Re: [PLUG] linux music hw/sw

[Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com>]

You may wish to have him try Ubuntu studio.  It works great with the M-Audio card I mentioned, and has all kinds of music production goodies, plus the low latency realtime kernel.  Just be aware there is no support for M-audio with Pulseaudio, you'll need to remove it and use alsa.  "apt-get autoremove pulseaudio"


If you don't like alsa oss4 also works nicely.  You might want to have him try hydrogen.  It's a great open source drum machine/sequencer and it's lots of fun.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Daniel Toliaferro <d.toliaferro@gmail.com> wrote:

Qtractor is really good. It supports all manner of plugins, even Windows VSTs through Wine. Also, the recently popular Win/Mac DAW REAPER runs under Wine.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:11 AM, K.S. Bhaskar <bhaskar@bhaskars.com> wrote:

Thanks, Jeff.  I did poke around linux-sound.org over the weekend.

Regards
-- Bhaskar

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote:

http://www.linux-sound.org/
This is a very good site if you're gonna stick with linux only.

My understanding is that the `pros' use ProTools, which is primarily Mac but has been ported to Win.  Naturally there is no linux version.

LMMS is a very interesting all-in-one linux program that should do most, if not all of what your son is looking for.  Hydrogen is a really cool drum sequencer.

On the Win side, Cakewalk and Sonar are very popular.

You can use an external USB adapter or an add-in card to get the information to and from the computer.  I'm pretty sure the card is the better way to go, resourcewise.

The external boxes start around $89.  M-Audio and Tascam start in that range and the prices go up with features and inputs.

In an almost related vein, I just read that someone got Guitar Rig running through WINE.   It's a very interesting amp/effects emulator for guitar and bass.  There's a less intensive linux program called Rakarrack (or something like that - it's in Ubuntu repositories) that does all sorts of emulation.  Might do more effects than amps - I'm not sure.

JACK is your friend.


Good luck.
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