philicorda wrote: >The problem as I see it is that people go through the palava of >installing Ardour, Jack etc, and are then faced with a multitrack. >No beats, no preset samples, no tracker style looper/arranger, the only >way you are going to get good music out of the thing is if you record it >into it. To my mind, that is how it should be, but for many people it's >a cold awakening to the fact that *you* make the music, not the >computer, and they simply don't know what to do next. > Amen. >BTW, CCRMA has made the installation issue irrelevant as far as I'm >concerned. Many thanks to all involved. Sorry for the long rant. > > Amen++. Best, dp