> It's not all in midi. On the contrary, very few professional electronic > music artists use midi for anything more than some kind of external > controller. On the other hand, while Ardour is going to be the app of > all multitrack apps, currently there are plenty for non-real-time mixing > out there which do job more than adequately (obviously including snd).
> Ico > > (the man who made "D" in LAD stand for Discussion ;-) Hey ICO I have to highly disagree with this statement ....just about every studio that isn't a mastering studio is using MIDI to one degree or another.. My studio ... which is professional in that I do make money out of my music is highly MIDI oriented with over 8 individual devices all being sequenced or affected by MIDI (this doesn't include my MOTU 8 in 8 out MIDI rack ... all of my colleagues bar one or two have MIDI driven setups... it is really only in the non electronic based or computer only systems which don't use MIDI ... generally as soon as any electronic device (synthesiser, drum machine, FX units) is plugged in to a computer MIDI is going to make use of that instrument much easier.. take for example my Yamaha An-200 ..... without MIDI it would be impossible to edit all parameters of a sound as many are only accessible via MIDI sysex instructions. This is even more true for the Nord Modular series. Okay there are people working with non electronic music formats using their computer as a multitrack recorder.... but if MIDI weren't relevant at a professional level it would not be include in professional audio hardware and it would not have become part of the mLan protocol... ..... Paul I have to agree that there aren't many people at this stage professionally producing music with Linux cept the bleeding edge users/developers of Ardour and MusE .... It is only possible for me to use in certain areas (say sample editing and some MIDI sequencing from time to time when I have MusE working correctly..... Luckily I can depend on my hardware based studio to run most of what I do need in real-time application ...
