On Fri January 27 2006 05:12, Victor Lazzarini wrote: > >Or you can completely change your working style and use one > > or more of the many freeform tools available on Linux, like > > Snd, Pd, Supercollider, fluxus etc. to do really spaced out > > stuff not possible with Live nor Acid at all. > I'd add Csound to that list... You realize that telling someone who's been composing music using Acid that they should really just learn Csound is like telling a corporate IT guy who's been pressed into VB programming that he should really just learn C, emacs and gdb and write everything from scratch, right? (Actually, since VB users at least have Gambas when they come to Linux, they have it a lot easier than composers do.) As someone who has tried (and failed) making music with Snd, Pd and Csound, I wonder if what's really needed is some kind of templates or presets for some of these systems to provide access to higher-level compositional tasks (like those for which people use Acid, Buzz, Fruityloops, etc.) to get composers' feet wet and entice them to eventually go deeper and exploit the more powerful aspects of these tools. I don't even know how to get Pd or Csound to act as a sequencer, never mind getting an intuitive tracker- or loop-based interface on top of it. I'd do it myself, but I can barely even get ALSA, Jack and my MIDI keyboard talking to each other in the little time slices I can give to composition nowadays, never mind actually learn new languages or low-level tools.... or compose music. Rob
