Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] What I want, to stop using Windows
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 16:28:59 EEST
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:44:56AM -0400, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> >1. Multichannel soundcard - I have a Korg 1212, but this only works in 9x,
> > mLAN would do for this but I suspect its a way off yet. It only needs
> > to talk to my Yam 01v, I don't care about direct analogue. 2 coax
> > SPDIF and one ADAT i/o would be perfect.
>
> the RME Digi9636 (Hammerfall Light) has 2 ADAT's plus 1 stereo S/PDIF
> plus Alesis ADAT sync connections. its a great card (i wrote the ALSA
> drivers).
Yeah, I think I should have got one of these rather than a 1212, oh well.
> >3. A sample editor like soundforge.
>
> IMHO, the best we have right now are DAP (which has an easier, more
> obvious interface, but is less powerful in various ways) and snd
> (which can do anything, if you can figure out how to do so).
OK, I'll look at these. snd sounds like more my kind of thing (vi user ;)
> >4. A multitracker like Vegas, the dumber the better, but plugins would be
> if you're talking about multitrack recording:
> i am working on ardour, which is intended to be a replacement for
> almost any dedicated MDM or HDR system, but its not quite ready
> yet (it has been used for live sessions, however). ardour currently
> plans to incorporate all of snd as an internal editor, but this
> will be a little ways off until it works the way i want it to.
> See http://ardour.sourceforge.net/.
This sounds exactly like what I want, basicly a software replacement
for an ADAT machine, but with the ability to transfer the tracks to a
PCM editor.
I like the horizontal view of vegas, but I could live without it, and I
guess if you can export all the tracks to snd that would be equivalent.
> >5. Some primative MIDI sequencing stuff (as part of 4 would be fine)
>
> Jazz++, or if you want to get experimental, KeyKit.
I tried Jazz++ on linux and windows, but didn't get on with it, too much
like Cubase, which I can't stand. Seemed very buggy too.
> >6. Control software for my Nord Mod (think this more or less works in
> > Wine, but havn't tried for a while). I used to have a second PC with a
> > fast ISA MIDI card just for this, but my girlfriend nicked it to
> > wordprocess on (poor thing). 2 PCs sucks anyway, too much fan noise.
>
> Unlikely to be possible, unless they release all the specs. On the
> other hand, if its just standard MIDI CC stuff, check out xphat.
No, its propietary sysex stuff. Wine is the only real possibility, the
interface is very complicated. I started writing a replacement myself (in
Java), but when Clavia released the Mac version I lost interest.
> >9. Control software for an AKAI S[23]000 sampler.
>
> This ain't gonna happen unless its just standard MIDI CC stuff.
Its SCSI. There are two third party pieces of software that talk AKAIs
dialect of sampler control SCSI (different to everyone elses of course) I
might pester them to see if they are willling to port to linux. One is
commercial and good (better than AKAIs) the other is free (as in beer)
and about the same as AKAIs, but more stable. AKAI only care about Macs,
and now the 3000 series is obsolete, there is no hope.
> >So, any notes on how optimistic I'm being?
>
> You'll still want Windows around, I'm sad to say.
I was planning to slowly move over at best, old habbits die hard, and I'm
pretty used to my windows environment, although, I'm deeply unimpressed
with software audio sequencing. I used to use a fostex harddisc recorder,
which was much more of a pain to edit, but rock solid and next to no
latency.
Cheers,
Steve
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Stephen Harris
MALIBU Technical Officer & JoDI Webmaster
IAM Research Group
University of Southampton, UK
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