Hi Mark, Thanks for the info. I've already had a look at Planet CCRMA. Once I get Red Hat up and running it'll be my first port of call! Cheers, Chris At 01:31 PM 8/20/03, Mark Knecht wrote: >On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 20:20, Chris Share wrote: > > Hi, > >Welcome > > > > After reading an article about Linux and music in Sound On Sound recently, > > I thought I'd take the plunge and begin moving my music studio to Linux. > > Currently I'm using an Athlon XP-based PC and a PowerMac 7600/200. The PC > > contains a Hoontech DSP24 Value card and an MPU-401 style MIDI interface > > that I put together myself. The Mac contains a Yamaha SW1000 card and an > > Opcode MIDI interface. My main music software is Cubase, although I've > used > > tons of other music software over the years. > >Sounds familiar! > > > > The main programs I'm interested using are Rosegarden and Ardour, although > > I'm also interested in looking at some of the softsynth stuff too. > >Great programs to start with. Having shosen them you seem to know about >Jack at this point, so that's good. > > > > > I work as a technical writer and have written some music software for Mac > > and PC (CS1 Background Edit) so I'm fairly computer literate. However, I > > have no experience with Linux. > > > > Initially, I installed Debian on my PC, however it didn't get along > with my > > TFT monitor. I've since bought Red Hat 9.0. Which I'm just about to > > install. Hopefully it will be a bit easier to use! > >Much easier, in the sense that you have a really great resource at your >service - Planet CCRMA - totally easy to bring up all of these apps in a >single evening using the service that Standford and Fernando provide. > >http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ > > > > > Before I begin the installation I was wondering if someone could fill > me in > > on the current state of ALSA. I've had a quick look at some of the How-Tos > > however I'm not clear on how up-to-date they are. > >Alsa will be installed for you under the Planet flow. Fernando keeps it >quite up to date. > > > > > I'm currently looking at getting a new soundcard--the Hoontech was really > > only a temporary measure to get sound out of the PC. Unfortunately, it > > seems that the SW1000 won't ever be supported so it's not much use. > > > > I'd like a card with balanced 24-bit analog I/O and SPDIF I/O. The MiaMIDI > > card seems to have these features. Does anyone have experience with this > > card on a Linux system? > > > > I also thought that a Delta66 would be suitable too. > >I'll let others help you there. I'm using RME cards, but I use external >A/D-D/A > >Best of luck. It's a fun, but brave new world. > >Cheers, >Mark
