Hi, LinuxMedia wrote: >>> I don't know... maybe I'm always thinking in terms of being able to set >>> up "audio studios" for other People. The irony is that I haven't set up >>> one computer for a friend yet (I've offered though). > > >> I feel very much the same and would love to see some sort of >> "reference" system evolve where out of all the fine apps that >> are becoming highly usable, by mere mortals, that some guide as to >> which ones are most suitable would really help new users. > > > I've been working with Linux/Audio for about 4 years and I am still > working out the "complete" studio. And it's always in My mind that it > will be the "template" for other studios. I've gone a long way by > avoiding a lot of "middle men" by using MuSE which allows both Audio and > Midi to be synced. This also eliminates the need to deal with the snags > (and extra work) that Jack introduces (even though i really respect what > Jack does). > > I hit another delay because the new version of MuSE requires so many > upgrades to my system It does? I didn't know the requirements had changed so much? Or are you talking about the other MuSE ? If you are talking about (and I believe you are) lmuse.sf.net then it should be spelled MusE. Tragically there is another project in the linux audio arena (related to streaming I think) that is named MuSE. > that I just ordered SuSE 9.0 instead of trying to > find all these files. This is probably a good upgrade anyway. I find that refreshing your system once in a while helps keep track of things, not to mention new features of distribution. Anyways, If I find that the new version of MuSE > will *record* audio then I've eliminated *yet* another "middle man". I welcome you to the lmuse user-mailinglist for further discussions (if you are not there already). Recording in MusE has been working for months if not years. I use it all the time. > > Obvious, I believe in keeping it simple. I've managed to get it down to > just a couple of easy to use (and effective) programs. Now there's less > "stuff" to install, maintain, upgrade, learn, master. I included the > term "master" because look how complex *every* program is, and how much > time one *could* put in *any* one of these programs. Keep in mind that > as soon as You learn one, there's (usually) an upgrade and then new > features to install/set-up/learn. And if I'm really going to be able to > contribute to the Linux/Audio community (by setting up computers for > People), then it would be too much to be doing this with a lot of > programs. And I've spent a lot of time testing programs until I came to > choose what I've choosen. > > Well, so far, I have it down to ecasound, MuSE, Timidity and Smurf > (sound font edior). I probly missed a few. But these are the main ones. > And as much as I *love* ecasound, if MuSE can record a "live" track, > then I will be down to 3 main programs that are (to Me) a "complete > studio" (I still say ecasound and Jack are great programs though). Just for the record, muse is due for a release soon, the last in the 0.6 series, after that 0.7 will follow (when it's ready), 0.7 will require Jack so you will have to get used to installing Jack I guess ;). > >> My thoughts are to try and create a reasonable piece of music >> that *I* find listenable and not too embarrasing, mainly so there >> are no copyright issues, and create some oggs then write up >> (heh, sure pal) a HOWTO and how I created the end result (that >> will never be "ended" because it could always be reused and >> re-released as another version). > > > If You're referring to explaining the software and tecniques You used, > I've kind of resigned Myself to adding what I can (when I can) on this > list (and other places). But I guess I wont ever really be able to > contribute *completly* until I'm actually setting up (and possibly > maintaining) systems for People. Unfortunatly, I'm more "creative > minded" than I am "technical minded" so I will choose hardware that > works and that will be the "template". This way, I could use "dd" to > create an exact copy of My drive, put it in the same hardware as I have > then the rest of the time can be spent on teaching People how to use the > software. I was working with a (hardware) guy a few towns over but He > moved away. > > Actually, there's much more to it than the above stuff. Of course, > there's the ongoing building of soundfonts and the extra stuff like > that. In fact, there's a lot of things like that I'm doing in along with > the above to keep inproving the situation. But aren't we all (-: > > Rocco >
