I've got some shitty old boxes here in the music department. Each has a roland midi keyboard, and sibelius running under "billyware" <-- cute
Whats a comparable notator for linux ? On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 09:27, G. M. Bodnar wrote: > Volker Kuhlmann is on permanent record as saying: > :> I'm looking for a Linux app to work on large (300Mb+) Audio files, that can > :> do some basic copy'n'paste, playback, mix type stuff... > : > :Don't we all... this is a bit of a sad story under Linux. > > It's starting to come along quite well. If anyone is interested in > audio work, check out the Linux Audio Users list: > http://www.Linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribelau.php3 > > :Monica reported that cooledit works under wine. It's probably one of > :the best you get for billyware. I doubt you find anything for Linux > :which offers similar quality of algorithms. > > There are actually quite a lot of apps available to do really cool > editing, control and synthesis. I've been playing with audio work on > linux for just over a year, and I have yet to find something that I > _couldn't_ do. It has taken a lot of work, and a fair bit of > frustration, but it's entirely possible to do the work in linux. > > check out: > http://www.djcj.org > http://linux-sound.org > > :There's sox of course, but it mainly does format conversions. Its > :filters I don't think are of high quality, you don't need the effect > :stuff, and its UI can only be described as obnoxious. command line app. > > for format changes, there is not better tool, though. I'd rather not > have a gui for something like that. Having the ability to type "sox > soundfile.aiff soundfile.wav" is a _lot_ faster than waiting for a gui > to load. > > Some tools are painful as commandline, as you can guess. I'm currently > using ecasound to do multitrack recording/mixing on my laptop, which is > entirely command line (although there are gui front ends for it, which > work quite well) The reason being that my laptop has a couple bios bugs > which keep me from acheiving low latency (*grumble* Dell bastards) > > To tie all this together, a sound demonstration would make a great > presentation at one of the LUG meetings. The average person would, > IMHO, rather see services and applications than back end stuff. And it > sounds as if even the linux faithfuls need a bit of an update. If I > had my tower (sold back in Canada when I moved here), I'd be willing to > put together a demo. Or maybe in a few months, when I get my dma > problems worked out and some extra gear. > > Greg > --- -
