On 8/11/2011 12:26 PM, Brett Rasmussen wrote: > One thing that might be a caveat: you said you have no budget for this, and > the paradigm that I'm slightly familiar with is having at least some sort of > instrument outside of the computer for actually creating the notes. For > example, a MIDI synthesizer that you would play on to send note data to the > computer, for which you'd need a MIDI sound card, and the software would > provide the sound itself. Or you could use a synthesizer or mic or guitar > that you were just recording into the computer via a sound card that took > XLR or 1/4-inch inputs. For these sorts of things, I've been looking at the > M-audio Delta 1010lt (~$180), which is a sound card that has a whole bunch > of different dongles of different types of audio inputs and outputs. With > something like that, you could do all of the above and more. > > But that whole paradigm is based on having at least some external hardware. > As for creating the notes directly on the computer, I know there's stuff > out there that does that, like GarageBand in the Apple world, and there > probably is stuff like that in linux, but I just haven't played around with > all of it enough to know. > If I got into it, I'd obviously make budget for it, but for now it's purely a curiosity, so it gets no dough until I'm a little more serious. I have heard much the same, but I don't play keyboard anyway, so that wouldn't be terribly helpful.
A long time ago, say, 15 years or so, I have a .mid editor in Windows that basically let me make sheet music and turn it into a midi file. It was fun, and made small files I could share over dialup with friends, and it led to other musical things we enjoyed, but they were midi files, and sounded pretty bad compared to them new-fangled mp3-majigs. So we never went much further than a month or so of fiddling. I figured I could do something like that with some sound-loops and create something either very lounge or very 80s sounding with nothing but a computer. So that's the dream, I guess. Thanks for your input. It's a good start. Maybe some linux sound people could put together a presentation for a PLUG meeting sometime. *hint hint* -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
