Hi, As A. Khattri pointed out Linux-Sound.org is a good place to start, but it can be quite overwhelming. While I'd not suggest a Gentoo-User look at the distro too much, there is an off-shoot of Redhat/Fedora called PlanetCCRMA. It has an audio optimized, low-latency kernel (why doesn't Gentoo have this?) and lots of apps prebuilt for audio folks. I point it out since the website has a very nice list of exactly the sort of apps you are looking for:
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/packages.html Pretty much all the apps are available through portage - just not the kernel. As for me I've been, until just two weeks ago, a long time Pro Tools user. I just sold all my DigiDesign equipment and am working for the foreseeable future with Ardour: http://www.ardour.org I use RME sound cards (HDSP 9652 and Hammerfall's) with external A/D's, D/A's and other things. I do a moderate amount of host based processing (reverbs, compressors, limiters, gates, EQ's, etc.) under Linux. I don't tend to use too many synths but I do use samplers. Under Windows I use GigaStudio 3.0 and under Linux I use LinuxSampler. http://www.linuxsampler.org I've been one if the main testers of LinuxSampler since probably more than 3 years ago. Other project of immense value under Linux (IMO) are Jamin, Muse & Rosegarden. Running under every bit of this is Jack-Audio-connection-Kit. Without it none of this would work nearly so well. I'm probably forgetting many important things. Certain jack_fst for running Windows VST in Jack using Wine is very cool. There are probably 20 more. Hope this helps. Have fun and write if you'd like to talk. cheers, Mark On 6/17/05, Maxime Robert-Schreyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > [huge snip...] > > >(I'm neither a > >programmer or IT person. I'm a guitar player using Linux for music, > >email, web browsing and TV watching.) For someone like me it was a bit > >trying for all the nice people here to teach me but the folks here are > >like no others I've met on any list. Very, very, very helpful folks > >who share a huge amount of knowledge in a completely open way. I've > >learned a lot. I only screw up once a day now. ;-) > > > >- Mark > > > >Cheers, > >Mark > > > > > > > Cheers. :-) > I'm kind of both (guitar player and developer) > Could you elaborate on the tools you use for music ? > I've heard a huuuuge lot about cakewalk, protools, etc., but > don't know _anything_ about mixing and so on.. myself, especialy, i haven't > heard about any open source tool in that field. > I'd like to record my(poor)self so I can learn. > Thanks in advance, > Maxime > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
