Hi list,
after years and years of music making on Windows and MacOS I'm ready to try it
on Linux, mainly because Apple is starting to annoy me as much as Microsoft did
before I switched.
Anyway, here's what I want to do:
I'd like to use my laptop as a low latency live audio processing environment
(Supercollider, maybe in combination with Ardour which I haven't tried yet but
which looks nice for mixing)
I'd like to control SC (and Ardour) through a midi/usb interface and possibly
over wifi using OSC.
Here's what I got:
- a Thinkpad T42.
- a Dawicontrol dw-1394 pcmcia firewire card with TI chipset (no info about
this
stuff on the net).
- an Echo Audiofire 4 Audiocard with midi interface (described as fully
supported on the ffado list).
- an Akai LPD8 midi over usb interface
- an iPod touch
- a Wiimote
I've downloaded the latest Puredyne live cd, connected and turned on my
Firewire
interface and booted the T42. I started Jack which gave me an error starting
up.
In the configuration page there was a pulldown device list with some strange
names. Then I opened SC vim and I didn't even manage to type "{SinOsc.ar}.play"
It was pure frustration. I didn't understand a thing. I heard, Emacs is even
harder to learn. WTF???? Is there a decent text editor for Linux? (intentional
polemic ;-))
My questions:
- Is there a chance I can do what I want with Puredyne or should I just give up
and go back into the cozy arms of corporatism?
- If the answer to the first question is yes, can someone give me some clues as
to how to achieve it?
- Is there a text editor that's actually usable with SC?
- If yes, how????
Thanks a lot in advance,
Axel
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