On Thursday 21 December 2006 19:44, Lee Revell wrote: > Get a good book on doing this stuff with Pro Tools - the vast > majority of the material will be relevant to Ardour. Ardour has MIDI support? I've never found that recording multitrack audio under Linux was a problem (I just use Audacity, myself) but I have always found that hooking my MIDI keyboard up, getting it recognized, and then getting it to control my choice of software synth, sound font or .PAT file while also recording it in a sequencer (to later render to a WAV file so I can overdub my acoustic instruments and vocals) is a huge pain in the ass. So much so that I haven't recorded anything of note in the seven years since I switched to Linux full-time. And I did all that stuff under Windows before that, and on an old Mac SE before that. I don't think a Protools book is going to teach me about getting set up with ALSA midi clients and Jack and Timidity/Fluidsynth and Zyn and Rosegarden/Muse, etc., and I think that's part of what Ianas was looking for. (A Protools book won't tell you how to use cdrecord either, but I don't think firing up k3b and dragging WAV files over is really that tough.) Rob
