Last Saturday 11 December 2004 05:33, Rob was like: Some of us are familiar with their work. ;-) Congratulations! http://www.agnula.org So it is. The main difference is that A/DeMuDi is free. I don't think there is any competition. I expect the Fervent system will have a more up to date version of Rosegarden, which will probably work out of the box. I wonder if it might provide a similar kind of one-pointed 'pro-audio' support for Ardour and other applications as has been suggested else-thread? cheers tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk

On Saturday 11 Dec 2004 05:33, Rob wrote: Yes -- I'm part of Fervent Software. The aim of Studio to Go! is to provide a good selection of Linux music software in a way that just works, for people who find it interesting but might not otherwise have the time or inclination to assemble their own Linux systems for music work. And then, to provide some coordinated support for it based on the premise that we know what software is in use. As it's a live CD, there are obviously plenty of other interesting aspects to it as well. We haven't made much noise about it on the Linux audio lists, not least because we've been deliberately trying to avoid designing it for people who already use Linux. We feel that it's good value for money in the context of the music software market, notwithstanding the existence of the same software in other distributions. It's certainly one of the easiest ways to get a system with (for example) Rosegarden running with DSSI plugins, Audacity with JACK, working VST support and so on, and it's a fairly undemanding introduction to Linux as well. Our policy has differed from that of (for example) AGNULA in that they tend to try to bundle everything, whereas we've largely picked out things that work and that are easy to "get into", and concentrated on making those work well. If you have any particular questions, it might be worth asking them on the forum page at http://www.ferventsoftware.com/forums/ or directly of us at info(a)ferventsoftware.com. Chris