On 09/27/2011 11:20 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Hi Brett, > > Congratulations! indeed! félicitation! > On 26/09/2011 18:55, Brett McCoy wrote: >> Hey everyone -- >> >> I just finished up a 2 year Master Certification program through >> Berklee Music, the program being "Orchestration for Film& TV". I did >> the entire program using Linux, primarily Lilypond, Rosegarden and >> Ardour/Mixbus (and some use of xjadeo and Jamin where needed). The only >> thing Linux wasn't used for was the use of some sample libraries like >> EWQL PLAY and Kontakt, which were hosted on a Windows 7 machine (I >> used QMIDINet to handle networked MIDI and ADAT via Lightpipe& S/PDIF >> for the return audio). >> > > +1 for doing most of it on Linux. agree++; If you could document your setup, you'll probably be able to convince quite a few future students! > I guess sound libraries are a one of > the current LA problems as they tend rely on proprietary software... > Maybe with LinuxSampler support for sfz something might change. The problem is not so much the software; but time and equipment (instruments, musicians, studio) to record and create those libraries - especially orchestral sounds libraries for film scoring can be quite expensive. Most producers of these sample-libs do simply not have the means to support free-software: Publishing the samples in a proprietary format solves their issue of distribution retaining copy-protection. AFAIK sonokinetic.net is or was looking into making their libs available for GNU/Linux applications; but I don't know any details. A while ago the Blender Community was looking into recording samples from a Dutch orchestra for creating a cinematic sound library in terms of the Creative Commons License. AFAIK it never happened. Another Dutch effort: http://opensymphonia.sourceforge.net/ is an active project towards that goal. >> I have a good deal of my music from these classes on Soundcloud now: >> >> http://soundcloud.com/brett-mccoy >> > > All the best for your film-scoring career ;) > > Lorenzo. > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
