11 Mar
2006
11 Mar
'06
3:37 p.m.
On 3/11/06, Rob <lau(a)kudla.org> wrote:
On Sat March 11 2006 03:45, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Rob,
Just chiming in to say I agree. No composer I ever met is
interested in actually language-based programming to get sound. I
think that's the purview of subset of folks, such as university
oriented people, etc. I'm sure it's rewarding for some but it doesn't
even approach being mildly interesting to a guitar player like me.
I can use Linux successfully for very specific things - audio
recording using Ardour and a few soft synths. Wine is mostly a
curiosity. It works OK for Quicken but beyond that it's more of a
frustration than it's worth to me. I understand that VSTs under Wine
are a relal plus for Linux only folks, but for those with multiple
platforms why bother is my general decision. I'm not intersted
(personally) in being that much of a trail blazer.
Mostly I still compose in Windows and more on the Mac since I
bought my first machine a few months ago. I'm an Acid Pro guy vs.
FL/Ableton, but they all allow me to put ideas together far faster and
more accurately than I can with any of the tools on Linux.
I enjoy audio recording using Ardour. It works as well or better
than Pro Tools did for that. I'm not much of a MIDI guy, really, but I
do miss having a real audio/MIDI platform in Linux like I had in
Windows and do have on the Mac. Loop recording would be my biggest
miss in the Ardour area, and somethign to replace ALL of Acid Pro is
only a dream after 4 years and no developer interest.
Anyway, I write to you from my Linux machine where I'm playing
around with VMware type solutions. Maybe one day, right? ;-)
Cheers,
Mark
With Common Music, Lilypond, Pd, Csound,
Supercollider, every
programming languange you want, and with the ability, to run
the occasional foreign software through Wine, Linux is a very
good platform for Composers IMO.
And by "composers", of course, you mean "composers who are also
computer programmers". None of the people I know in real life
who compose music are going to be writing Csound, CM or
Supercollider code to do what they want. The programs they do
use, like Live, Fruityloops and Cakewalk, are still way beyond
any compositional tools we have available to us under Linux,
with all apologies to the Pd, SSM and Rosegarden guys.
I might use code-based compositional tools (well, the ones that
can be programmed without using Lisp-like languages, which are
evil and must be destroyed), but then, I'm a composer who's also
a computer programmer.
My advice to the parent poster is to get an Intel Mac (either a
Macbook or one of the new Mac Minis) unless one of your specific
goals as a musician is to create your music using free software.
That's one of my own goals, or I'd already have a Mac myself.
Even then, some popular compositional tools (like Fruityloops)
are Windows-only at this point. The musicians I know who work
professionally are about a 50/50 split between OSX and Windows.
I'm the only fool I know who's trying to do everything under
Linux.
Rob