On Thu, October 6, 2005 10:15 pm, Richard Tindall said: > Thanks Nick, > > This is exactly what we needed. > > Nick Rout wrote: > >>On Thu, October 6, 2005 5:41 pm, Richard Tindall said: >> >>[ a whole lot of stuff about linux audio, redhat. planet ccrma etc] >> >>Sorry to do the major snip Rik, >> > It's most often appropriate, vs repetition. > >>just to summarise: >> >>Ant has Redhat, with Planet CCRMA audiospecialist rpm's installed over >> the >>top. He has had update and config problems. >> >>IMHO RH is too old to start with. >> > Agreed. > >>Planet CCRMA is also compiled for >>Redhat's successors, Fedora Core 1, 2 & 3. According to the website it is >>being updated for Fedora 4. >> >> > Good news. > >>If Ant is in a hurry and absolutely wants to use CCRMA, I suggest he >> backs >>up his data and installs FC3, then the CCRMA stuff. If he is more patient >>he could wait for CCRMA to catch up to FC4 and start from there. >> >> > It's a blank, dedicated recording box: P2-400 iirc. The BIOS only reads > 2GB of the 4GB hard drive, & he wants to put a 10GB drive in there. Will > that BIOS be updateable?
No need to update the bios usually. The linux kernel deals with the hard drive, the bios is only involved in the boot sequence. Once it hands off to the kernel, all is sweet. HOWEVER I would make a /boot partition at the start of the drive to ensure that the kernel and grub are always within reach of what the bios can see. > >> > Great! > I'll have a sniff round Gentoo & see what I can upspeed on. > >>However whatever approach is taken, getting professional audio going on >>linux is a real chore. Many pros give up and go back to windows or a mac. >> >> > That's why I'm recommending vanilla midi throughput & recording, on > anynix, as a starting point. > Beyond that, his synth isn't present in Rosegarden's config list range, > so I'd be searching for the best s/w capable of matching that unit, & > working back from there. Rosegarden should just work once you have the midi hardware going. Its a while since I did it and i have rebuilt my desktop. I'll fire up the laptop later, i had it playing our electric piano at one stage. I don't think there should be any "compatibility" list, as midi is just midi AFAIK. >> likely >>the whole machine is underpowered. >> > I agree, but he has the good system in the office for Win/work, & the > sound studio in the garage. > Ex-lease 1GHz+ stuff is _really_ cheap now - I'd go that way, with a > workable modem & extra RAM thrown in, from the Computer Broker. Ant's > Ensoniq soundcard seems pretty good tho. Extra RAM may do him, but that machine at 400MHz surely would be better replaced with something in the order you suggest. I dunno whether you can even get reliable ram for a machine that age, i simply haven't looked. IMHO you should double or quadruple your ram beyond whats in the shop model when you buy any new machine, cos sure as anything that model ram will be outdated and expensive when you want some more! Is he doing midi through a midi port on the soundcard or does he have a separate midi port? I have a usb midiman single port midi interface for the laptop (http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Uno-main.html). The alsa pages should indicate whether there is midi support for his soundcard (http://alsa-project.org) > >>Please also note that there are a set of very good linux audio articles >> on >>www.linuxjournal.com, by Dave Phillips. Well worth a read! >> >> > Cool. Ant will be reading these posts, to inform his choices. He cannot > be with us until 9pm next Tuesday, ... attend > the next Gentoofest. > > When is it Rob? I can answer that, not until November unfortunately I have other commitments and Rob has a fence to build before he is allowed to play. > > And thanks for your tips too Steve. >
