote:
Two little things to tell everyone.
First, I finally got my copy of the February issue of Sound on Sound.
The Linux article is there, and I was very impressed with it. Plus,
this issue has a great how-to on micing drums for studio recording.
The surprise was the copy of Home Recording I picked up on a whim
today, because it has an article on DIY surround sound. In the back,
under the Computer Central heading, is an article called "The Other
Operating System," by Thad Brown. I'll give you three guesses which one
he's talking about. :-)
It's a very positive article, saying that he ultimately thinks that
Linux will be a serious competitor to MS and Apple for music
production. The article also mentions a company called Digigram who has
released drivers for their audio hardware under an Open Source license
(does anybody know anything about Digigram?). He does say, though, that
there seems to be no real replacement in the works for the likes of
ProTools and Cubase, so I think somebody needs to point him to Ardour
and Rosegarden.
Just thought you all would like to know. :-)
I read somewhere that this works pretty well under wine. {As well as
cubase and sound forge}
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/Project5/default.asp
Personally, I think the important thing would be to come up with a
killer app like Nuendo or just a nice stable, emacs style, extensible
sequencing environment {Or, maybe convince Minnetonka {Their surround
sound thing would be an excellent base.} or Cakewalk to port} Plugins
and VST/VSTi are most important in my mind... that's the strongest, most
rapidly progressing thing on windows... It follows UNIX philosophy...
makes even more sense in linux {consider the type of development that
goes on in linux as well {windows users have done wonders with vst.}}
It'd be great to get a sort of generalized plugin based environment
along the likes of Creamware's stuff going. {like the functionality of
pd/gem with a timeline and softsynths/ladspa/vst plugins. ...That, being
open source, could be remade in the image of whichever artist wishes to
move into it. It's an environment...}
I think linux's real strong point is all of the bizarre research
environments and experimental software that's available. I also think
that's {coding sound} going to become much more important. It makes for
a good artistic environment at any rate.
Considering the fact that the development trend seems to be towards
crossplatform/platform independent stuff... the idea that OpenStep and
OSX seem to be getting along so brilliantly {I do wish they'd port final
cut pro or avid dv}, that there's a VST server, LADSPA and so many
really nifty projects going... I think the difference amongst platforms
in the future is... there won't be any {platforms} that everything will
be modular... more unixy... built out of plugins and tools and scripts
and the internet.
:} My advice... buy Redhat. {Maybe FCP... Avid.}
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Rick Taylor <ricktaylor(a)speakeasy.net>
The Dispossessed