Hi Axel (or John?) -
2011/1/3 John Schmitt <[email protected]>: > 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. Yeah I know - I was on Apple for years, but I'm really getting to the point of being embarrassed to still have some Apple equipment. > 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. I don't know much about firewire interfaces I'm afraid since I don't have fw here - but check the archives, there's been some useful conversation about getting fw audio working nicely. e.g. http://lists.goto10.org/pipermail/puredyne/2010-April/003661.html But it's really worth saying what the error message *was* - someone might understand it and know what to suggest. > 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 ;-)) Well both vim and emacs are genuinely very good, but neither of them is immediately obvious since they use keyboard commands that won't be familiar to people at first. For example, your vim issue was probably that you didn't know that you press 'i' to go into insert mode (allowing you to type text) and Escape to go out of insert mode. Vim and emacs are the choice of many power-users - you can take that to mean either that they're probably worth learning, or maybe they're just geeky enough to earn geek cred ;) If you want a text editor that's more like the msword-type mainstream, look at gedit. It's nice, and it also has a supercollider "mode", so it might be right up your street. Personally I use scvim so I don't know the exact details in gedit, but you do something like choose the supercollider plugin once you've started gedit. (In puredyne it should be installed already) HTH Dan > 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 > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > -- http://www.mcld.co.uk --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
