Re: [LAU] Building an Open Source keyboard rig

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 16:18:14 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: A synth, such as the Nord has got everything a stage musician needs. If you instead use a master keyboard, that requires different Linux synth to provide everything, you unlikely will be able to provide a consistent schema for the available controllers, let alone that a synth, such as the Nord has everything in a solid case. If you put your atom board into a 19" case, you need to carry a rack, a master keyboard, a professional external sound card, you need to connect by cables..., nobody who has experiences with real life, who is really living on this planet, can recommend to replace a stage proved environment by an experimental computer based pseudo-solution. What next? Instead of playing a guitar, using analog effects and an amp, playing a sampled guitar with fluidsynth and emulate the analog effects and amp with guitarix? To do that you don't need to buy guitar, effects and amp anymore, you just need an atom board in a 19" case in a rack, a professional sound card, a master keyboard, and tons of cable connections. This ridiculous obsessive approach to replace everything music related by a Linux computer is much more wrong, than loudness war and auto-tune at one go. Linux or any other computer based solution is an extension to stand alone music gear, but it can not replace this gear. And by the way, if the OP insists in replacing real gear, by a computer solution, the OP should consider to buy an Apple based solution. Linux simply can not hold ground for this kind of usage. But again, IMO the computer is the wrong approach, even when using proprietary Apple solutions. There is a good reason that companies are still able to sell stand alone gear such as the Nord. Please stop to encourage somebody to do something stupid.