Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Introduction
From: Speaker to Vegetables (speaker-to-vegetables_AT_pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 16:59:32 EET
This sounds like the kind of specific experience reporting I had hoped
to see more of on this list. It can take literally months to sort
through the unfinished, unstable, or obsolete and long abandoned
projects to find the ones that are ready to be treated as reliable
tools. And it can be very frustating when you know that many others
must have already made the same journey.
What about specific sound card / other hardware / driver (version, ALSA
or other) / kernel (version, patches) that people on this list have
used to record & edit music? At the momement I'm most interested in a
reliable, cheap set-up for recording, over-dubbing, and mixing a modest
number of audio and MIDI tracks. Recording one or 2 tracks at a time is
sufficient, but I really need reliable, well-synchronized full duplex
operation. Am I asking too much? I've tried a creative SB live with
ALSA 0.5.10+SuSE patches and maybe that will be OK for a while if I can
find an application that works (Broadcast 2000, doesn't, quite, and
beside its author seems to have gone insane or something). I tried a
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz but full duplex doesn't seem to work, never
mind all the whizbang features hyped on the box! Maybe I should spend
some semi-real money and get some MidiMan / M-Audio gear? Maybe I
should head back to windoze land for another year or 2 and hope that
somebody decides to REALLY support Linux with a sound card?
Meanwhile, I think I'll have a look at PD.
On Sunday 13 January 2002 07:41 am, Frank Barknecht
<barknech_AT_ph-cip.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>
> But here is my favorite linux audio software list of programs that
> are working and useful.
>
> 1) PD
> My absolute favorite. I can spend days digged into PD. Can do
> almost everything: Midi, DSP, Graphics... And works even better on
> linux than on W32. Others like jMax more. And others still use
> Csound.
>
> 2) snd
> The best Audiofile-Editor. Necessary. But needs vi-like
> keybindings.
>
> 3) ecasound
> The swiss army knife of linux audio. Records stable like a rock.
> Still have to memorize all options.
>
> 4) MusE
> Sometimes one has to edit midi files comfortably. ttrk also is
> great, if you're more into straight beats. And ocasionally I play
> with softwerk.
>
> 5) Soundtracker
> For the retro lover in me.
>
> 6) LADSPA
> Can anyone still live without Steve Harris' plugin collection?
>
> Ardour is missing here, as I don't have any need for it yet. But
> otherwise this list completely lists what I intend to use for making
> (open source) music.
>
> bye,
-- "Can you remember the future? Forget it!"
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