Hi there,
Tim Wright wrote:
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
I'm a musician (cut my teeth on Atari ST/Falcon030),
but have yet to see decent Linux apps to play with.
This is exactly the problem I have. Let's write one (I'm only half
joking).
Hehe! I used MasterTracks Pro 3.5 on my 1040ST for MIDI programming,
and continued with that on a Falcon030 music workstation I bought
in 1994. The Falcon030 also introduced pro-level digital audio and
a program called MiNT, a unix alike OS with Atari GUI (which lead me
to linux!). Amazing that a 1993 vintage computer with a 16MHz 68030
CPU could record/play 16 digital audio tracks and play/rec 64 MIDI
tracks simultaneously, without a single skip in timing (mind you
the Falcon030 is HELPED by a DSP56001 copro and non-blocking DMA
bus design...)
What I'd really like is a Linux-Musician mailing list...perhaps the
linuxnut guy will be kind? That way we can take our music discussion away
and not bore anyone else. Even a demo of Linux doing music stuff at a
meeting could be really good.
I'd be keen to see that, or even help demonstrate, but software seems to
be the achilles heel thus far. Even ancient old Atari MIDI software
seems MUCH more powerful than the best looking linux stuff I've found
on the net...
I can demo artscontrol, Brahams and a USB MIDI interface all working (on
my laptop). Unfortunatly Debian unstable is being particulary unstable
today, and I can't download rosegarden 4 (or, in fact, use KDE at all).
Ouch! thats gotta getcha where it ought not ta! I'm too new so I'm
sticking to my stable-release 2.4.19-16mdk kernel etc...
:^)
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Middle Earth, New Zealand.
MICRO$LOTH FREE ZONE!
