RE: [linux-audio-user] Advice for new users?

Paul, Thanks for the link. I downloaded and played a bit with Bristol here at my desk. This looks fun. My only concern might be whether the project has critical mass, but it sure looks like Nick has done an awful lot to get things rolling. Can't tell about the quality of the sounds, and his mouse driven interface requires you to turn off keys as well as turn them on, so I'll have to go put it on a studio PC and play around a bit. Fun! (And no compiling!! He supplies binary and source) ;-) As for GigaSampler and GigaStudio (GSt), it would be cool to have that sort of tool in Linux. I run GSt all the time and I can tell you from experience that GSt really wants to be on a PC that has nothing else going on on the PCI bus and has good, fast, dedicated hard disks to work well. GSt streams from disk and, generally speaking, doesn't not store too much if the library in memory. I've tried to run it along side other applications (Acid, Reaktor, PTLE) and haven't had much luck. It's a great tool with great libraries, but not as stable as anyone would like. A great candidate for Linuxland. That said, all the money in GSt is really in the libraries. The program and the machine don't cost much compared to the cost of the libraries. I've dropped a good deal of money there... Again, thanks for the pointer on Bristol. Cheers, Mark -----Original Message----- From: linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin@music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Paul Winkler Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 6:55 AM To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Advice for new users? On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 05:07:01AM -0500, Sage wrote: midi, realistic There was talk a while back about a sampler-in-progress (EVO?) which would (does?) support Gigasampler files, so you could buy a Gigapiano disk and use it in linux. For the others, not sure. There are various interesting emulators if you dig around: e.g. there are some emulator patches for Pd, though I dont' recall which synths; and Bristol looks interesting, though I don't know if it supports jackd yet: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bristol/?topic_id=249 -- Paul Winkler "Welcome to Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"