collie4roy@gmail.com wrote:
> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>
>> http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/dvd/jacklab
>>
>>
Product Description Musicians have particular requirements for
>> their Linux environment. A Linux-based distribution that is designed
>> for music needs to be flexible, powerful, yet easy and quick to use.
>> All of these things are essential in a busy, creative environment.
>>
>> Thinking about these requirements, the JackLab Audio Distribution
>> (JAD), or JackLab for short, is based on openSUSE due to its stability
>> and long development history. All major administrative tasks can be
>> done graphically and easily without having to learn any complicated
>> terminal commands.
>>
>> Seeing I like music (spent 15 years in the Army and Reserve Bands -
>> tough job but someone has to do it), have done parties with my
>> keyboard and 40 Watt guitar amp, think this may be worth trying for
>> only a couple quid. 
>
> Does it have anything like this: http://www.steinberg.net/89_1.html
>
> How about this: http://www.synthogy.com/
>
> Or this:
> http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/product.asp?pid=431
>
> How about this one:
>
> http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?langid=100&
>
> I didn't think so....
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Feb03/articles/linuxaudio.asp
Rosegarden is a MIDI + Audio sequencer which includes notation and audio
editing. Version 4 is probably the closest native equivalent to Cubase for
Linux, and has recently been released as a beta after two years of active
development. Unlike Windows and Mac OS where there is only one kind of
desktop for each system, Linux developers have a wide choice of graphical
toolkits to build applications from. Rosegarden is designed with the KDE
interface, but it will run on any Linux machine with the right libraries
installed. Rosegarden features include MIDI and audio playback and
recording using ALSA and JACK, real-time audio plug-in effects via LADSPA,
score, piano-roll and track overview editors, high-quality score printing
and MIDI file input/output.
Picture of Rosegarden on Linux:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Feb03/images/linuxrosegarden40.l.gif
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AGNULA
The AGNULA project, the name of which is an acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio
Distribution, has been created to design and build aversion of Linux
specifically for professional musicians and recording engineers. AGNULA is
a consortium of several European universities, the Red Hat Linux company
and the Free Software Foundation. The idea is that all the software needed
for professional audio use will be on one set of CD-ROMs, which will
include a tuned Linux operating system. This doesn't mean that it just
comes with an extra driver or two and a few tweaked settings here and
there. While Windows and Mac OS will always remain general-purpose systems,
the open source philosophy means that Linux can be customised for
individual requirements at the most fundamental level.
Ardour is a multi-channel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation,
capable of the simultaneous recording of 24 or more channels of 32-bit
audio at the 48kHz sample rate. Currently in heavy development, Ardour
visually resembles the UNIX software available on platforms such as SGI.
Linux machines running Ardour are intended to replace dedicated studio
hardware such as the Mackie HDR, the Tascam 2424 and ADAT systems. Ardour
is also intended to rival proprietary software applications such as Pro
Tools, Samplitude, Logic Audio, Nuendo and Cubase VST. It supports MIDI
Machine Control, and can therefore be used with any MMC-compliant digital
mixer.
Audacity is a deceptively simple audio editor and multitrack hard disk
recorder. It has a clean interface with large buttons in the style of a
tape machine, but very precise edits are possible by drawing envelopes
directly on the waveform using the mouse. Audacity breaks large audio files
into small chunks for its native file format, which makes multitrack
recording and editing quite feasible on modest hardware.
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